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Not as good as previous KB Wallander series. That Vanja woman was just annoying- talk about a pushover. He's also very rude, not saying goodbye at the end of his phone calls.
I did enjoy last night's episode. I quite like the Swedishness- it's like the dialogue has just been translated for the audience. Although nobody really acts like they're Swedish. The highlight of KB's Wallander has to be the moment where he couldn't find any deoderant. Personal hygiene gone out of the window! |
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What was it with Sarah Smart, with Branagh in the field?
She walked as if she were wearing wellies four sizes too big for her. |
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What was it with Sarah Smart, with Branagh in the field?
She walked as if she were wearing wellies four sizes too big for her. |
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I quite like her character now, maybe because she's a surviving member of the old team.
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Saw an episode 1 of 3 last night. My 1st foray into Wallander land. Superb stuff.
Watch out for mentals with sledgehammers. Tonight I witnessed my 2nd foray. But 3 of 3 and obviously before last nights 1 of 3. Confused??? Still very watchable. I do like this type of show. |
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You were watching the new series last night, and an old series (on BBC HD) tonight.
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Thanks for the info. Thanks to the BBC for making my life more complicated than it needs be.
Seems they've decided to move the talent away from Silent Witness. Which was a shambles the last series. |
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She'll take a long time to live down the "teenager with attitude" part she played so many times.
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I quite like her character now, maybe because she's a surviving member of the old team.
I wonder if she is? Is she in the next episode?
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She'll take a long time to live down the "teenager with attitude" part she played so many times.
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Well, that´s not how I would describe her character in Funland
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They jumped the fence. The front gates were padlocked. Plus they didn't have a warrant.
I was surprised Wallander wasn't suspended pending Inquiry? |
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This is the only Wallander story I haven't read - it's a short story published only in the Netherlands - so I watched this to see what it was about. Good - and as always, shocking - story.
I know Henning Mankell is involved in the British Wallander but it's as if he weren't. I suppose he had no say in the casting of Branagh. He's the right age, but he's just not right for the part. He doesn't look like any possible version of Wallander, who is out of shape, lives a bad lifestyle and is depressed - but in a long term invisible clinical sense, not in the moribund sense that Branagh portrays. Wallander is also not an intellectual, indeed he is highly conscious of being much less well educated than the new kids on the block, but he has been to the best university of life and has an intuitive innate sensibility for crime detection based on experience. Branagh's problem is we all know him and he is dead clever and he can't hide this. He's a cerebral person. The Swedish Wallanders got this casting right both times. In the UK versions I feel only Ann-Brit is spot on. The new Stefan last night just seems pure English to me, he is nothing like the one in Before the Frost and absolutely nothing like Ola Rapace in the Swedish film version. I've been to Ystad and met some Swedes who preferred the British versions of the novels to their own, but only because it was so cross-culturally interesting to them because they were anglicised. I just don't find these British ones authentic. I suppose if I hadn't read the novels and loved them, and if I hadn't seen both the Swedish Wallnders and loved them too, I'd be satisfied with this, it's very high quality. But sadly I'm not. That said, I continue to watch to see how the novels are interpreted for the British screen. |
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Actually I think that the British version is more faithful to the books in that they are gloomy and very much concentrated on Wallander, the Swedish series (the Krister one anyway) is more of a police procedural which I associate more with Sjowall and Wahloo's Martin Beck novels rather than Wallander.
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This is the only Wallander story I haven't read - it's a short story published only in the Netherlands - so I watched this to see what it was about. Good - and as always, shocking - story.
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I know Henning Mankell is involved in the British Wallander but it's as if he weren't. I suppose he had no say in the casting of Branagh. He's the right age, but he's just not right for the part. ...
With the first story in the new series, we're to a great start. |
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I wonder if she is? Is she in the next episode?
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I know Henning Mankell is involved in the British Wallander but it's as if he weren't. I suppose he had no say in the casting of Branagh. He's the right age, but he's just not right for the part. He doesn't look like any possible version of Wallander, who is out of shape, lives a bad lifestyle and is depressed - but in a long term invisible clinical sense, not in the moribund sense that Branagh portrays.
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So who should have played Wallander in the British one?
Ken Stott? Bradley Walsh? |
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Actually I think that the British version is more faithful to the books in that they are gloomy and very much concentrated on Wallander, the Swedish series (the Krister one anyway) is more of a police procedural which I associate more with Sjowall and Wahloo's Martin Beck novels rather than Wallander.
I do often chuckle in the books when Kurt has one of those "is this the state that Swden is in now" convos. Yet I love the slightly overdone gloom of nordic fiction. |
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That explains it! I thought I'd read the whole Wallander series but this storyline didn't ring any bells. On that note, I'd just say to dedicated Wallander fans who are tempted to read the final novel in the series — 'The Troubled Man' — you'd be well advised not to! I somehow don't think this one will be televised. Just my opinion, of course ...
Branagh hopes to film it as well - but that's up to the Beeb. If they commit to a final season it will be The White Lioness, and a two-part version of The Troubled Man. |
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The Troubled Man will be the final episode to be filmed(all feature length episodes of course).
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The previous KBs were bad, but this was awful. My partner was also one who said "it's only an hour, isn't it?" and we agreed we would not be watching any more. Having started with the books, then found the KH DVDs straight from Sweden, then a couple of the RL DVDs with subtitles, we enjoyed them all to varying degrees, but KB no way. Other than the port scenes, there was very little sense of place. The countryside scenes could have been in England. You never see Ystad (and we've been there). And with most actors being British, and the mangling of pronunciation (though I noticed that even KH mis-pronounced Wallander in a recent interview) it is very disappointing. As someone else said the Swedish versions have a much greater team feel to them. The British side-kicks are cardboard cut-outs - glad Tim H has gone, but Sarah Smart is awful - just a whining silly little girl.
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