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Originally Posted by issybird
Agreed. And Sid totally carries it off. I was thinking more of the fedoras sported by the inspectors.
On the subject of Lady whats-er-face, it really, really, really annoys me that they get her title wrong. Surely someone at the BBC knows better and it’s close to a dealbreaker for me. One of my absolute pet peeves. Originally I assumed that she was a peer’s daughter and correctly referenced, but I gather now that she’s a countess, i.e., married to an earl. Earl’s daughter? Lady First Name. Earl’s wife? Lady Title Name. So she should be Lady Montague and never, never Lady Felicia.
This type of thing seems to happen a lot with “period” shows. They pride themselves on the clothing and set design but get a lot of the basics wrong, and it’s because they don’t know, don’t care, or have a contempt for their audience, who they assume are too stupid to know. I suspect a mix of all three.
And not only are there people at the BBC who know better, I guarantee that in the course of the show they’ve been corrected and they really don’t care/think the audience is too stupid to know better.  |
Good lord, it happens ALL the time. Not just in period-piece TV. I mean, exactly how many people used to religiously say "Princess Diana," instead of "Diana, the Princess of Wales" or the like? It's endemic.
Nobody EVER says (for example), "Lady Peter" rather than Lady Harriet, amirite?
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