Jamaica Inn

[thenightsky]

Is it just me or is anyone else struggling to hear what they are saying? I feel like I'm listening through cotton wool ear plugs.

[IndridCold]

Couldn't get into this at all, didn't even bother with episode three. A real missed opportunity BBC!

tobybox book is soooooo much better, I have only read it once, years ago, but still have such strong memories of it.

[BeCool]

well I did end up watching it all though I was left feeling very disappointed with it.

Mumbling.
Bleak.
Ride off into the sunset together ending.

All depressing and horrid. BBC can do better.

[Forago]

MM - I so would too - beautiful eyes! Depressed to learn he is 10y younger than me ..

[susiedaisy]

Really disappointed with it

[tobybox]

I'm surprised he's 31 - I thought he was much older than that.

Married too

[MorrisZapp]

I agree 2rebecca, I've got no idea why that brutal uncle would have anything to fear from the vicar and his sister. It was never explained.

Is it explained in the book?

[SwedishEdith]

@ a spike of females googling Matthew McNulty. I loved this and wish it'd been done over more episodes now.

[tobybox]

Bloody hell, so that was the guy I was eyeing up in T'Mill a few months back.

It's a shame the series had so many sound problems. If it had been more popular, it could have been his big break.

[Pixel]

Watched to the bitter end (with subtitles on) but was glad when it was finished tbh.
I didn't actually like Mary enough to care if she got drowned, she was rude and sullen and a bit stupid and had an annoying voice.

Felt a bit sorry for poor old Ned though. Did Mary just take off after Jem without saying anything to him? She did catch up with Jem quite easily. And where did she get the horse?

[Bunbaker]

They mentioned the poor sound quality on the news and on the One Show. How can they have got it so wrong? I could hear the news perfectly.

[tobybox]

I assumed she stole the horse. because she's all evil now, innit.

[2rebecca]

I thought she had her own horse that he nicked for her in episode 1. As he told her he has a series of women I see it ending badly with a few months of lust and poverty followed by him moving on. She should have stuck with boring but dependable bloke and a steady income. She seemed stronger than him mentally so I'm sure she could have persuaded him ribbony bonnets weren't her style and pushed the snobby relatives away a bit and immersed herself in the farm.

[tobybox]

Nah, if she was any other kind of girl she'd have ended up like her Aunt Patience, but she's got spark, which Jem likes, therefore I can't see him running off with any other woman any time soon.

I'll read the book before I'm certain on that point, however.

[OneEggIsAnOeuf]

I don't think they could have had her going back home with Ned as he doesn't even exist in the novel, and his presence in the adaptation was rather one dimensional.

I've always read it that by going off with Jem Mary was following the path her Aunt Patience took - she is described as being full of life and spark before her marriage to Joss. They both followed their hearts rather than their heads.

[MorrisZapp]

Today's Mary is tomorrows Aunt Patience.

Stubble and breeches are the rocks that many a good woman have been wrecked upon.

< eerie bell>

[tobybox]

Oh no. Please no more book spoilers - he is coming across so nicely in the first few chapters that I will be :( if he turns out to be a proper heartbreaking scoundrel!

[OneEggIsAnOeuf]

Sorry - i wasn't giving anything away (other than the lack of Ned) - just my take on it so don't let it spoil your reading of the book. You could imply the same about Mary and Patience from the tv adaptation without any reference to the novel. I do think Jem loved her, but as time goes by i suspect it will be very much in his own way. Other interpretations are available!

[LaVolcan]

Didn't the book imply (or state outright - can't remember) that Joss had been as a young man like Jem, before he took to drink and became bitter and twisted. So it could follow that Jem would follow the same path and end up beating the spirit out of Mary.

[LaVolcan]

That's not a spoiler BTW for those who haven't read the book. How it might all turn out is left to the reader's imagination.

[MorrisZapp]

I've never read the book but in the tv show he was a horse thief of no fixed abode, well known to the constabulary.

Mary on the other hand values hard work and detests any kind of dishonesty, until a handsome man does it of course.

I give it six months, as my gran likes to say.

[2rebecca]

If you don't want to know the plot why are you reading a thread about a TV series that has just finished?

[Pixel]

I thought she had her own horse that he nicked for her in episode 1

Ah but it was a different horse. The one he gave her was a short chunky cob with a white blaze. The one she appeared on at the end was a more thoroughbred type with a tiny white star. As a horse owner I notice these things .

[SteadyEddie]

I did enjoy it in the end, but I have to say that I didn't like the 'glammed up' ending.

[MorrisZapp]

Look Pixel, it's the countryside innit. People just have horses, don't they? Especially in ye days of yore.

Anybody who has read the book able to give more flesh to the vicar? Why was he deemed so scary that the scariest man I've ever seen in my life was scared of him?

Keep the thread alive! Don't leave!

[Twinklestein]

I wondered why it didn't look like any bit of Cornwall I'd ever been to. Why on earth would you film it in Yorkshire? I don't believe Yorkshire is cheaper.

Watched the beginning, forwarded through the middle and watched the last half hour. It's difficult to make du Maurier dull, but they managed.

I thought Jem looked like your average scally, was disappointed he wasn't better looking.

All in all, meh.