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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/1/2015 4:31:51 PM   
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Just finished the excellent Wolf Hall.

[Spoiler alert]

Anne Boleyn gets her head chopped off! Never saw that coming....

I bet Mr. Cromwell eventually gets his chopped off, too.
Just an educated guess, and no, I know absolutely nothing about English history. Why do you ask?
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You are very prescient indeed sir.

Just goes to show what treacherous times they were. One minute you are totally indispensible, the King's personal "fixer" and the next, you are getting your head removed from your shoulders having been found guilty without trial....


And we colonists thought 'no taxation without representation' was bad.
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I think Henry took a slightly different approach. Instead of "no taxation without representation, it was more - "no ability to oppose the King if you don't have your head".


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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/1/2015 4:35:22 PM   
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Just finished the excellent Wolf Hall.

[Spoiler alert]

Anne Boleyn gets her head chopped off! Never saw that coming....

I bet Mr. Cromwell eventually gets his chopped off, too.
Just an educated guess, and no, I know absolutely nothing about English history. Why do you ask?
warspite1

You are very prescient indeed sir.

Just goes to show what treacherous times they were. One minute you are totally indispensible, the King's personal "fixer" and the next, you are getting your head removed from your shoulders having been found guilty without trial....


And we colonists thought 'no taxation without representation' was bad.
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I think Henry took a slightly different approach. Instead of "no taxation without representation, it was more - "no ability to oppose the King if you don't have your head".


Yes indeed. George III could've learned a thing or two from Great Harry.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/1/2015 6:14:21 PM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/1/2015 8:28:27 PM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/1/2015 9:12:45 PM   
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Watching a documentary about PQ 17.
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Any good?

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/1/2015 9:20:18 PM   
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Watching a documentary about PQ 17.
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Any good?

Interesting enough and Jeremy Clarkson is a great presenter.

Edit: Well worth the time I spent watching it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3415772/?ref_=fn_al_tt_3

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/1/2015 11:26:17 PM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/6/2015 12:26:49 PM   
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In Fury there is an SS battalion that just run around like headless chickens in front of a tank - and they have every advantage in the world over the tank, that is, they have crates of panzerfausts, it is night, there is smoke everywhere , oh and the tank is immobilised - it kind of ruins any sense of simulated realism when the germans in Wolfenstein 3D are more intelligent

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/8/2015 6:51:34 PM   
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Definitely worth a look

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/8/2015 11:15:22 PM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/9/2015 2:57:59 PM   
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New series on BBC tonight - the re-make of the 1970's classic Poldark.

Definitely worth a look
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And very good it was too Definitely worth a second peek next week.


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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/9/2015 3:12:38 PM   
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New series on BBC tonight - the re-make of the 1970's classic Poldark.

Definitely worth a look
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And very good it was too Definitely worth a second peek next week.


I have never even heard of Poldark before.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/9/2015 3:16:29 PM   
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New series on BBC tonight - the re-make of the 1970's classic Poldark.

Definitely worth a look
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And very good it was too Definitely worth a second peek next week.


I have never even heard of Poldark before.
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The Poldark series are novels written by Winston Graham. Set in the 1780's the hero, Ross Poldark, returns to his native Cornwall from fighting the American War of Independence, only to find his dad is dead and the estate has gone to rack and ruin. Not only that but his "girl", think Ross is dead and so agrees to marry his cousin. Whoops!




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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/14/2015 8:03:13 PM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/14/2015 8:30:14 PM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/15/2015 12:41:28 PM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/16/2015 6:29:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		Been watching Arthur and George on Monday evenings. Based on true events it tells the true story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's (yes, he of Sherlock Holmes fame) attempts to get a miscarriage of justice righted.

This 3-parter finishes tonight and has been most watchable.

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/22/2015 10:56:02 PM   
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I am really enjoying both .

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/22/2015 11:22:59 PM   
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Is no one else watching Poldark or Indian Summers?

I am really enjoying both .

I am afraid not.

I recently enjoyed the Australian mini series The Far Country that was made in the '80s. All in all a pleasant trip back to memoryville.

If you are going to watch it then beware that there are, at least, two versions. One movie version that is heavily cut and less than half the length of the series and I doubt that it is as good as the series.




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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/26/2015 5:44:31 PM   
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32074921

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/26/2015 11:03:11 PM   
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Is no one else watching Poldark ...



Not likely. I can't take the risk of ridiculous fake 'Cornish' accents making me choke on my pasty.


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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/26/2015 11:47:29 PM   
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Is no one else watching Poldark ...



Not likely. I can't take the risk of ridiculous fake 'Cornish' accents making me choke on my pasty.

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Fair enough and each to their own, but personally I would not let something like that stop me from watching it - ridiculous accents? can't say I have noticed - but then although I have spent a large part of my life in that part of the world, I am not Cornish.

I guess its similar to when, for example, a war film uses modern day tanks and ships in a WWII film... yuk.

I guess everyone has a "breaking" point as to what is important.


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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/29/2015 7:28:09 AM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/29/2015 7:55:55 PM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/30/2015 3:33:16 PM   
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I feared it would just be an excuse to bash the British, but has actually proved more sophisticated than that - highlighting the class divisions in Indian society itself as well as the down side of any imperial rule (even one as benign as the British). The complexity of British rule was also highlighted by one particular line, delievered by the Indian father (wounded in the war fighting for the British) to his daughter (who is a follower of Gandhi) “The British gave you the education to sit here scorning your own father,”

Excellent drama series so far

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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/30/2015 8:52:57 PM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 3/30/2015 9:12:09 PM   
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Just watched The Winslow Boy again. Good show and quality acting.



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Never seen that - but I read the play at school. Very good iirc.


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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 4/1/2015 12:29:16 PM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 4/1/2015 12:35:29 PM   
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RE: What program/film/documentary are you watching now? - 4/1/2015 12:36:31 PM   
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