Lady Chatterly

[Asheth]

Is anyone watching? Couldn't see a thread but please link for me if there's already one!

Oh yes!

Still seeing him as Robb Stark.

Yup I'm watching! Robb Stark looking good so far, very moody and gruff (and muscly but not totally gym-buffed as he obviously wouldn't have been at 1919). And Lady C is the perfect English Rose - beautiful.

Obviously I am watching it for the portrayal of life in early 20th century England, and not for the nookie

Hi Asheth I am but doubt it will be as sexy good as the Sean Bean version

Are there any dramatisations that don't feature members of the Stark family?

Robb Stark channeling the gardener from the Fast Show. But smouldery.

Very interesting

Yes, it is a bit "drainage in the lower field"

Yes me! I am hoping that it stays true to D H Lawrence's original text in a believable historical setting.

totally watching for the nookie

I have read the book, but it was years ago so I probably won't know if it is true to the book.

The medical scenes were brutal. Did they really do that in the 1920s to men wanting children?

Loving this so far! And of course we're all here for the appreciation of with century literature and not for nookie at all!

By eck he lit that fire quick! With a single match an all...

AIBU to ask DH to dress up as Mellors?
He thinks so.

I am watching it a bit behind you lot having recorded it. Wet shirt time!

They didn't hang around with the silly shirt off scene and the nookie on this one. Not like Poldark, where they kept us hanging around for ages.

I don't think Lady Constance is a particularly good actress. DH says she's channelling Miranda Richardson doing a posh accent. Not sure we'll tune in next week.

I think it's a 90 minute one off isn't it?

This is the same period as Downton, only if it was Downton Mellors would probably be welcomed into the family and Sir Clifford would get a tingle and not need to be tortured!

Poor Sir Clifford and his knackers.

It's all such a very justifiable affair, isn't it. The OM is a sweetie who's been heartbroken, the adulterous woman is sexually and emotionally frustrated despite her most reasonable efforts, the poor husband has been somewhat selfish in ignoring his wife's clearly expressed needs.

I read the book aged 22 and thought it all terribly romantic and rude, but now I'm a bit more about it all.

Connie is irritating the bejaysus. Soooo agree re:Miranda Richardson. Keep expecting her to shriek for Nursey.

Oo, they are going in the cottage!

The dramatisations do rather avoid some things which would cast Connie in a different life. Mellors isn't her first affair is he? The film and tv versions could show that she is a strong, sexual woman who has to have that need satisfied but they shy away from it and try and romanticise it. It ends up being neither one thing nor another. I don't think it ever quite works. Clifford they are getting wrong too. He's not infantile enough. He becomes very dependent, obsessive and childlike.

different light rather

Wondering how they are going to wrap this up in 10 minutes.

Ivy Bolton needs a good kick up the arse, that's for sure.

Hmm. These "knowing" servants have put paid to the fantasy of everything appearing in front of you - dinner, bathed and bed-ready children etc. It must be a pain in the arse trying to have any kind of private life in that kind of household.

They are running out of time aren't they?

SPOILER ALERT...

Are they just going to miss out Mellors' wife and that whole bit?

Oh no now I can only think of Miranda Richardson shouting 'nursey!!'