I really enjoyed it, thought the locations and scenery were excellent. Marc Warren reminded me of The Judderman, from that fabulous advert some years ago.
Not read the books but I thought it was excellent. The pacing, characters and dialogue are drenched in Dickens but that can never be a bad thing.
Great cast and the whole thing looks stunning.
Judging by the first episode I feel the trailers may have played a bit too much towards the 'Harry Potter’ side of things and maybe some people tuning in may be disappointed with the Bleak House -esque presentation.
Brillant, but as usual with many programmes, its the wrong time of year for this. These sorts of things are much better on long winter evenings when you can snuggle down with hot chocolates and watch spooky or fantasy things from ye olden days.
Absolutely correct. Very clearly a programme more suited to autumn/winter.
I enjoyed it. Do have the book on my Kindle and about to start(I was working my way through Victorian murders, Mary Ann Cotton, Amelia Dyer etc.), I hate footnotes on a Kindle!!!
When I saw Marc Warren/The Gentleman, finally clicked was it meant!!! The Ladies and the Gentlemen were fairies, not the airy Tinkerbell sort, the nasty spiteful ones.
I loved it and thought it was a very good adaptation. The casting of the main characters was just right. Am really looking forward to the rest of the series.
Thought this was a decent start - to those talking about the book, have to admit that I gave up on the footnotes after the first couple of chapters and found it flowed much better without them....
When I did a second read of it though I did persevere with them.
Mr Alley saw the size of book and asked me how they are going to condense it into 7 episodes, but in some ways it's only as thick as it is because of the footnotes so I would imagine they'll manage it ok
Haven't read the book, but may have to, on account of not being able to make out much of what they were saying. Paul Kaye might as well have been talking in Danish.
Brillant, but as usual with many programmes, its the wrong time of year for this. These sorts of things are much better on long winter evenings when you can snuggle down with hot chocolates and watch spooky or fantasy things from ye olden days.
Just as this started, I thought the same thing - still light outside, it needed to be dark....wrong day too - Saturday at 7pm, is a better time.....Thought this was going to be Dark and Magical drama - two main characters just didn't do it for me, Eddie Marsan looked depressed and as for Bertie Carvel, who is he, never seen him before....he was awful.
And Marc Warren to end the first hour.....I'm out.
Can't see more than 3 million watching this by the end of the series....it's more of a BBC2 drama.
If im honest I ploughed through the book hoping that it would get better , but gave up two thirds of the way through.I suspect I will do the same with the series but iIwill give it another go next week in the hope that the pace picks up
Yes, this promised so much and thus far has failed to deliver. Costume drama with about as much credible magic as the average episode of Sooty. As for poor old Marc Warren, he looked like the star turn at a gay pride march, or perhaps Adam Ant through the looking glass.
The book defeated me,found it tedious and dull.So I
gave the tv version a go last night.Abandoned it after
twenty minutes and did something more interesting
instead.I watched some paint drying.....
I read this thread, and, sadly, I fear it has disappointed me. I expected more fireworks and pizzazz, Instead I get boring posts with no magic at all. Maybe it needs more fairies?
Luckily there is another thread with more diverse and interesting posts on the cult forum.
Edit. If you can't hear the words, use the subtitles.
I. think the thread for this programme is in the Cult TV section
I thought judging something as "cult" happened long after its release? And often after it was a flop on release? You can't just decide something is going to be a cult, can you?
yep, i turned the volume up and up in a futile attempt not to require subtitles but to no avail. got to a scene where their footsteps were booming out at me but i completely missed the line of dialogue ... so at that point on went the subtitles.
and no, it's not the sound settings on my tv as i hear the (high) majority of things perfectly well. for some reason, whether movies or tv dramas, the in thing these days seems to be actors either speaking in an edgy/muffled way that you can't hear properly and/or for the sound to be set in such a way that you hear general sounds/effects as clear as day but not the dialogue!
I thought judging something as "cult" happened long after its release? And often after it was a flop on release? You can't just decide something is going to be a cult, can you?
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If you look at the title of the forum referred to (not that difficult - it's only a few forums below this one) it's actually "Cult, Sci-fi and Fantasy".
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Great cast and the whole thing looks stunning.
Judging by the first episode I feel the trailers may have played a bit too much towards the 'Harry Potter’ side of things and maybe some people tuning in may be disappointed with the Bleak House -esque presentation.
But I throughly enjoyed it.
Absolutely correct. Very clearly a programme more suited to autumn/winter.
When I saw Marc Warren/The Gentleman, finally clicked was it meant!!! The Ladies and the Gentlemen were fairies, not the airy Tinkerbell sort, the nasty spiteful ones.
When I did a second read of it though I did persevere with them.
Mr Alley saw the size of book and asked me how they are going to condense it into 7 episodes, but in some ways it's only as thick as it is because of the footnotes so I would imagine they'll manage it ok
Actually, I thought Childermass had a distinct Poldarkian thing going on.
I was thinking what a marvelous Heathcliffe he would make
I presume this was filmed before Mumblegate.
And Marc Warren to end the first hour.....I'm out.
Can't see more than 3 million watching this by the end of the series....it's more of a BBC2 drama.
Wish actors would do us the courtesy of speaking clearly. Its the least they can do.
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/recaps/a647889/jonathan-strange--mr-norrell-review-nothing-less-than-a-television-triumph.html#~pd1zCEMyEK4LNG
gave the tv version a go last night.Abandoned it after
twenty minutes and did something more interesting
instead.I watched some paint drying.....
Luckily there is another thread with more diverse and interesting posts on the cult forum.
Edit. If you can't hear the words, use the subtitles.
I thought judging something as "cult" happened long after its release? And often after it was a flop on release? You can't just decide something is going to be a cult, can you?
That makes me wonder whether there'll be an "emperor's new clothes" effect.
As I remember the book, it was very, very slow - the episode cracked on at a fair lick by comparison.
Excellent adaptation, imo.
yep, i turned the volume up and up in a futile attempt not to require subtitles but to no avail. got to a scene where their footsteps were booming out at me but i completely missed the line of dialogue ... so at that point on went the subtitles.
and no, it's not the sound settings on my tv as i hear the (high) majority of things perfectly well. for some reason, whether movies or tv dramas, the in thing these days seems to be actors either speaking in an edgy/muffled way that you can't hear properly and/or for the sound to be set in such a way that you hear general sounds/effects as clear as day but not the dialogue!
If you look at the title of the forum referred to (not that difficult - it's only a few forums below this one) it's actually "Cult, Sci-fi and Fantasy".
I think this programme is fantasy, don't you?