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Good grief! I saw the thread title with my name under it and had no recollection of ever having posted it, or what it was about!
(But I do remember it now )
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
Detectorists appears to be set in Mummerset or is it supposed to be in Suffolk where it was shot? My pedantry apart, I enjoy it's gentle humour.
Supposedly set in the small fictional town of Danebury in northern Essex... The characters don't all have to be locals!
"...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..."
Sorry - I played fast and loose with your heading, to adapt the thread for present porpoises...
(I remembered the bit about the Sainsbury's bag which was what originally amused me)
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
I've been hugely enjoying the current second season of Detectorists - again, perhaps symbolically, hidden away somewhat on BBC Four.
If anything I think it is even more successful than the first season, writing and cast full of gems - above all, Lance and Andy, respectively Toby Jones and writer/director Mackenzie Crook
Highlights for me: the discussion about Lance's ex sawing the bed in half; and the dialogue commencing
Supposedly set in the small fictional town of Danebury in northern Essex... The characters don't all have to be locals!
I really like Detectorists too, Cal - Mackenzie Crook is terrific - I like the style of humour and the performances very much. Aimee-Ffion Edwards who plays Sophie is particularly good, I think but it's a fine ensemble cast.
Odd then that none of them have N Essex accents especially Toby Jones, just sloppy imv (returns hobbyhorse to stable).
Clip, clop, clip, clop...
Didn't even occur to me to be bothered by it... For me, the programme takes place in a rather generalised English Eden, all summer light, sunkissed counryside, long light evenings of ale in old pubs, a sort of Anywhere-Parva-on-the-Wold.
The archetypal 'English summer' photography is another highlight of the programme for me. It sets up an odd connection in my mind with that completely fantastic play Jerusalem, in which Mackenzie Crook played opposite Mark Rylance, and which in some indirect ways I think informs the way he has shaped Detectorists...
"...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..."
I take your point about the possibly generalised intent of the programme and its charm but accents are gradually disappearing and I regret their disappearance and the richness that regionally accented English brings to the language. Each county accent had several perhaps many different guises and it is now much more difficult to hear the speech of say North Essex as it could be heard until quite recently and the same is certainly true of my own home county of Suffolk. This loss of regional accents is accompanied by a loss of local vocabulary (see Robert Macfarlane) and imv an impoverishment of English. In the South East of England, Estuary English seems to have become a lingua franca and I am irritated by actors who should have better mastered their craft instead of using all purpose country accents when it is not difficult to research the real thing, assuming of course that in the present case, Detectorists has a specific location.
Dobbin is just settling down........
I've been hugely enjoying the current second season of Detectorists - again, perhaps symbolically, hidden away somewhat on BBC Four.
If anything I think it is even more successful than the first season, writing and cast full of gems - above all, Lance and Andy, respectively Toby Jones and writer/director Mackenzie Crook
Highlights for me: the discussion about Lance's ex sawing the bed in half; and the dialogue commencing
Really looking forward to season 3 which meanders onto our TVs this Wednesday night over on Beeb 4. Just watched the repeats of series 2 again...wonderful TV.
Really looking forward to season 3 which meanders onto our TVs this Wednesday night over on Beeb 4. Just watched the repeats of series 2 again...wonderful TV. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06l51nr
I cannot recommend this series enough. It's very difficult to describe its charm, but it's not to be missed.
Thank goodness I did not reply to this thread when first I saw it. Am I the only one fooled by it -apart from f f who recovered quickly enough? I was composing a suitable 'welcome back' post to a long absent member when I noticed that a prank, to be kind, had been perpetrated, and my absent friend was, to my disappointment, still absent. I must say I take a dim view.
Thank goodness I did not reply to this thread when first I saw it. Am I the only one fooled by it -apart from f f who recovered quickly enough? I was composing a suitable 'welcome back' post to a long absent member when I noticed that a prank, to be kind, had been perpetrated, and my absent friend was, to my disappointment, still absent. I must say I take a dim view.
I don't understand what you mean here, Padraig - have I missed something?
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I don't understand what you mean here, Padraig - have I missed something?
I don't think there was any prank. I had nothing to say when I started the thread other than that the picture of a detectorist's immense gold hoard in a Sainsbury's plastic bag amused me. The thread title was changed to accommodate further discussion about a television show, m'lud, called The Detectorists which is just now, so I gather, enjoying a revival. Thus reviving the old thread.
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
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