The Romantics - David Tennant

[mirandasblog]

ITS A FUCKING DOCUMENTARY PEOPLE !!!!!  I honestly think you people suffer from some kind of weird mental illness and you need help. You've all just ruined a perfectly good documentary with your hormonal obsessive comments

[pennypyro42]

holy crap i found this on Jean-Jacques Rousseau's bday...

[MoyashiFukadai]

i want to see The Romantics! looks interesting :D

[SasChanSasuke]

He doesn't need to speak, he is a great actor no matter what :D

There's drool left from Doctor Who... I am sorry.

[emavrick]

ok..woooo...that's was like watching the blair witch project(which i couldn't sit through more than 5 mins. cause i didn't like the way it was shot) and this is no exception. let's get past the marvelous david tennant, who is well magnificent and can make anything worth a bit watching....which is exactly what he did for this.

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[emavrick]

what's up with the stoned like vision? and the confusion. i mean are we going back in time or are we setting the story in modern day and the poets are visiting us in real time? it makes the ideas of the philosophers and the reciting of tennant a bit less...or out of pace. i feel like i should be watching a crime drama about some kid getting taken(which is horrible indeed). not the best work i've seen......

[leckerwurstbrot]

Fweely emotional fwench philosopher Wousseau on weason, fweedom and his wevelation that man has built himself a pwison...

Sewious subject but, sowwy, something about the pwesentation seems widiculous to me.

Actually vewy neawly made me wofl :D

[moderndaechristine]

he dissolved into regeneration engery!

[SharnellReid1992]

David Says "Time" In his english accent...see ITS THE DOCTOR !! :L :L

[skipper8257]

What does XD stand for?

[angstmonkey1]

turn it 90 degrees clockwise, its a smiley face.

[AiliasFox]

@skipper8257 well if you tilt your head to the left you see a face. it means lawl or rofl,or lmao, or roflmao..... XD

[0rganix]

Learn history with David Tennant

[sillynstubborn]

DAVID MATERIALIZED

[hellomynameismeh]

I love how through all this culture and peotry, that that's what stuck in your mind...

amazing.

[sillynstubborn]

I didn't watch the whole thing, actually.

He did materialize though.

Sorry XDDD

[hellomynameismeh]

i wasnt criticising. I like it. i think its hilarious cuz thats exactly how i work! XD

[sillynstubborn]

We Tennantphiles are insane, aren't we? XDD

[hellomynameismeh]

Yup. And cute too, if I dont say so myself! lol

[lolablack1072]

i went right away to read some of Jean Jacques Rousseau's quotes, and they were not really romantic, but quite insightful, some true and some really depressing. None of them was romantic though.

[stlouisphile]

Oh gosh! Pay not attention to the truck in the background...in 1749 (2:34 sec) and the bus and highway. I"m going to venture that this was a low budget endeavor. Good to see DT though.

[Shshn]

@stlouisphile I recommend you find and watch the whole series. Most locations were specifically chosen because they were precisely where the Romantics lived or worked - eg William Blake's old house in Poland St, now a hairdresser's.  The look and style of the series deliberately shows the modern world, and while the actors wear clothes that might echo 18th/19th costumes, the recon elements are certainly not meant to be costume drama. Plus big bucks spent on post-prod. Very far from low budget.

[mullimix]

This is indeed from "The Romantics" produced by BBC and Open University in 2005, written and narrated by Peter Aykroyd and w/ a number of fine actors performing the poetry. Have just watched the programmes - some of the finest and originally produced I have seen in years.

[nothadnotbad]

strange as i have always thought of life just this way. we are prisoners of the rich. we cant even walk without crossing someones land. who has the right to own a piece of the earth and tell us not to walk upon it.

[appleXinkling]

2:35-3:25 feels like watching back a dream... weird.

Damn he's so pretty.

[maythemoonshine]

Thanks for posting, but where's the rest?

[imaftergodsheart]

this would have helped me in world studies last year... I mean, who wouldn't listen to David Tennant, even if he is playing Jean Jaques Rousseau?

[EcHeLoN5242]

I concur, this would have helped me greatly in my Civilization class...who would forget Rousseau if it is played by David Tennant?

[tamesiskendra]

That is a sexy jean jaques rousseau.....hmmmm

[homestar4ever]

damn right!

[xST4RxGIRLx]

seconded!!!!

[lantookh]

Is this " The Romantics" by Peter Ackroyd about the poets Shelly, Coldridge and others or another show? I would like to see the one made by Peter Ackroyd.

[SuigetsuIsArt]

Who's playing Denis Diderot? He looks very familiar.

Interesting clip.

[annwags]

Thank you. Pity we can't see all of it, on the other side of the pond. It's not even out on dvd??

[MeBeMat]

I don't necessarily agree with all his ideas but with a lot of them, I've been studying him in conjunction with Romantic poets and in context his ideas are very sound, on here they seem a bit simplified but still. Plus it's David Tennant, not only is he the only guy I'd turn for but he's a terrific actor

[twilightnerd16]

if david tennant were to teach me a school lesson i would remember it 4 sure

[iTracyNL]

I so agree!! I may be drooling the whole time, but I would remember it in seconds!!!!

[czness]

... i heard or read somewhere that he said he'd probably be an English teacher or a writer if he couldn't have been an actor. Can you imagine the amount of desk wiping that would have to be done after every class???!!! LOL!!

If they had him doing more historical documentaries for the Beeb everyone would be certainly know their history inside and out!  You know, all in the name of education... ;P

[QuincyInLove]

Man if my teacher had showed me this video I would FOREVER know him, becuase of David!

[lilith2011]

This is fantastic! David playing one of my favorite philosophers of the Enlightenment! A dream come true!

