helenmcd20

My rating may be a bit harsh. I vacillate on Bertie Carvell in lead role. It is a very considered performance and perhaps my preference for Roy Marsden means I'm too critical. Sometimes it feels like they're all trying too hard to get it right and they're not. The anachromisms are iritating and that's an area where they haven't tried hard enough.

For me it doesn't evoke the period well enough. If viewers weren't alive in the 70s it is probably fine but I do wish they wouldn't use modern terms and phrases so much. Do they not realise they're doing it? Or do they think the audience can't cope with the real terminology, speach patterns and the like? There are so many things that jar and I can't always tell why that is. The anachronisms don't help and they always annoy me. Many programmes have them, there just seem to be more in Dalgleish.

Having said that it's almost impossible to render the past accurately unless dealing with purely factual matters. We are influenced by the times we live in and cannot free ourselves from that enough to know what it really felt like to live in the past that existed before we were born. It's hard enough to connect with times we did live through, without it being coloured by our later or present life. Our views change too over time and our memories can become distorted, unreliable, imperfect and therefore inaccurate. All without our necessarily being aware of that. Not everything. However, I digress. A frequent failing.

Back to the subject.

It doesn't help that I think the earlier adaptations were better. I'm aware that's in retrospect and I might not feel that if I saw them again. I do though think Roy Marsden fitted the role of Dalgleish better.

I read all the books and enjoyed them a great deal but that was a long time ago.

None of this matters much and my older sister, who is quite discerning. Very much enjoys these. It's all subjective anyway. I'm happy that people are enjoying and perhaps discovering P D James's work, in whatever format.

We enjoy this even though I'm not overly fond of such formulaic shows. It's interesting and informative and we enjoy the variety of items featured.

Often a bit dismayed and family items being sold because my husband and I both value the things passed down and regret those that have been lost over time. They're a valuable part of pur family history, regardless of their monetary value. It's understandable when there's no-one to pass them on to but I confess I don't understand those who have no interest in the past. Even if they do not, those that follow may treasure them.

We very much wish it was still being made. Why this was ended but Bargain Hunt carries on is a strange decision to me.