was watching this (again). smiley’s “oh damn! oh damn!” after his meeting with martindale is in the book caused by realising he’s left the volume of grimmelshausen he’s just bought at the club. in the adaptation he has “entrusted it to the postal service” after seeing peter guillam trying to intercept it. makes it a bit of a clumsy or incoherent line, even for alec guinness.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 20 January 2024 16:50 (three months ago) link
he’s left it at the club. he didn’t buy it at the club.
nigel bruce as roddy martindale would have been a thing!
― Fizzles, Saturday, 20 January 2024 16:51 (three months ago) link
this is imo unresolved
in the series it seems a very deliberate detail in the change a d in the timing of the change
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 January 2024 16:51 (three months ago) link
ann likes smiley bcz he's secretly 1 x GOTH
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― mark s, Saturday, 20 January 2024 16:54 (three months ago) link
xpostthe other - obvious - thing is that a) martindale is quite an appealing character and b) that he gets v close with his gossip and surmise to the heart of the problem. expresses what is said at the end of the book - that everyone in some way *knew* it was haydon. it was just impossible to admit - psychologically or organisationally.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 20 January 2024 16:54 (three months ago) link
this is imo unresolvedin the series it seems a very deliberate detail in the change a d in the timing of the change
― Fizzles, Saturday, 20 January 2024 16:57 (three months ago) link
hard to imagine smiley monologuing (word? sp?) so coherently and stagily alright
but i meant, and still mean, the decision to post the book
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 January 2024 17:15 (three months ago) link
oh yes. i think it’s a decision forced by the dramatisation tbh. too awkward to get it into the club and post club scenes.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 20 January 2024 17:23 (three months ago) link
maybe it shorthands smiley seeing gwilm and changing his plans, gives him an object to explicitly speak to someone about that shows this happening
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 20 January 2024 17:50 (three months ago) link
as i noted in the obit thread, now that Michael Jayston has passed away, all of the main cast of the BBC series is now gone. though we've still got Ann Smiley and Karla.
― omar little, Monday, 5 February 2024 19:58 (two months ago) link