Poldark 2015

[Radio64]

Look, I know I moaned about Wolf Hall being too slow, but the pace of Poldark 2015 is ridiculously fast with so many scenes seemingly lasting no longer than 30 secs. If you take a moment to fluff up your cushion or even so much as blink then you may have missed a crucial scene! Is that the way things are these days?! Can't we find a happy medium?

I'll be digging out my Poldark 1.0 VHS cassettes next so we can enjoy things at a slower pace.

[teamsaint]

Look, I know I moaned about Wolf Hall being too slow, but the pace of Poldark 2015 is ridiculously fast with so many scenes seemingly lasting no longer than 30 secs. If you take a moment to fluff up your cushion or even so much as blink then you may have missed a crucial scene! Is that the way things are these days?! Can't we find a happy medium?

I'll be digging out my Poldark 1.0 VHS cassettes next so we can enjoy things at a slower pace.

Pleased to see somebody else with their VHS still running !!

Still the only means I have of recording telly.Of course back in the good old analogue days you could record one channel while watching another.
When there was anything decent on.

And returning to your actual point, a particular dislike of mine is films that hurtle you into about 17 different plots and developments in the first thee minutes, without giving you any real chance to figure out what is going on.

[Anna]

.... the pace of Poldark 2015 is ridiculously fast with so many scenes seemingly lasting no longer than 30 secs. If you take a moment to fluff up your cushion or even so much as blink then you may have missed a crucial scene! Is that the way things are these days?! Can't we find a happy medium?

Totally agree, it seems far too rushed, we're halfway through now, it should have been 12 episodes, but perhaps it's because of the attention span of gnats syndrome? I'd like to have seen the blossoming of Verity and Blamey's romance, more detail about mining and social and economic history of the area, and why did the Warleggans get so powerful, etc.
However, I am enjoying it, it's a perfect Sunday night programme, but are they filming a second series?

[Radio64]

I imagine they're fitting the two old series (29 episodes) into one ...

[Richard Tarleton]

I thought Eleanor Tomlinson said she'd signed up for more series, so hopefully not. They've gone back to the books rather than remaking the old TV series....I haven't read them so have no idea where we are in relation to the original story.

AA Gill was right, she does scrub up nicely, very easy on the eye I was glad when those pilchards arrived. Only, as a birder, I'd have to say, where were the seabirds? There should have been clouds of gulls, plunge-diving gannets etc., not just a grey CGI smudge on the water - and the two and a half gulls hanging around while they loaded up showed no interest whatsoever.

[Radio64]

Yes and they weren't flicking around much as freshly fished fish do on boats and things. It probably didn't get past Health & Safety.




As I'm on another planet I only just found out that Angharad Rees (Demelza in Poldark 1.0) passed away in 2012. All the more upset as last night I saw that 30 min special on youtube which must have been made 10 or so years ago, and thought she'd fared much better than. say, Jill Townsend.

[Nick Armstrong]

If you take a moment to fluff up your cushion

Pleased to see somebody else with their VHS still running !!

Still the only means I have of recording telly.

I was glad when those pilchards arrived.

Lots of interesting insights on this thread! R64's solitary cushion.... Two of the few functioning VHS machines still in the UK.... Pilchard fetishes...

where were the seabirds? There should have been clouds of gulls, plunge-diving gannets etc., not just a grey CGI smudge on the water - and the two and a half gulls hanging around while they loaded up showed no interest whatsoever.

.... it's very true!!

[Richard Tarleton]

Yes and they weren't flicking around much as freshly fished fish do on boats and things. It probably didn't get past Health & Safety.

Yes, hilarious what goes on during filming. When they were filming scenes for Ridley Scott's Robin Hood on a Pembrokeshire beach (it's a long story), they wanted a scene with Breton [sic] peasants gathering oysters. So some bright spark from props tipped a load of shop-bought oysters into the rock pools for the extras to gather. Then someone from the government conservation agency spotted that these were Pacific oysters, that they were being released into the wild, which was illegal, and they all had to be gathered up again.....

[Flosshilde]

Lots of interesting insights on this thread! R64's solitary cushion....

Might that be a euphemism, given the 'phwoar' factor of the new Poldark?

[Radio64]

Might that be a euphemism, given the 'phwoar' factor of the new Poldark?

I wish.

[Flosshilde]

Yes and they weren't flicking around much as freshly fished fish do on boats

How much flicking would a freshly fished fish do if a freshly fished fish could flick?

[Radio64]

How much flicking would a freshly fished fish do if a freshly fished fish could flick?

but anyway .. who are you calling a pilchard ... ??

[Nick Armstrong]

Might that be a euphemism, given the 'phwoar' factor of the new Poldark?

You mean, like Will you come and scythe my lawn please?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/cele...proposals.html

[Serial_Apologist]

I wish.

No hard feelings...

[Radio64]

No hard feelings...

No. Just a very soft cushion.

which may need fluffing up a bit...