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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:
There is nothing good to say of it. To proceed from most fundamental to less so:
- The scriptwriters show no signs of having read Chesterton.
- The plots are unrecognizable.
- There is no Chestertonian paradox; none of Chesterton's style; no theology.
- Where is Flambeau?
- Why is an RC priest shown in a chasuble, about to celebrate a nuptial mass in the 1950s, without a biretta?
- Why is a RC priest shown wearing a surplice and black scarf?
- He is neither short enough nor plump enough.