Bouquet of Barbed Wire ITV 1

I found the daughter's relationship with Gavin completely unconvincing, because he was so relentlessly horrible, it was impossible to believe she would care for him. We should have been shown a few scenes of him being nice to her (even if it was just sweetening her up with an ulterior motive) so we could see the relationship progressing happily before he started being such a pig.
 
I've not seen the remake and by sounds of things I haven't missed much but my mother used to make me watch the original when I was little. I might check out the DVD.
 
Er, sorry to prick your balloon, but imo, it is, and whilst you're entitled to your opinion, I'm entitled to mine too.

Imogen Poots is one of the worst actresses I've ever seen, she seems to think that pouting and twisting her mouth like Marilyn Monroe makes up for her lack of acting skill. The poor script has reduced good actors like hermione Norris and Trevor Eve to total dross.

In my opinion.
Is that OK?
 
Yes it did. Peter sacrificed his eldest daughter, and Gavin wreaked revenge on him for it, destroying a few other lives in the process.

The only thing I thought was a bit peculiar was the fact that Cassandra shagged Gavin.

The major failing of this series was calling it a Bouquet of Barbed Wire. When the scriptwriter had finished the adaptation and seen that it was nothing like the original novel, he should have just changed the title (my suggestion would be Fury!, with the exclamation mark), then used the find and replace function to change the names of the four main characters. It wouldn't have taken him more than a few minutes, and there wouldn't have been all those unflattering comments beginning with "In the original...".
 
There is a little Agamemnon-ish ness. Prue is like Electra, Cassandra is like Clytemnestra, and Gavin is like...I can't remember what Clytemnestra's lover's called.
 
Have to say I was very disappointed with this especially last night's episode. It was quite uncomfortable in parts but also quite predictable.

As soon as Sarah gave Peter that shave I knew he was going to top himself. From there on in I was like "he's going to slit his throat with the razor!" then it was "no he's going to jump out the window!":D

Got it right in the end though - as soon as he got into the balloon I knew he was going to jump. :)
 
This is interesting, but sadly lost on the average viewer, surely. If that were referenced in the story as seen on screen, maybe in the college scenes with Gavin, it might have made a bit more sense.
 
Certainly in the original my take on the way the characters behave is that all their motivations revolve around the unspoken infatuation between Peter and Prue.

So Peter embarks on his affair with Sarah as a way of taking out his sexual frustration at not being able to have sex with Prue. Sarah is essentially a replacement for Prue.

Prue has her affair with Gavin and gets pregnant to wind up her father. Deep down she feels the unatural attraction her father has for her and probably is attracted back. She certainly acts out of jealousy when she finds out about her fathers affair with Sarah. She forces Gavin to beat her because deep down she loathes herself for feeling as she does for her father.

Gavin and Peters hate for each other stems from the fact that Peter can't stand to see his daughter with another man and Gavin, deep down, realises Peter has a a connection with Prue that he'll never be able to.

All of this is unspoken, but its pretty much how I rationalised the original piece.
 
Which is almost the opposite of what happened in the original (sorry to keep banging on about it but...). Prue was really horrible and Gavin was the one always having to make allowances. She would push him to the limit until, well...
 
Yes, Prue was a bit of a masochist in the original. if I remember. Well, she liked rough sex! I remember her saying to Gavin "Hurt me!" and meaning it. Strange woman.

It was very daring and controversial at the time, but I'm not feeling that so far, with this one. Also, I think it's going to be too rushed. I'd like to see it progress a little more slowly.

Oh, and Gavin may be a tosser, but he's an attractive tosser!
 
I'm definately missing something. At first, I was thinking that maybe Gavin is the love child of Prue's father, who had an affair with a woman called Paula? Then i started to wonder if there was anything going on between the father and daughter, but that got cleared up by the clip of next weeks episode. And now a friend of mine is saying that something had gone one between Prue's father and his mum (the granny) which is why he doesn't like anyone else talking to her and why he thinks it's ok to lust over his own daughter!!!!

So confused... I just want a few of those ^^ eliminated. Or maybe someone just quickly summarize it up for me incase i'm totally off the mark (like I said, i think i've missed key part to the storyline) so i can carry on watching it next week without thinking "What the hell....???" It is quite a disturbing story, yet i'm totally facinated to see how it's gonna end
 
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