Upstairs Downstairs - some questions for you

[lowlandlady]

why do most of the leading men, Lord wotsit, prince of wales, lustful yank - all look so similar?
No disrespect but is Ed Stoppard's mouth slightly obscenely full o' the lip.
Is the lady of the house not as pretty as that maid?
Does the lady of the house have two expressions? Smiling and smiling with a grimace?

I think the absence of Rose probably hit the series hard, particularly as it severed the link with the 'real' Upstairs Downstairs. I hope Jean Marsh is making a full recovery. Similarly the loss of Eileen Atkins lost the show some authority and essentially its only link to the original was therefore it being in the same house.

Needs work, and characterisation, if it's going to make a third series. Neither Hallam nor Agnes are really likeable enough as lead characters, so the balance between upstairs and downstairs feels wrong.

Yes that's all true trib also the actual writing or screenplay? didn't feel 'right' to me they were trying modernisms in an old fashioned arena IFYSWIM. Julian Fellowes trusts a normal storyline why not Ups. Dwn.?

I still can't get my head round the fact that Heidi Thomas did so well with Call The Midwife and so badly with this.

Maybe she's not really good at creating original characters though she is good at bringing existing ones to the screen.

Me too Tunip or maybe there were other writers putting in their 3 pennyworth that she "had" to listen to. DD1 works as an editor in Channel 4 and that 's the case a lot with their dramas|soaps.

I googled H.T. and still couldn't get to the bottom of it. Maybe it was the editor.