I had no great expectations and I’ve not been disappointed.
In the cosy world of Sunday night television, a spot of naked bondage may well have left you spluttering over your Horlicks – especially while watching a Dickens adaptation.
That’s what greeted viewers of BBC1’s Great Expectations last night as a bare-bottomed Mr Pumblechook was spanked over a bed by housewife-turned-dominatrix Mrs Gargery.
And the ‘gratuitous’ scene was blasted by the Dickens Fellowship, which said there is ‘no hint of sexual deviancy’ about the character.
Screenwriter Steven Knight – famed for Peaky Blinders – has sexed up the tale in a nod to topics he feels the author hinted at, but couldn’t explore in 19th century Britain.
I’m with the Dickens Fellowship on this one. If he didn’t write it, it cannot be presumed. Steven Knight thinks he can do better than Dickens, yet he is a pale shadow when compared to a real talent such as Dickens. Indeed, he is nothing more than the kid who draws a cock on a toilet wall and thinks he is being daring, whereas he’s just a tedious little jerk with an over inflated opinion of his own abilities. He is leeching off a talent that is far greater than he could ever dream of achieving.
This is shock value for the sake of it. It isn’t art and it isn’t Dickens. I’m so glad I cancelled my TV licence.
It’s just SO damned infantile, and as for arrogance!
“A kid who draws a cock on a toilet wall”
Exactly so, and if that’s all this is, why does that toilet wall have to be Dickens? (or anything else).
But more than anything else, it the sheer calculated nature of it. I’ll do what I want, and fuck you.
Stop paying the BBC, just stop. You don’t need to watch ANYTHING live these days, and you don’t need ANYTHING from the BBC.
What next? A BDSM orgy in Jane Austen?
Necrophilia in Thomas Hardy?
Maybe I’m giving these degenerates ideas.
And predictable. They are determined to vandalise our culture, history and heritage by whatever means necessary.
On the subject of the BBC, twice now recently when I’ve been driving my child around I’ve had to immediately mash the tuning button away from Radio Two. This is because even in the morning I’ve heard presenters and guests going on about gay marriage this and trans that stuff that might be about a performer’s life but is bugger all to do with the music or other media performance that they are supposed to be talking about. This might be OK for nighttime radio but maybe not when kids are liable to be listening. I’m not bothering with the new Dickens exploitation as I can easily see that its just the normal BBC lefty and culturally destructive crap. As for Dr Who, well from what I’m hearing it’s going to be more like Dr Troon Loon from here on in.
Children are the target of all this. Hence the grooming.
Exactly and its utterly disgraceful. I’m currently about to read the Policy Exchange report on gender ideology in UK schools and from the various summaries I’ve heard of it it shows that gender ideology is embedded in a great many British schools.
As an experiment a while back I decided to look into the gender policy of my own child’s school. The front facing uniform guidance which is as far as most parents will read is reasonable, with different uniform requirements for girls and boys. However when I dug deeper into the various policy documents, which most busy parents probably would not bother, with I found stuff about ‘recognising a person’s chosen gender’ and misrepresentations of what the equality act says which look suspiciously as if they could have been written with input or influence from Stonewall.
The TRA’s ARE going after our children, I don’t think tht can be really denied now and I’m thankful that there are groups like Gays Against Groomers who are highlighting what’s gong on in schools on both sides of the pond. They’ve and Turning Point have recently shown how a teacher in Eltham, South East London is basically haranguing his class about how they MUST respect the LGBTQ identity politics cult. See https://twitter.com/genderisharmful/status/1642973826492379136?cxt=HHwWgMC99bD_gc0tAAAA
To be fair, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was quite a good fun time.
Mainly because, while it made some changes (obviously), it was respectful of the source material and the main beats of the story remained the same and didn’t obviously hate it’s source material.
Just seen a horror film, it was crap, called Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey. Not one for the kids. Not the Winnie we know.
As our old characters reach the end of copyright they are hijacked by loony liberals and destroyed. Marvel, DC, JRRT and others are all being updated for a modern audience. That means rewritten by woke loons.
Have they started rewriting Shakespeare yet or are we still at the trigger warning stage (which I seem to recall in relation to The Merchant of Venice – they’ll need therapy after King Lear)? They’d be fine, on the other hand, with Romeo and Julian.
I wished I had watched it ! Just to see the idiot Pumblechook getting spanked as it was what he deserved
“recognising a person’s chosen gender”
Ah, so it’s a choice now? In my day we had it instilled into us that it wasn’t a choice, it was innate, and it was bigotry to assert otherwise.
It wouldn’t have been bigotry then but you would be an outcast for saying it.