![]() Rather, her role is to act surprised or impressed by her husband’s ingenuity.ĭespite those reservations, ‘The Invisible Man’ is for the most part a lot of fun and very entertaining. Melinda O Fee is seldom given the chance to shine as his wife Kate. ![]() Another aspect that dates it is that, as with a lot of television of the era, Westin makes all of the decisions for himself and always drives the plot. The conceit that Westin wears a mask that precisely fits his skin is a plot device one simply has to not think too hard about. ![]() Dangling wires are often in evidence, as are lingering shots on telephone receivers lifting themselves that no longer impress. Now, especially on high-definition Blu-ray, the difference between the two visual media is jarring, and every time the series flips to video, it signals that a special effect is coming up. On smaller television sets, the joins may not have been noticeable. What is especially jarring is that the science-fiction elements, which were its selling-point at the time, are shot on videotape whereas the rest of the footage is on film stock. Unsurprisingly for television approaching half a century in age, ‘The Invisible Man’ looked rather dated now. The resulting series (which is rarely as strong or as satisfying as the pilot episode) finds Westin once again working for the Klae Corporation but undertaking espionage missions on behalf of the FBI, using his invisibility to infiltrate secret organisations, bring back intelligence and ensure the baddies face justice. But when he finds out that the Klae Corporation want to hand over his research to the military, he destroys his work, hoping to discover in future some way to reverse his invisibility. After Westin tries it out on himself, he realises that the serum they have developed to reverse the effects of invisibility is imperfect. The pilot episode deals with the Westins’ discovery that their experiments can produce invisibility. Instead, Westin and his wife Kate (the late Melinda O Fee) work on teleportation in a research laboratory for the shady Klae Corporation. This adaptation is only tenuously related to the late Victorian novel by HG Wells. Agent: Daniel Lazar, Writers House.Back in 1975, McCallum starred as scientist David Westin in ‘The Invisible Man’. A well-executed twist will have readers flipping back to see what they missed while cheering the strides made by Libenson’s no-longer-invisible heroine. Katie rises to her defense, but Emmie eventually learns to speak up for herself, realizing that embarrassment isn’t the end of the world and being social isn’t as impossible as she thought. Emmie and Katie share a crush on classmate Tyler, and when a sappy love note Emmie writes to Tyler as a joke is made public, Emmie is humiliated. Katie’s chapters, by contrast, are big, splashy panels that reflect her outgoing personality (“I’m just your average teenage girl,” she says after being offered movie roles and the crown of homecoming queen). With frizzy hair and hunched shoulders, Emmie shows up in tiny vignettes, sandwiched between blocks of text, that make her look as small and insignificant as she feels. School is stressful for shy, quiet Emmie Katie, meanwhile, is breezily popular, confident, and beautiful. ![]() In her first children’s book, cartoonist Libenson ( The Pajama Diaries) offers strikingly different visions of seventh grade through two very dissimilar narrators.
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