Death Comes to Pemberley BBC1

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Anyone watching? It is so slow. I'm not sure I'll be watching parts 2 and 3 or even the whole of part 1.

I'm rather enjoying it. I enjoy all the Bennets and Darcy; Georgiana is a simpering and uptight cow though, she annoys me. She deserves to be married off to the uptight and stuffy Colonel Fitzwilliam but I suspect it won't happen.

Why were all the servants so disappointed that the ball was called off? Not even one of them doing an early C19 equivalent of "whatever" or "meh" as far as I could see.

What a crap denouement!

Just caught up with it. Predictable ending, although I was thinking the ever absent father had maybe accidentally done him in not the son.

I'd have married the silent witness colonel over the nice but wet lawyer.

I'd have the nice but wet lawyer every time. Strange because I am usually a sucker for dark, uptight men in period drama but I loathed Fitzwilliams; he struck me as a creepy control freak. The lawyer though a bit wet, seemed fun and exuberant.

So was the DAP T.V. series worth watching or not ? (it was impossible for me to see it due to the timing). BUT i got and read PD James's book for Xmas and quite enjoyed it. (I also guessed WDI fairly early) emoticom!

Oh and some aristos bought up their own or other bastards (i have personal experience of this). The palming off of Wickham's to Emma's friends in the book was a bit weird!!

I would watch it but be prepared to get cross with it! I have to say that I went back and read the book after and found it miles better.

Thanks GigiDarcy I like the name btw!

Thankyou! Technically from Lizzie Bennet Diaries as all the other P and P ones were taken!

Which books about about JA would you recommend? i've got Her England that's all.

Can someone please tell me what happened in the end? Was halfway watching through final episode, computer ran out of battery, went back to it & it was no longer online grrrr. I got to the point where Elizabeth told Darcy there was a 3rd person in the ? Where they tried to get the girl to hand over the baby...

Falling asleep here but I will PM you in morning so that I don't get flamed for giving away spoilers!

I just caught up with this on Sky+. Where did Col Fitzwilliam go on the night of the murder? He said he was meeting a woman but he would have had to have met Mrs. Young before that as the girl with the baby had already refused the money by then??

Right, I did watch it despite the bad reviews - quite enjoyed it, in a sort of 'have it on in the background while I sort my yarn' kind of way (rock'n'roll lifestyle here!).

I haven't seen P&P or read the book, which by the sounds of it was probably a good thing! But my questions are:

Why is Colonel Fitzwilliam called, well, Fitzwilliam? Was Darcy named after his family?? Or was there a name shortage back then?!

Wouldn't the Darcy family have been titled to have a massive country pile like that??

Did we ever find out what sick bloke in the woods actually was suffering from? And when Lizzie did her (ridiculous and very overly dramatic) dash to the gallows, she referred to it as a 'confession'. But wasn't it an accident?!

Are Lydia and Mrs Bennett that utterly hideous in the book? If so, surely Mr B would have done a runner years ago.

Loved AMM's delivery of her lines though.

MinnieBar - during the 17th and 18th centuries it was seen as tactful for parents in many levels of society to acknowledge the mother's family when naming children. Basically, it puts the kid in the running for a legacy from the mother's family.

So my guess is that Mr Darcy senior married Miss Fitzwilliam. They named their oldest son Fitzwilliam Darcy. Miss Fitzwilliam's brother had a son, who is our Colonel Fitzwilliam. Hence the double naming.

I thought Darcy and Fitzwilliam were related through Darcy's mother (Lady Anne?) and likewise nephews to Lady Catherine. It is never made clear iirc whether it was Fitzwilliam's mother or father. Yes Mrs Bennett and Lydia are like that or even more extreme in the original.

Ah right, that makes sense, thank you!

Of course, LIZS is right. There are three Fitzwilliam siblings - Lady Anne Darcy nee Fitzwilliam, Lady Catherine de Bourg nee Fitzwilliam, and the brother who is Colonel Fitzwilliam's father.

Speaking of which, I've a feeling that in Death comes to Pemberley, Col Fitzwilliam's older brother has died leaving him as oldest son of an Earl, so surely he should now be Lord Somethingelse?