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That's true. Gavin acted from the start like some pantomime villain, totally unconvincing. Similarly dad's slimey client, Giles..another cartoon character.
I can only vaguely remember the original series, but it did have the nation gripped. This appears to be a pale imitation.
Imogen Poots is a decent enough actress, but does not compare with Susan Penhaligon in the role of the daughter, Prue Sorenson.
Susan had that dangerous "girl in a woman's body" or "Lolita" quality that many older men find uncomfortable..although she was actually meant to be older than the "new" Prue. Imogen just appears to be some ordinary love-struck teenager.
 
My take was that the unusual blue morning light and balloon surprise - jolted him out of his grief for a moment as he was reminded of the joy of Pru carefree, playing with her balloons! Then as he went outside, he got excited because he realised he could ride up high and be closer to her. However not as close as if he were to jump over the side, while the pilot conveniently was bending down, facing the opposite direction! :p
 
And all he seems to do in reaction to anything that happens/is said is to smirk. Totally bizarre behaviour/acting/direction.
 
Yes, I remember the original Gavin as being quite OK initially. Certainly not as loathesome as the new Gavin. I also remember Prue being far more manipulative than this one seems to be, and Frank Finlay's Peter far more controlling. Peter's obsession with Prue is less obvious as any father would be concerned if their daughter married a tw*t like Gavin.

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Just found this original clip on youtube which shows nicely the manipulative side of Prue and also the incestuous way that Peter looks into Prues eyes when he's kissing her goodbye, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWbRtIJhOSw
Makes me want to watch the whole original series again!
 
bloody awful and put together by media students Im sure.
They crammed in about 6 months of time in the fist 15 mins.
Trevor Eve appears shirtless sitting on the end of his own bed and is then seen wearing a brown T-shirt while he is in bed with a young hottie (ridiculous)
This would be the young woman who we had no reason to think he would get down with.
Too rushed,too unrealistic and over the top.They are trying to fit 7 hours of plot into 3 hours and it doesnt work.
The original was paced a lot better,thats for sure.
 
I don't see why people are confused though; the plot seems easy enough to follow. It's just as I say impossible to care one way or the other.
 
Awful! :p

Imogen Poots should be renamed Imogen Pouts, her faux Monroe mouth twisting seriously got on my nerves. I remember the brilliant original and this remake is drama at it's worst.

Yes, we know that Peter doesn't like Gavin, and rightly so, but in the original it was far, far darker and Frank Finlay's attitude was more like 'Ooh, you're a nasty little sod, I've an incestuous obsession about my darling daughter and you've had sex with her when it should have been me',:p but in this Eve's seems to be more like 'he's low class, and I'm a snob. He's ruining my daughter's future'. No real depth to the drama at all.
 
Completely.

ITV's drama head Laura Mackie recently said that there had to be characters the audience can empathise with in her shows. Well, clearly she wasn't paying attention when this one was made as there's precious little evidence of that quality she talked about. Who exactly should the audience root for here? :confused:

This shows all the traits the appalling Identity displayed: a potentially good cast mugging their way through a terrible script that seems to have forgotten characterisation in favour of 'shocking' moments. :rolleyes:
 
I'm sorry to have to explain this HALibutt; actors are supposed to play characters as written by playrights, not different facets of their own ego-driven personalities. A decent actor can almost be unrecognisable one role from another. Olivier, for example, played Othello and although it was clearly a blacked-up white man, his body language and vocal deliveries were pure Moorish and it was hard to see the actor beneath the make-up. A more modern example is Dustin Hoffman. See 'Agatha' and then watch 'Midnight Cowboy' for two widely differing caharacters neither of which were Hoffman himself. Even John Thaw was much better than Eve.
 
Personally I found the original far more compelling. There was none of this mystery unravelling in the background - Just the characters themselves ;) I like Trevor Eve and the woman who plays his wife, but this version is totally out of kilter with the author's intentions. She must be dismayed at how they've altered the whole meaning of the story.
 
I assume that you did not see him in Shoestring, or Hughie Green, Most Sincerely.

I find the criticism of this programme to be rather harsh. I was impressed with the excellent acting from everyone and felt that it was very well done.
 
i don't think you know yet, i was thinking that they choose him for a reason (money?) and the daughter got flattered for a year until the bloke has her doing exactly what he wants and in complete control of her.
also think Sarah/Paula same women has been planted to have sex with him so Gavin has something over the old man.
 
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