"The Village" BBC1 Sundays.

[Anna]

A new thread dedicated to our friend eighthobstruction

Oh Bless!! He won't know where to look!! Fame and fortune, at last!
Actually, one thing I have learned about 8thOb is that .... he is wise beyond his years. I think it comes from walking the dogs through the woods and bursting into Julie Andrews songs on the hills.
So, is anyone else watching The Village otherwise this thread will sink without trace?

[Serial_Apologist]

From Points of Vew on Sunday one learned The Village to be something of a bonkfest!

[Nick Armstrong]

From Points of Vew on Sunday one learned The Village to be something of a bonkfest!

Really? I hadn't noticed

[Anna]

From Points of Vew on Sunday one learned The Village to be something of a bonkfest!

Really? I only recorded in my notebook on Sunday two perfunctory couplings .... which were most unsatisfactory!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Really? I only recorded in my notebook on Sunday two perfunctory couplings .... which were most unsatisfactory!!

*Wipes away tears emoticon*

And young Joe got his end away in the woods wi't girl from t'big 'ouse at the end of Ep 1 before he went off for a soldier (fair do's).... I seem to recall both remained virtually fully clothed... Hardly a bonkfest...

[Serial_Apologist]

Really? I only recorded in my notebook on Sunday two perfunctory couplings .... which were most unsatisfactory!!

Anna's notebook: "fast-forward to 19 minutes 20 seconds in..."

[Stunsworth]

Not seen the weekend's episode yet. It's miserable, but I can well imagine that was what rural life was like pre-WWI.

I want to know where those kids got their 6d pieces from in the second episode. That must have been a huge amount of money for a child in those days - my first pocket money in the early 60s was half a crown a week!

[Serial_Apologist]

Not seen the weekend's episode yet. It's miserable, but I can well imagine that was what rural life was like pre-WWI.

I want to know where those kids got their 6d pieces from in the second episode. That must have been a huge amount of money for a child in those days - my first pocket money in the early 60s was half a crown a week!

My first pocket money was 3d a week, when I was three.

"How old will I have to be before I get a Pound?" I asked my mother. "Two hundred and forty years old", Mum answered. "Ooh - what a big boy!" I exclaimed.

[Mary Chambers]

I watched the first two episodes, now have decided I can do without so much misery on a Sunday night.

[eighthobstruction]

Really? I only recorded in my notebook on Sunday two perfunctory couplings .... which were most unsatisfactory!!

....So perfunctory they could be described as cursory....

....Now I don't like to be vulgar (usually things much worse.... vicar)(no it was the postman) but for reasons of continuity the milk bloated breasts didnt seem to be all that bloated when the women all ran to their babies....I mean what would it have cost them....(what did the actors want....stunt women??)....especially it was such a bone of contention involving non union union negotiation....after all that, you'd have thought they would have made some effort.....actors should act and as far as I could see they made no effort to run in a special way with their arms placed for special control and containment....their faces were lacking that slightly strained unsure expression so needed for an authentic situation/occasion....I cannot forgive that....

[Anna]

Has everyone given up on this? I'm just catching up on last week's episode which I only saw part of. However, I came across a very faded photo of my maternal forebears in their Cardiff village, taken around 1905-07 I think. I'm posting this for eightobstruction as I think he'll like it. Look at the donkey looking at the geese!! See the cute chubby children in the donkey-cart! Misery, what misery?

[Mr Pee]

I watched the first two episodes, now have decided I can do without so much misery on a Sunday night.

Me too. Just way too grim.

Anyway, Sunday nights never feel complete without Top Gear!!

[vinteuil]

... I gave up after twenty minutes of episode one. The clunky predictable misery. Should have been the material for a Monty Python impoverished Yorkshireman yarn - how anyone can subsequently take such guff seriously....

[eighthobstruction]

Aye Anna that's the trouble with actors today they nip about, one week a D.I. the next a MP....or in the case of JohnSimm a 70's cop, Van Gogh, compulsive gambler.....the Master....Civil War psycho....etc etc....and they turn up thinking they can just BE.....a Derbyshire Small holder....wrong....where are the bandy legs/hunched shoulders from years of slinging around that most precarious of objects (the Hay Bale)....where is the grease on his cap from years of wear, where is the completely unsun burned bit of brow when he takes his cap off (or a completely white dome in the case of baldies)....wherre's the sun creased corners of his eyes and hands like a bunch of bananas, all cracked and misshapen and ingrained dirt.... Aye they reckon they can just turn up and we'll take it all in on spoon just coz it Sunday night and we fancy a bit of tele (and Snookers on the other side)....i Basta....

[Anna]

Aye Anna that's the trouble with actors today they nip about one week a D.I. the next a MP....or in the case of JohnSimm a 70's cop, Van Gogh, compulsive gambler.....the Master....Civil War psycho....etc etc....and they turn up thinking they can just BE.....a Derbyshire Small holder....wrong....where are the bandy legs/hunched shoulders from years of slinging around that most precarious of objects (the Hay Bale)....where is the grease on his cap from years of wear, where is the completely unsun burned bit of brow when he takes his cap (or a completely white dome in the case of baldies)....wher's the sun creased corners of his eyes and hands like a bunch of bananas, all cracked and misshapen.... Aye they reckon they can just turn up and we'll take it all in on spoon just coz it Sunday night and we fancy a bit of tele (and Snookers on the other side)....i Basta....

You liked my photo then? William, with flatcap, was base born, (there's a posh expression for being a bastard!) ex-Army medical corps, then in the Reserves for Welsh Regiment. He was a rogue, a philanderer, and then a hewer of coal and no better than he should be. He did however live to the age of 95, his first wife having died in the early 20s he took his son's mother in law to his bed!
Blimey, the working class .... Wot are they like?
I'm liking The Village more now, since religion and womens rights are to the fore.