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DesEsseintes said:
...Wolf Hall should be airing in the US about now, and I suspect you might also enjoy that very much as a costume drama. Some of the acting is for the ages.
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Mark Rylance is superb as Thomas Cromwell. The portrayal of Anne Boleyn as a scheming Machiavellian will, no doubt, be a revelation to some.

It has been argued that she bears ultimate responsibility for the violent deaths of hundreds of thousands.


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NaokoSmith said:
(Do you mind repeating that thing about VPL and W toilet-trained bears in a husky bear-like voice? I love hearing about technical things :heart:)
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Thanks to two weeks of 'flu, "husky bear-like voice" is the only one I have right now!

(Back in the days of the vi text editor, "^W" meant "delete the preceding word".)

NaokoSmith said:
Australian chums, I think Poldark is already airing on ABC1? Does that include the equivalent of BBC Iplayer? so you can catch up?

This is a must-see for anyone who likes
a) period costume drama
b) nice scenery beautifully shot
c) Aidan Turner
d) a bit of bosom heaving
e) surreptitious class politics
f) subtly double-entendre dialogue

...
Actually I could go on quite a lot, anyway, watch it.
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Hmm. I think my partner might enjoy that!
 
Bramblethorn said:
Wow, BBC's production budgets have gone up!
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:D

Thank God! The DVD of the series will be out on 11th May. Only a week to go and I can watch it all over again.

The most interesting character in Poldark, from a writer's point of view, is George Warleggan. He is not in himself a coherent character, but he is necessary for the purposes of the story.

George Warleggan is the grandson of a blacksmith, who is well-educated himself (went to same school as Ross Poldark, speaks with a cultivated tone in comparison to his (?) uncle). Although George is intent on ruining Ross Poldark, employing fair or foul means to do so, there is often a look on his face when his uncle says they should do some nefarious deed which suggests he has conflicted feelings. This is at odds with the action he in fact takes, action necessary to move the plot along and show us Ross Poldark against a world that does not care about the ordinary people as Ross does.

George is acutely intelligent, playing the gentry, industrialists and other monied class members around him like chess pieces. Yet it's as if he longs for something the Poldarks have which he can never possess. He tries to seize what they have: fine house in which to throw parties, even to pursue Elizabeth - the most elegant and accomplished of the women in the series. But it's as if he tries to seize the things people like the Poldarks appreciate and misses the experience which those things offer in doing so.

George anchors the class politics. Ross Poldark and others may sympathise with those who are so poor that they are starving, but they have no sympathy for an 'upstart' like George, and nor do we - he lacks the finer appreciative instincts of the truly noble Poldarks.
 
Great news, Naoko. After more than 20 years of living in the house we built, I have finally decided to get cable TV, so I will be able to watch and cry over Poldark, too. It was not really the TV I was after, it was the additional data package that was bundled with it. But, now I am a happy girl, more data and PBS.
 
AllardChardon said:
Great news, Naoko. After more than 20 years of living in the house we built, I have finally decided to get cable TV, so I will be able to watch and cry over Poldark, too. It was not really the TV I was after, it was the additional data package that was bundled with it. But, now I am a happy girl, more data and PBS.
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Can't think of a better moment to get tv!

I had an email to say my box set of the DVDs is on its way already! I can hardly contain myself, and I only finished watching the episodes on i-player a week ago. I'm a bit puzzled why they didn't bring it out on Blu-ray, I like to get sharper definition for good landscape shots. At least now I can play it without having to buy a tv and Blu-ray player myself! (I will have to get those soon, for Piglet's sake. First I had to source a piano, LOL. Now I can get on with the tv buying.)
 
I think the DVDs come out first and then the Blue Rays and finally the extended versions. It is a racket, like all the other rackets out there. I agree with you, buying a piano before a TV is a must.
 
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