stunning. fierce.

depp clearly appears to be in eighteenth century costume. pfieffer less so but her ensemble appears dramatic. so i wonder if this image is not somehow tied into the rumored "costume party" sequence.

i'm not sure what "hateful" things anyone could intelligently come up with to say about this picture other than, yes, depp is pale. but we've known that's how he was going to appear for months so i can't see what's left to add to the subject.

granted most people are obviously not as plugged into this project as "we" are but over on FB i'm amazed at how many people are reacting to this picture and word of the film as if it's breaking news. fans of the show in fact. weird.

these are the episodes where "master" david collins tells off "the help" for smoking while she works...

brilliant!

i don't know if it's just me but none of the optional posting features...spoilers, italics, smileys...work.

i've tried from both my home and work computers. when i click on one of the options i get the "we request that you not copy" warning but the feature itself does not work.

what up?

heathcote certainly has that doe-eyed and virginal quality moltke brought to the role. and her getup in the cast photograph is about as "ingenue-ish" as you can get.

my only regret is that she does not have the raven hair as her predecessors. still she looks like she'll make a nice addition to the list of victorias.

that's what i was thinking...

given the perimeters of the character she's rather isolated from the overall storyline. it would appear that there is no need for her to film her scenes or interact with the rest of the cast.

so perhaps it just worked out better for her sequence to be filmed in canada.

yeah it's not exactly what i was expecting storywise either however...

[spoiler]never has a piece of needlepoint looked quite so forboding![/spoiler]

i still have high hopes for the series.

i first watched this storyline about five or six years ago...

two characters that loomed large in my memories of it were paula lawrence as hannah stokes and elizabeth eis as buffie harrington. they left a big impression.

so during this second go round i'm surprised to be reminded that both characters barely appear in a dozen episodes. for me they were a bigger "presence" during this time period than those numbers would suggest.

they both disappear abruptly mid-storyline. but what's notable here is that they both survived. during the time travel storylines as we all know those characters specific to the period, who do not need to survive to return to "the present" or to carry on some continuity issues, tend to get pegged off one-by-one.

hannah and buffie just walk away. quite remarkable with buffie considering how embroiled in the plot she was. barnabas just bit her an episode or two before she was written out which is odd because that usually implied a character(if they were not killed outright)would have some major moments in the near future.

but perhaps with the main cast back from the HODS filming by this point they just decided to refocus the storyline and they were superfluous.