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jsburbidge ([personal profile] jsburbidge) wrote2018-07-16 10:43 pm
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Total and Complete Travesty

 I have just finished watching two episodes of the BBC Father Brown.

There is nothing good to say of it. To proceed from most fundamental to less so:
  1. The scriptwriters show no signs of having read Chesterton.
  2. The plots are unrecognizable.
  3. There is no Chestertonian paradox; none of Chesterton's style; no theology.
  4. Where is Flambeau?
  5. Why is an RC priest shown in a chasuble, about to celebrate a nuptial mass in the 1950s, without a biretta?
  6. Why is a RC priest shown wearing a surplice and black scarf?
  7. He is neither short enough nor plump enough. 
ETA: Also, he didn't pick locks, and would not have said things like "Let's get down to this".

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