"Dickensian" - BBC1. Wonderful !

[vinteuil]

Nemo was the name adopted by Hawdon * living in poverty as a law writer, dying in the rooms over Krook's shop. This, at least, is genuine Dickens...


- SPOILER ALERT

[ * lover of Lady Dedlock, father of Esther Summerson, buried in the cemetery of St Mary-le-Strand... ]

'Bleak House' dates from 1852/53; Jules Verne's Nemo dates from 1869/70.

[Anna]

Nemo was the name adopted by Hawdon living in poverty as a law writer in the rooms over Krook's shop. This, at least, is genuine Dickens...

Yes, and Tulkinghorn visits Nemo, who lives above a shop run by a man named Krook,

Oh Please, you Nit-Pickers! let us least at least enjoy a Dickensian Christmas as we imagine it is ..... over our schooners of madeira and a pair of pince-nez

[jean]

...the future Lady Dedlock...

Who's that?

[Nick Armstrong]

Who's that?

The more flighty of the Barbary sisters... who was seen kissing Hawdon in the street (by the other, rather sterner sister).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Yes, and Tulkinghorn visits Nemo, who lives above a shop run by a man named

This has been driving me mad, but I finally found the reference in Chapter 10.

[Barbirollians]

I think Sam Wollaston in the Guardian was spot on - we have not had a decent Dickens adaptation since the wonderful Little Dorrit a few years back - great shame they did not put such a starry cast and all that money into the real thing rather than a cod Victorian Eastenders vanity project like this - three episodes in I gave up.

[mercia]

I wonder if we'll get a Shakespearean mash-up in the anniversary year. Who killed Hamlet's father - Romeo, Goneril or Bottom ?
I'll fetch my inky cloak.

[Ferretfancy]

I wonder if we'll get a Shakespearean mash-up in the anniversary year. Who killed Hamlet's father - Romeo, Goneril or Bottom ?
I'll fetch my inky cloak.

James Thurber's The Macbeth Murder Mystery would make a nice cheap half hour or so, with only two character's necessary unless the scriptwriter decided to incorporate scenes from Shakespeare.

[BBMmk2]

I didn't find this good at all. Perhaps it was the general mishmash approach.

[Nick Armstrong]

Isn't he a character in And Then There Were None?

No that was General Pile-O'Crap. Now that I've given up on, really terrible overblown boring stuff.

Can't believe more don't like Dickensian. What do you reckon ferns?

I can imagine, however, that over 20 half-hour episodes, it's going to run out of steam, and the excitement of the first couple of episodes (for me anyway, and Anna) is going to dissipate...

[vinteuil]

Can't believe more don't like Dickensian. ... the excitement of the first couple of episodes (for me anyway, and Anna)

... come now, Calibran - nothing to be ashamed of in being part of a small minority : after all, I and a few others like the music of ars subtilior - but probably more people like Justin Bieber ; that doesn't worry me.

You should perhaps only be worried if it dawned on you that this pertickler production was a bit naff and vulgar. And you're not thinking that, are you? At least, not yet...

[Nick Armstrong]

... come now, Calibran - nothing to be ashamed of

Oh no shame, not a flicker, vintool.

Just sorry so many seem to be missing out on the pleasure

ars subtilior

Quite!

[vinteuil]

Just sorry so many seem to be missing out on the pleasure

... ah, I find that there are so many 'pleasures' which (apparently) gratify others...

[Nick Armstrong]

... ah, I find that there are so many 'pleasures' which (apparently) gratify others...

Perhaps it accounts for the greater preponderance of smiles upon the faces of the broadminded?

[vinteuil]

Perhaps it accounts for the greater preponderance of smiles upon the faces of the broadminded?

“It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constituted, is imperfect. But he can learn to bear its imperfections, if they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is only because they only know their own side of the question.”