Christmas Carol - mine!

[bugbear]

The downsides of being a family/social/industrial historian.

I was watching the BBC "Christmas Carol" which was overall pretty darn good.

But as soon as they showed the scenes in the "terrible" mine, I just thought:

Real mines were never that high, wide, or brightly lit.

  BugBear
 
P.S. if I start writing letters to the Telegraph about punctuation or spelling, just kill me, OK?

[Andrew Tarr]

I was watching the BBC "Christmas Carol" which was overall pretty darn good.

I hope it improved as it went along.  I was bored after 20 minutes of gloomy sets and very little action, so I didn't bother with episodes 2 and 3.

[rosie17]

It  did not seem to get a good write up so I never watched it at all ..in fact there  was nothing worth watching over Christmas 

Rosie

[KGarrad]

Each to their own

I thoroughly enjoyed the program.
Dickens lived in dark times, and wanted to express the horror of those times.
I thought that this adaption echoed his writings.

[Andrew Tarr]

Dickens lived in dark times, and wanted to express the horror of those times.
I thought that this adaptation echoed his writings.

It did, but as the original was a short story I thought this version was stretched out too far.  Three episodes seemed unnecessary to me (and the missus).

[Gillg]

I didn't like the monochromatic effect of the filming - mainly shades of grey - and the overall sense of gloominess, though admittedly it is a gloomy story from gloomy times.  Why was Scrooge so beautifully dressed, if he was such a miser with his money?  Guy Pearce did his best to disguise his Australian accent, but there was too much mumbling all round.  What a miserable tale and no Tiny Tim to cheer us up at the end with his "God bless us, everyone!"  Yes, it carried Dickens' message about the disparity between rich and poor, a message still relevant today, but did not convince that Scrooge himself had reformed.  Any rich person can write a large cheque for charity, after all.  And the Spirits weren't at all scary, even Marley's ghost was a comic character.  Disappointing all round.