Last night's telly

[girlyswot]

Okay, so I did actually laugh out loud at the wet shirt scene. Also Peter Stringfellow is at least as much of an idiot as you might expect. And I really hope they've made a series of Property Ladder in the last few months so that all those smug idiots who ruin houses then make huge profits because of a rising market will have the smiles wiped off their faces.

Still no progress on the flat. The bank, who had twice assured me that they would be able to fax the reference through on Monday, have not yet done so. I have a long, strongly worded letter of complaint ready to send as soon as this whole thing is resolved. I understand that you want to please the customer that you're speaking to but lying through your teeth is not the best way to achieve this in the long term.

If it's not raining, then I think I might go to the Invercharron Highland Games on Saturday. This will involve lots of very strong men, wearing kilts, throwing, lifting and pulling heavy objects. I shall take a camera.

Comments

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I too laughed at the wet shirt scene, although I was disappointed that Amanda didn't call Darcy out as a hypocrite, given that he is surely not a virgin himself, so I didn't enjoy it as much as last week's episode (in which "It was badly done, Bingley, badly done indeed." practically had me on the floor).

Also, is Jane's so far unconsummate marriage a get-out for the plot?

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

I'm certainly assuming that the unconsummated marriage will be annulled. I am finding it quite hard to let go of all my purist Austenite tendencies and just enjoy the nonsense, but the wet shirt scene was just such a good joke. I liked Lindsay Duncan as Lady Catherine, too.

I thought it was weird that he'd give her non-virgin state as a reason to not marry her, rather than her lack of any kind of family or connections which would seem to me to be a much more insurmountable problem in that society.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I'm not really an Austen purist - I mean, I can't stand the novel continuations, but I can find this sort of thing just funny. P&P was on in my first term at university, in an age when few people had TVs in their rooms, and the lounges were absolutely packed at 9pm on Sunday night (and for the repeat). And, er, I may have written a spoof fic about our tutor.

I liked Lindsay Duncan as a rather more dynamic Lady Catherine.

The advantage of a non-virgin state is that nobody need know. But hopefully it will come back to haunt him. Apparently next week he discovers the internet...

[tdu000.livejournal.com]

For those of us whose last night's telly didn't include any wet shirt scenes, would you give a bit more of an explanation and say whether this is a program that I should look out for on UKTV?

Youd had better post a warning before the photos of men in kilts so that Moonette isn't taken off-guard and doesn't faint from delighted surprise.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Lost in Austen (http://www.itv.com/Drama/perioddrama/LostInAusten/default.html). I have mixed feelings about it but the wet shirt scene was a really good joke that I don't want to spoil for you should you ever see it.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen episode 3 yet, but so far I'm rather enjoying Lost In Austen. I really didn't expect the Jane / Mr Collins marriage, and I always like it when I can't predict what's going to happen.

I think it stands or falls on the actors involved, though - I couldn't stand Ashes To Ashes, which had a similarly bonkers premise, because I couldn't stand the way Keeley Hawes' acting seemed to consist solely of looking at the camera with a purse-mouthed smirk (I've no idea why; I've liked other things she's been in, so maybe she just asked for a role she could not play, like Petrova Fossil), whereas I think Jemima Rooper does a great job of carrying this daft farrago on her shoulders.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree about Jemima Rooper. She irritates me a bit but she does succeed in taking you along with her into the nonsense. I'm not so convinced by the rest of the cast, especially Darcy and Bingley. On the other hand, Alex Kingston who normally irritates me to channel-switching level, isn't bad. Possibly because Mrs Bennet is supposed to be that irritating.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Darcy has the forbidding-looking facial structure, I suppose, which is more than you could say for Matthew McFadyen who spent the entire movie looking a bit hangdog and as if he was desperately afraid that the news would come through at any moment that all the investments in mills and coalmines propping up Pemberley had gone bust and he would have to move to America and support himself as a card-shark, but oh, dear, what is going on with that wig? He looks as if he's going to mutate into Sir Roger Norrington the moment he turns thirty.

Also, I do think Christina Cole is underused as Miss Bingley, and she makes the otherwise very attractive actress playing Jane look sheep-faced by comparison, which can't be good.

[amamama.livejournal.com]

Peter Stringfellow (fantastic name) and the rest doesn't mean anything to me, but I'm happy you enjoyed yourself. Nothing like a full belly-shaking laugh to boost the system.

I'm sorry the bank is messing things up, not the best way to keep your customers happy. Hope it'll all work out soon.

And you need to go to the Highland Games. I want to experience them vicariously, and what better way to do that than through your descriptions? And pics? *faints*

[brownfach.livejournal.com]

It's perfect telly for us: husband laughs out loud at the obviously funny set pieces, whilst I get to smirk in a superior fashion - or sigh exasperatedly in a superior fashion - as the occasion demands. I do wish Mr Darcy would do something about his hair, though. Is it meant to make the female population feel maternal? Surely not *maternal* towards Mr Darcy?

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Maternal because you want to cut it all off? Or just brush it properly?

[dogstar101.livejournal.com]

Sorry the accommodation delays are continuing *kicks bank*

I'm not watching Lost in Austen. I'd have to download it and I'm not bothered enough to bother. Peter Stringfellow is in it? Actually, second thoughts, don't tell me, I don't want to get sucked in! I still have about 4 seasons of the X-files to get through...

Hope the weather stays nice for you. Highland Games would be a lot of fun.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

LOL! No, Peter Stringfellow was in a different programme. Though I wouldn't absolutely rule out the possibility of him turning up in Lost in Austen.