11 -The Jewel In The Crown Travelling Companions pt11

[lizclegg]

Ronald Merrick is quite mad. He reminds me of my line manager. May he (and she) burn in hell.

[lizclegg]

Although Geraldine James is a good actress the casting is ridiculous, she is 20 years too old for this role.

[lizclegg]

They mention Colonel Smalley and Lucy telling that Barbie is dead - Are they the Tusker and Lucy from Staying On?

[lizclegg]

So would the Hiroshima bomb have been visible from the Northern Indian hills?

What does Barbie symbolise?  Maybe somebody clever could tell me.

[sagiv6]

Wonder if Judy Parfitt is as horrid and bitchy in real life as the parts she plays???

[sagiv6]

Every colonial power has its Col Laytons and its Hauptsturmfuehrer-to-Standarte­n-

fuehrer Merrick. the Brits, the Belgians, the Spanish, the French, the Romans, the

Greeks, the Htttites, the Egyptians.... Probably even the Turks, though you'd get a

vehement argument from herr neighbors about that.

[globalman]

Why do evil people succeed? Mildred gets away with being a closet drunk, pill addict/adulteress slut. Merrick gets totally protected by the authority who know what he is. He goes on hurting, tormenting and victimising. Of course it's fiction but sadly there are real stories that are far worse. a brilliant series but makes one loathe and despise the English. They play at being noble or upper class but are really common as dirt and hypocrites like the Americans :-(

[Jacobitejim]

@globalman - and you get away with being a common as dirt, hypocritical, racist, Fascist bigot. You see no good in a CO who knows the name and family of every sepoy in his Regiment and is willing to risk his life for them, as Teddy does, even when the sepoy has gone over to a barbaric enemy. You see nothing good in Sarah or her father or that there are good and bad people in any society - yours included - and that's part of the story. It makes anyone loathe and despise you.

[lizclegg]

@globalman Evil people succeed because people are too stupid to see what they are doing, or they are too apathetic to say or do anything to stop them.

I don't hate Mildred because she is an addict or sleeping with some bloke. I hate her because she is cruel, vicious, and sneers at and humiliates people. She can drink as much as she wants and sleep around as much as she wants. Its not what she does to herself that makes her despicable, its what she does to other people.

[lizclegg]

@globalman Your racist generalisations about English and Americans are stupid. Even the vile English upper class has some good people in it - as this series portrays.

[soulgirl66]

Mildred=BITCH #thatisall

[campcasey62]

@soulgirl66

Yes, in full agreement Mildred is a most unpleasant person.