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Which characters did you like and which did you not ?

posted 4 years ago by Quasimodo (16388)
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I liked:

Anne Trenchard - great portrayal of not quite bottled up grief.
Lady Brockenhurst - intelligence, feeling and a little ruthlessness.
John Bellasis - an entertaining rogue.
Lady Maria Grey - spirited, charming and beautiful.
Susan Trenchard - I guess she was supposed to be a villain but I had a good deal of sympathy for her. Childless and married to the dull and bad tempered Oliver as she was.

I didn't like:

Oliver Trenchard - a bad tempered bore.
Charles Pope - an underwritten character who was at times a drip and no match for the exceptional Lady Maria.
Lady Templemore - another underwritten character of the one (disagreeable) note variety.
Stephen Bellasis - gambling addicts should be kept locked up for damage control purposes.

[–] whoanelly (1589) 4 years ago

I agree with all of your choices. Fellowes always underwrites his characters. If the casting is good then the actors make up for what the script lacks. Most of the time, that works out okay.

A few years before the series came out, I tried a couple of times to read Belgravia, but it just didn’t draw me in. I found the audiobook in my library’s libby app and gave it a listen. Juliet Stevenson had me hooked. Her vocal performance made it so enjoyable, despite the shortcomings of the story.