JAMaica INN

[Guest]

It's so bad I could hardly JAMake-her-out. Dreadful acting (apart from the Lead young lady)(Oops- I've made a sexist remark again!!)

The BBC couldn't afford a couple of lights and a geezer to operate them, and also couldn't afford a sound guy and a couple of half decent mics.

The Corporation is run by a bunch of INCOMPETANT amateurs these days.

[vinteuil]

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http://bbc.in/1i6dogg

[mercia]

I have to use subtitles for a lot of TV programmes but there does seem to have been a particular problem with this one - oops crossposted

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-27116881

I'm afraid I had to laugh out loud at everyone struggling through the muddy conditions

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I thought it was just me.

[Ariosto]

It's probably me but as our famous Jane says, I'm a very old man so I'm probably past it. Lucky I can just about reach out for me barf chair these days.

I'll have to get me 'earing aid fixed next time I go for me testosterone injection from that young lady who is our local nurse - which I always enjoy because she has nice hands ... Have to turn the damned HI-FI down as them bleedin top notes around 36KHz are driving me madder than I am anyway. (About 100 years ago I could hear above 100KHz but them sort of harmonics have long since gone - in fact just after me 113th birthday).

[Bryn]

It's probably me but as our famous Jane says, I'm a very old man so I'm probably past it. Lucky I can just about reach out for me barf chair these days.

What I heard of it presented no problems to the ears, but that may be because I did not tune in to it.

[Flosshilde]

The Beeb has admitted that there were technical problems that affected the transmission, & couldn't be rectified during the transmission, & they'll sort it out for the next episode. The spokesperson also said (& it's probably a first) that they realised that some people - especially older listeners - had difficulty hearing speech above the background music. I rather objected to them thinking it's just older listeners, as anybody with a hearing problem would have difficulty.

[Ariosto]

The Beeb has admitted that there were technical problems that affected the transmission, & couldn't be rectified during the transmission, & they'll sort it out for the next episode. The spokesperson also said (& it's probably a first) that they realised that some people - especially older listeners - had difficulty hearing speech above the background music. I rather objected to them thinking it's just older listeners, as anybody with a hearing problem would have difficulty.

Even me dog complained and said the dog's that were barking in the background were too indistinct and she couldn't understand a word from that geezer who was the young lady's uncle. She reckons he had a very big frog in his throat, or maybe a squirrel. Also, my two year old grandson said he couldn't understand a word of it and the sex scenes were dead boring.

[David-G]

The Beeb has admitted that there were technical problems that affected the transmission, & couldn't be rectified during the transmission, & they'll sort it out for the next episode. The spokesperson also said (& it's probably a first) that they realised that some people - especially older listeners - had difficulty hearing speech above the background music. I rather objected to them thinking it's just older listeners, as anybody with a hearing problem would have difficulty.

With this programme, anybody with no hearing problem would have just as much difficulty.

[Ariosto]

Let's hope the beeb are not deaf to our complaints ...

[Hornspieler]

I'm really fed up with the current obsession (on all TV channels) with presenting their drama in a very low key mix of brown and orange.

Don't just blame the Beeb - they're all doing it these days.

HS

[Thropplenoggin]

The BBC has a problem with silence. Even in documentaries, those (mostly) cretinous walk'n'talk brigade of 'on location' presenters appear to be shouting over the incessant background - sorry - foreground music, which appears to act as a Greek chorus, telling us how we should be feeling at any given moment... A recent example is Ian Hislop's Olden Days, which I gave up on after 10 minutes.

Skip back a few decades, very few presenters, mostly voice-overs, and pertinent not intrusive use of music.

The worst example I've seen has to be the 2013 Sir Colin Davis doc, which I only caught on its repeat last week. This quietly spoken and incredibly interesting man was being drowned out by musical examples (Berlioz, etc.) while he was speaking ...who are the moronic producers allowing such things to occur?

[Ariosto]

I'm really fed up with the current obsession (on all TV channels) with presenting their drama in a very low key mix of brown and orange.

Don't just blame the Beeb - they're all doing it these days.

HS

Quite right HS, and I said that about Endeavor (terribel spelling) too, whch is by the other lot. Must be a fashion or sickness of some sort. More likely money saving though. Have to get a real expert critic to make the only meaningful jusdgement though. (Maybe I should have put the sound through my low-Fi system - or turned a deaf ear to it all. (Must look for that dictionarey and see if i can swallow it). (OR spell it properly ...)

[vinteuil]

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http://bbc.in/1i6dogg

... yet more complaints:

http://bbc.in/1hhPqOw

[Nick Armstrong]

The BBC has a problem with silence. Even in documentaries....

I so agree. By contrast, the surprisingly excellent US series 'Walking Dead' plays on silence, for long stretches - and it's utterly gripping (some episodes were watched the other night, and the comparison with the BBC 'carpet of muzak' was stark).

As for 'Jamaica Inn' it was beyond parody in its dark muddy growling cliché-laden misery


PS: Has anyone here seen the sublimely funny 'Hunderby'? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hunderby-DVD.../dp/B008XGTXVU Anyone who found 'Jamaica Inn' ludicrous would love it, I think.