A Christmas Carol

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They're mumbling.

Ffs.

They can hear it three houses away. The telly is up at 11. Still can't hear a damn thing.

Is this what pay my tv licence fee for?!

If they really wanted to make a "Peaky Christmas" version they could have at least put in a camo from Cillian Murphy or Tom Hardy on horse going 'Uggghhh".

As it was it annoyed me with mumbling and a crap Jacob Marley BobMarley

I have never watched Peaky Blinders so I guess I am not the right audience....

@Piggywaspushed I take your point, I would have liked more of the iconic dialogue included. My dad is a Dickens purist and I'm sure he wont even be watching this.

I re-read the book annually so am quite the purist but I actually liked it. It has to do something different because its been adapted so many times. I liked the sets, costumes, exploration of Ebenezer's principles. I'm sticking with it. If only to see Bob Marley.

I haven't watched it yet but i think it sounds really interesting. Should I bother?

I think it would have been improved immeasurably by a cameo from Bob Marley 😂

I hated it and turned it off. A reworking has already been done much better with Ross Kemp as a debt collector

ChristineBaskets, really? Ross Kemp???

I quite like it

It was shit. Once again BBC ruining things with their woke bullshit.

I'm enjoying it. Must have read the book a few times over the years. The mumbling is rubbish but, to be honest, it matches Scrooge's self-absorbed character. I just filled in the "Jacob Marley is on my mind" schpiel without the detail.
I did wonder where all the other Cratchet children were and why they have such a big, warm house.

It also reminded me to download the wonderful "Jacob Marley's Chains" by Aimee Mann. The song has been an ear worm now for the past 12 hours. And no amount of annoying my dd with Christmas shite is getting rid of it.

I like Guy Pearce even though I could hear a slight twang of an Australian accent. Still Mike from Neighbours😊

Showing my age

Bob Crachett looked too young imo. He had older dc and I thought he would be nearer to 40?

I think its quite good, I particularly enjoyed the big beefy blacksmith!

It was alright. Terribly hard to hear over wrapping paper so had to keep stopping and rewinding to hear what was said.

I will watch the ending but my trouble is at various points in any version of this the Muppet songs start in my head .......

I'm looking forward to his final transformation post-spirit visits (assuming there is one).

It's a fresh change to the 'grumpy old git' persona, he seems completely void of emotion. Or maybe I haven't seen enough of the other adaptations.

I liked it, but I didn't want just another adaptation, there's loads of them. This is fresh.

I didn't have a problem with sound or lighting either, but it seems a lot of people did here and on Twitter.

I started out being irritated that I couldn't hear what Scrooge was muttering, but when he wasn't talking to himself it was fine, and I found the story drew me in and reversed my irritation.

I normally don't like adaptations that make loads of changes to the original (The Durrells, I'm looking at you) but I'm OK with this one. I think it's because it absolutely doesn't pretend to be a faithful interpretation so you have to take it on its own terms, and on that basis it's very good indeed.

I liked it, but I didn't want just another adaptation, there's loads of them. This is fresh.

I agree - thanks for expressing one of the other reasons I liked this. I fear that it would be difficult to work up much interest in yet another standard pedestrian plod through the story, given that there have been a number of perfectly good interpretations of that type in the past and it's unlikely that something that's just another retelling could add anything new. But this one is really making me think about the problems that Dickens wanted to highlight.

I totally missed most of the dialogue surrounding the letter to his cousin in the US, consequently did not know why she threw it into the fire. I got the impression the cousin did not exist and she had got the money from somewhere else but I could be wrong.

I think Mrs Crachett sold herself to get the money for Tim. That's why she was upset when she threw the money into the fire. Maybe it was Scrooge or Marley that she sold services too.

I thought she threw the letter to her 'cousin' on the fire not the money.

Sorry not the money, the letter.
One snowball too many this lunchtime

So if Mrs C has a guilty secret, could perhaps Tiny Tim be the secret love child of Scrooge (cue Eastenders closing riff)?

Ooh that would be a different ending.