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[meganbmoore]

Has anyone seen these BBC/A&E/Masterpiece/I'm-too-lazy-to-see-which-is-which:

Casanova
He Knew He Was Right
Our Mutual Friend
The Tenant of Windfell Hall
The Way We Live Now

Comments

[bookblather]

I assume you're referring to the Casanova with David Tennant and Peter O'Toole, which is actually pretty awesome.

Disclaimer: I have a mad crush on Peter O'Toole and I think David Tennant is pretty nifty too, so this may be coloring my memory.

[meganbmoore]

Yes. I have the Heath Ledger version. I'm not aware of any other miniseries, just movies?

[bookblather]

I'm not completely sure that there are myself. I've just been tripped up often enough by books/movies/miniserieses with the same titles that I ask first nowadays. Anyway, the one with Peter O'Toole and David Tennant is good. It does subscribe to the "Casanova had One True Love" model, but in a fairly interesting way, I thought, and it neither fridges the woman in question nor turns her into a pawn between two powerful men (IIRC, one of them tries but she won't let him). She's a character in her own right.

[bzoppa]

I thought the David Tenant Casanova was an eyesore. I wanted to like it, I love Rose Byrne and Laura Fraser and I still liked David Tenant at that point. Peter O'Toole's always a good one.

I actually wish I could have those hours of my life back.

[marspeach]

I've seen Our Mutual Friend and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. The former is quite good but I still have not read the book (I love adaptations of Dickens's books but not his writing that much). The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is one of my books and although the mini is good it is very sexed up.

I have not seen either of the Trollope adaptations but I plan to as soon as I get to reading those books.

[meganbmoore]

I'm attempting to (re)read a Dickens right now, actually. I remember him as wordy, but I forget how wordy. It's kinda "get on with it already!"

[spaceyplum]

OMG, I loved the series so much that I bought the book to read but it's like pulling teeth! The adaptation works really well because they got rid of the most obnoxious characters from the book, the Podsnaps! Dear lord how I hate these freaking characters and their whole storyline! They're only secondary characters in the series and area barely on thankfully. The book flows really well until you hit the chapters with the freaking Podsnaps or the two old guys, that works bett in the adaptation as well.

[kakkobean]

I'm trying to watch Casanova with David Tennant.

It's a bit hard because all the non-graphic sex makes me snort.

*is asexual*

[meganbmoore]

I mostly like period dramas and Laura Fraser?

[kakkobean]

*looks up Laura Fraser*
*sees that she is in Casanova, which is a period drama*
Well then, I suppose you will enjoy it quite nicely. There's a bit of going back and forth between two different time spheres which makes believing that the old guy was once the young spritely David Tennant a bit hard in the first episode (THE ONLY ONE I'VE MANAGED TO WATCH THUS FAR), but it's delightfully funny in bits.

[meganbmoore]

I'm actually not familiar with Trollope at all.

[ambergold]

I've seen He Knew He Was Right, The Tenant of WH, and The Way We Live Now. Of those, I thought the first was really, really boring, even if Matthew MacFadyen(if I remember correctly?) was in it, the second was very good if very dark(starts out slightly melodramatic but then gets soo good - Toby Stephens is delicious) and The Way We Live Now was also kind of slow-paced but still worth it.