| Winston Smith | 08 Dec 2018 9:38 a.m. PST |
Has anyone been watching this?
I just discovered it on STARZ and have watched 2 episodes so far.
It looks fairly interesting, and at least I don't have to watch 5 12-episode seasons to catch up.
I just wish the lead dude would speak up. His low husky mumbling is hard to listen to. I'm assuming the Bad Arrogant Nazi gets killed, but don't tell me.  |
 Saber6   | 08 Dec 2018 9:49 a.m. PST |
Good book, read it a long time ago. Watched a couple episodes, need to go back. |
| Thresher01 | 08 Dec 2018 9:57 a.m. PST |
I clicked over for a few minutes to see what it was about. I'm out….. |
| advocate | 08 Dec 2018 10:08 a.m. PST |
When it was first aired on the BBC there much huffing about the mumbling. It didn't worry me too much. |
| Richard Baber | 08 Dec 2018 10:15 a.m. PST |
Good book, good BBC rendition. Just what if fiction, but nicely done. |
| Joes Shop | 08 Dec 2018 10:20 a.m. PST |
Great book, excellent series! |
| Winston Smith | 08 Dec 2018 10:21 a.m. PST |
Imagine a Yank trying to decipher British mumbling.
I had no problems with Bodyguard though. |
| Cerdic | 08 Dec 2018 11:28 a.m. PST |
Well done! The Bodyguard was not just British mumbling, but featured some top quality Scottish mumbling…. |
| Winston Smith | 08 Dec 2018 11:37 a.m. PST |
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| Vintage Wargaming | 08 Dec 2018 12:04 p.m. PST |
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| shirleys painting | 08 Dec 2018 1:23 p.m. PST |
My husband has the book from about 35 years ago. He said it was a good read, and it still sits on the book shelf. |
| shirleys painting | 08 Dec 2018 1:37 p.m. PST |
@winston smith…";Moody, I'd like you to meet MY BODYGUARD." " Beat it, Moody." That is, without doubt, my all time favorite movie. |
| robert piepenbrink | 08 Dec 2018 2:18 p.m. PST |
I find when visiting the UK that about York and points north, when someone speaks to me I start looking at his chest for subtitles. And keep in mind mutual comprehension is getting better in the Anglosphere, thanks to radio and television. In the 1940's, an uncle of mine making a long distance--"trunk" in BritSpeak--telephone call had to get on the line and translate because the Connecticut and the Kentucky operators couldn't understand one another well enough to complete the call. |
| deephorse | 08 Dec 2018 3:14 p.m. PST |
I find when visiting the UK that about York and points north, when someone speaks to me I start looking at his chest for subtitles. As someone who lives about York, and points north, I can only suggest that the next time you visit the U.K. you stick to the ‘sarth' and associate with people you can understand. :) |
| Darrell B D Day | 08 Dec 2018 3:39 p.m. PST |
Deephorse – tetchy….He's got a point. And it happens throughout the world. Don't take it personally. As a northerner, living down south, I sometimes find them difficult to understand but what the heck – it's boring if you only "associate with people you can understand" . DBDD |
| Windy Miller | 09 Dec 2018 4:09 a.m. PST |
Happens all over. I was on a course in Warminster a few years ago and went out on the  with a bunch of blokes from the Royal Irish Regiment (I'm from the West Country). They were hard enough to understand when sober but after a few pints they were completely unintelligible! |
| ROUWetPatchBehindTheSofa | 09 Dec 2018 8:05 a.m. PST |
It was okay if perhaps a little predictable on certain things. There was some stuff that didn't really make total sense, but I'm guessing may have been handled with more exposition in the book (which I haven't read). I think they did tinker with the sound in later episodes – so it gets better from that point of view! And northern England has nothing on north-east Scotland
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| Mark 1 | 10 Dec 2018 2:12 p.m. PST |
And northern England has nothing on north-east Scotland When I was bu' a wee lad (back in the early 1990s), my company put me in a role where I had responsibility for our customers in Europe. One of our customers, at that time, was in Glenrothes (a bit north of Edinburgh on the east side of Scotland). Almost daily at ~6:00am (California) time, I'd get a call. Senga: "Ach mahn, ahm fairly dancin."
Me: "Hello, Senga. How are you today?"
Senga: "Fit? Ach tis nee goot!"
Me: "Is there a problem?"
Senga: "Dinna be smart -- for me parts? Fitche deein?"
Me: ?????? -Mark
(aka: Mk 1) |
| 4th Cuirassier | 11 Dec 2018 5:10 a.m. PST |
It is a standing joke in the office that we all pretend we can't understand the northern bloke. NB: So I've drawn this graff.
(pause)
THE REST OF US: This…what?
NB: This graff.
TROU: "Graff"?
(muttering amongst ourselves)
TROU: We give up. What's a "graff"?
NB: It's like a chart.
TROU (comprehension dawns) Oh, you mean a grahf! The other favourite is the Roger Irrelevant reply. NB: I've oopdated the brakefast rota.
TROU: End of the hallway, turn left and it's on the right. The other fun sport is that we have a couple of people from Northern Ireland and in meetings everyone gradually starts to talk like them. N I colleague: Eh thunk why nade tee die somthen.
TROU: Eh agray. Thoss oz a dosgrease. The long winter evenings just fly by. |
| Winston Smith | 11 Dec 2018 5:54 p.m. PST |
Getting back to the show…
I was really surprised to see who the "good German" turned out to be.
I watched while painting up mobs of AWI figures. |
