actually really like Steven Mackintosh's character. I think his romance with Bella is adorable because I love seeing the way she changes. She starts out as being so unlikeable and bratty but in the end she ends up being very lovable and loyal and I like it. I also think Anna Friel is very sweet so that helps.
O, they were lovely too, but I have this strange feeling about Steven Mackintosh that I have seen him somewhere and he was playing some “weak” type of a guy and this impression is forever stuck. ** woes her prejudices ** There is nothing really weak about John, but it just my poor head? I really liked them, especially their romance, it had some of the lovely BBC drama quality where she looks at him and he looks at her and this alone makes my poor heart melt ;). (I am a shipper I guess). I adored Bella, she was LOVELY and one of the best Dickens’s female characters, Because completely agree on:
Keeley Hawes is very pretty but Lizzie Hexam was always too sainty for me
But, Eugene **laughs ** and for some reason I found Eugene a bit stalkerish :P I thought he was rather sweet ;)
Agreed but it's a bit of how they wrote at the time. I just finished reading North & South and they have the rather saintly hero and heroine, the dying mother and blah blah.
Yes, in a way this is all true. BUT – 19’th century was a century of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and Pushkin. Where Dostoyevsky had his share of early works resembling very much Oliver Twist, his latest ones are just mind-blowing for me ( and he is particular good at strong female characters IMHO).
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Date: 2006-01-31 12:57 am (UTC)O, they were lovely too, but I have this strange feeling about Steven Mackintosh that I have seen him somewhere and he was playing some “weak” type of a guy and this impression is forever stuck. ** woes her prejudices ** There is nothing really weak about John, but it just my poor head? I really liked them, especially their romance, it had some of the lovely BBC drama quality where she looks at him and he looks at her and this alone makes my poor heart melt ;). (I am a shipper I guess). I adored Bella, she was LOVELY and one of the best Dickens’s female characters, Because completely agree on:
Keeley Hawes is very pretty but Lizzie Hexam was always too sainty for me
But, Eugene **laughs ** and for some reason I found Eugene a bit stalkerish :P I thought he was rather sweet ;)
Agreed but it's a bit of how they wrote at the time. I just finished reading North & South and they have the rather saintly hero and heroine, the dying mother and blah blah.
Yes, in a way this is all true. BUT – 19’th century was a century of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and Pushkin. Where Dostoyevsky had his share of early works resembling very much Oliver Twist, his latest ones are just mind-blowing for me ( and he is particular good at strong female characters IMHO).
I may be should try to read Dickens again ;)