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Post by beverley61 on Sept 17, 2018 11:38:12 GMT
I think this is just getting better. I know the story but I think they are doing it very well.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2018 12:14:33 GMT
The BBC one had a few brief and bloody glimpses of the battle, but the trailer suggests this one will have more extensive action.
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 17, 2018 15:30:04 GMT
So they say, although the battle is not described in the book.
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Post by geometryman on Sept 17, 2018 22:00:27 GMT
Another good episode I thought. I'm really enjoying the production.
Familiar faces are still suddenly appearing - Monica Dolan this week as the Irish major's wife, doing what I imagine is her natural accent since I gather her family is Irish. She's very versatile - was in C4's recently ended comedy Hang Ups, and played Jeremy Thorpe's wife in A Very English Scandal earlier in the year. Also Elizabeth Berrington has popped up as Lady Bareacres.
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Post by technicolour on Sept 17, 2018 22:04:48 GMT
Re Johnnie Flynn - I've seen him on stage (he's on my avatar for this site!) and he was very good.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2018 22:33:30 GMT
Didn’t Monica Dolan have a Welsh accent in W1A ? Becky is a heartless baggage according to my husband ! I suppose in those times if you were a young woman with no family or money you had to be pretty tough to survive.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 11:29:40 GMT
Incidentally, would it be too pedantic to point out most of the soldiers seemed to have the wrong type of gun? Instead of the India or New Land Pattern ('Brown Bess') muskets British troops were equipped with, they had - ironically - what appeared to be the Imperial Guard version of the French An IX 'Charleville' musket!
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 19, 2018 11:45:11 GMT
Perhaps they looted them - but I agree silly mistake to make. They must know that people who like that kind of thing will see the error immediately.
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Post by vicky on Sept 19, 2018 12:08:59 GMT
Also being pedantic: During the "Ball before Waterloo" scenes an orchestra in the background was playing Borodin's String Quartet No. 2....written in 1881. Borodin wasn't even born until 1833 so they must have been reading the score through a crystal ball.  I am still loving this production despite such anomalies. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 12:49:13 GMT
Thank you Vicky! I was going to check the date of that piece, I felt sure it was wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 13:15:18 GMT
Good try, but French muskets would be pretty useless to the British Army, because they were a different calibre (.69 compared to the Brown Bess's much larger .76), so providing suitable ammo would be a logistical nightmare! It is a silly mistake, though, and easily avoidable. I'm sure film armourers wouldn't have too much trouble providing the right type ( Sharpe managed fine, for example). Perhaps someone in the props department just put in an order for X number of Napoleonic-era muskets without bothering to specify which nationality they should be. For the record - top French 'Charleville' (Imperial Guard version), bottom British 'Brown Bess':
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Post by linseed on Sept 19, 2018 15:16:35 GMT
Well done spotting that! Must admit it is not a period of history I know much about, so I have happily missed all the inaccuracies.
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 24, 2018 16:35:08 GMT
Well what did we think of Waterloo. It's not described in the book.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2018 21:19:50 GMT
Even with the addition of CGI somehow there just didn't feel like the necessary scale. Tiny snapshots are better than wider views if you don't have the budget to do it big. Quite well done for what it was, though. I'd be interested to know how people unfamiliar with the story reacted to {SPOILER:Click to Show}George's death. |
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Post by linseed on Sept 24, 2018 21:48:37 GMT
I’m completely unfamiliar with the story, never read the book, have no idea what will happen, but {SPOILER:Click to Show}I’m glad George died, I didn’t like him, and didn’t think he was right for Amelia. I am sad that she can’t seem to see that Dobbin loves her! |
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