[carameltoff]

the narrator's voice isn't wierd, it's just an old fasioned way of speaking, some of the older generation speak like this.

[shopgirl157]

Oh, this is great, I loved this! Thank you for uploading it!

David is soooo cute here! (:

[GeorgesBarras]

Anyone want to upload all of this series onto youtube?

[sharonx06]

education with david tennant, brilliant!

[sparkkle2]

I love David... but the narrator sounds like Droopy Dog O_o.

[happy0little0bunny]

i want david tennant to magically appear in my dinning room too!

[xxTasha13xx]

yeahh thats only cos he`s wearing a big coat.

Lol

[Aliix3]

David doesn't look skinny here, it's strange seeing him like that :)

[patbread]

What's the program talking about? Sorry, my english not so good;-)

[poppylv21]

Rousseau was right I think, only how did he imagine a world without civilizations would actually work???

btw DT looks about 10 years older then he actually is here

[onoodle]

Thats one of the great contradictions of the romantic ideal. Wordsworth and COleridge both urged people to put away books and education and embrace nature, even though they were both cambridge students, and massively well read.

they wanted the future to progress, but wanted progress to go backwards, and take them all back to a time pre-civilisation.

a lot of their ideas werent that well thought out tbh but they were revolutionary at the time.

[TornLoveNotes]

Well that rather ties in with the idea that you can only abhor what you have experienced, it's also the paradox of most anarchist philosophers.

[LeChatBlanche]

Romanticism is a very interesting topic and I agree with Rousseau - civilised man is bound in chains - bound by restrictions, rules, and I suppose even by the morals set down by society. It is an interesting thought though how he proposed man should break out of these chains is a mystery unless he goes an lives in a mountain or something.

Oh and David is so sexy!!! I love him to bits! (sorry DeathEater100)

[DeathEater100]

Lol. XD

[TorchyTD]

Yum Tennant-ness

[caradejaula85]

muy bueno el video. pero no entiendo demasiado el inglés... uffff

[MrsTennant1971]

that was so good!!! thanks for uploading

[elanor12]

Wow, Jean-Jacques à toujours été un de mes philosophes préféré...même si je ne m'y connais pas beaucoup en philosophie. Et voir David TEnnant l'interprété, c'est formidable.

[msSeus]

Oui - Je suis d'accord! I absolutely agree. You should watch all of the show - it is actually really informative and with a lovely, whole new angle on Romanticism and the Ilumination period. Essayée de trouver tout de programme - c'est tres bien! (Sorry about my pour French)!

[elanor12]

Yeah, I wanted to see all the show...I'll try to find it. (And your French good...surely better than my english :P )

[nas1ta]

What about the 3d part of "The Romantics"?

Can anyone post it? Please!

[bouncyangel]

O.K, sorry, but can someone PLEASE get whoever is doing the voice over a freaking speech therapist?

[msSeus]

It's some guy called Peter Ackroyd or something... He is actually allright and his approach and angle to this period of time is what makes this show worth watching. - but he does have a rather scarry voice, I'll give you that;)

[leado]

this would have made social studies a lot more interesting

[FairyFlossHunny]

mmmmm.....david's sexy as a philosopher. He makes it interesting, I actually found myself listening and finding truth in his words, rather than just drooling over him. Okay, I drooled a little. *gg*

[alexandranicoara]

please, please don't talk about philosophy and having found the Truth in the same uttering!

[HogwartsHonorRoll]

aww david looks adoreable in this!!

*drools*

[juicylucy73]

oooh,  find Rousseau's philosophies v. sexy- of course if he had looked like DT he would have been even sexier!

[brainiac9]

Oh, David Tennant. If only you'd been playing a sexier philosopher. Unfortunately, Rousseau doesn't really do it for me.

[etoiah]

For those of you who appear to be confused, Rosseau was a philosopher who influenced Romantic poets, but not a poet. So this philosophy, not poetry. Furthermore, David Tennant is not Rosseau, but an actor playing Rosseau.

[DeathEater100]

Hear hear. David Tennant's great and all, but honestly, more than half of these comments are about how sexy he is. Please can some more people actually comment on the content and not the appearance of the actor?

Don't get me wrong, David's brilliant, but it really gets a bit much sometimes.

Peace out.

xx

[ZoeMJones]

the narrator is so ugly and has a stupid voice...imagine his time at school lol.... david tennant (sigh)

[jeannie7602]

Too bad the truck [lorry] w/ the graffti going past David's left shoulder didn't have "Bad Wolf" spraypainted on it! Thanks for posting the video!

[KittyKirara]

That would have been very fuuny. Bad Wolf follows the Doctor where every he goes... even in other shows XD I have no idea what this clip is from

[AnimatedEntropy]

Oh, I loved that. The narrator's voice is kinda hilarious actually, with that crustyposh public school accent. Thanks for sharing this!

[Cazzy11]

Poetry suddenly got a whole lot sexier!

[marbeque]

and he evaporates back to the TARDIS at the end...

[glynn123golf]

ur right the narraters voice is incredibly annoyin! lol

[poppylv21]

"he cried openly and often"... bless him, poor wee david :) luv the gloves

[amirahas]

the narrator's voice is incredibly annoying!

[smurfymcsmurf]

OMG he makes poetry sexy!

[Phantomstruelove]

Where did you get this?

[kakeypoos]

Oh my gosh, I really really enjoyed this series and I also found it very useful for my studies. Thanks so much for posting it, you don't happen to have any more clips from this series do you?

[jetfire4402]

he soundas likes dr who on this

[h00145]

what he's saying. i agree.

[katecraft]

I'm sure this would make lots of sense if I had any idea what they were on about lol. And again, David is lovely as ever.

[tarisgal34]

this is part of series about romantic poetry