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« Reply #435 on: August 21, 2011, 07:36:14 PM » |
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Such a shame as Dame Eileen was one of the major pluses of the revived series. Her character was very good so its a shame she won't be in the next series.
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« Reply #436 on: August 22, 2011, 09:42:06 AM » |
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Makes you wonder what the standard of the scripts is going to be like then! Good grief, that's now made in Wales too?!!
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« Reply #437 on: August 22, 2011, 06:29:24 PM » |
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I'm afraid I couldn't get 'into' the re-vamp of UD. It somehow felt very detached from the classic series. Don't know why really, 'cos there were some good actors in it. As much as I love Anne Reid, I still missed Mrs Bridges!!
Perhaps I'd become too much of a Downton Abbey fan by the time they showed this series.
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« Reply #438 on: August 22, 2011, 06:59:22 PM » |
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I didn't watch Downton Abbey. I usually like period dramas but for some reason reading the write-ups beforehand in publications it didn't appeal  So I didn't bother. |
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« Reply #439 on: August 22, 2011, 09:37:34 PM » |
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I'm afraid I couldn't get 'into' the re-vamp of UD. It somehow felt very detached from the classic series..
I felt that. I wonder if it would have been better filmed in old fashion style, using the same kind of facilities as the early '70s - thus giving it a feeling of being part of the same thing. |
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« Reply #440 on: August 22, 2011, 10:42:18 PM » |
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I didn't watch Downton Abbey. I usually like period dramas but for some reason reading the write-ups beforehand in publications it didn't appeal So I didn't bother. Maria, Downton Abbey was fantastic. It really was feel-good TV at it's best. I was often moved almost to tears at the end of every episode. Do give it a go next time, you won't be disappoined. |
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« Reply #441 on: August 23, 2011, 07:14:53 AM » |
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Thanks Castlewich for telling me your thoughts. I'll bear it in mind.
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« Reply #442 on: August 23, 2011, 08:58:39 AM » |
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Here's another recommendation for Downton Abbey! Mesmerising drama and I was very sad that it was only a seven-week run. Thank goodness Series 2 will be starting soon!
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« Reply #443 on: August 24, 2011, 03:13:48 PM » |
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Series 2 of Downton Abbey will span the entire First World War-like Series 4 of Upstairs,Downstairs and they're already planning Series 3 which will cover the 20s-like Series 5 of UpDown. This,and the fact that it opened with a family death on the Titanic looks like writer Julian Fellowes is more than a little "inspired"by the original UpDown. I enjoyed the first series although I feel that it's been slightly overrrated. Still,it's nice to see that a drama series rather than a reality show has got people talking.
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« Reply #444 on: August 29, 2011, 02:07:57 PM » |
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I did like Downton but rather like Upstairs it is rather intent on zooming through the years at lightening pace so it can squeeze in as many historical events as possible.
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« Reply #445 on: September 03, 2011, 07:03:42 PM » |
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Re.Dame Eileen,this is the second time she's pulled out of UpDown at the eleventh hour. Back in 1970,she opted not to appear as Sarah just weeks before the series was due to go into production.
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« Reply #446 on: October 02, 2011, 06:02:40 PM » |
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Series 2 of Downton Abbey will span the entire First World War-like Series 4 of Upstairs,Downstairs and they're already planning Series 3 which will cover the 20s-like Series 5 of UpDown. This,and the fact that it opened with a family death on the Titanic looks like writer Julian Fellowes is more than a little "inspired"by the original UpDown. I enjoyed the first series although I feel that it's been slightly overrrated. Still,it's nice to see that a drama series rather than a reality show has got people talking.
Downton continues to be "inspired" by Updown with the lady becoming a nurse and the shellshocked servant. No doubt Anna would become a bus conducteress if there was a local service! |
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« Reply #448 on: October 03, 2011, 06:10:44 PM » |
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I hope Jean is okay. I loved her as Rose in the original,although I felt her character was marginalised after the first episode of the revival. This new series seems somewhat jinxed with Jean's illness and Dame Eileen's abrupt departure.
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« Reply #449 on: October 09, 2011, 05:16:22 PM » |
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I've read today in the Sunday Express magazine that Simon Williams although still a friend of Jean Marsh, who created and acted in both the original show and its recent remake is less fulsome about the latter, is how the Sunday Express describes it.
Ask him about it and the corners of his mouth turn down "Oh, lets not talk about that".
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