Brideshead Revisited - Episode 2 - PART 2

[fatparrot66]

am i missing something?

it's really, really DULL!!!

[benehan]

watching this on youtube is worth it just for the top quality banter from brideshead fans. keep it up all!

[globalman]

Ah the Bishop, using a little blackmail to extort some large sum out of the family. The chapel being the hostage. Typical roman church.... Money, Money, Money

[gretavill]

@globalman uhm. Actually no. It's not all about money.

[rh7onda7]

How Sebastian wonders about the dome trying to open the windows like a beautiful trapped bird.

[jg33brunner]

My dearrrr, I q-q-q-uite agree about the horrid tragedy. BR offers a high degree of catharsis. For me that is the secret of its popularity, its matchlessly gloomy paradigm. See Episode 9 part 5 for Anthony`s delivery of the damming truth to Charles... for which, one senses, dear Charles feels a q-q-ite e-e-e-enormous relief. (contains spoilers).

[gaiagale]

Not a decent animal to choose between? ...I thought 'among' ...presumably there were more than two animals ...could someone please tell me

[jg33brunner]

Brideshead on Youtube has become an orgy of whimsey and nostalgia and shameless wallowing in fading glories, mourning the passing of values in the land of eternal summer. The most extended post imperial party blues to indulge in EVER. I'm off to get very, very, drunk.

[thehoopoe]

@jg33brunner Shameless hideous wallowing indeed. I don't really understand the nostalgic fascination. The story is glamorous but like so much glamour it is superficial. Just below the surface is so much tragedy, misery, wasted lives and the bounds of duty. I don't get how so many viewers see only the idle lifestyle of young men in dinner jackets swanning about.

[ForkInTheToaster42]

@thehoopoe I rather think that perhaps people see only the surface of the tale because they have not yet reached the point where they've been forced to look at life seriously, and to see the skull beneath the skin. However, it isn't as if there is no merit to the lovliness of the first segment of the story.

[NotexNoteArtsBlog]

@thehoopoe There is SO much more to Brideshead than young men "swanning about" in dinner jackets!

[priapus56]

@NotexNoteArtsBlog ...please tell me what it is.

[missgreeneyes56]

This is my first time of watching although my brother Greeneyes 45 has raved about Brideshead for nigh on 30 years. It is the most wonderful thing I have ever seen on any screen small or large. I've only got this far but I am mesmorised by the acting. Darling Johnny Guilgud had me laughing out loud in the dinner scene.

I feel a connection with Cordelia who called her pig Francis Xavier. I have a cat called St Francis of Assisi.

[fatparrot66]

@missgreeneyes56 middle class wanker

[missgreeneyes56]

@fatparrot66

Grow up

[fatparrot66]

@missgreeneyes56 would it be more mature to give idiotic names to pets and fixate on aristcrats?

This is dull....

You are dull...

[ifsinc76]

i know this is stupid but humor me did they have sex?...or are they gay

[masterfeatherpen]

@ifsinc76 I doubt very strongly that they engaged in sexual contact. However, homoerotic feelings are strongly strongly implied in Waugh's novel. Homosexuality was very common in Late Victorian Oxford.

[sahajad]

@masterfeatherpen

Evelyn waugh himself was a bi -sexual. When he studied at Oxford he had an affair with two men. One was an aristocrat by the name of Hugo. The character of Sebastain was based on Hugo who was Gay ! ( check Wikipedia )

[lizclegg]

@ifsinc76 I thought that they did have sex. Isn't there a comment somewhere in Episode 1 about how Sebastian is following his religion but also blithely doing things his religion would consider to be terrible

[masterfeatherpen]

@lizclegg Perhaps. I don't know. Homoerotics are not necessarily full-on sex. Check the book "Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford." I think that after I read that book, this whole roil got a bit clearer.

[benehan]

@ifsinc76 Waugh would never be so crass as to say it explicitly so we'll never know. But probably yes. They are public school boys after all.

[CaptainPolaris]

Arthur Dent! :)

[ericnfan]

that youngest sister is quite a character. don't know if I could be around her very long.

[skylur44]

@ericnfan Me neither; I could not stand her to tell you the truth.

[leopictor]

Bishop of London?????

[crnugent]

Bridey is Arthur Dent!!! Would know the voice anywhere!

[1963amw]

they are both so young and beautiful ;-) I missed this at the time and now 30 years later......... ;-) thanks

[Museegirl0018]

Sebastian is so cute!!! Love his ways!!!!

[truediabolique69]

with living in such an insular society what choice did they have but to make the most of the occasion....pretending to live as they choose whilst knowing that they have but to live and then die...not free to choose their own path because of class,wealth and position..what a pity.

[Ebuverthebicepcurler]

I don't think they were actually naked, they just said it to keep the girl out...

[ericnfan]

@Ebuverthebicepcurler in the remake they were naked. here they probably were just saying that.

[ericnfan]

@ericnfan no turns out they are actually naked here to. just noticed that. that is something else o have brief nudity in a tv miniseries back then.

[Ebuverthebicepcurler]

@ericnfan The remake of the book?  Obviously they're naked in this film, as one can see.

[Ebuverthebicepcurler]

@Ebuverthebicepcurler Ah, I see you figured it out.

[bvlgary09]

Is it possible to have a crush on someone merely because of his voice? :)

[TheLadyann0002]

@bvlgary09 yes my dear! I had it when i heared the voice of Mr. Goode at the movie "Chasing Liberty" A huge crush indeed.

[ericnfan]

@bvlgary09 I think so. I feel the same way about him. :)

[sandfly60]

@bvlgary09 Indeed it is.

[lizclegg]

@bvlgary09 Listening to Jeremy Irons voice is like being covered in chocolate caramel honey cream - and having it licked off

[ruzbehan]

St Augustin said something like that, actually :)

[kingofportugal555]

This part is hot! LoL

[Shufei]

Dunno about hot, but it is a little cheeky.