If one year's back on my shoulder
Not having read any of the source novels, approximately twenty minutes into the first series of Poldark (1975–77) as I lay on the couch self-medicating with the late eighteenth century, I remarked to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
spatch, "Is there any aspect of this homecoming that is not going to be a clusterfuck?" on which the answer turned out to be no, whence it seems the engine of the plot. Since I came to this show by having to wait for the third season of Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17) to arrive at my local branch library, I was more than ordinarily entertained by the line pertaining to the hero's soldiering past, "Shocking business, eh? Losing the Colonies." The bomber leather frock coat is as impressive as advertised.
spatch, "Is there any aspect of this homecoming that is not going to be a clusterfuck?" on which the answer turned out to be no, whence it seems the engine of the plot. Since I came to this show by having to wait for the third season of Turn: Washington's Spies (2014–17) to arrive at my local branch library, I was more than ordinarily entertained by the line pertaining to the hero's soldiering past, "Shocking business, eh? Losing the Colonies." The bomber leather frock coat is as impressive as advertised.
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Oh, yes. I mean, my second reaction to that casting, after I stopped laughing, was that I knew from Poldark he ought to be great at the confession scene - and he was!
And, aww, you even watched S&S! <3 I love it, but it does have a shaky start even in addition to one of those baffling 70s things where any sort of visible weight in an actor apparently lends decades to their age. (Patricia Routledge here is the third time I've come across this weirdity as a thing. She's a great Mrs Jennings here, but it is at least 20 years too early!) Joanna David is such a lovely choice for Elinor, too. I enjoyed both the 1980 and the 1971 in different ways, although I wasn't really happy with either of their Colonel Brandons - tho' I watched them too close together to remember which was which, because I do feel like I liked one more than the other. (I think the 1980 one but don't quote me).
Of the one episode of the 1968 BBC version available on YouTube—telerecorded, glitchy, what else is new—his major scenes involve accepting a bailout he feels weird about, failing to advance his suit with his love interest, and quarreling with his sister about her choice of beau, all of which is accurate to the book but still very funny to me.
Ha, but of course!
It is like the way every single thing about David Collings makes so much more sense when you realise he started out with playing Raskolnikov and then just murdered, angsted, broke down, died, and wept on for at least a decade and a half, with interruptions for being non-human.
I am profoundly entertained that this same version of Sense and Sensibility provides an Edward Ferrars surprised at home en déshabillé,
XD Me, too. They were determined to have a sexy Edward! It's very funny that even Andrew Davies wasn't up to this kind of thing, not with these two anyway.
And their John Dashwood was played by Milton Johns, last seen cheating Francis at cards, the Poldark cinematic universe really is microscopic.
Oh, I'd forgotten! Milton Johns weasels in everywhere, really, so I don't count him on the tally, but of course he is. (He used to turn up to ruin all the children's telly while I was young and always be simultaneously weirdly likeable while he did it, although he will forever be iconic for doing his level best to sell the DW villain who somehow hasn't noticed he still has a working eye under his eyepatch. Sometimes actors really earn their pay. XD)
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He was! And when you phrase it like that accounts for what he's doing in As You Like It. It is definitely what he's doing in his episode of The Return of Sherlock Holmes. That entire script builds to Clive Francis explaining himself and it's great.
liadt was very kind and made a dvd of it off YT, because the actual DVD release is not really obtainable any more & obv I loved it with that cast anyway.
I am very glad you have that. I just watched it off YouTube. I may have been ruined for Colonel Brandons by Alan Rickman, but otherwise I enjoyed it very much! The practicality of the proposal scene reminded me favorably of a similar touch in Stand-In (1937), against stiff competition possibly Leslie Howard's geekiest film and consequently dear to me.
Ha, but of course!
I hadn't even finished Francis' plotline when I read Middlemarch and he made so much sense as Fred, it was rough. If he had an ingenue period, it must have lasted about ten seconds. The BBC is supposed to have six out of seven episodes in their archives and given the state of some of their other long-sought releases, I don't see the impediment.
It is like the way every single thing about David Collings makes so much more sense when you realise he started out with playing Raskolnikov and then just murdered, angsted, broke down, died, and wept on for at least a decade and a half, with interruptions for being non-human.
He seemed a lot healthier when he wasn't human!
although he will forever be iconic for doing his level best to sell the DW villain who somehow hasn't noticed he still has a working eye under his eyepatch. Sometimes actors really earn their pay.
I can respect that. (Better or worse than having to be a space moth?)
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Oh, nice. I mean, my main reason for wishing for a dvd was to gif the proposal scene, which I immediately did.
I can respect that. (Better or worse than having to be a space moth?)
Well, nobody can see you when you're a prince of the space moths, but OTOH there are bulky costumes, choreography and strange voices to navigate, sometimes while being chased by giant space ants who can't see where they're going. But still, having to look yourself in the mirror and discover that you'd been wrong for (years? I'm sure it's years) about what was under your eyepatch really does beg some questions nothing in the script has any answers for, and it's supposed to be a big emotional moment of betrayal for the character. XD
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You can't say that and not link me the gif!
But still, having to look yourself in the mirror and discover that you'd been wrong for (years? I'm sure it's years) about what was under your eyepatch really does beg some questions nothing in the script has any answers for, and it's supposed to be a big emotional moment of betrayal for the character.
I thought you were just referring to the dodginess of the costume. That deserved hazard pay!
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Sorry, it's here. I was so convinced I'd made a post and linked to it and you'd already seen it! It turns out that I don't seem to have done, only a little review & link to the YT edition when I watched it. (Or if I did link to the tumblr post, God knows what I tagged it with, because it wasn't any of the tags I ought to have used).
I thought you were just referring to the dodginess of the costume. That deserved hazard pay!
No, he's just a regular human! Who never washes under his eyepatch or takes it off to sleep, apparently. XD
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Thank you! I agree with you that the scene could have used some kissing and otherwise it is lovely.
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