Watching the A&E series

[romantic_envy]

I finally started watching the A&E miniseries of The Scarlet Pimpernel. So far I've only finished the first tape. Hmm, it was an okay movie. I still have yet to find a film version of Chauvelin that I truly like... Am I just too picky when it comes to movie portrayals of that character? However, one scene that I rather did enjoy is when Percy is in

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[mellifluous_ink]

An his TAILOR, la! *fans himself* I wanted the tailor and the outfit!

[romantic_envy]

Hehe, well for now I will take the outfit. XD;;

[madeleinestjust]

*Ack* Please tell me you aren't referring to that ginger-bewigged, pinch-lipped cockroach? He was truly disturbing!

[mellifluous_ink]

:P We are entitled to out own opinions! I thought he was gorgeous.

[romantic_envy]

I'm still deciding whether I like her as Marguerite.

[madeleinestjust]

Just to be contrary, I didn't like Elizabeth McGovern as Marguerite - she just didn't fit the role (and don't get me started on her accent), though she does have amazing screen presence as an actress - and preferred the second series, mostly because she and the hammy Martin Shaw were absent.

My main problem with the series - and with most remakes/updates - is that it was trying too hard to ignore the source material; adaptations that mock the creator and premise of the story being brought back to the screen defy all logic - why bother with an established concept, if it's so embarrassing in its original form, rather than just thinking up a new idea? TSP1999 was fine as an eighteenth century spy adventure - although the episodes were a tad too long and dragged as a result - but it wasn't Orczy's Pimpernel.

[madeleinestjust]

And wasn't the final episode of the second series really just a re-hash of the last episode of the first?

Wait - (Kidnapped King ... Eldorado ... A Good Name ...) - was it? I remember that the 'secret daughter' device was used once or twice, though.