Arcadia, and Lost in Austen
Getting relief from Japanese tragedy I would dip into You Tubes of Lost in Austen... A series I have not seen the all of, but resist buying, though I just may eventually.
Strange how one never gets to the bottom of things.
While my preference is for Elliot Cowan as a rather forbidding Darcy, unless Darcy is unbending himself in private, I have come to a likeing for another actor playing George Wickham. Name of Tom Riley. One of the many fine actors in the series.
Mr Bennet, and the actor playing Mr. Bingley were also very fine and excellent in their roles.
An actor who seems to have stolen the role of Wickham, and who seemed far more appropriate than Mr. Darcy for the spunky but crude heroine Amanda Price.
Real chemistry between Tom Riley as George Wickham, and Amanda, who irritated me no end, gallumping around like a spoiled brat in an entertaining varient of Pride and Prejudice. Should have been called Amanda Price and Prejudice. A modern nobody in a fine Regency piece looking like a hoydoyn.
I simply could not buy her character as being interesting to every single male, and female in the series, unless you consider her as fresh meat.. As his temporary mistress yes, but never, never as that particular characters wife. She is far, far too irritating to be anyones wife. She deserved a whack on the butt most of the time, and no one, no one would have tolerated her behavior as it was played.
As a modern female, not the brightest, in love with a book, she was acceptable. As a real protaganist in a real drama, she was god awful.
Yes, I could also see her as Wickhams mistress, very easily, there was something there, between the two, though never with Darcy. He had some interested lines there. Was he also a time traveler?
But the story demanded that she get Darcy at the end. It makes the romantic in women smile, even if the realistic side knows they would be at each others throats within a short period. Darcy and she had nothing in commom, except he was a male and she a female. Amanda would run off, bored to tears by the responsability and need to behave normaly, or he would find someone to actually love who was appropriate and a better fit emotionally.
Though stranger pairs do manage.
And Tom Riley is currently playing Septimus Hodge on Broadway in Arcadia.
I might manage to go, if it is playing long enough. Though I have avoided New York City this year. (Listed as having the worst weather of any capital this winter.)
Snowed last nite and this morning, the first day of Spring. But the flowers were blooming through the snow, and outside of the supermarket trays of dafs, pink and purple hyacynths and giant pansies were gay and bouyant layered in the snow.
Strange how one never gets to the bottom of things.
While my preference is for Elliot Cowan as a rather forbidding Darcy, unless Darcy is unbending himself in private, I have come to a likeing for another actor playing George Wickham. Name of Tom Riley. One of the many fine actors in the series.
Mr Bennet, and the actor playing Mr. Bingley were also very fine and excellent in their roles.
An actor who seems to have stolen the role of Wickham, and who seemed far more appropriate than Mr. Darcy for the spunky but crude heroine Amanda Price.
Real chemistry between Tom Riley as George Wickham, and Amanda, who irritated me no end, gallumping around like a spoiled brat in an entertaining varient of Pride and Prejudice. Should have been called Amanda Price and Prejudice. A modern nobody in a fine Regency piece looking like a hoydoyn.
I simply could not buy her character as being interesting to every single male, and female in the series, unless you consider her as fresh meat.. As his temporary mistress yes, but never, never as that particular characters wife. She is far, far too irritating to be anyones wife. She deserved a whack on the butt most of the time, and no one, no one would have tolerated her behavior as it was played.
As a modern female, not the brightest, in love with a book, she was acceptable. As a real protaganist in a real drama, she was god awful.
Yes, I could also see her as Wickhams mistress, very easily, there was something there, between the two, though never with Darcy. He had some interested lines there. Was he also a time traveler?
But the story demanded that she get Darcy at the end. It makes the romantic in women smile, even if the realistic side knows they would be at each others throats within a short period. Darcy and she had nothing in commom, except he was a male and she a female. Amanda would run off, bored to tears by the responsability and need to behave normaly, or he would find someone to actually love who was appropriate and a better fit emotionally.
Though stranger pairs do manage.
And Tom Riley is currently playing Septimus Hodge on Broadway in Arcadia.
I might manage to go, if it is playing long enough. Though I have avoided New York City this year. (Listed as having the worst weather of any capital this winter.)
Snowed last nite and this morning, the first day of Spring. But the flowers were blooming through the snow, and outside of the supermarket trays of dafs, pink and purple hyacynths and giant pansies were gay and bouyant layered in the snow.
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Ah, so I now see the director has done a former very scandalous series from the seventies, in which everyone has slept with everyone else, at least sooner than later.
He has Tom Riley playing a teacher with a dark side, and Jemima Rooper formerly Amanda Price playing a mistress of an architect.
Complex situation due to people getting their revenge on others through sex.
Don't know if I want to watch this series. The Architect isn't particulary attractive, and he jumps out of a air baloon at the end committing suicide.
I don't care for dark, dark stories. Evidently considered very scandalous in the seventies.
Reading the revues of Arcadia, a Three hour play don't think I will go. The accoustics in the theater are bad, the set is bare, and my hearing isn't good. People with perfectly good hearing were complaining they couldn't hear if they weren't in the front rows.
Also Thomasina the mathematical protegee's upper class English accents irritating.
I like this Tom Riley, who says in an interview that he would become a chef if he wasn't an actor.. Interesting that bit. He reminds me in appearance of one of my kids when he was younger.Posted 03-22-2011 at 03:48 PM by lilly 
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The title says it all. "Bouquet of Barbed Wire."
Posted 03-22-2011 at 04:17 PM by lilly
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Still tune in to a bit of Lost in Austen. It makes me feel good. And I always do what makes me feel good. Time to go out into the sunshine, pick something up to eat, and go picnicing.
Posted 04-02-2011 at 02:39 PM by lilly
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Doing some Regency period reseach at the library, and a gentlemen sitting next to me asked me to tell him what I thought of a certain word used. Intuitive.
He is corresponding with a attractive female, and wanted to also know if what he was writing her was O.K. I told him it was.
And I said she would be lucky to get him. He was what any girl should be happy to get handed to her on a silver platter. Not that girls don't sometime prefer the bad boy, to the honest and decent man.
Basically he told her he was an honest man, (and I really got that impression myself) and that he wanted to talk and get to know her better. A perfect gentleman of the old school. I wish him well. She spoke of her intuitive powers, and if she really has them they could be a match.
Nothing wrong with asking this older lady her opinion.
So much matchmaking on the internet. This pair was restrained and old fashioned.
Better words across the internet than at a crowded bar over drinks.Posted 04-07-2011 at 03:41 PM by lilly
