I did in fact spot the David Collings! And I don't think anything tragic or bizarre even happened to him! His daughter won't marry Sir Walter, but I at least would consider that a bullet dodged. Being the man's lawyer has to be bad enough.
The bad thing (for me at least) is that that was his last TV appearance for 20 years! (When he did finally come back, you will be happy to learn, he was terminally ill in a hospital drama. And had a gay kiss. And was in a lavender marriage with a lesbian who was pining away because he had been keeping his dying secret from her. His platonic love is magic, apparently, and can make people better once it is restored to them. :-D) Although I think he spent that time doing world theatre tours with a company based at the Barbican, with radio in between, so it was probably okay for him.
Fixed! Thank you for catching that.
I was both amused in passing and thought you were the sort of person who would prefer to know, so I hope you didn't mind.
Do you like the famous 1995 Pride and Prejudice? I have still never seen it, despite knowing any number of people in high school who were legitimately obsessed with it.)
I do! I've watched and enjoyed most of the other main P&P adaptations in different ways, but that is my favourite by far. It will be forever, I suspect, because I am still in love with Benjamin Whitrow, who was the most perfect Mr Bennet and played it as if it was the part he had been waiting for all his life, but it's very well cast all round. I enjoyed the 1980 BBC one, but it is very static and can't really compete with the other, and the 2005 has some nice stuff, but I did not care for its Mr Bennet (I judge P&P by Mr Bennets apparently) and I will never, ever forgive them for casting Matthew Macfadyen (one of my favourite actual modern actors) as Mr Darcy and then giving him terrible hair. (He has £10,000 a year! You bet yr life he has someone to do his hair for him in the mornings.) And the 1940 is not so much an adaptation as a leap into who knows what, but it was pretty delightful as long as you weren't expecting faithfulness to the book. (Also Edmund Gwenn to give Benjamin Whitrow a run for his money. He didn't quite succed, though.)
But, yes, I do, in short. One of my favourite classic TV adaptations, definitely. I kind of would like to be different and hate it or something, but I always enjoy it very much indeed. But then TV adaptations of books do tend to be a bit more satisfactory than a lot of film ones, just because of the additional time. (2005 has, what 2 hours? 1995 has 6. Watching the film after watching the serial too many times feels like doing P&P on speed.)
Although, I confess, I generally like an awful lot of the BBC classic adaptations anyway!
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The bad thing (for me at least) is that that was his last TV appearance for 20 years! (When he did finally come back, you will be happy to learn, he was terminally ill in a hospital drama. And had a gay kiss. And was in a lavender marriage with a lesbian who was pining away because he had been keeping his dying secret from her. His platonic love is magic, apparently, and can make people better once it is restored to them. :-D) Although I think he spent that time doing world theatre tours with a company based at the Barbican, with radio in between, so it was probably okay for him.
Fixed! Thank you for catching that.
I was both amused in passing and thought you were the sort of person who would prefer to know, so I hope you didn't mind.
Do you like the famous 1995 Pride and Prejudice? I have still never seen it, despite knowing any number of people in high school who were legitimately obsessed with it.)
I do! I've watched and enjoyed most of the other main P&P adaptations in different ways, but that is my favourite by far. It will be forever, I suspect, because I am still in love with Benjamin Whitrow, who was the most perfect Mr Bennet and played it as if it was the part he had been waiting for all his life, but it's very well cast all round. I enjoyed the 1980 BBC one, but it is very static and can't really compete with the other, and the 2005 has some nice stuff, but I did not care for its Mr Bennet (I judge P&P by Mr Bennets apparently) and I will never, ever forgive them for casting Matthew Macfadyen (one of my favourite actual modern actors) as Mr Darcy and then giving him terrible hair. (He has £10,000 a year! You bet yr life he has someone to do his hair for him in the mornings.) And the 1940 is not so much an adaptation as a leap into who knows what, but it was pretty delightful as long as you weren't expecting faithfulness to the book. (Also Edmund Gwenn to give Benjamin Whitrow a run for his money. He didn't quite succed, though.)
But, yes, I do, in short. One of my favourite classic TV adaptations, definitely. I kind of would like to be different and hate it or something, but I always enjoy it very much indeed. But then TV adaptations of books do tend to be a bit more satisfactory than a lot of film ones, just because of the additional time. (2005 has, what 2 hours? 1995 has 6. Watching the film after watching the serial too many times feels like doing P&P on speed.)
Although, I confess, I generally like an awful lot of the BBC classic adaptations anyway!