#old brit tv problems... XD

[thisbluespirit]

I'm currently watching the 1971 Sense & Sensibility on YT and having issues that only the approx. 2 other Poldark 1975 fans on here will understand.

I knew Robin Ellis was in it (he and Joanna David being the two main reasons I was so keen to see it). I'd just assumed he was Willoughby - it's 1971, the year he played Essex in Elizabeth R and if you want dashing, handsome but definitely trouble in the early 70s he's yr man.

AND THEN HE TURNED UP AS EDWARD FERRARS.

Who, I asked, curious, could be Willoughby, then?

... and then Clive Francis walked in and my brain exploded.

#sense and sensibility #i mean #it's fine #i just am wondering how the director cast both of them that way round??? #they're both good they'll be fine #and joanna david/robin ellis is an amazingly attractive 1970s pairing #but still. clive francis would have had a field day with the geeky comic aspect of edward and willoughby is robin ellis's type #and yet this director looked at them both and somehow cast them and put them that way round? #(the only truly inexplicable casting tho is that baffling thing old tv does sometimes #where being at all plump apparently = 20 years older than you actually are. patricia routledge is amazing but she won't #be old enough for mrs jennings yet for at least 10 years. what. old tv. what.) #(i am enjoying it. they just imploded my 1970s poldark loving brain and i'm not sure i'm ok) #old brit tv problems... XD #1970s #poldark 1975 #robin ellis #clive francis