Capital

[adonirum]

Forget all this X-Factor crap, what about "Capital", broadcast last night on BBC1?

I know it was generically set in South London, but it could almost have been a parody on current day ED, don't you think?

The big question arising though, for those that saw it, is this: was the character Arabella Yount based on Louisa?

[DuncanW]

I thought it was set specifically in Tooting?

Didn't see it, but read that in the blurb somewhere, Was it good?

[JohnL]

Surely not !!

Just read the Guardians review of the book and "Arabella is the nastiest character in the book"

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/04/capital-john-lanchester-review (probably a spoiler)

Set in 2008 - so Peckham wasn't trendy and I was just moving in.

[JohnL]

Pepys Road is that road from New Cross up the hill ?

[red devil]

DuncanW Wrote:

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> I thought it was set specifically in Tooting?

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> Didn't see it, but read that in the blurb

> somewhere, Was it good?

The blurb I read said the book was set in Clapham, and the TV adaptation is set in Balham/Tooting. I don't think there was any mention of Tooting as such, although there was a shot of Tooting Broadway tube station. SW21 was mentioned, but that doesn't exist. I got the impression it was supposed to be somewhere like the 'toast rack' area betwixt the Commons...

[????]

Houses were posher/bigger than here, valued at 2 Million plus and he went to work on the Tube so no chance it's here. Quite enjoyed it despite the thoroughly predictble charatrisation thus far.

[slh2009]

Some of it was definitely between Balham and Tooting as they used my friend's house to film some scenes!

[adonirum]

Well this adaptation quickly fizzled out, didn't it, after a promising first episode I felt.

Yep,????, agree about (boringly) predictable characterisations.

Decided Arabella Yount wasn't based on Louisa !!!! far to nasty a character to be "our Louisa".

But the big question after last night's final episode is this: does Louisa make Mr. Louisa forego Newsnight some evenings?

[Seabag]

I could have thrown Smiffy off the Coq D'Argent myself

The bit where his mum pulls out the newspaper and mentions him being a millionaire artist was wank

After watching London spy and then this I'm feeling a bit out of sorts

[Blah Blah]

I thought is was rubbish from the beginning. Way too cosy and I just didn't buy the postcard nonsense and the tenuous link to extremism that wasn't.

[steveo]

London Spy was watched under sufferance and now I feel robbed and dirty

[Seabag]

I liked the indulgent campery and near bloody laudable last scenes in the house, where the odd maid hung about

But the locking in a case bit was too much, near gave me a frikkin nightmare

And then what happened to the fire starter in the maze

It was all bonkers beyond belief

[steveo]

I've had a bit of constipation this week so not much has passed muster but I've seen better plots on Charlie and Lola

[????]

Yup. Had to se what happened but the answer was "nothing badly acted". Mrs Banker had a certain sauciness tho

[Blah Blah]

London spy started ok, but then just got more & more bizarre. The burning maze had a bit of Carrie meets The Shining about it.

[Drxyster]

Question, with regards to the ?100k found behind the wall by the builder, we were informed that as the notes were very old the money was worthless. Does anyone know is this in fact true? The very few GBP notes I have all denote the following, "I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of", depending on the value of the note, it does not specify an expiry date. Am I correct in thinking that if these notes were presented to the Bank of England, they would in fact be exchanged for present day currency, providing of course the notes were not forgeries?

[Pollypops]

Yes, that's right. The BOE will indeed exchange any out of circulation money. That niggled with me too.

[rememberwhen]

British banknotes are valid today, as they were when printed. Unlike many foreign currencies that are valueless a few months after being superseded.

I thought the same thing when I saw the last episode!

[Seabag]

It'd never happen on X Factor

[adonirum]

I actually had this recently, so I thought it inaccurate as well.

Some old British notes were taken in by my bank and credited to my account. A bank can no longer physically exchange them for current notes, though.

I also had some old Irish notes, but these were "sent off to the BofE for a decision"(my bank's words) to see if they would exchange them, which they wouldn't, the reply being that they were to old.

[Blah Blah]

I took that line in the script to mean that the money was useless to him, the builder, because he wouldn't get away with stealing it. I could be wrong though.

[????]

He didn't realise it was old money though

[northdulmum]

personally didn't get through the first episode... awful.

clich?d and patronising

[apbremer]

It was set on the Heaver estate in Tooting~lovely houses and very expensive

[Henry_17]

Wow that Gaurian review is full of innacuracies, at least do some research.