I didn't know Gillian Anderson was Great Expectations!
She is a fully wackadoo Miss Havisham. It should be streaming on pbs.org.
Saffron: You're a good man. Mal: You clearly haven't been talking to anyone else on this boat.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Apr 16, 2012 1:32:50 pm PDT #1208 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Amy - Apr 16, 2012 1:34:13 pm PDT #1209 of 30001
Because books.
NO WAY. Oh, I have to see that.
Jesse - Apr 16, 2012 1:35:56 pm PDT #1210 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Here's Part 1: [link] It's one hour, part 2 is two hours.
quester - Apr 16, 2012 1:37:35 pm PDT #1211 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
These two things in a row made me laugh heartily.
Well, the shopping came between them briefly. I had to shop quickly because I had drunk a bottle of water during the movie in anticipation of the test.
Burrell - Apr 16, 2012 1:53:42 pm PDT #1212 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Wait, Gillian Anderson is old enough to play Miss Havisham?
::weeps::
EpicTangent - Apr 16, 2012 1:57:58 pm PDT #1213 of 30001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
OK, I'm not saying the Masterpiece "Great Expectations" is necessarily worth watching, but if you enjoy the sight of a pillowy-lipped young man being taught to dance by another young man, you might might watch the beginning of the second hour. IJS.
And if the pillowy-lipped young man has INCREDIBLE bone structure and the young man teaching him was in a Dr.Who 2-parter that you quite enjoyed? Even better.
t /cleared some backed-up Masterpiece from my DVR this weekend.
amych - Apr 16, 2012 1:58:25 pm PDT #1214 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Also playing Miss Havisham: Helena Bonham Carter. Maybe between the two performances, the common impression of the character will shift from the very elderly old-movie versions back toward Dickens's 50-ish?
EpicTangent - Apr 16, 2012 2:02:22 pm PDT #1215 of 30001
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Wait, Gillian Anderson is old enough to play Miss Havisham?
I saw her talk about this on Graham Norton, and she made it very logical that Miss Havisham doesn't have to be THAT old. (Disclaimer, still haven't read the source material). But, depending on how old she was when she was engaged and how long after she was...disappointed she decided to adopt Estella, she could be late thirties/early forties at the start of the story pretty easily, I think.
Typo Boy - Apr 16, 2012 2:05:32 pm PDT #1216 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK in terms working Moms thing - I just feel like I was misread. Stephanie Cutter one of Arom's defenders said something along the lines of "no one works harder than a stay at home Mom" which is insulting to woman who work outside the home AND take care of kids, and is part of housewife romanticization, something that has zero to do with proper respect for stay-at-home mothers or housework. Amanda Marcotte has more on this.
-t - Apr 16, 2012 2:07:39 pm PDT #1217 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
the young man teaching him was in a Dr.Who 2-parter that you quite enjoyed?
Said young man was also Viserys in Game of Thrones. He's much more likable in Great Expectations.