Cornwall, Poldark, Ballet, Aidan Turner, Musicals

I went to Corsham for the filming of Poldark (BBC remake).

Watched Aidan acting for SIX hours.

The last photo was him riding in the rain.

(watching him riding remained me the Boots Camp!)

part 2 , part 3

No further editing,no removing of water-print,no repost,please.

I’m going to make it a point to specifically not reblog or share That Picture (the one from Poldark S1 that involves scything). 

I’m going to make it a point to not reblog, share, or click on articles that use That Picture. 

Because it is possible to appreciate one’s physical attributes without turning into a drooling perv. 

Because maybe, if people stop falling for the clickbait, the press will stop fixating on That One Scene from an episode that is almost 3 years old. 

Because if we as women complain about being objectified, we become flaming hypocrites if we see nothing wrong with objectifying a man, and when a person is reduced to his or her anatomy, that is objectification. Period. This crossed the line into objectification a long time ago. 

Because Aidan Turner is more than that one scene. I rewatched S1 recently and I was annoyed because while everyone else always talks about scything, they’re not talking about the phenomenal acting done in E8, especially after Julia died. Nope. It’s all about the torso. 

Aidan relaxing whilst shooting “Hitler & BigFoot” August 2017

I had originally begun a draft of this post that devolved into everything that I cannot stand about how the show chose to move the character of Demelza into a different direction. That part of the post got really, really, really, really long.

Instead of sharing that really, really, really, really long post, I decided to write a new one. It’s also Sunday and the final episode of season 3 hasn’t aired yet as I begin this, but I need to write because for the past 10 weeks, I’ve been doing homework on Sunday mornings. I have no homework to type up because the summer term is finished. I find myself at a loss, so I began this post.

But I digress. You’ll find that I’m really good at that.

This is a really, really, really, really long post about the one reason why Season 3 was a disappointment to me. I’ve been able to distill my disappointment down to one root cause.

If you listen to the @poldarkpodcast​, you know that I regularly submit my opinions on the episodes that just aired. You probably also know that I’m not fond of the direction in which they took Demelza this season.

Actually “not fond” is putting it mildly.

I HATE what they did to her character. I hate, hate, hate it! The Powers That Be decided that Demelza wasn’t “strong” enough or “feisty” enough in the novels, so they had to make her more modern to appeal to modern audiences.

However, in doing so, they basically took a shit all over Winston Graham’s work and a character that was based on his own wife. They’ve taken the product of someone who is a very gifted storyteller and dumbed it down so much, I start to feel stabby.  

“New” pic from Andy Gotts :) love the pics from the photoshooting he did with Aidan

“We have both come a long way. When I met you I was an inebriate, half bankrupt squireen. You didn’t know what a catch you were making!”

“I didn’t know I was making any catch,’ said Demelza.