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Well I stuck it out to the bitter end, unlike the 2 million viewers who apparently gave up after the first two episodes. Poorly written, badly plotted with such stilted dialogue. Did anyone actually read the scripts before they decided to go ahead with it? He didn't even stay true to his ideas. Poverty in all it's grim reality gave way to a ridiculous cops and robbers style shoot out in Satis House and a Walt Disney technicolour country wedding. It would have been closer to reality to have stuck with Magwitch being sentenced to death for returning from Australia. And the most annoying thing is still the way everyone kept referring to Pip Gargery, When my daughter got married my son didn't feel any need to take on her married name, why would Pip have done? However if Ashley Thomas should happen to sweep up to my front door in that long black coat .......................................
Thank you so much for giving us a rundown of the ending and the reassurance that we were right to give up on it at the end of episode 2. Last week there was a repeat of an old version of David Copperfield on BBC 4 late on Sunday evening. It starred Daniel Radcliffe who was lovely as David, Maggie Smith as Betsy Trotwood, Bob Hoskins, Trevor Eve, Zoe Wanamaker, Pauline Quirk etc. It was sheer joy and a perfect antidote to the latest horrific version of GE.