better ole Posted 26 April , 2013 Share Posted 26 April , 2013 I thought Caeser preferred a pipe! Especially when watching the telly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 27 April , 2013 Share Posted 27 April , 2013 Surely Caesar adsum jam forte? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 27 April , 2013 Share Posted 27 April , 2013 Surely Caesar adsum jam forte? So he supported the Dodgers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanhemmings Posted 28 April , 2013 Share Posted 28 April , 2013 Crumbs I thought the topic had been removed. No comments about tonight's episode. Well, I enjoyed it. Albeit sad. Susan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pighills Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 I enjoyed it too. I thought it portrayed the torment and ignorance of shell shock very well. Maxine Peake is some actress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxy Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 I'm sorry, but I thought that it perpetuated the old myth that anyone with 'shell shock' was summarily shot out of hand. Particularly that - as far as I could make out - Joe was AWOL, rather than a deserter. As for the fact that the mother of the local MP would not speak Latin, whilst the former soldier come detective would; I remain unconvinced! Roxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevmc Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 Crumbs I thought the topic had been removed. No comments about tonight's episode. Well, I enjoyed it. Albeit sad. Susan I looked at this thread this morning assuming that last nights execution would have raised many comments. My understanding, which I have checked, was that no one was executed for desertion on home soil. One quote I found..."One of the many reasons that anger the campaigners is that far more men deserted in the United Kingdom than in France/Belgium (four times) but that no-one was ever executed for desertion actually in the UK." Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGB Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 I looked at this thread this morning assuming that last nights execution would have raised many comments. My understanding, which I have checked, was that no one was executed for desertion on home soil. One quote I found..."One of the many reasons that anger the campaigners is that far more men deserted in the United Kingdom than in France/Belgium (four times) but that no-one was ever executed for desertion actually in the UK." Kevin Kevin - was Joe actually "shot at dawn"? All we heard was a rifle report so it could have been anything really? Cliff hanger for next week? I enjoyed last night. Read the above comment and any discrepancies are to do with the village as opposed to wearing medals not yet issued. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanhemmings Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 I agree, was he shot. We only heard a gunshot. It is like last week's ending. Joe strolling home. Did he, didn't he. Has he, hasn't he. We will have to wait until next week. Darn. And Maxine Peake is superb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pighills Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 Again, I think some of you are taking things too literally. This in not a Great War documentary. It is a serial entertainment geared towards the masses and is only very very loosely interpreting things from the war, it is not meant to be exactly how things would necessarily have happened, it just wouldn't work for the story line. KGB: I think we were meant to have the impression Joe was shot at dawn, the tears from his parents together with the sound of the shot certainly suggested that happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Tom Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 Summary execution! I did not notice, must have dozed off. Did the MP fire his pistol? As TV drama goes, IMHO, rather better than most. Old Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanhemmings Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 I saw a flaming trailer for next week (wish I hadn't kept looking but could not help it) Arghh - serves me right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KIRKY Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 I am still enjoying it! Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaelBully Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 Indeed ! Well put. I thought last night's episode was probably the best , but my interest is starting to dwindle: Not because the series is failing some standard of historical accuaracy, but the storyline is simply not holding my attention. Regards, Michael Bully Again, I think some of you are taking things too literally. This in not a Great War documentary. It is a serial entertainment geared towards the masses and is only very very loosely interpreting things from the war, it is not meant to be exactly how things would necessarily have happened, it just wouldn't work for the story line. KGB: I think we were meant to have the impression Joe was shot at dawn, the tears from his parents together with the sound of the shot certainly suggested that happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin kenf48 Posted 29 April , 2013 Admin Share Posted 29 April , 2013 Again, I think some of you are taking things too literally. This in not a Great War documentary. It is a serial entertainment geared towards the masses and is only very very loosely interpreting things from the war, it is not meant to be exactly how things would necessarily have happened, it just wouldn't work for the story line. But, 'it portrayed the torment and ignorance of shell shock very well...' so is it a documentary or entertainment?' Personally I became bored with the sheer tedium and cliches two episodes ago as far as I'm concerned it fails on either count. I have two episodes on HD but in view of the above (shot at dawn - not again!) looks like they'll be deleted. Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil andrade Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 As for the fact that the mother of the local MP would not speak Latin, whilst the former soldier come detective would; I remain unconvinced! Roxy Now she ( is it Juliet Stevenson ?) is superb : in a series conspicuous for good acting, I think her performance is the best. What a chilling doyenne ! Intellectually she outclasses the men, she is ruthless, but there is a streak of enlightenment in her that intrigues me. She likes a glass of wine or two. Very compelling. Phil (PJA) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pighills Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 Personally I became bored with the sheer tedium and cliches two episodes ago ................... Ken So why even bother recording the other episodes then, if you're so 'bored' with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin kenf48 Posted 29 April , 2013 Admin Share Posted 29 April , 2013 So why even bother recording the other episodes then, if you're so 'bored' with it? 'Record whole series' just does it automatically - another marvel of technology ! I guess that's why my HD is 87% full! But I do wonder why every 21st Century fictional account I read or see of the Great War has either self-mutillation or shot at dawn don't know how they found time to fight. Ken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGB Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 Susan it is your duty to tell us about next week's episode! What if I am trampled to death by wildebeest tomorrow? Could you live with yourself - well could you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxi Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 If the lad Joe was Shot at Dawn, which I doubt, then haven't the writers missed a lot of dramatic material such as the trial, an appeal and the execution itself? After a grim start, this series has very much grown on me and I agree that the acting is superb which has avoided the awfulness of Downton Abbey (thank god for that). Last episode next week and then the next series concerns itself with life in the roaring twenties. Oh please may the gorgeous Charlie Murphy still be in it! Maxi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pighills Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 I expect the trial etc wasn't used because the title of the show is 'The Village' and by using those scenes it would no longer be about 'The Village', but about someone 'shot at dawn'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigelcave Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 Surely Caesar adsum jam forte? However, Brutus sic in omnibus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoppage Drill Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 And Gloria was sick in a Transit van on Monday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 I read the scene as an off-screen indication that - as the redcaps and soldier struggled - the gun was somehow discharged. Who, if anyone, was shot we'll have to wait and see. I personally never considered the shot to constitute a 'shot at dawn' incident. Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Maria Posted 29 April , 2013 Share Posted 29 April , 2013 The farmer looks so weedy a gust of wind might blow him over,i just can't picture him labouring all day in the fields,and i'm sure his wife is really Kate Humble out of Autumn Watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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