Here Lies Meghan Markle

[Peter Pedant]

anyone watching ?

Meghan re-imagining her life - she has given up so much to marry Hazza - excuse me?

No army time for harry - either because the tommies wdnt turn up or because it is not about Megz

first two hours, were the acadian times - they had so much going for them, and the next four hours will be about them squandering it all

[Untitled]

no i haven’t watched it… i don’t take a lot of interest in the royals (though i do enjoy the crown for the performances and storytelling)

there seems to be a lot of criticism though so i am curious

[naomi24]

Oh ok.

[Barsel]

I was going to watch it, but knowing that MM is quite notorious for telling untruths, I really don't want to be thinking, I wonder if that's true or not.
I'm only interested in the Royal Family's reaction to it.

[Peter Pedant]

(though i do enjoy the crown for the performances and storytelling)

story telling.... some of the Crown is not true and some ( suez ) telling it like it was
( suez advisor lost his FO job and seat in parliament after saying " are you all crazy dont do it!"
Being right ( as we all know on AB) is not the thing and is certainly not the only thing)

and no, the Duke of E and MI5 did NOT plan Di's death to prevent her from marrying an Arab
( but there are a billion fellas out there who think they did)

[choux]

Peter, I don't do Netflix but am guessing there is no mention of the Leveson Report in the episodes you have seen so far?

(Porn to K3 - dirty game indeed) ;)

[Peter Pedant]

Had to look that one up: tele hacking for other readers.

Three hours is a bluuuur - Leveson doesnt get a mench BUT full of statements of lies ( Bashir) , under hand paparazzi - photogs leaping out of bushes

Cover up ( leveson was about that wasnt it) about the role the Di had in her own pursuit by unwanted paparazzi

Hilarious untruths - er can't think of any now - oh surprise she has to follow protocol when meeting the queen. - didnt she think of this when SHE invited Hazza out - who sat there like a tethered goat, bleating every now and then
Oh, America is the land of the free and not colour conscious at all !

and odd referring to her as 'black' which is deffo NOT what the Brits wd say - afro-caribbean, which jars a bit. - so clearly made for a foreign market.

Long long bit about Britain's African Empire no mention of India ( Mogz is Black and not Asian) and so in the post imperial age, Britain and Hazza'a family is responsible for every collapsed state and republic south of Marseille.

[Atheist]

PP 15:06
"California is a foreign country Peter. They do things differently there. (To mis-quote Hartley.)
Oh yes he is the fellow who wrote "fly fishing"

J R Hartley wrote Fly Fishing. L P Hartley wrote The Go-Between.

[Peter Pedant]

thank you thank you
I need to be told these things.

Both that and

I heard about a great programme featuring a bizarre young woman...After I've finished watching Wednesday, I'll cancel it again.

both are paraprosdokians by the way -

Violet Trefusis ( violet tres confusee) wrote a book where critics said, should be renamed 'Here Lies Violet Trefusis' - most of my good one liners are overtly stolen or hi jacked

[Togo]

//It could be a new film
When Ginge Met Whinge …epic :0)))//

Phantom of The Oprah.

[Bobbisox1]

Good one, much better than mine Togo ;0)

[andy-hughes]

I tried to watch it, because I think it's only fair to discuss a programme in detail if you have seen it.

And I stuck it out for nearly half an hour, and then I had to stop.

Not because of the judicious use of footage to attempt to back up Harry's recollections of living life in a lens all the time.

Or even Meghan's recollections of their relationship, which made them sound like a pair of fourteen-tear-olds - finding out who he 'really' was by reading his social media ouput.

No, I could manage that.

It was the music!!!!!

Those endless weeping violins, the constant arpeggio piano backing (if you don't know ow that sounds, listen to Someone Like You By Adele) - it made me want to pull my own face off!

Now I accept that my reaction to any music I hear is more extreme than anyone I know, but I can usually make myself ignore it, and concentrate on what's going on, and not the accompanying sounds, but with this, I simply couldn't.

I got the thrust of the series - Harry and Meghan have lucked in with a company who could convince viewers that black is actually white (no pun intended!) through judicious editing, and setting out a narrative, and then finding newsreel footage edited to make it fit.

I know the American viewers will lap it up, and the British viewers will see the sham and artifice involved.

But I won't be able to watch any more of it - of 'M' and 'H' cooing over how fabulous each other is ...

What it comes down to for me, as a British person, and I suspect that many will feel the same, is the position I have adopted over Harry since this nonsense started -

What singularly fails to grasp is that sitting in his $12 million mansion in California moaning about how hard-done to he is, is never ever going to grant him an atom of the sympathy he clearly believes is his by right.

Understand this Harry - every time your name is mentioned, it is preceded by the word 'Prince' - and that's where your right to moan ends. Right there.

[douglas9401]

When Harry Met Scally

[Bobbisox1]

^^^ haha

[Canary42]

They're really just two emotionally retarded people. But the Mucky Media laps that up as do sufficient gullible public to make it a real profit-turner for the former.

[Peter Pedant]

Thanks for the comment on the muzak Andy - I found it a bit - - plaintive

There was a lot on his mother
and I thought ( as the producers tried to bring out the parallels) that she was a bad role model - and he was making the same mistakes and expecting a different outcome.

Harry Pothead for example - no recognition that that is what newshounds do, and like him, they do it for the moolah. - and they did it to young Bliar who is now a multimillionaire

[Peter Pedant]

oopth - muzak plaintiff, not Andy's opinion - nope
forthright that

[royfromaus]

Put on Subtitles and turn the volume down.

Here to help.

[Peter Pedant]

Hi woy - what did you think of the first three hours ( eek)

not as good as we hoped : not as bad as we feared

[royfromaus]

Haven't watched it. Will probably just catch the best bits on Twitter.

[Peter Pedant]

oh it is like a Shakespeare tragedy
you cant just do the good bits

actually they ( you ) cd miss out all the slavery bits - they also had the Colston statue Bristol splishy bit. Megz wasnt there was she?

THEN they had a long bit ( with Olusangwe who did the houses in time series. ) on slavery in the British Empire. Slave trade over 1806, slavery abolished 1833 - and I thought, this is nothing to do with Megz. no but it will go down well with the American audience

AND clearly explains why the House of Windsor is racist. oh