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Originally Posted by Trollheart
Poldark was made in the 70s originally, but it was remade for the 21st century. I don't know how fans reacted; I never saw the original, though I remember seeing it on the telly (though not watching it) as a kid. it seemed very period, sort of "smuggler's cove" sort of thing. I have no idea what it's about, but considering I'm a massive fan of The Onedin Line, it's possible it might have appealed to me. I've never bothered watching it though, original or remake.
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Yep, I also was aware of but didn't watch
Poldark, and tbh, ditto for the
Onedin Line. My mum so liked the Onedin Line music that she wrote to the BBC to ask what it was. Polite reply came in due course: Spartacus (adagio) by Khachaturian:-
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Originally Posted by jwb
Same.... I also like how the characters are numbered for the white viewers convenience...
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Classic cynical jwb comment !
In fact, I wish they'd used the same technique for a film I just finished watching, called
"Found". It's a fly-on-the-wall documentary about 3 Chinese orphans who were adopted and taken to the US. Years later, they meet up online and go to China to look for their birth mothers. As well as being confusing, as mentioned, it was a lot more girlie than I expected, but interesting none-the-less for its peek at a curious bit of international history.
My verdict on
Squid Game, with, er, spoilers:
Spoiler for for Squid Game spoilers:
I thought this started well, but began to suffered from its own storyline: all the interesting characters got killed off, even the undercover cop who I was following with interest because he was revealing the set-up behind the scenes.
There was never much doubt about who would ultimately win, and when the winner made the completely out-of-character choice to not use his money, I completely lost interest; abandoned the series with about half of the last episode to go. Thus for me, it failed totally in that writers' dilemma: not the one about how to start a story, but the one about how to sustain interest when all the main action is clearly over. Give me a two-minute scene of James Bond, cracking a joke to some bikini-clad beauty as the camera pans away from the beach, please: that's how a movie should end
