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ClockworkCupcake said:
craigjm said:
It's not real!
So you'd have been happy if they'd have had pink flying elephants too then? 
craigjm said:
ClockworkCupcake said:
craigjm said:
It's not real!
So you'd have been happy if they'd have had pink flying elephants too then? PS...congrats on the apostrophe double whammy...
mybrainhurts said:
craigjm said:
ClockworkCupcake said:
craigjm said:
It's not real!
So you'd have been happy if they'd have had pink flying elephants too then? PS...congrats on the apostrophe double whammy...
I thought the Nazi was in the story craigjm said:
Well obviously not but all this talk of.... the spitfire is 2 years too new and isn't that the wrong sort of aircraft hanger is taking historical accuracy a tad far when Buckingham Palace was never in ruins, Churchill was never executed and the Nazi's never occupied the British mainland. Its a story not a documentary
It might not matter to most people but if you know, it undermines the rest of it. To subvert Churchill "the lie should be surrounded by a bodyguard of truth". The inaccuracies undermine strength the central thesis – a shame because it's not as though there's a shortage of people who could tell the BBC "your CGI Spits should be Mark II with early roundels, and in fact better if you use Hurricanes". The producers might argue that the Spit is more iconic in which case fair enough, but at least get the details right. That armoured car in last night's show – was that authentic? I'm not sure about that sort of thing. Yertis said:
That armoured car in last night's show – was that authentic? I'm not sure about that sort of thing.
I have no idea but even it was a model from an alternate 1944 that wouldn't exist in the programme it would not spoil my enjoyment of the story.Having watched the second episode I am not losing the will to live with it. It is far too slow and IMO is not a good representation of the book.
Yertis said:
I thought it was an HAS. Bit ironic really - if we'd had those then we might not have lost the Battle of Britain and the whole course of the war might have been different.
Neither side would have been significantly advantaged by having HAS, the RAF didn't start effective raids on airfields in France until well after BoB was over and the germans didn't bother attacking airfields outside the southeast and even then the smaller dispersal fields were mostly ignored.craigjm said:
Having watched the second episode I am not losing the will to live with it. It is far too slow and IMO is not a good representation of the book.
I think that's my issue, I remember the book being fast moving and exciting whereas this all seems a bit slow. Having read the book I was looking forward to this dramatisation. If I was watching the TV program first I doubt it would make me want to read the book. As for the wrong aeroplane or wrong type of hanger I wouldn't have even noticed. However it does my head in when I watch Poirot leave Paddington behind a GWR Castle class on a trip to Torquay then mid-journey the producer shows us a shot of a BR Standard Class 5 and finally the train pulling into Swanage behind a Prairie! We all have our personal foibles!
RichB said:
As for the wrong aeroplane or wrong type of hanger I wouldn't have even noticed. However it does my head in when I watch Poirot leave Paddington behind a GWR Castle class on a trip to Torquay then mid-journey the producer shows us a shot of a BR Standard Class 5 and finally the train pulling into Swanage behind a Prairie! We all have our personal foibles!
Speak for yourself... I don't wear an anorak 
Anyone who is interested in the idea of SSGB though go and buy the book, its only a couple of quid now
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