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Post by LouisXIV on Feb 20, 2014 23:34:30 GMT
Sorry it I am posting this in the wrong place, it is not a movie, but a TV program. In the USA Downton Abbey is a very popular program and going on its fourth season. I understand it is popular in the UK also. I found this quiz and I cam out as the "Dowager Countess". I am so excited, Maggie Smith is the best one on the program and Louis XIV would be so proud of me. Take the quiz for yourself. www.zimbio.com/quiz/WLF_ky-a_03/Downton+Abbey+Character/result/y7TNsBf6AB3 |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2014 13:25:50 GMT
Yes, this has been much discussed here but it didn't have its own thread. Now it does!
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Post by mich64 on Feb 22, 2014 14:05:42 GMT
Due to a storm last night we had no satellite signal so my husband suggested we put in the Downton Abbey DVD that my sister sent up at Christmas. We went to bed very late! I can not wait to continue it tonight! Louis what season is currently being shown on North American TV?
To those interested, who is your favorite character?
Now I understand why everyone has been talking about this series.
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Post by LouisXIV on Feb 23, 2014 14:00:27 GMT
I think it is the fourth series. I like a number of the characters.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 23, 2014 17:47:31 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 29, 2014 23:18:41 GMT
Last night I watched the Christmas Special 2014. *sigh* I LOVE that show!
My life will be cold & bleak until the new season starts.
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Post by mickthecactus on Dec 30, 2014 13:41:56 GMT
I'm not a fan as I'm old enough to remember Upstairs,Downstairs which I thought was infinitely better.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 5, 2015 22:20:13 GMT
I dunno, Mick. Perhaps my greater youth (I am five months and one week younger than you) is the reason I find Downton Abbey much better than the earlier show. I went back to watch Upstairs, Downstairs after Downton started airing and U/D really felt dated and the acting very broad compared to contemporary productions.
Also, night before last I went back & watched the very first episode of Downton. *sigh* It's really great stuff!
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 16, 2015 16:58:33 GMT
If we all liked the same thing it would be a very dull world Bixa.......
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 17, 2015 17:16:51 GMT
Mickipoo...I don't like it either... what'ho! anyone for tennis? My sisters all love it tho and have visited the house where it's filmed. www.highclerecastle.co.uk/ |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 17, 2015 19:43:55 GMT
You modern Brits are a dreadful disappointment to me, simply dreadful!  |
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 17, 2015 19:46:27 GMT
Sorry ma'am >curtseys<
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 19:58:57 GMT
I would have tried to watch Downton Abbey again tonight since it is on one of the channels, but I feel more of an imperious need to watch an homage to Charles Aznavour instead, since I doubt that he will be around much longer. He is the same age as my mother, six months older even.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 20:06:38 GMT
Oh, my goodness. When you wrote "homage" I thought he'd died. He's still with us, and I adore Mr. Aznavour. I've probably seen him live at least half a dozen times, and that's not easy when you live where I do. What channel, K? I might be able to track it down.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 20:21:35 GMT
It's on France 2 tonight.
I saw Charles Aznavour live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium when I was about 15 years old.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 20:36:06 GMT
Booo! They won't let me watch it. I'll see if I can download it later.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 20:43:15 GMT
It will show up on TV5 in a week or two.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 17, 2015 21:15:10 GMT
Hmph. That's more like it!  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 21:27:51 GMT
Especially since it looks just like your avatar.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 17, 2015 23:44:00 GMT
Thank you, Carson Kerouac, that will be all.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2015 23:47:46 GMT
 I was just talking about the hairstyle of course. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 17, 2015 23:50:01 GMT
Of course |
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Post by htmb on Jan 18, 2015 0:11:43 GMT
Bixa, I didn't know you sometimes wear a tiara. I used to, but now I keep mine on a shelf. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2015 0:28:18 GMT
Aaaawww! The gloves are the best!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2015 1:47:06 GMT
Htmb, in my heart you are always wearing a full parure, and deservedly so. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 18, 2015 3:49:17 GMT
Well, having re-watched every single episode of Downton through season six, and then all of The House of Eliott to assuage my costume drama longings, I was at loose ends. Thus it was that I got into the 2010 version of Upstairs Downstairs, which is pretty good stuff! I understand that it wasn't all that well received & that the hoopla over Downton Abbey, which premiered the same year, was partly to blame. I find the two shows quite different. For one thing, DA starts just before WWI & UD just before WWII. Also, UD more directly addresses social and political issues of the time. Both good, but different from each other.
Has anyone else watched both of them &, if so, what did you think?
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 18, 2015 7:51:06 GMT
Has anyone else watched both of them &, if so, what did you think? Both Downton Abbey and the re-launched Upstairs Downstairs are pretty soapy. Upstairs Downstairs adapted the stories of some real, if rather unrepresentative, high society people, but I don't think that helped it particularly, since that laid them open to all sorts of complaints about inaccuracies. As I recall, quite a few scenes did grate as unconvincing - often something to do with the language, which could be anachronistic. Whereas the original Upstairs Downstairs, at least in its early years, had quite a bite of what then seemed like social realism, though over the years it descended into rather tired and over-familiar soapy plots. Downton Abbey tries to get far less in, in the way of contemporary events (we still haven't reached the General Strike yet!) and doesn't half drag its plotlines out; it has its own implausibilities. My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam" |
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 20, 2015 1:21:25 GMT
Well, of course they're soapy -- that's what makes them so watchable! (& the clothes, in Downton, the clothes *sigh*) Extended plot lines have probably been popular since mankind huddled around the fires in caves. Dickens, Hardy, & others produced their own soaps -- serialized novels in newspapers -- to feed that hunger. 2010 UD has the most unpleasant upper class. Lady Persey didn't need to go see the "menstrual irregularity" woman -- I would have cheerfully pushed her down a flight of stairs. And her sister, Lady Agnes, prissily played by the poor man's Kristin Scott Thomas, could have people boiling out into the streets, axing the rich. So far, except for the disgracefully crass use of lesbianism in episode 3, season 2. I'm enjoying it. |
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Post by patricklondon on Mar 20, 2015 9:01:14 GMT
Ouch (but it made me laugh); on the other hand, to be fair, Keeley Hawes has much more varied track record in the types of character she's played, from spy to corrupt cop to bored and flamboyantly outrageous suburban housewife (but most of those wouldn't have been seen abroad). My blog | My photos | My video clips"too literate to be spam" |
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 20, 2015 17:41:42 GMT
Hmmm. Patrick, since I watch p*rate tv, I am a broad who can watch shows from abroad. So, to be fair I will find something else with her in it so that I can give a more balanced judgment.
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