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SS GB - No Spoilers Please

Chizz
Chizz Posts: 28,341
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I'm really looking forward to this - it looks like a really high-production series. I haven't read the book, but the synopsis seems cleverly to weave truth and invention.
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  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,836
    I have no idea what you are talking about!
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    Fake news. The Germans never invaded the UK.

    But if you like this sort of thing check out the 60s film "it happened here" on a partially occupied UK and the resistance. Much closer to the real events and used real British fascists to play collaborators.

    Dominion is an excellent book on similar topic.
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    Saw them filming this in Greenwich. Looks like it could be decent, will give it a go.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    AFKABartram said:

    I have no idea what you are talking about!

    Ve hav vays of making you talk

    (Child of the 60s raised on Commando comics is my excuse)
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    AFKABartram said:

    I have no idea what you are talking about!

    https://youtu.be/1y7tHhyowqg
  • HantsAddick
    HantsAddick Posts: 2,423
    I read the book years ago. Very good. Hope the series lives up to it.
  • ken_shabby
    ken_shabby Posts: 6,259
    This is Len Deighton yes? Read the book years ago. Good read as I recall.
  • daveydanger
    daveydanger Posts: 1,338
    So a similar concept to The Man in the High Castle?
  • CHG
    CHG Posts: 4,529
    edited February 2017
    I love alternative history, Children's War is the best book I have read on the German's winning WWII. Looking forward to SS GB.
  • kafka
    kafka Posts: 2,369
    daveydanger said:

    So a similar concept to The Man in the High Castle?

    And Fatherland

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  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    edited February 2017
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  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,021
    Went the Day Well is a cracking movie in a similar vein, and all the more authentic as it came out in 1942.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    EveshamAddick said:

    Went the Day Well is a cracking movie in a similar vein, and all the more authentic as it came out in 1942.

    Absolutely.

    Classic homefront movie
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,885
    When does it start
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,362
    good book by Len Deighton, a terrific and versatile author .. published many years ago .. similar though not as harrowing as 'Fatherland' by Robert Harris .. could be good TV provided it does not become too 'caricatured' .. mit der Nazis und der qwislings
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,339
    Todds_right_hook said:

    When does it start

    May 2020, Tory-UKIP coalition
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    Todds_right_hook said:

    When does it start

    Sunday, 19 February
  • InspectorSands
    InspectorSands Posts: 5,189
    edited February 2017
    Henry Irving said:



    Dominion is an excellent book on similar topic.

    Yes - written by CJ Sansom and depicts a Britain after Halifax became PM in 1940 instead of Churchill, settled with the Germans and became a Nazi satellite. Chilling tale of how many people will happily put up with tyranny until it personally affects them.

    Looking forward to SS-GB, though not read the book.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,341
    Just hope the Nazis didn't prevent the first two post WW2 Cup Finals.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    I liked it.

    Made me dig out "The Last Ditch - Britain's secret resistance and the Nazi Invasion plan" by David Lampe.

    Not alternative history but the real story of the secret resistance cells set up to find behind enemy lines if the balloon had gone up.


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  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,608
    Liked it but he wouldn't be listening to a John Lee Hooker record in 1941.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    DaveMehmet said:

    Liked it but he wouldn't be listening to a John Lee Hooker record in 1941.

    I did think that was unlikely. I know they were trying to make the point that he listened to black music but jazz would have seemed more likely than Blues.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,870
    Gave up after 20 minutes. Found the two leads to be very poor and it just didn't grab me.
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    MrOneLung said:

    Gave up after 20 minutes. Found the two leads to be very poor and it just didn't grab me.

    20 minutes was as far as I got as well. very disappointed, I had been looking forward to this but just found it boring

  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,987
    Shite. Couldn't hear a word anyone said. Turned the TV up full pelt and they still mumbled.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,608
    ValleyGary said:

    Shite. Couldn't hear a word anyone said. Turned the TV up full pelt and they still mumbled.

    Welcome to my world mate. Pretty much everything on TV sounds like that to me. Have to use subtitles most of the time.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,242
    DaveMehmet said:

    ValleyGary said:

    Shite. Couldn't hear a word anyone said. Turned the TV up full pelt and they still mumbled.

    Welcome to my world mate. Pretty much everything on TV sounds like that to me. Have to use subtitles most of the time.
    It's your punishment for keeping all that stuff you stole from the club and which belongs in the museum.
  • ken from bexley
    ken from bexley Posts: 5,085
    You were not alone VG..... http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a821807/bbc-investigating-ss-gb-sound-levels-viewers-complain-mumbling/
    Thought the CGI effects were effective, The opening scene of the fighter plane landing along the Mall was impressive, Though I recognised parts of the Royal Naval college as well!.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,021
    I too gave up after about 15 mins, which is something I never do. I found it ever so boring.
  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,875
    Enjoyed it. Looking forward to part two

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