Originally posted by mercia
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Why "oh dear"? Just go with it! Enjoy it!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I'm trying, but my small brain can't cope. Its like having Lassie in a scene from 101 Dalmatians. Or Elsie Tanner wandering into Albert Square. Its not right.Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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A surreal image - even though my only experience of The Square in the last 20 years is from trailers or short snatches whilst getting possession of the remote control..... And just thinking about what Elsie would say (....oops, I've just realised I'm thinking about Ena Sharples ! ).Originally posted by mercia View PostComment
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I'm very grateful to Cali for persuading me to give this series another go, as I am greatly enjoying it. I think the treatment of the Great Expectations and Bleak House "backstories" are very well done - and I think I might have preferred it had the series concentrated on this dual plot. The intermingling of so many other characters - and the distorting of the plots of their novels - isn't something I can just "go" with: it tugs on the leash of my enjoyment - as does the use of the Lohengrin "Wedding March", which dates the setting of the series to after 1858 - which, in turn, means that the events of A Christmas Carol take place in 1865 - twenty-two years after it was written! (I just have that sort of "connections" brain - pity me!)
The Fagin sections are excellent, too - even taking Anton Lesser out of the equation; and he is (as some wise person has recently suggested) someone who could read the Phone book and make it unmissable.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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I'm really enjoying this series, FHG, but like you i am finding the chronology difficult. I was a history teacher! My biggest problem is with the Oliver Twist characters. Fagin, Sykes and Nancy seem to be set at a time before Oliver enters their lives. But how can this be? At the time that Bill Sykes takes Oliver on the burglary Mr Bumble is sweet talking Mrs Corney and they are not yet married.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostComment
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Yes, Mrs A and I have been haggling over the chronology....but have resolved (as someone above suggested) to sit back and enjoy. I just wonder where the inspiration came from for such a novel [groan] idea?Comment
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Is everyone sticking with it? I am surprised that I want to keep watching. Can anyone explain its compulsion?Comment
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Yes! - I'm absolutely hooked! (I still find the Bumbles irritating and - so far - unnecessary; but then neither actor is doing very well in the poorly-written roles.) Love it - and what a pair of poppets in the "Oliver"(-ish) and Tiny Tim roles! (When TT took his medicine, I'm convinced they hadn't rehearsed with the real "medicine" - his eyebrows took on a life of their own! But what a trouper - came out with his line dead on cue!)Originally posted by ardcarp View Post
And, I have no idea whodunnit.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Me too, still. Got the last 3 or 4 lined up for a mini-binge.... (thereby frustrating the 'episodic' approach, I know!)Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Nor have I - I just hope it doesn't disappoint when it comes to the denouement!! I'm still hooked, Sairey Gamp (Pauline Collins) is an absolute delight as is Fagin but I agree totally with ferney about the Bumbles. Edit: I had indeed quite forgot the plot in Bleak House so have removed what I wrote previously!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
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Perhaps lovely moments like the interview between Bucket and Dodger, culminating in the kindly yet menacing lineOriginally posted by ardcarp View Post
"You're a smart lad, change your path now, and you could live to see your 16th birthday"
(followed by Bucket realising Dodger's had it away with his wallet
... "The little ******" ...
Or when Bucket (having gone in quest of his wallet) turns to Fagin when leaving the room, and does his back in again: Fagin's line
"Careful my dear, you'll do yourself an injustice" (beautifully delivered by Anton Lesser, needless to say)
is a corker!
And then again, the leering Wegg to Mrs Gamp: "Perhaps you might find time to lay your healing hands once more upon my.... swollen appendage"
All the above were in the first 10 minutes of Ep. 9 which I just watched - yes, I find I have 5 stacked on the recorder
Her line "Fear not! Sairey shall watch over you!" made me think of a presiding figure not a million miles from here!Originally posted by Anna View Post
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Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 30-01-16, 21:11."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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surely a line from the forthcoming "Carry On up The Old Curiosity Shop"Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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...and there is still a legion of Dickensian characters (have Mr Pickwick and Sam Weller appeared yet?) for Bucket mistakenly to lock up.Comment
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Oo er, Missus Gamp!Originally posted by mercia View Post"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Yes they were seen and heard briefly carousing in a back room of the 'Cripples' in the first episode, I thinkOriginally posted by ardcarp View Post
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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