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Persuasion Tonight

45 replies

ArcticRoll · 01/04/2007 20:29

9pm.
ITV.
Looking forward to it but not sure it will be able to compete with the Amanda Root/Ciaran Hinds version.

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foxinsocks · 02/04/2007 11:57

don't know when/if it's repeated - sorry

DrDaddy · 02/04/2007 11:59

"there was too much of a mismatch in terms of attractiveness levels between her and Wentworth.."

DW said she was a 6/10 to Rupert P-J's 9.5/10.

Clary · 02/04/2007 13:52

Yes ssu, that's the bit I mean, I was waiting for it and it never came!

Marina · 02/04/2007 13:58

And not underlining the deserved fate of Sir Walter Elliot, Bt, and his grisly eldest daughter was a wasted opportunity too.
And surely the first time they meet after the broken engagement is when he is plucking an annoying little Musgrove off Anne's back without her realising who is helping her? Gggrrr, when you have gems like this provided by the author, why even bother with writing dubious new stuff.
Was fascinated by Mrs Smith's astonishing recovery...from wasting away in basement lodgings to jogging around the streets of Bath a few days later...someone give me Nurse Rooke's number please.

Clary · 02/04/2007 13:59

Marina lol at Mrs Smith

Agree re author's orginal gems, why write a new crappy scene when you have "you pierce my soul" swoony!

janeite · 02/04/2007 14:58

Thought this was dire; so disappointing after the brilliance of "Northanger Abbey". Hated Anne, hated Mary and thought the whole thing was soooooooo boring. ITV - congratulations; you have succeeded in making one of the greatest love stories ever into even less fun than cleaning the kitchen floor. Truly, truly dreadful.

Tanee58 · 02/04/2007 15:07

Only saw some of it as dd had booked tv for 'Desperate Housewives'! She can't get into historical drama, she says, because there's too much dancing and too much suppressed emotion. However, had to look in to see how it compared with Hinds/Root version - whch I can watch again and again! Looked very pretty (one eye at the American market? but nothing of the chemistry of Ciaran and Amanda. I love the book & don't feel impelled to chase up the repeat, if there is one. Pity. Didn't care much for Mansfield Park either, though Northanger Abbey was a hoot .

Blackduck · 02/04/2007 15:35

Okay published ending - the one where whe is talking to Benwick/Harvell? and makes the comment about loving longest - he is earwigging and writes her the 'pierce my soul' letter...

Alternative - he comes to her on commission from his BIL and askes about Kelledge hall (as they showed last night). She denies all and he declares undying love (as far as I recall - awhile since I read it...)

thethirdwiseeasterbunny · 02/04/2007 17:32

foxinsocks - I said to dh last night I would be a rubbish Austen heroine. If Rupert PJ had been my love interest, we'd have been having a tumble in the walled garden after 5 mins - I'm just too fast

Marina · 02/04/2007 18:28

I do think Northanger Abbey was the best of the three, but wonder if, as others have said previously, that it's because it's the most inconsequential of her novels. Does anyone care as much about Catherine Morland and Henry Tilney as they do about Anne and Captain Wentworth?

sunnysideup · 02/04/2007 18:35

Am in process of digging out my old video recording of the Hinds/Roots version, that's my plan for tonight

Agree Marina, you're dead right, Northanger was more successful as it didn't HAVE to rely largely on getting our sympathy for the main love story and leads....the story is more fun than profound....

Imawurzelcoveredinchocolate · 02/04/2007 18:37

MARSLADY I taped it if you want my copy? I have not watched it yet. Will do tonight or tomorrow. Can post it to you.

MarsLady · 03/04/2007 13:23

Wurzel you gorgeous gorgeous hunka burning love you!

email me on lovelymarslady at aol dot com

TwoIfBySea · 03/04/2007 21:25

Oh I have this on my Sky+ and now I don't know if I want to watch it!

Have the Root/Hinds version on dvd and love, love, love it. Both actors are brilliant in their roles. I knew they wouldn't dare touch P&P, the recent film as well as the classic BBC one, with Matthew McFadyen giving as good a Darcy as Colin Firth, overlooking Keira Knightly of course. I wish they had done Sense and Sensibility though.

Imawurzelcoveredinchocolate · 04/04/2007 07:14

I thought this was ok.
Read this thread before i watched it and was looking out for anne looking at the camera.

Thought Mary was 'quite odd indeed'

Now Wentworth, what can i say, phwoar would be my first thought.
I would like to live in those times, love the dresses, but they must have been cold when they were on the cobb!!

CoffeeCrazedMama · 04/04/2007 09:39

Maybe I didn't give this enough of a chance - I was nervous about it from beginning because Persuasion is my favourite novel of all time. When it got to the scene where Anne gratefully volunteers to look after the little boy for her squabbling sister and brother-in-law I wrote it off. It was so overplayed and luvvie-dramatic - I shouted at uninterested dh 'do they think it's Ibsen not Austen!!!' Gave it another few minutes and switched over to ER. Worried my enjoyment of book might be marred in future if I watched any more. I think the problem is when you love a book so much it is hard to accept someone else's dramatisation of it especially when you are convinced they are making characters from that time act in a way modern people will understand. (Because of course we are all too stupid to understand that in different times and societies people would behave in ways we might not have come across...)

ChipButty · 04/04/2007 12:00

RUPERT PENRY JONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why have I not noticed him before??? I enjoyed the programme but will now read the novel. It's usually the case for me too that once I have read a novel, any dramatisation of it fails to live up to it.

Molesworth · 12/04/2007 22:03

Agree with every word coffeecrazedmama!

bit late to this as I'd taped it - decided to watch it tonight and switched off in disgust

totally overplayed to the point of HAM, adaptation too obvious, rupert penry jones wrong wrong WRONG!

will have to watch my beloved amanda root/ciaran hinds version now to cleanse my memory of this abomination

bakedpotato · 12/04/2007 22:16

lol molesworth (or should I say, "Oh, come come now")
I enjoyed it though obv it's not a patch on Hinds/Root
I really liked the feeling of claustrophobia, and how the production conveyed the awfulness of being trapped in that family
I didn't even mind the running around sweatily at the end tbh. It got away with it, somehow. Though obv twas bonkers.
So agree with marina though about the missed opportunity of that first reunion which is just so lovely and telling

Molesworth · 12/04/2007 22:20

I will admit that the actor playing Mary was v good, but the overacting on the part of Anne/Wentworth was too grotesque to countenance, so I may have missed some saving graces

in the root/hinds version, the moment when wentworth first appears unexpectedly is heart-stopping

hawkins = gurner

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