The Great Fire .....

[Ann]

Gosh my head is spinning - SO many characters, it is difficult to follow, but I'm sticking with it as it seems good. Can anyone give me a quick summary of who's who tonight?

[Maydup]

Everyone's listed here if it helps - only posting a link to save my typing it Ann!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3629782/

[Ann]

Thanks Maydup - I have been looking for a link to Story so far ....... so I can understand more fully what's going on!

[Georgiesmum]

I know what you mean Ann. I watched part of it and gave up.. It was disappointing because i had been looking forward to it all day..

[Ann]

Also another TV series shot in gloomy darkness and I had to have the volume switched up really high as I couldn't see or hear properly - or is it perhaps me? ;)

[seanne]

I found it hard to follow too,and turned over near the end. thank you for the link but do you have a synopsis of the story as it did not give one on the link ?

[gness]

Not you, Ann....I gave up..too dim and lazy speech...x

[elliemay1]

Is this of any help, Ann? (I didn't like it either for all the reasons already given.)

The Great Fire (TV Mini-Series)
Episode #1.1 (2014)
Plot Summary
Showing one plot summary
London, 1666:- Thomas Farriner, a widower with two young daughters, runs a bakery in Pudding Lane and turns to administrator Samuel Pepys when naval clerk Sheridan withholds payment for the bread he has supplied to the navy. Pepys cannot help though he does inform him that his brother seems to have been lost in a sea battle against the Dutch. Profligate king Charles II, in pursuit of comely Frances Stuart, holds lavish banquets he cannot afford due to the war and is rebuked by both his brother, James the duke of York, and Pepys. Lord Denton, the king's spy-master, arrests an assassin about to murder Charles and links him to the Catholic sympathizer the Duke of Hanford. Thomas's sister-in-law Sarah works for Hanford and Denton persuades her to - reluctantly - spy for him. At the same time a spark from Thomas's oven sets alight the straw on the floor and the Great Fire of London begins.
- Written by don @ minifie-1

[Bathsheba]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1372630.html

I quite liked it x x

[shaneystar2]

I thought it was quite good .I'm easily pleased though and I'm always willing to give something a chance before I switch off .It wasn't too taxing and I didn't drop any stitches whilst watching.
Bit like Titanic ..it sinks.Great Fire ..London burns .We all know the story and they've woven a side story into it .
I thought Daniel Mays was very good as Samuel Pepys .

[netibiza]

I enjoyed it although I wasn't sure who was who, but that's more down to me being on tinternet at same time.

[lankeela]

Thought it was just me not hearing very well and not understanding who was who, but thought it was quite good - just needed a bit more explaining of the relationships. So is it the king's brother who is behind the plot to assassinate him?

[Ann]

Thanks ellie, very helpful x

[Barsel]

There seems to be a spark between Thomas and Sarah, he definitely has the hots for her! Ok I'll get my coat :-)

[Bathsheba]

@Barsel.....yep, I think we were left in no doubt about how the Thomas/Sarah situation will pan out ;)

I found Elliemay's synopsis v helpful, but I'm with Lankeela re the assassination plot....not too clear on that so far

x x

[tiggerblue10]

Hope Sarah's little boy is ok after she was taken away by Lord Denton.