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Post by Netz on Apr 21, 2020 21:15:03 GMT
Copy the whole of the following link: 1drv.ms/v/s!AsAp9UKI0C6bk2DJxrAo67G4cp3r?e=pgGFpq Mine cut off before the end as well, so thanks for posting the link, geometryman.  (Mine also cut off the end of the last episode, too, but I've managed to see that now. I don't know what's up with my ITV links lately!!) |
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Post by sootycat on Apr 21, 2020 21:45:39 GMT
It’s a shame really isn’t it.
I had such high hopes of this (written by Julian Fellows).
It was a bit of a damp squib.
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Post by vicky on Apr 22, 2020 6:24:14 GMT
Copy the whole of the following link: 1drv.ms/v/s!AsAp9UKI0C6bk2DJxrAo67G4cp3r?e=pgGFpq Mine cut off before the end as well, so thanks for posting the link, geometryman. (Mine also cut off the end of the last episode, too, but I've managed to see that now. I don't know what's up with my ITV links lately!!)I have a lot of problems recording ITV programmes most often the Sunday night ones. A little while back I couldn't even watch ITV "live " on Sundays because there was no signal but that seems to have been resolved. My signal comes from the Emley Moor transmitter. Neighbours who get their signal from the Belmont transmitter (which my aerial can't pick up!) never have a problem. |
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Post by marion on Apr 22, 2020 9:38:31 GMT
Nearly every episode of Belgravia cut off early for me. I usually recorded it but watched it about twenty minutes later, so I then had to record from 11.00 till 11.05 on +1. I dont normally have this problem with ITV though.
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Post by sleepyp on Apr 22, 2020 10:22:28 GMT
I quite enjoyed it and would be interested in another series, several threads could be followed up. I'm sure he must have some ideas |
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Post by beverley61 on Apr 22, 2020 11:34:07 GMT
I wondered if it was meant to be rooted in envy. The Trenchards came from humble beginnings (I think Mrs Trenchard indicated that she was a vicar's daughter but did we ever learn exactly what his background was?) so, deep down, their servants didn't feel there was much difference between themselves and their employers so didn't respect them in the same way the Brockenhurst's servants respected their's. Or was it meant to indicate a political feeling, a kind of embryonic socialism? Your point is spot on - what was it meant to represent. We never got told and never got an explanation that would suffice to explain these two people throwing everything away and being prepared to take on a potential prison term. Also they weren't the servants that the Trenchard's had in Waterloo. As we saw the original maid had lived separately since the birth of Charles and she visited to say goodbye before leaving for America. Even before we got to Waterloo (the first episode) the Trenchard's are well off by most standards and fabulously wealthy by the time the main series gets underway. For a young girls starting out in service to rise to be a personal lady's maid was brilliant, to be one for a woman who lives in Belgravia and has a mansion in the country, who is polite to you and even apologises if she is late would be tremendous. A lady's maid got to run errands about town, travel in the carriage on trips out, have her own room, go on trips around the country and Europe. She was way above the run of the mill housework tasks the other staff were doing and she generally got paid much more too. In a larger household with other daughters and wives, the senior lady's maid would have junior staff to train. Therefore what was it meant to represent is a brilliant questionnaire. |
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. I was certain I would find out the crucial bit of information during the course of the last episode this week but I am still in the dark. Was he, as someone up-thread suggested weeks ago, an ordained minister? Like John's father, that was often the chosen career for younger sons in aristocratic families. I would be very grateful if someone would put me out of my misery please! 
. I was certain I would find out the crucial bit of information during the course of the last episode this week but I am still in the dark. Was he, as someone up-thread suggested weeks ago, an ordained minister? Like John's father, that was often the chosen career for younger sons in aristocratic families. I would be very grateful if someone would put me out of my misery please! 
(Mine also cut off the end of the last episode, too, but I've managed to see that now. I don't know what's up with my ITV links lately!!)
Anymore to come?
