North & South Goodness

[dangermousie]

I, like many people on my flist, have been discovering the goodness that is the BBC adaptation of Mrs. Gaskell's novel. I read N&S a few years back when I was going through a Gaskell binge (I also recommend Cranford, Wives and Daughters, Mary Barton (another labor novel), Ruth, My Lady Ludlow, Cousin Phillips, Sylvia's Lovers (a flawed book but a

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[morwen_peredhil]

North & South pictures! *glee* Thanks for posting these.

[dangermousie]

I am so full of glee because of this adaptation, I have no words!

[morwen_peredhil]

I am downloading screen caps now.

I really, really, really need to see the second half. Friday can't come soon enough!

[dangermousie]

I am feeling aggrieved I have to work today, instead of watching N&S :P

[lesbiassparrow]

I can't believe I missed this adaptation until last week! I've only read a few of Gaskill's works but I think she is underrated. And how is this for blashemy - I think this is so much better a book than Hard Times in its representation of the North and industry.

I have ordered the DVDs (I haven't seen the last one yet) and am in agony because they have not arrived yet.

[dangermousie]

Yeah, I do think she is underrated and I agree it's better than HT. But then, much as I adore Dickens at his best (Our Mutual Friend, Nicholas Nickleby, Great Expectations etc), HT is my least favorite of his books.

[lesbiassparrow]

Well. HT never recovered from me having to read it in school (sadly neither did Great Expectations). Gaskell used to be on the school syllabus...perhaps I should be glad I missed her until college!

[neadods]

HT never recovered from me having to read it in school

I like Hard Times, and I still admit that its only use in a school is as a textbook example of How Not To Write Anything.

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[koalathebear]

Thanks for this. Another to add to my list of viewing when I get back to Australia! I also want to watch Bleak House and Foyle's War?

Embarrassingly, I haven't read the book so ...

can you give a spoiler spaz a crum and tell me if there's a happy ending. *grin*

Also even more embarrassing - when people were babbling about this, I was thinking: "Why are they still going on about that US mini series about the civil war?" *choke* You know the one with Patrick Swayze? I'm so embarrassed that I watched that :P

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[dangermousie]

Yup, HEA (stay away from Ruth or Sylvia's Lovers if you want HEA, though).

When I was buying it in the store and needed the clerk's help, they all kept insisting it was the Patrick Swayze one too (I liked that when I was much younger ;p)

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[koalathebear]

Thank you for telling me. Fortunately I knew you wouldn't be one of those: "I won't tell you for your own good, koala" people.

Hmph ;) Anyway I can't wait to see this, it sounds like just what I feel like watching.

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[dangermousie]

Nope, spoiler girl all around :P

It's really really good.

[maddeinin]

The last part is pobably the best thing on TV ever. I get all tingly even thinking about it.

[dangermousie]

eeeeeee! Can't wait!

[rowanna73]

I loved this series as well. But brooding British men are my definite weakness. ;) A wonderful story and very interesting to see some other period of history (besides regency) for a change. Industrialization, labour union, strikes, poverty, all very powerful themes. I still love the mental image of a cotton mill hall, full of floating pieces of cotton, like falling snow. It's like the old tale of the beauty and the beast, two separate worlds clash and at times it can be magnificently beautiful.

This series came out in Finnish tv last autumn and I think I still have it on tape. Maybe I should watch it again...

[maddeinin]

This series came out in Finnish tv last autumn

IT DID??? I never notice these things! Sigh.

[dangermousie]

But brooding British men are my definite weakness. ;)

You mean some crazy people don't have this as a weakness? :P