[ SECRET POST #3763 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3763 ⌋

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Comments

[tree_and_leaf]

Brideshead is obviously written from a conservative and somewhat snobbish perspective,* but it's also written by someone who was there (and who was painfully aware that he wasn't one of the aristocracy and that it made a difference), so it doesn't have the same element of - I dunno. Wish-fulfilment about the society (as opposed to wish-fulfilment about one's personal career?)

Also, whatever you think of Waugh's Catholicism, I think the fact that the story was about something other than 'wallowing in the life of a stately home and how mostly lovely it was' helped.

* And I love both the book and the Granada adaptation.

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(Still same person, still broke my log in)

Yeah, people condemn Brideshead as being Thatcherite wish-fulfilment but as ever with Waugh everything goes rapidly downhill pretty damn fast. I mean there may have been people who dressed up with teddy bears at Oxford as a result but Sebastian (probably) still dies of alcoholism in a monastery. And Waugh was always very ambivalent as a whole about the upper classes - he wanted to be a part of them but was always watching from the sidelines at the same time.

To be fair I couldn't watch past the first series of Downton other than dipping in and out sometimes so maybe it does go on to address social issues of the time intelligently. I just resent how bloody omnipresent it has been over the last few years, especially at a time when the country has been descending into conservatism. There's nothing wrong with a fancy soap but the wider context drives me up the wall.

[tree_and_leaf]

Nah, it got worse. Baled out early on in S3, and only stayed as long as that because I enjoy Maggie Smith being bitchy.