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*mush mush mush mush SMAAAAAAAAAAAASH eat face*
Those of you who have ever watched a movie with me may find this hard to believe, but when I watch a movie by myself, I don't talk. I have a tendency, when watching TV with others, to either make comments to my fellow watchers or to interact with the characters onscreen. When I'm at home alone, I hardly ever hear the sound of my own voice and somehow talking to the characters starts to feel crazy when I can no longer claim I'm just trying to entertain someone else in the room.
So if I said "ew" out loud when Meggie Cleary kissed Father Ralph de Fricassee Bricassart, you know it was horrifying.
srah - Sunday, 8 January 2006 - 4:25 PM
Tags: movies, the thorn birds
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Comments (4)
Fraulein N - January 8, 2006 - 10:53 PM - ℓ
Okay, I thought I was the only one who called him Ralph de Fricassee in my head. Hee!
srah - January 9, 2006 - 8:38 AM - ℓ
Alas, it's not on TV. I checked it out of the library!
Okay, I've finished it now and it's just Meggie/Ralph. When Justine and Thomas Jefferson Rainer Hartheim kissed, it was perfectly normal and didn't gross me out at all. Maybe Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward are just bad kissers, or maybe RC is overcompensating by eating her face. "I like women! They're delicious!"
Thing I just learned from IMDb: Meggie is married to Luke O'Neill in real life, too.
Here's my biggest problem with The Thorn Birds, bigger than the face-eating: accents. Father Ralph grew up in Ireland then came to Australia as an adult. He has an American accent. Meggie was born in New Zealand and came to Australia when she was about 10... and she has an English accent that sounded fake to me, but I've just found out she actually is English. Paddy Cleary and his sister Mary Carson both came from Ireland together then she settled in Australia and he went to New Zealand. He has an Irish accent and she has an American one. Frank Cleary somehow developed an Irish accent despite having lived most of his life in New Zealand. Of the Cleary kids (who were all born and raised up to some point in NZ), Frank sounds Irish, the two interchangeable middle brothers sound Australian*, Stuart sounds American and Meggie sounds fake-English. It wouldn't have bothered me so much if all the characters had sounded American or all sounded English, but it was a hodgepodge of accents, real and faked, and most of them made no sense.
* I have to admit I don't know the difference between NZ and Australian accents, having had little exposure to New Zealanders. This could have been either.
Cheryl - January 10, 2006 - 3:57 PM - ℓ
I do the same thing when watching tv with other people. One of my friends didn't believe me, though, when I told her I don't talk to myself/the tv when I'm by myself.
Oh my God...what channel is The Thorn Birds on? I must see it.
Meggie...you're not dying...you're growing up.