Richard Armitage in Spooks

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I definitely would.

Maybe twice.

Oops! My finger slipped - have just bought Strike Back DVD

I shall add N&S to my stocking list on amazon then (and hope DH takes note of the subtle suggestions that you've been offered theras!!. Shame it's not real life size!![hgrin]

Harmless fun escapism and I've been completely honest with my DH too. He knows should I ever meet RA I'm allowed him cos he's gone straight to the top of my number 3 list!!! Can't think who else is on there?! Think the last dr who may be....!.

Must sleep and hope I have a good nights dream!!

Crikey. I've been away on a little half term break and things have got rude again.

Fettle - North and South is stupendous (as I have bored everybody with-- explained earlier on the thread). It's got everything - drama, suppressed passion, a happy ending once misunderstandings have been overcome and differences reconciled. It especially has this . Admittedly, there are somewhat fewer bare torso moments than there are in Robin Hood or Spooks, but (being rather old and frail myself) I find the final scene, where Mr Thornton finally removes his frock coat and cravat, rather thrilling.

I do hope Mr Armitage hasn't been reading this thread. I fear he might go to NZ to film the Hobbit and never return, for fear of being importuned by the nation's mummies.

If that happens - do you think we'd get a discount on a group flight booking?

You know, I'm beginning to feel sorry for the man. He is a Proper Actor (LAMDA and the Royal Shakespeare Company, I gather) and yet the collective will of MN is that he should take roles which require that he wear leather trousers and no shirt and preferably get a bit sweaty. We are paying insufficient attention to his dramatic gifts.

I can rectify that - was only thinking while on YouTube earlier that there is a very clear distinction between the characters he plays which can only be down to whether or not he's wearing leather his significant acting talents.

Apparently The Hobbit is going to NZ. Now I know they are claiming it is to do with industrial disputes, but maybe we have driven him away from England and he insisted on having it in his contract. "I have to escape the rabid mums!!"
On a more serious note! Fettle, you will not be disappointed in N and S. It is magical! RA is at his best! (Too many !!! ?)

Mmm. My Godfather lives in new Zealand and I've never visited him there. I'm sure he wouldn't mind if I turned up with a group of like-minded ladies acting like teenagers having not seen him in about 25 years!!!!. That way we'd be there legitimately and not just as stalkers

Oh and 40DT - never enough !s around him I'm realising!!!!!

N&S is definitely going to appear magically in my house while DH is away!!!

can i just say thanks to you all for this thread after yrs of marriage 3 children and all that crap i thought my libido had completely gone.......not so! DH doesnt whats come over me and I am having THE BEST dreams I've had in years.

so thank you MN and RA for resurrecting my sex drive!

Count me in for a group NZ trip. I can stalk Jermaine off Flight of the Conchords then too

Wow. So not only is this thread raising the cultural tone of MN and discussing High Art, it is also rescuing marriages.

Why???? Why??? Why didn't she look back at him????

Was she crazy?!

And dont tell me it's because the of the book. When has a good director let the actual original book story get in the way of good cinematography?!

To take your questions in turn.

1. Because she was a silly little girl who could not overcome her upbringing and prejudices to follow her own mind.

1. I refer you to my previous answer.

1. I refer you to my previous answer.

1. Yes, but all is not lost.

Have you got to the end yet?

Just been enjoying myself catching up.

Flowers, I am relieved to see you again,I thought Mr Thornton must have swept you up into his manly arms and smouldered off into the sunset. (What do you mean, rude, btw????)

Nice to hear about peoples' dreams etc, my own evening was pants. Lots of folk about wanting attention, feeding, things finding etc and the kitchen table staring ironically back at me, littered with dirty pots and piles of fruit peel.

Mrs Lucas North's plans sounded far more attractive. So in her honour and for anyone who fancies a cultural bit, I present this rip -off hommage to Omar..

A darkened room, where blazing embers die,
A glass of wine, some Hagen Daaz, and Guy
Black leather-trousered on the plasma screen -
If that's not paradise,I'd know the reason why.

Phew it has a happy ending then? I'll await with bated breath for my copy to arrive - I've only seen the millions few clips of him on you tube so far and that one question just kept coming to mind!!!

Can't believe I watched ultimate farce and didn't even notice him in it!! At least that, spooks and strike back I have a vague chance of being able to watch with DH without him growing suspicious!!

Nice to see you again, theresaholeinyourmind. I am heartened to know that we have a Real Poet in our midst.

Fettle - This is the of North and South. It is unutterably beautiful - as is Mr Thornton, who has finally shed his frock coat and cravat, as well as his inhibitions - but (obviously) do not watch it if you don't want to know how it ends. One of the reasons I love this scene so much is that Mr Thornton looks happy, in a way that Guy and Lucas seldom do.

Just had to watch it again Flowers! Most beautiful scene ever.
He stares at her constantly, but I am wondering if that is the very stripey dress making his eyes go funny.

I keep getting haunted by the ''look back''scene, it seems everyone's doing it, nowadays.

Recent girls' bunfight, soneone put the SATC movie on and there is Big watching from a distance as Carrie goes up the steps of the New York library in her big white dress
''Turn round. Turn round and let me see you''

And Holby City the other night, callow new security guard watching form the carpark as frisky Nurse Donna sashays into the building

''Turn round. Turn round and look at me''

Dialogue slightly altered no doubt for copyright reason. I find myself yelling at the screen YOU CAN'T SAY THAT!!!

Just to say if anyone would like to read the Elzabeth Gaskell novel, the full text is available on-line here

Lovely. Don't miss the forum either.

OMG!!! Swoony swoon swoon!!! How utterly gorgeous he is in that final scene!!!

I'll give you more than £15000 to invest in your mill if you'll look at me like that....!

Help I'm all fluttery and I should be doing online grocery shopping!!

Fettle - Welcome to the Mr Thornton Appreciation Society.

And how, interesting, theresaholeinyourmind, that scripts of inferior dramas such as SATC and Holby City should be offering their own little hommage to North and South. Reading the novel is, I feel, obligatory but I had missed the N&S forum. I hardly dare look - is it as Serious and Hintellectual as this thread or as overheated as some of the fan websites and blogs?

40deniertights - Fie to such cynicism! He is looking at her with True and Finally Requited Love, which they will express while spending several hours on the train to Manchester, kissing.

I'm reading the book, oh, swoon

''in Mr. Thornton's face
the straight brows fell low over the clear, deep-set earnest
eyes, which, without being unpleasantly sharp, seemed intent
enough to penetrate into the very heart and core of what he was
looking at. The lines in the face were few but firm, as if they
were carved in marble, and lay principally about the lips, which
were slightly compressed over a set of teeth so faultless and
beautiful as to give the effect of sudden sunlight when the rare
bright smile, coming in an instant and shining out of the eyes,
changed the whole look from the severe and resolved expression of
a man ready to do and dare everything, to the keen honest
enjoyment of the moment, which is seldom shown so fearlessly and
instantaneously except by children.''