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Darling gets a couple of good bits in that episode. The part where a car comes to take him from his desk job at HQ to the front, and you see the driver only fro
by dghf 10y ago
Darling gets a couple of good bits in that episode. The part where a car comes to take him from his desk job at HQ to the front, and you see the driver only from the long shadow he casts on the office floor, is chilling.
- venomsnake 10y agoI think that the best was - "We lived trough it - the great war of 1914 - 1917" ... and suddenly you feel like punched in the gut.
- cyberferret 10y agoYes, that brief glimpse of hope that was brutally torn away seconds later... The Cpt. Darling quote I mentioned earlier had that 'punch in the gut' feeling for me too, because it somehow brought to light how large his life was outside of the war... I began to wonder about Pratt & Sons - did Pratt have sons or other employees in the trenches too? Same with the Croydon gentlemen - how many of their 11 will die in the war and never play cricket again? Who is Doris and is she waiting anxiously at home for him? What will she do when she gets the telegram telling her he will never come home? After laughing at Darling as an idiotic, simpering, one dimensional character in the earlier episodes, it was awfully gut wrenching to see him here as a more complex personality with a full life, who was quite simply terrified at the inevitable prospect of having that very life ending in a few minutes time when they went over the top. 'Bugger' indeed...
- cyberferret 10y agoYes - that was certainly a very ominous scene. The beginning of when my heart went out to that character. Stephen Fry played his part brilliantly - He certainly epitomised the pompous brashness and careless disregard for the value of human life that seemed to be prevalent amongst the Generals and leaders of the time...