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Post by beverley61 on Aug 19, 2019 16:21:12 GMT
I don't even know if Forever Amber is still in print, but she's certainly liberal with her favours to her own cost but then her dream was never going to happen. Probably one of the first books I read with a sad ending.
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Post by Delia on Aug 25, 2019 20:18:36 GMT
Just watching the beginning of this new series. The costumes and scenery are good -- I half expected the coach they were arriving in, to meet up with Poldark in his black greatcoat, on the cliffs!!
But....... here we go, again. The background music is anything but - a full orchestra were in the room with us, whilst we tried to hear the dialogue. When will they learn?
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Post by vicky on Aug 26, 2019 7:18:04 GMT
Lol Delia! I went straight from watching Poldark to watching Sanditon and had a job to remember that it wasn't the same programme - same historical period, so same fashions and all in a coastal setting. The big difference for me was that the hour of Poldark dragged whereas Sanditon didn't....and that wasn't just because of the advert breaks! They are using modern music for the soundtrack in the same way as they did for Vanity Fair last year. I had reservations about doing that when Vanity Fair began but I came to like it and find I still do now. Admittedly it gets a bit loud at times but I never noticed it overwhelming any dialogue.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2019 8:01:22 GMT
Very disappointed in it. Won't be bothering with the rest. Apparently Andrew Davies has said there wasn't enought in what was written to fill the first episode, so it isn't Austen and it shows. As for the music, someone wrote a brilliant letter in Radio Times this week saying imagone settling down to listen to the First Night of the Proms "and suddenly the sound of migrating wildebeest or hyena tearing into their prey is played over the top."
Must dig out my DVD of "Lost in Austen" - that was far more entertaining with the characters behaving as they should in Austen time and showing credible behaviour in modern time, especially Darcy on a London bus.
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Post by bethb63 on Aug 26, 2019 8:13:49 GMT
Overall, I liked it. I got a bit confused between the various young ladies and gentlemen who were introduced en masse, but I expect that will resolve itself as we go along.
It is very much Jane Austen seen through the Andrew Davies filter. The last scene between Charlotte and Sidney was so very Pride and Prejudice. Incidentally - while I did feel sorry for Charlotte being on the hard end of a pretty scathing put down, she was quite rudely judgmental about Tom (her host, who has been nothing but kind), to his brother!
I’d forgotten Theo James (Sidney). Don’t think I’ve seen him in anything since Bedlam, but he’s very watchable in every sense. 😀
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Post by linseed on Aug 26, 2019 9:05:00 GMT
I liked it, I mean I know it isn’t real Austen, but it was good entertainment. And Sidney is very watchable, I agree.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Aug 26, 2019 9:22:35 GMT
It was entertaining enough as long as you don't think of it as Austen. I have mixed views about Andrew Davies. He has brought Austen and others to an audience who might otherwise not read them, but then if they do they'll get a surprise. I really wish he would not give his characters attitudes and habits that people at that time would not have had.
Interesting to see Kris Marshall in a period role not involving pratfalls. He was rather good, and Anne Reid is always good value.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2019 9:28:04 GMT
I agree that it wasn't real Jane Austen, accepting that there may not have been enough to work with; but it definitely didn't work for me. I haven't liked the books that have attempted to finish Sanditon, either. It was an interesting exercise that didn't seem to work. I won't be watching any more.
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Post by gowergirl on Aug 26, 2019 10:25:54 GMT
I liked it. Certainly not Austen as others have said. I am a big fan of her writing.Living where I do,how could I not be. Chawton is one of my favourite villages.
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Post by sootycat on Aug 26, 2019 10:54:06 GMT
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Post by marion on Aug 26, 2019 16:00:29 GMT
Well I quite enjoyed it but got heartily sick of the word Sanditon, said in such an adoring way. There were rather a lot of people to take in I felt.
Now I don't mean to lower the tone, but are we to assume Brother and Sister Denham are too close for comfort? Much as in War & Peace.... that was adapted by AD too wasn't it?
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Post by linseed on Aug 26, 2019 16:27:55 GMT
They do seem to be a little too close for comfort I agree.
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Post by Miranda on Aug 26, 2019 16:44:35 GMT
I enjoyed it but I agree it's not Austen. But then Austen was quite genteel for the Regency period. IRL there was a lot of naughtiness going on. Especially at the seaside resorts.
The problem I often have with Austen adaptations is when they don't use Austen's voice. Her writing is the real joy of the books and adaptations that work usually do so because they reflect Austen's language, like P+P did. But with this one, there's not enough 'voice' to use so I guess AD thought 'sod it, I'm going full on Regency romp and I'm going to put in all the stuff she left out'. And the result was good if you regard it in that light.
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Post by Gargleblaster on Aug 26, 2019 17:05:31 GMT
The scene of the coach being driven along the country track with the country house in the background but the soundtrack made it seem as if the horses were galloping on cobble stones.
Interesting that one of the male swimmers was seen doing the Australian crawl when it wasn't invented until the late 1800s.
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Post by Delia on Aug 26, 2019 21:41:27 GMT
My husband, who has worked with horses, pointed out that in both Sanditon and Poldark they seem to travel on twin track roads which reflects the modern use of four wheels -- if horses are pulling carts the horse beats its own third track, in the middle. Only a few vehicles such as the carriages of the very rich, and the mail coach, would have two or four horses.
I laugh at them because they drive the teams hell for leather in a way which would have them exhausted in half an hour, whereas journeys were long and took days to complete.
The dialogue in this programme jars with me, it sounds too modern. Did they really call seaside towns "resorts" before Victorian times?
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