01-01-2020, 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by JBR
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Incidentally, talking about BBC dramas, there is a new one on New Year's Day: 'Dracula'.I've put the recorder on and look forward to seeing it.
I'm hoping that it might be good!
ETA. A quick Google later...
A new `literary adaptation` apparently. Written by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. For literary adaption, read, nothing like the original. Can't even see a Lucy or a Van Helsing in the cast list. It would appear that that role is being taken over by a nun (Sister Agata), a minor figure in the original story. Once more, a feminist agenda being pursued by the BBC?
01-01-2020, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Judd
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What's the chances of Dracula being `non-binary`or transgender. Perhaps Mina and Lucy will be black also?ETA. A quick Google later...
A new `literary adaptation` apparently. Written by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. For literary adaption, read, nothing like the original. Can't even see a Lucy or a Van Helsing in the cast list. It would appear that that role is being taken over by a nun (Sister Agata), a minor figure in the original story. Once more, a feminist agenda being pursued by the BBC?
Yes, you've got to laugh.
The unbiased BBC making everybody 'equal' by over-representing any minorities they can think up!
It keeps everybody happy, of course!
01-01-2020, 02:13 PM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(2020_TV_series)
01-01-2020, 04:22 PM
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Re: The war of the Worlds
Originally Posted by JBR
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Incidentally, talking about BBC dramas, there is a new one on New Year's Day: 'Dracula'.I've put the recorder on and look forward to seeing it.
I'm hoping that it might be good!
01-01-2020, 05:47 PM
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The War of the Worlds TV series was rubbish. Why did they have to shoehorn the love aspect into it? It added nothing worthwhile whatsoever to the plot and I felt it had been added just to pad out the lamentably thin script.At least I made it to episode two before I gave up, unlike the recent remake of A Christmas Carol in which I didn't even bother watching. I don't need more 'right on', politically correct, finger-wagging preachiness from the loonies at the BBC.
01-01-2020, 06:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Tachyon
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The War of the Worlds TV series was rubbish. Why did they have to shoehorn the love aspect into it? It added nothing worthwhile whatsoever to the plot and I felt it had been added just to pad out the lamentably thin script.At least I made it to episode two before I gave up, unlike the recent remake of A Christmas Carol in which I didn't even bother watching. I don't need more 'right on', politically correct, finger-wagging preachiness from the loonies at the BBC.
If they had to compete on a level playing field, I'm sure they'd be obliged to reconsider their bias.
01-01-2020, 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Tachyon
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The War of the Worlds TV series was rubbish. Why did they have to shoehorn the love aspect into it? It added nothing worthwhile whatsoever to the plot and I felt it had been added just to pad out the lamentably thin script.At least I made it to episode two before I gave up, unlike the recent remake of A Christmas Carol in which I didn't even bother watching. I don't need more 'right on', politically correct, finger-wagging preachiness from the loonies at the BBC.
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