People are outraged by the BBC’s abomination that they peddled as Great Expectations.
BBC viewers were left raging on Sunday evening when the latest adaptation of Great Expectations concluded – with a different ending to Dickens.
Steven Knight’s adaptation, which stars Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham and Fionn Whitehead as Pip, has been mired in controversy over changes made to the tome, including the depiction of opium addiction and sadomasochism.
Episode one was watched by 4.4million viewers, but 2million had switched off by the penultimate episode, prior to Sunday night’s finale.
In the Dickens classic, Miss Havisham’s wedding dress is burned in a tragic accident which leads to her death – however the BBC’s reimaging Olivia purposefully sets the dress alight as part of a revenge twist and emerges unscathed.
Viewers flooded Twitter in anger, with some branding the show ‘an abomination’ and others insisting ‘it isn’t right to ruin the ending’, stating that the show ‘makes a mockery’ of Dickens’ penultimate completed novel.
Sigh… This was obvious without wasting a single moment watching this travesty. The BBC could once be relied upon to make quality historical drama. Not anymore. Now you get race swapping, gender swapping and political lectures about the evils of empire. Of course it was an abomination, look at its provenance. Dickens would be turning in his grave. I meanwhile, shrug and offer a ‘meh,’ because I saw it coming and I didn’t need to be Mystic Meg to do so.
‘Why? Why? Why. Total RUBBISH… Why would anyone think that changing the ending of Great Expectations would be a good idea?!… Right, I avoided Dickens for years. Finally read Great Expectations and bloody loved it. It is a PERFECT story. Why the hell would they change it??? And this ending?? Utter bollocks…
Because it’s the BBC and destroying our culture is their goal. It’s what they do.
Cancel your licence fee. Starve the beast.
Because it’s the BBC… and they have been suckered by the woke grifter scam and dare not dissent.
Oh it could be worse. There is a film called Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey where the bear becomes a serial killer. The difference is that the film is tongue in cheek.
If you pay your licence fee and watch that modern woke toss you deserve it all, and then some.
I did not watch it.
I expected incomprehensible mumbling, poor lighting, intrusive noises (“background” music?) and right-on 2023 attitudes.
And a strange lack of Chinese in London of that time.
But no sooty faced chimney sweeps.
Was I wrong?
Sooty faced chimney sweeps are streng verboten and are banned as being “blackface” by whitey and hence cultural appropriation.
Do try to keep up with the latest trends.
(The world needs a sarcasm font, eh?).
The book wasn’t about class or colour, it was about a boy who became wealthy and then became caught up in in family fued even though the family hardly knew he existed. The real point of Dicken’s writing was the evil of condeming returned transported convicts to death
I didn’t watch it at all having been warned that the BBC inserted back diversity into the early 19th century. Which was of course just not the case. I think they are trying to trick youngsters into thinking that blacks have always been here which they of course have not. They started to arrive only in the 1950s in any numbers. There were about 100 in London in 1900, according to a lone black author at the time (a lawyer).