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The Forsyte Saga, are you following it?

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Rhiannon · 23/04/2002 21:24

Am I supposed to be feeling sorry for Irenie? Am I being callous? I don't feel in the slightest bit sorry for her! When Persinny(sp?)died I was upset but she seems such a cold, calculating cow that I have no sympathy for her. R

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Tinker · 06/05/2002 22:16

Pretty much. ks. I think Irene may have actually laughed!

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Rhiannon · 06/05/2002 22:20

ks I missed it too, think it was the Bank Holiday confusing us all. A good friend spent 15 minutes filling me in this afternoon!

Apparently Irene fled to Paris to escape Soames and was joined for a spot of painting by Jolyon.

Soames met a french girl but then went off her when he decided to persue Irene again!

Winifred's husband ran off to Argentina with a girlie but then came back at the end after she started to pursue a divorce.

June is still unmarried.

Winnifred's son Val is persuing young Jolyon's daughter Holly (second cousins I think) but Holly's brother (can't remember name) is not happy and Winnifred's husband is such a drunken, philandering git!

I hope this is right, obviously second hand from my friend! R

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Rhiannon · 06/05/2002 22:21

that should have read 'as he is a drunken, philandering git' - my words not his!

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bettys · 07/05/2002 10:09

Oh and Val Dartie and Jolly Forsyte (Jolyon's son) have enlisted to fight in the Boer war, which is a cue for yet more repressed emotion.
Irene did start laighing, which was a bit scary.

bettys · 07/05/2002 10:10

Ooops, laughing, that should have been

ks · 08/05/2002 19:52

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Tinker · 08/05/2002 21:24

Natassia Kinski? Definitely turn heads gorgeous and moody/difficult looking. Hmm, you've got me thinking now.

Marina · 09/05/2002 11:48

If anyone saw "The Way we Live Now", how about Miranda Otto, who played the hero's ex-mistress. She looked glacial and enigmatic...
I think they needed someone comparatively unknown in that role, not someone already associated with different, more modern stuff. Gina McKee is not a bad actress but I don't think she does period stuff well. She walks and moves wrong, for a start.

Fionn · 15/05/2002 19:11

I've just watched the final episode on tape - wow! What a performance by Damian Lewis, he was superb.

ks · 15/05/2002 19:52

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tiktok · 17/05/2002 13:55

I loved it all the way through, and thought Gina McKee got better once she was allowed to crack her face...still basically miscast, though. The series ended before the first series did, though - can you guess that Fleur (Soames' daughter) and Jon (Jolyon and Irene's son) grow up and fall in love? Yes, I thought you might have guessed In the original they were Martin Jarvis and Susan Hampshire!

Damien Lewis was just great. One minute you hated him, and the next you felt sorry for him. He was basically a good man, but with a fatal flaw of possessiveness - and a Truly Awful attitude to women, of course.

Tillysmummy · 17/05/2002 14:10

I agree, really felt sorry for Soames in the last episode.

Marina · 17/05/2002 14:15

I have just caught up with it on video, and agree that Gina McKee thawed out considerably - amazing what having your own ickle baby will do. I thought the juxtaposing of these two unhappy characters, finally understanding love in their new relationships, was effective and touching, and pointed the way quite neatly to the two babies' paths crossing in later life.
I am a confirmed Damian Lewis fan and think he led a largely excellent cast really well. I'm glad they are planning to continue the saga.

Tillysmummy · 17/05/2002 14:17

I'll be interested to see what happens with Val and Holly

sister · 17/05/2002 16:10

Marina, I never saw the original so I didn't realise their was any more to the story. Do you know when the next episodes are coming out?

Marina · 18/05/2002 10:48

they are filming them now for screening next year, sister. Much of the action will concern the next generation and takes place in the 20s.

Fionn · 25/05/2003 20:25

Don't forget it's back at 9pm tonight!

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bettys · 26/05/2003 16:33

Oooh that whey-faced whinger Irene made me really cross - again! Thought Soames and Jolyon were very good again but the awful casting of Irene is even more apparent this series. Even Fleur wasn't as stunning as she's supposed to be. Still watched it all the way through though...

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Lindy · 27/05/2003 17:19

Yes, I'm pleased this is back, only thing worth watching at the moment - IMO.

Fionn · 12/06/2003 22:25

So what do you all think after 3 episodes in? I don't find John and Fleur's relationship very convincing, not much chemistry between them. Damian Lewis just gets better and better as Soames though.

OldieMum · 13/06/2003 17:15

I just want to give Fleur and John a good slap. These last few episodes seem more like an adaptation of a potboiler than a good novel. A few years ago, before the last series was screened, I read the book up to the point where we left off last year. It was much better than I had expected - I had always assumed that Galsworthy was a lightweight. Are the volumes this series is based on very different from the earlier ones?