Lady Chatterly

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

now I can only think of Miranda Richardson shouting 'nursey!!'

Which was DH's point - he said he's been waiting for it all the way through.

I've not read the book but I do feel that must have been a lightning-quick adaptation - it fairly galloped to the end. It felt very rushed and a bit 2 dimensional with the characters. They went to all the trouble of making the programme, I think they could have made it at least a 2 parter.

On the other hand, An Inspector Calls next week looks good!

They missed out so much stuff.

I really enjoyed it but it was too short! not enough sex

What did they miss out? Is the book worth reading?

Yup, not enough sex and nudity really. I wanted to see Mellors' bottom or something.

Book is LOADS better.

Oooh boffin stop putting thise thoughts in my head.

I must get it on my kindle. Connie was beautiful, gorgeus skin.

Robb? I thought it was evil,drug dealing Calum from Corrie.
And they all lived happily ever after.
Next week gcse English teachers rejoice at a new version of Inspector!

The music is doing my head in!!

I switched over halfway through as I found it a bit dull. I read the book years ago, and found this production a bit too 'tasteful'. i bet they didn't show him weaving flowers through her pubic hair!

The book's quite different.

Life at Wragby is quite different to its portrayal in the dramatisation. It's a very stuffy, old fashioned existence, Connie hates Clifford's friends and obviously their marriage begins to fail. He's distant and uncaring. He takes up writing with some success iirc but becomes obsessive about it. He is very reliant on care, behaves childishly and is quite unlikeable. Connie, encouraged by her father, has an affair with a playwright but it fizzles out. She strikes up a love affair with Mellors and then Bolton, a retired nurse, moves in and becomes very close to Clifford.

Connie goes off on holiday (pregnant) with her father and sister and while she's gone, Bertha Mellors- the gamekeeper's wife - turns up and spreads all sorts of rumours around the local village. So much so that Mellors is sacked and when Connie gets back, he's buggered off to London. They meet up and she tells him she's pregnant and wants to divorce. They lie for a while that the baby's Duncan's I think but eventually she asks Clifford for a divorce. He refuses. Connie goes to live in Scotland with her sister. Mellors is working on a farm at this point, still married to Bertha (though not together). That's about it tbh.

I read it 20 years ago though so some of it's a bit fuzzy...

Oh its totally different

Oh and the mining references. Clifford is very obsessed with mines.

Interestingly, the Bolton story is exactly the same as my great grandmother's. Her husband was killed in a colliery in the midlands, they claimed it was his fault (it wasn't, the equipment was faulty), they wouldn't pay a full pension and gave my grandma only a tiny amount each week up to the value of £300 in case she squandered it. The money ran out well before she died. The court transcripts, legal papers and solicitors' letters are fascinating.

gosh I haven't read the book as was too young for the original, but I really wasn't expecting a happy ever after ending like that

just watched on the iplayer. Not enough sex! the book is all about the sex.... they never give these adaptations the time required to develop the characters and plot enough for my liking and the sex of course

In the book didn't Conny and Mellors arrange to meet up when things had calmed down?

James Norton was lovely, shame he was injured, but then there would have been no story. I hadnt realised that we should feel sympathy to him. But obviously we had to, due to his predicament.
was a bit meh really, particularly with the happy ending, how would they live?

Well that was all very limp. And Mellors was about as sexy as a garden gnome.

The beautiful James Norton should have played Mellors. As it was I didn't even mind that we didn't see so much as a hint of the peasant's bum cheeks.

And I'd have taken a life with stuffy disabled Clifford over driving off into the sunset with that tedious little grump any day. I'd loved for them to have fast forwarded 12 months and seen how romantic their life was living in a two up two down in a mining community, Connie scrubbing the front step and looking after a squawking baby.

Yes it all felt a bit tame, and there was very little sexual chemistry between Connie and Mellors - I just couldn't believe she would leave her husband and the luxurious lifestyle she had for him. I just didn't believe it enough - probably because there was next to no build up to their relationship and not much development to it either, so it just seemed a total surprise when she shouted at Ivy 'but I luv him!!'

I think with trying to cram the entire novel into a 90 min drama they skimmed over the surface too much and we ended up with a bit of Sunday night fluff instead of what could have been a really powerful story.

And no bottoms either. Shameful!

It was a bit lame, I agree not much chemistry between Mellors and Connie - got the feeling any old gamekeeper would have done And I couldn't be doing with a bloke waffling on about his cock all the time.

Apart from that I thought Lady C's costumes were beautiful - especially the dark blue outfit with embroidery on it, she wears into the woods when she's first alone with Mellors. Fabulous.

Kurri, I thought the same. That dark blue embroidered outfit was stunning wasn't it?

I think the central idea of the novel is the notion of physical vs emotional connections. Clifford believes that a marriage is the joining of minds. Connie is always searching for something and is a physical woman who craves a sexual connection. Mellors and Queenie supposedly find this soul-deep, physical bond which transcends all else and it's like a rebirth for them both. Not last night though. They didn't have a connection. They had cock references galore and some epic sulking.

I watched but found it very dull.

I enjoyed it, thought it was a fairly light, romanticised version. I read the book a very long time ago and recall there being a great deal of talk about cocks and other body parts. I remember Clifford being a character I had little or no sympathy for.

Has any version done the weaving of flowers into her pubic hair?

Mind you I do still occasionally struggle to divorce James Norton from the character he played in Happy Valley (even in Grantchester I would have flashbacks!).

It was dull - I wouldn't recommend it to a friend.