Bleak House (2005 BBC version)
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wee_mangoI have watched this wonderful adaptation twice within the last 4 days (that's about 14 hours lol!) and I have to say, OMG, I love it; I couldn't turn it off. The BBC have done a wonderful job with this series and this is one I'll definately be watching again and again.
- Love the opening titles:
- Lady Dedlock was fabulous but so tragic.
- Esther was a wonderful heroine.
- Jarndyce was adorable (pity he had to let Esther go but her & Woodcourt really were more suited to each other ♥).
- Tulkinghorn = evil personified. Charles Dance was brilliant, really believable as the heartless lawyer to the Dedlocks, blackmailing poor Lady D about her secret child (Esther)/love affair with Hawdon from 20 years before.
- Smallweed - just as bad as Tulkinghorn. They were despicable the pair of them!
- I really liked Guppy; Burn Gorman did a brilliant job and had me giggling like a loon during the first proposal scene! ♥ His mother (played by Shelia Hancock) was a bit of a loony though wasn't she? O_O
- Also really liked our John Lynch in his (small) role as Nemo/Capt James Hawdon, secret (and once assumed dead) lover of Lady D. Pity he came to a sudden end and then poor Lady D discovering he had in fact been alive all those years only to discover he had died recently. :(
- Skimpole really got on my nerves with his constant feigned ignorance ("I am but a child...I know nothing of these matters!") - AAARGH!! I was so glad when Esther was mad at him when she discovered he was the real reason why poor Jo got turfed out of Bleak House when he was ill. I was really hoping she would be able to give him a massive telling-off or take a swing at him when she caught him looking smug over by the refreshments at her and Alan's wedding but then Alan held her back...;)
- Scene that probably made me cry the most was when Lady D confesses to Esther that she is her mum, but that they cannot ever meet again as the secret would be known for definate:
- So sad to see Lady D have the secret come out the way it did (thanks to Smallweed) and then die a pauper's death, slumped against the cemetary gates where Hawdon was buried and Esther hold her dying mother in her arms in the rain.
Anyone else on the f-list seen this? What did you think of it? Who is/are/were your fave/least fave character(s)?? Tell me your thoughts, I command you! :P ;)
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- Love the opening titles:
- Lady Dedlock was fabulous but so tragic.
- Esther was a wonderful heroine.
- Jarndyce was adorable (pity he had to let Esther go but her & Woodcourt really were more suited to each other ♥).
- Tulkinghorn = evil personified. Charles Dance was brilliant, really believable as the heartless lawyer to the Dedlocks, blackmailing poor Lady D about her secret child (Esther)/love affair with Hawdon from 20 years before.
- Smallweed - just as bad as Tulkinghorn. They were despicable the pair of them!
- I really liked Guppy; Burn Gorman did a brilliant job and had me giggling like a loon during the first proposal scene! ♥ His mother (played by Shelia Hancock) was a bit of a loony though wasn't she? O_O
- Also really liked our John Lynch in his (small) role as Nemo/Capt James Hawdon, secret (and once assumed dead) lover of Lady D. Pity he came to a sudden end and then poor Lady D discovering he had in fact been alive all those years only to discover he had died recently. :(
- Skimpole really got on my nerves with his constant feigned ignorance ("I am but a child...I know nothing of these matters!") - AAARGH!! I was so glad when Esther was mad at him when she discovered he was the real reason why poor Jo got turfed out of Bleak House when he was ill. I was really hoping she would be able to give him a massive telling-off or take a swing at him when she caught him looking smug over by the refreshments at her and Alan's wedding but then Alan held her back...;)
- Scene that probably made me cry the most was when Lady D confesses to Esther that she is her mum, but that they cannot ever meet again as the secret would be known for definate:
- So sad to see Lady D have the secret come out the way it did (thanks to Smallweed) and then die a pauper's death, slumped against the cemetary gates where Hawdon was buried and Esther hold her dying mother in her arms in the rain.
Anyone else on the f-list seen this? What did you think of it? Who is/are/were your fave/least fave character(s)?? Tell me your thoughts, I command you! :P ;)
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Date: 2007-03-25 01:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-03-25 01:21 am (UTC)And yep, I really felt for her when she hears that he was the owner of the handwriting on the document Tulkinghorn brings to the Dedlock house only to be told days later that he died.
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Date: 2007-03-25 05:00 pm (UTC)I really liked Guppy; Burn Gorman did a brilliant job
!!! Burn Gorman as in Burn Gorman who plays Owen in Torchwood? I'm not really a fan of Owen, but BG is a brilliant actor. ^^
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Date: 2007-03-25 05:05 pm (UTC)♥