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 ;)
♥
- 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 05:05 pm (UTC)♥