Ladies, please! I realize the current Poldark actor is attractive, but you sound like a bunch a teenage boys drooling over a revealing photo of their favorite female pop star. BTW, Aiden Turner is the same actor who played one of the dwarves in The Hobbit movies.
As for the shows themselves, I watched the old series back in the day, then read all the books, and now I am watching this new series. I think the new series is quite good, better than the original. The books as I recall went all the way up into the Napoleonic era - with Ross grown old.
Trivia:
As I recall, from the books I think, "demelza" means "sweetness" in the old Cornish language.
Jill Townsend, the beautiful blonde Anglo-American actress who played Elizabeth in the first series, is now living in California and is head of some sort of natural healing, medicine woman-type organization. Based on the photo I saw, she has not aged all that well, or at least she has clearly abandoned any Hollywood obsession with beauty and body image that she once may have had. I also read that she has been formally adopted into the Lakota tribe - as some sort of wise, healing elder..
@bookworm - oh no, it’s quite free! I’ve watched #6, and then #1, #2 and #3 of their recaps. Very funny but one of the women has rather distracting eyeliner.
I knew that. But in that movie he was competing with Richard Armitage, and I’m sorry, but come on. (BTW, those who have not seen the 4-part series of Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South REALLY REALLY REALLY need to do so!)
It’s Aidan, not Aiden.
I was watching this, amongst other things, on free tv project, which suddenly closed down. I’m still finding piecemeal solutions.
No . . . Ross is a fictional character and Aidan is an actual guy I’m not exactly sure who I like more. I guess I liked Ross in his previous incarnation so that must be a clue.
I’ve been enjoying Poldark, especially Aidan Turner, this summer. I did break down and binge watch all eight episodes on SimplyJune. I can also recommend The Crimson Field - a very good six part series about a group of volunteer nurses at an army hospital during World War I. For those interested, all six episodes are on the pbs website. Also, SimplyJune just recently updated her website with all episodes of The Crimson Field, Indian Summer and an Australian Series, A Place to Call Home. I plan on starting Indian Summer this week. Anyone else?
Oh, don’t scold us for being gaga over the new Ross…PBS doesn’t always provide eye candy for the ladies. We’re just having fun.
I don’t know if I’ve posted this before, but I was so obsessed with the Ross Poldark of my HS years that I thought of naming a future son Ross. Then Friends came around and the name lost its meaning to me.
I’m watching Desperate Romantics now on youtube. The link has a few commercials but it’s not too bad. Aidan Turner looks much the same but with perfectly hideous Victorian sideburns and an Amish looking hat! Whoever plays John Millais is more appealing. He looks a bit like Nigel from Spinal Tap long ago.
Jon right, I watched, and searched this thread for how demelza was treated. An eye for an eye? She makes a mistake (sort of) , then does a good deed, but then suffers. No spoiler alerts. I’ll wait foe everyone to view this episode.
I’m still finding piecemeal solutions.
I’m not exactly sure who I like more. I guess I liked Ross in his previous incarnation so that must be a clue.