AIBU to salute Julian Fellowes?

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For taking the Titanic story - one with such potential for human interest and drama and turning it into one of the most arse grindingly dull hours of television I have ever had the misfortune to view?

That must take REAL talent.

"She can't sink!" was countered with "She can't float!".

Yes. Really. That bad.

Not seen SOS Titanic. A Night To Remember is excellent - very well done and true to much of what happened apparently. Cameron lifted of lines verbatim from ANTR.

Yes, I've got to admit that I'll probably still be watching, just to make sure that evil Mrs Bates from Downton does actually go down this time.

How many times does Sir Fellowes have to try to get rid of her?

after A Night To Remember everything else is shite

Cameron wasn't satisfied with - you know, the drama of a fucking big ship going down and lots of people dying nooooooo he had to throw in a love story between 2 unpleasant and unbelievable characters - utter rubbish

haven't seen more than 10 mins of the latest series - that was enough!

A night to remember is cracking, I remember a very haunitng shot of Bruce Ismay standing in a deserted room with a wonky camera angle and a single piece of furniture sliding slowly across the room. Far mmore haunting than the melodrama of Fellowes/Cameron's efforts.

'A night to remember' does have the obligatory jolly Irish peasants dancing and being the salt of the earth in third class cliche.

I think there must be some obscure by-law that every Titianic film has to have it in.

exactly - it's so 'terribly terribly' British and reserved and oddly calm - which makes it more harrowing - it's one of my very fave films x

oh yes - you have to have danicing poor BUT on ANTR they are Irish and European

Apologies Zukie it has been a good decade since I last saw it. But the image, if not the character left an impression.

Did I imagine it, or was it a child's rocking horse that went sliding across the room?

It is complete drivel, and the whole thing has been written /driven by the greed of selling it worldwide; hence a lot of the 'over explaining' of the dialogue. Some worldwide audiences may not 'get' it , if it were written otherwise. Not all countries share the same humour, sensitivity to different issues....

that's what it is emmanana

The whole Titanic story has been done.to.death.

Why can't they find a new old disaster? Lusitania perhaps? Anything apart from the sinking of the bloody Titanic. Lifeboats, unsinkable, dancing peasants, poshos up too. Yawn bloody yawn.And if I see another ad for Belfast's new Titanic museum, I'll ............... roll my eyes. Yes I will!

Oh I did my usual nitpicking to DH last night.

On a massively crowded ship, why is it that everyone who wants a "breath of air" (while their husband, in 1912, uncomplainingly gets 6 children ready for bed, like they did then) gets the whole promenade deck to themselves, even in Steerage. And although they are on a very large, nay Titanic, vessel going very fast, there is no strong wind, and they don't need much of a coat even though for some strange reason much has been made in the script of there being "ice about."

And when water appears, suddenly on deck or in the boiler room, why is it that not one person reacts as if it is freezing cold water? All it would take is a face and a little jump, not a huge incursion into screen time. I made more fuss today at Legoland when a squirt of water nearly hit me when I was on the train.

(I refer back to my rants about The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and the recent Dr Who Christmas special, both starring The Snow That Obviously Isn't Even Remotely Cold.)

Next Fellowes installment will be about his uncle in law and how unfair it is that his wife wont inherit his title.

They've been complaining for so long that it will be a period drama by then.

Zukiecat I hope you and your daughter enjoy yourselves greatly. I've always wanted to see the Mary Rose and would be every excited at visiting that.

Apparently there's a huge waiting list of couples who have booked their wedding ceremony on the museum's re-created Titanic staircase. They think romance, I'd think doom. They can't be too superstitious.

zookiecat Mr Andrews does the clock thing on the mantlepiece in the Cameron film as well.