I guess it says something that I’m on the west coast, so it’s been over for over three hours on the east coast, and nobody thought it was worth commenting on.
I thought it was just OK. The scenes where the crew preserved class distinction even when abandoning ship rang true. I thought the stewardess (Annie?) was gorgeous, and I envied the English vocabulary of the Italians, but I had one question, because I wanted to be sure I didn’t miss something:
Are we really to believe that the engineer’s wife fell so blindingly in love at first sight with the scruffy terrorist that she couldn’t keep from kissing him passionately, in public? And then berating her husband for breaking them up?
I mean, I kept waiting for the backstory about how they had been lovers before she met her husband. But no, apparently he had her at “Scusi.”
I would have watched it, except it was on the same time as Being Human (Sat.) and Mad Men (Sun.) Got a terrible review in the Times, so I get the impression I am not missing much.
Frankly, I didn’t even know this existed until last night when I was flipping through the channel guide and noticed it was on. At first I thought it was James Cameron’s Titanic, but then read the description which said it was from 2012 and starred a whole bunch of people who weren’t in the Cameron film.
Anyway did ABC do any promotion for it whatsoever? I can’t remember hearing a thing about it.
I guess I’m the only other person in America who watched it. And I watched the PBS documentary with Len Goodman right before it. It was a Titanic night of entertainment.
Anyway, I think there were signs that they had a common past. She knew about him following his convictions and taking action even if some people had to die – and I don’t think there was anything before that point to indicate she’d know he was the terrorist just from the current events.
I was wondering about the time line, though. This is a relatively poor woman (as in, no household servants) with SIX children at a time without automatic washing machines and all sorts of other time saving conveniences to cook/clean.
How in the world would she have had time to meet and fall in love with a terrorist?
It’ll no doubt be explained in a clunky line or two of dialog tonight.
So…I guess I was wrong. Total instant love at first sight with the terrorist.
You know what struck me the most? None of these people said anything about being cold! Lots of them were wading around in ice-cold atlantic sea water, up to their hips or even higher, some ducked completely underwater to get through passages or to reach locks or whatever…and not ONE of them ever shivered or complained or even said BRRRR.
In fact, even those who ended up freezing in the water never said anything about being cold.
Same here. The water must have been below 40 degrees, which means a Navy Seal would have been turning blue within seconds, but the middle-aged clerks were evidently made of sterner stuff.
I was also unaware of how calm the North Atlantic is. No waves to speak of.
And that little casting titbit lets me know that ABC were showing the UK ITV series. I only watched the first episode, but man, it was rotten. I think Julian Fellowes has been trying to write too much on his own, in too short a time. I stopped watching Downton Abbey, but by many accounts it went off the rails a bit.
She might have had a girl come in a few days a week to help with the washing. I think the Maloneys were more lower-middle class than working class. Mr Maloney was an electrician who got to pick his own team and they were only in steerage (instead of 2nd Class) because of space issues from sailing at the last minute. I agree that if feels like we missed a scene with her and the would-be revoluntionary.
Why were the Rushtons so unpopular? Was it just Mrs Rushton’s personality, or some class thing?
