Date: 25 Jul 2012 07:30 am (UTC)
thisbluespirit: (dw - romana i can't say i'm surprised)
:loL: No, really - Lalla Ward's character decides to be a singer, so yes, she sings and wears loads of gorgeous 1920s outfits. She's literally only in the second half of S2 (but if you did ever want to risk your pennies on Lalla, I would recommend getting at least the whole of S2, because the second half starts in the middle of some really emotional bits of WWI and character stuff. I don't think you'd regret the whole thing, anyway. It moves along swiftly, it's very engaging, lots of good guest actors, and it does the home front of WWI with the changing attitudes instead of people just automatically having the right, modern ones.)

There will, as you can imagine, be further picspams from me, anyway - I was highly amused to find General von Klinkhoffen turning up in the WWI section as an officious British captain. (So - General von Klinkerhoffen spent WWI as an undercover agent? Heh.) It looks as though Hillary Minster spent his whole career playing bullying officers of one sort or another. And I'll post Lalla, too! (She's prettier than Hillary Minster).

The plot similarity really is too striking to be a coincidence, but I think it's probably in part a little nod/tribute to it, especially as Julian Fellowes was actually in it.

:lol: I am for some reason amused at the idea of you wondering around a pencil museum/the Lake District in the rain planning how to end Downton Abbey. And, actually, I kind of think that, too. :-)

And I don't understand why anybody would cast an actor with remarkable hair like Mr Collings has just to make them wear a wig. The mind boggles.

Revenge of the Cybermen and Mawdryn Undead? :lol: Anyway, he wasn't; it was okay. A hat, but not a wig. (Although it wasn't the same thing I posted yesterday evening. I got two things with David Collings in - The Shadow of the Tower [1972], and The Strange Report [1968]. Although given that he was killed in five minutes in The Strange Report, I think me describing it as a thing with David Collings in is slightly misleading. But it has lots of Anneke Wills, anyway.)
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