Little Dorrit

[ellenkushner]

Did anyone see Part 1 of Masterpiece Theatre excuse me Classics' adaptation of Little Dorrit this week? I liked it just bunches. And now my question for you is: Who's going to write some lovely Miss Wade/Tattycorum slash?

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[krismcd59.livejournal.com]

It was indeed excellent. I was lucky enough to watch the 1988 version in a movie theater -- 3 hours, then a break, then 3 more hours. Matthew McFadyen, however, is an even better Arthur Clennam than Derek Jacobi was. And I'm thrilled to see Ruth Jones -- a fabulous writer/actress whom I last saw in the adorable series "Gavin & Stacy," which she co-wrote -- as Flora Finching, one of Dickens' most sympathetic female characters, I think. It seems that Wade/Tatty Corum slash is hardly necessary in this version, however -- our friend Andrew Davies (he of the famously damp and heaving bosom of Mr. Darcy) seems to be providing almost all any shipper would wish.

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

I have not read Little Dorrit! and I missed the broadcast! I hope they re-air it on KUED here in Utah

[deliasherman.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I LOVE Derek Jacobi, and I think I missed that version. This one is just prime, though. Flintwich gives me shivers, and the mother. . .! Dickens makes great movies and TV, always. I think it's the broad-stroke characters and the melodrama-heavy plot in the service of a kind of hyper-realism that just translates better onto a screen than anything subtler.

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Screw that "Classics" balderdash. I'm going to call it Masterpiece Theatre until I die.

I have little doubt that such fic already exists. No, really.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

It's Part 1 of, what is it, 4 parts? You can catch up. They'll also have it in teh Video Rental section before long - maybe even at the public library, if you're lucky...

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Based on this particular pair of performers? As Alessandra Stanley wrote in the NYTimes, they've upped the subtext considerably. And as Delia said the 3rd time Miss Tate turned up unexpectedly (in, if I may say so, a rather wizardy way), "Oooo! She's spooky."

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Well, there's the fact that people will slash with a lot less instigation than what I understand this production had (haven't seen it yet), the fact that Freema Agyeman already has a sizeable fannish following from her tenure on Doctor Who and the amount of time that's passed since this first aired in the UK. That and the relationship in the book was pretty slashy to begin with.

Then again, you can't always predict these things. There was a surprising (to some people) lack of Elizabeth/Bessie from Elizabeth: The Golden Age, even with "My bitches wear my collars."

[wildwose.livejournal.com]

We are in rapture with this. Little Dorrit is one of the only Dickens I never read, which is odd actually, as it is a bit autobiographical. Leah says of costumed period dramas on BBC..."It soothes me.."

For info sakes, you know we work RenFest professionally. In my youth my local festival's troupe put on a Dickensfest. I long for another chance to do a Dickens Faire. So that I might dress as a Fantastical Regency Faerie Gentleman Artisan and smile at the children.