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Jamaica Inn

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    lola_skyelola_skye Posts: 21,328
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    I've turned the volume up and still can't hear the bloody thing
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    Rogana JoshRogana Josh Posts: 41,348
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    FFS put subtitles on, this is hopeless >:(
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    duckyluckyduckylucky Posts: 13,871
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    Nope , cant hear it , off to watch One Born
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    lola_skyelola_skye Posts: 21,328
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    It's a tiny bit better now they're outside
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    KapellmeisterKapellmeister Posts: 41,322
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    duncann wrote: »
    Sorry, is everybody's mouth stuffed with tissues? We've understood 3 words so far! It's very muffled and numbly. That guy is OTT, so is the Inn, like of a spoof Hammer film. But I do think JBF is much better already than she was as Lady Sybil.

    My sister's gone to bed as she said she could barely understand a word they were saying.
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    bloodynorabloodynora Posts: 843
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    duckylucky wrote: »
    I cant hear it and will have to switch off if it continues to be so poor
    I'm struggling with the sound levels as well!
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    KapellmeisterKapellmeister Posts: 41,322
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    lola_skye wrote: »
    I've turned the volume up and still can't hear the bloody thing

    I tried turning up the volume and I just got louder mumbling :D
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    tiacattiacat Posts: 22,521
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    Its Camelford and the problem with 'authenticity' is that it means that people are more mumbly and grumpy than the average drama. In reality in a place like that in 1820, they would have been pretty monosyllabic if they came across people they didnt trust
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    anyonefortennisanyonefortennis Posts: 111,858
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    It's all too mannered.
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    Rowan HedgeRowan Hedge Posts: 3,861
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    Feels like a Victoria Wood sketch already. :D

    Only caught a few minutes as tommy cooper is on a break but you are so correct, what a vile mess of a production.
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    duckyluckyduckylucky Posts: 13,871
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    It's all too mannered.

    And posh !
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    Rogana JoshRogana Josh Posts: 41,348
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    Joanna Whalley used to be beautiful.
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    anyonefortennisanyonefortennis Posts: 111,858
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    duckylucky wrote: »
    And posh !

    Posh? :D Quite the opposite.
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    RecordPlayerRecordPlayer Posts: 22,648
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    Is anyone else having trouble understanding the dialogue?

    I nearly drifted off at one point.
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    mazzy50mazzy50 Posts: 13,312
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    Well I just popped in to this thread to find out if anyone else was having difficulty making out what people were saying.

    Not just me then. I have to say that roughly 70% of the dialogue so far has left me completely :confused: due to the mumbling.
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    MagicCoppeliaMagicCoppelia Posts: 21,274
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    And still is. She is in character. JW that is Forgot to quote.:blush:
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    woot_whoowoot_whoo Posts: 18,030
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    Joss Merlyn seems miscast to me. In the book, he's a hulking, threatening monster.
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    Rogana JoshRogana Josh Posts: 41,348
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    Ha!Ha!Ha Moxy out of Auf Weidersehen Pet.
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    myssmyss Posts: 16,556
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    I must have missed something, why did Mary walk off from the landlord??
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    Rowan HedgeRowan Hedge Posts: 3,861
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    duncann wrote: »
    Sorry, is everybody's mouth stuffed with tissues? We've understood 3 words so far! It's very muffled and numbly. That guy is OTT, so is the Inn, like of a spoof Hammer film. But I do think JBF is much better already than she was as Lady Sybil.

    Clear case of looks before talent or as the other half said ' only gets work because casting directors want to bang her'
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    lola_skyelola_skye Posts: 21,328
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    How come lady Sybil never gets dirty no matter how many dirty jobs she does?
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    Rosie RedRosie Red Posts: 8,446
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    Jem told her to keep the horse, then went off with it.

    Having the subtitles on will definitely help.

    Matthew McNulty was also in Misfits as Seth, and in the first series about the lottery winners. Can't remember who wrote it or what it was called - it was good though. (And you could understand what they said in it). He's a good actor.
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    Rogana JoshRogana Josh Posts: 41,348
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    Is anyone else having trouble understanding the dialogue?

    I nearly drifted off at one point.

    Nearly everyone.
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    woot_whoowoot_whoo Posts: 18,030
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    Joanna Whalley used to be beautiful.

    She's been done up (or down) for the part. Patience Merlyn is meant to be a once-beautiful woman who has been brow-beaten and descended into slovenliness. If I recall the book correctly, Mary is shocked at what her once charming, proud and outgoing aunt has become.
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    farmer bobfarmer bob Posts: 27,595
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    As others have said, the sound is abysmal.
    Sort it out BBC please!
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