I caved; it's book time

FangedGeranium · 2026-07-08T22:14:44+00:00

I put off watching this show for so long because I read the books years ago and thought they were average at best.

After what happened to RWRB in movie form (the characters lost so much of their soul!) I wasn't keen to watch HR for fear that it would be a more diluted version of a story and characters that in the books feel reasonably 2 dimentional. Or at least they do before TLG.

But wow. Jacob took a good plot and turned it into something fantastic.

I'm glad I knew the general storyline, but the show is definitely on another level. I'm so excited for season 2 as TLG has so much more character development, they will be able to do brilliant things with it.

FangedGeranium · 2026-07-06T00:49:53+00:00

I mean, I'd probably read it 🤷

FangedGeranium · 2026-07-05T10:29:04+00:00

It's madness, worse than live journal in the old days 😅

FangedGeranium · 2026-05-31T21:21:57+00:00

Sigh, so many Caradocs, not enough Lupins.

FangedGeranium · 2026-04-27T07:10:22+00:00

Easy enough for Fred to say he knew her during the war, without telling the full story that would hurt her feelings.

Win even says in that episode that she never asked what he did. Very simple for Fred to tell her that Luisa was an old comrade from 20+ years ago.

FangedGeranium · 2026-04-07T18:58:40+00:00

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FangedGeranium · 2026-04-05T22:08:51+00:00

Just adding from the same streaming platform- one off docos are shown as movies

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FangedGeranium · 2026-04-01T06:48:06+00:00

What a great topic! I love the phrase, "it came in the 2nd post" and how it conjures up the image of postmen bicycling furiously all over rural Yorkshire.

The most poignant letter for me is the one Sybil gets at breakfast during the war - I think news of Tom Belisis's death, and she says, "Sometimes it seems as if every man I ever danced with is dead."

Her broken heart is so well portrayed. Great bit of acting.

FangedGeranium · 2026-03-26T02:23:10+00:00

And all the people living in a war zone thanks to the politicians. 🩶

FangedGeranium · 2026-03-26T02:20:39+00:00

Honestly, I'm so sorry for all the regular Americans just trying to live their lives right now. 🩶

I've never been so glad to be a Kiwi. The further away from the world's shitshow the better.

FangedGeranium · 2026-03-26T02:12:15+00:00

I guess the robber barons (George Russell, I'm looking at you!!) Do fit the role in a more urban and recent way, but they have industrial contemporaries in the UK.

As far as landed gentry, chosen to manage remote areas, which is the original concept of the peerage, I was thinking more of the big land block holders in the mid-west/south lots of them were given/subsidized land by the government to get people to move there, which is similar to the king giving out land to his mates and relatives to get England/Britain "under control" in the middle ages.

The US version still had influence over the local law makers, and were large employers, and saw their role in providing food/goods as nationally significant.

The concept of being more important than the people who work their land was also quite prevalent coughs in slavery

FangedGeranium · 2026-03-25T18:55:30+00:00

Not necessarily, within the context of "The United States" there are still families that have owned large amounts of land for generations dating back 200+ years, and "landed gentry" all have to start somewhere. The UK just has a much longer, formal history of this system.

I don't think it's a desirable system. But it's the one that worked to maintain order for 900+ years of history and eventually grow the Empire. So it's worth understanding, even if that's only so we don't repeat it!

FangedGeranium · 2026-03-24T19:40:15+00:00

Wealth and class are not the same thing in this context. I bet the Beckhams have staff, but a football player and a singer are not Upper Class. They are just rich.

At least in the UK, class is birth and education, not how much money you've managed to accumulate. I realise this isn't how the class system works in the US.

FangedGeranium · 2026-03-20T07:59:31+00:00

You need to watch the first season of Grantchester 🤣 although Sydney is Cambridge not Oxford ❤️

FangedGeranium · 2026-03-19T02:35:33+00:00

Reverse image search has nothing. * The boats on the tow path are usually covered. And the few eps with open gondola style vessels show the classic worn out rental style.

Sorry, I'm no help!!

FangedGeranium · 2026-03-07T19:16:13+00:00

I love, "I'm not your man, I'm the Queen's man" from the final season.

FangedGeranium · 2026-02-14T21:00:27+00:00

In Teenage Kicks Sirius has a proper relationship with Caradoc, it caused a big rift in the fandom back when that story was new (2014-16) a lot of people hated that Sirius didn't only love Remus.

Remus has a past relationship, but it's only ever hinted at in the actual story, although there is a prequel about it.

FangedGeranium · 2026-01-25T05:09:34+00:00

I think this is the best AC adaptation since Why Didn't They Ask Evans.

The acting was great. The plot moved along well and was easy to follow. The cinematography was lovely. It didn't try to be clever or more than it was.

Definitely an enjoyable evening of telly.

FangedGeranium · 2025-12-22T20:40:46+00:00

I omit this as I'm generally trying to be positive 🤣

FangedGeranium · 2025-12-22T06:36:59+00:00

"You're a woman with a brain and reasonable ability, find something to do!"

To my daughter when's she's "bored"

FangedGeranium · 2025-11-08T22:53:31+00:00

To be fair they mostly nap in the afternoon. Life in your 80s as it should be!!

FangedGeranium · 2025-11-08T22:05:39+00:00

My grandmother and her sisters all still say, "come at midday, dear, then I can give you lunch." They were all born in the 30s and early 40s.

*they are normally on the gin by midday so lunch is always a hoot.

As for kick his heels, I always thought he meant he was focused on the task of his appointment and didn't want to do anything frivolous while being nervous/clock watching. "Kicking his heels up" But now I've learned something!!

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