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Post by sootycat on Jan 23, 2017 12:42:30 GMT
I was so afraid Sister Ursula was going to be horrible to that poor, sweet little boy....and then, she wasn't. She was about the only person she wasn't horrible to. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2017 15:40:39 GMT
I'm so pleased the lovely Jenny Agutter is still in it but am afraid Trixie is starting to annoy me as are the two lesbian girls whose names escape me ... like the wicked (or not so) head honcho nun ! Was very disappointed with the Africa Christmas special that I started to watch on catch up but gave up a few days ago.
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Post by Miranda on Jan 29, 2017 21:04:24 GMT
Is just me or has the writing got worse? None of them seem to speak like real people. Especially the Turners.
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Post by vicky on Jan 30, 2017 12:09:37 GMT
The Turners are a very weird family....so stilted and unnatural, especially the doctor and Timothy.
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Post by LoopyLobes on Jan 30, 2017 12:17:34 GMT
They are, aren't they? Stilted is exactly the right word for them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2017 18:30:40 GMT
I don't know what it is with this programme, head tells me it's over slushy mushy unrealistic sentimental crap BUT my heart does so enjoy it then my eyes always start watering at the end ? I need help !
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Post by beverley61 on Feb 1, 2017 12:53:54 GMT
I don't know what it is with this programme, head tells me it's over slushy mushy unrealistic sentimental crap BUT my heart does so enjoy it then my eyes always start watering at the end ? I need help ! I don't think it is unrealistic, the story lines are historical fact for the most part, it's the writing which is pure soapy slush but all the same I think perhaps they have to pad the horrendous social history with a bit of powder puff or it would be too dire to watch.
it wasn't until the late 70s that wives could have their names on rent books as well as their husbands. I remember some furious men up in arms at the very idea!!!
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Post by technicolour on Feb 1, 2017 23:47:36 GMT
They are, aren't they? Stilted is exactly the right word for them. The dialogue this week was so corny and the speech patterns of all the guest cast straight out of a 1940s movie.
Also, what period is this now set? It seems exactly the same as series 1, and certainly not like the sixties IMO.
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Post by sootycat on Feb 2, 2017 12:32:17 GMT
There is a big Sister Evangelina gap in CTM and Sister Ursula doesn't fill it.  |
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Post by beverley61 on Feb 2, 2017 13:10:53 GMT
They are, aren't they? Stilted is exactly the right word for them. The dialogue this week was so corny and the speech patterns of all the guest cast straight out of a 1940s movie.
Also, what period is this now set? It seems exactly the same as series 1, and certainly not like the sixties IMO.
Not a lot had changed in terms of social law between the 40s and 60s, this is at the time when people began to campaign for change. Fashions changed, technology came in and there were lots of inventions but for the every day folk of Britain the laws had not changed and the class system was an even bigger chasm than it is now.
We have seen the introduction of council housing and the clearance of some slums, although it took a long time to clear away bomb damaged streets and rebuild new houses. We have seen contraception being introduced, we have seen the advent of health clinics etc. but not a lot else in reality. Women still tended to come off worst in divorce cases and custody invariably went to the father (taking your son to a boxing club would rather than a hospital appointment wouldn't have raised the eyebrow of many judges). Domestic violence was not technically a crime, could be , but you needed a good lawyer and most police forces wouldn't do much about it. Most landlords wanted a man's name on the rent book and wouldn't rent to women, especially women with children. Orphanages were heaving full because women had their children taken off them due to homelessness on a regular basis. The 60s wasn't all fun and games. I remember my parents getting divorced and the Head of our Junior School stood us on the stage (4 of us) and asked everyone to pray for us and look out for us because we had to go through this terrible thing. Then he had a rant about the sanctity of marriage to the gathered masses of 5-10 year olds. Totally embarrassing for us 4 I can tell you. My granddad went down and threatened to end his marriage in a more final way, if you get my drift!!!! But that said he was furious about the divorce and barely spoke to my mother for years.
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Post by vicky on Feb 2, 2017 14:59:57 GMT
We married in 1967 (the current series is set in 1962) and both had the same job. We wanted to buy a cooker on HP and, as it was more convenient for me, I went to the shop in my lunch hour to arrange things. Couldn't be done because I was a woman  It had to be my husband who took out the agreement. At the same time we were buying our first house but only his salary could be taken into account for the mortgage. I was, apparently, a non-person in spite of having a good job and salary and my own bank account. With all the talk of the swinging sixties, people don't realise that the "revolution" took a long time (well past the sixties, in fact) to filter through to all sections of society. I think women were some of the last to benefit. Even so....no-one spoke to their family, friends and colleagues the way the Turners do, even when I was a child in the 1950s! |
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Post by beverley61 on Feb 2, 2017 16:42:04 GMT
We married in 1967 (the current series is set in 1962) and both had the same job. We wanted to buy a cooker on HP and, as it was more convenient for me, I went to the shop in my lunch hour to arrange things. Couldn't be done because I was a woman It had to be my husband who took out the agreement. At the same time we were buying our first house but only his salary could be taken into account for the mortgage. I was, apparently, a non-person in spite of having a good job and salary and my own bank account. With all the talk of the swinging sixties, people don't realise that the "revolution" took a long time (well past the sixties, in fact) to filter through to all sections of society. I think women were some of the last to benefit. Even so....no-one spoke to their family, friends and colleagues the way the Turners do, even when I was a child in the 1950s! I agree with the Turners, perhaps this is all going to go Sci-Fi on us and in about 1979 the crew from Blake's Seven will arrive and shoot them as alien imposters! I think ultimately the actors don't gel as a couple and the son's role is odd, where has the daughter gone, he is all angst and she is all tweed, you cannot see the attraction at all and I think it shows............like all the time! |
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Post by janne on Feb 2, 2017 17:27:08 GMT
Beverly, how awful that was for the 4 of you.
So, do we want equal rights for women? Yes, we do.
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Post by beverley61 on Feb 3, 2017 12:44:57 GMT
Beverly, how awful that was for the 4 of you. So, do we want equal rights for women? Yes, we do. Ha Ha, yes I imagine it might have been if it wasn't for our Headmaster's tendency to pull children on to the stage regarding any item he wanted to rant about. Haircuts of fathers was a one that particularly got him heated, I remember one about testicles and how some poor boy (paraded in front of us) had needed to go to hospital after being kicked in them, we got a blow by blow account of his surgery etc. Poor Lad. Working mothers was a biggie, if someone's mum got a job he invariably dragged the child on to the stage etc. It was all done in a kind of "now children everyone needs to look after so and so because......". So to be truthful I recall it as an incident but not a trauma because it was always a case of who is he getting up there this time!! Tosser! I say that and mean it and strangely even at 7 I thought it.
He was very eccentric but not in a friendly inspiring way.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 10:40:00 GMT
{Spoiler}Pleased to see the end of Sister Ursula although she did have a change of heart before she left. |
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It had to be my husband who took out the agreement. At the same time we were buying our first house but only his salary could be taken into account for the mortgage. I was, apparently, a non-person in spite of having a good job and salary and my own bank account. With all the talk of the swinging sixties, people don't realise that the "revolution" took a long time (well past the sixties, in fact) to filter through to all sections of society. I think women were some of the last to benefit. Even so....no-one spoke to their family, friends and colleagues the way the Turners do, even when I was a child in the 1950s!
Anymore to come?
