I’ve just looked at who’s playing Rupert Campbell-Black in Rivals and…

Nocturnal said:
Am I the only one who found it quite uncomfortable viewing? The age gap is pretty gross, there's no way I can route for them as a couple, I just find it a bit creepy.
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I loved the show but agree with you completely on the age gap. Taggie came across as a particularly young 20 year old too which didn't help.
 
Apercrumbie said:
I loved the show but agree with you completely on the age gap. Taggie came across as a particularly young 20 year old too which didn't help.
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I grew up in this period, at twenty I was married and had my own home. The way she is portrayed she is so niave, how could she be with her parents and her parents friends around her. Even the girls I knew that went to boarding school were pretty clued up about life, even if they had a very sheltered lived compared to living in an inner city council tower block.
RCB just seems an offensive s!agging machine, I know its supposed to be retro, I watched it with OH and half the amusement is wincing as the compleatly bad behavoir that was seen as acceptable in the past, but he has no charm, whereas the Danny Dyer charecter has it spades, so you sort of forgive him for cheating on basically unoffensive wife. The sex scenes were as exciting as Mad Nads over the hill lettuce, but perhaps more like real life, bordering on slapstick funny.
To update it perhaps RCB should be gay or bi, and his crush CC, would explain all the tension?
 
I know three people who married husbands 20 years older, two were 18 and one 21. At a Pony Club rally the instructor asked the 18 year old what she was going to do with her horse and the answer was "I'm not, I'm getting married." The latter didn't stay married but the other two have.

I left school at 15, I did go to college, but at 18 we were running our local Young Farmers Club. One girl at school was married as soon as she left at 16 to a 23 year old and they went on to have about 6 children.

I also worked for a while at a hotel in the Cotswolds and all the female staff had to fend off the owner's younger brothers, some were less interested in fending them off and more interested into going out with them. One girl, college leaver and one of the chefs, had a long affair with the owner.

Did we grow up quicker then? I think we probably did.
 
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Clodagh said:
So as usual I’m behind the times. About 18 months I think. Disney + is now part of the Sky package so I’ve just watched the first episode.
Absolutely fabulous! Basically sex with a good 80’s soundtrack.
Love it!
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Same for me - love it too but couldn't wait so binged it in one sitting.
Apart from RCB not being my first choice (too old and not good looking enough) . I think they've captured the spirit of the book really well. Rivals was always my favourite Jilly Cooper - I wanted to be there x
 
Dam1 said:
Same for me - love it too but couldn't wait so binged it in one sitting.
Apart from RCB not being my first choice (too old and not good looking enough) . I think they've captured the spirit of the book really well. Rivals was always my favourite Jilly Cooper - I wanted to be there x
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Yes he is definitely a disappointment. I haven’t read the book for probably 40 years (or since it first came out) but I remember enough of it that this is like a prompt.
 
HeidiPie1525 said:
I don’t think they’ve got the right actor at all.

I don’t think Alex Hassell is sexy, charismatic or attractive enough to play RCB and think there are better & sexier actors available.

Yes, I’m butt hurt about it as I grew up on Jilly Cooper books and I know I’m not the only one who think the casting is just wrong.

I’m still looking forward to watching it, I think it will be fun and Jilly silly!

Who do I think should have played him? Alex Pettyfer (he’s arrogant enough!) or Oliver Jackson-Cohen, he has a look in his eye 😉
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Also late to the party but totally agree, not good looking enough by a long way and the wrong hair - Rupert was supposed to be beautiful! And Tony B was supposed to be chunky, I imagined him to look more like Tony Soprano. Valerie was totally wrong too, I'm sure she was supposed to be more of a Hyacinth. No idea who the actors you suggest are so can't comment. Maud was perfect, though and I loved DD, fabulous soundtrack too. Despite the inaccuracies I did absolutely love it.
 
marmalade76 said:
Also late to the party but totally agree, not good looking enough by a long way and the wrong hair - Rupert was supposed to be beautiful! And Tony B was supposed to be chunky, I imagined him to look more like Tony Soprano. Valerie was totally wrong too, I'm sure she was supposed to be more of a Hyacinth. No idea who the actors you suggest are so can't comment. Maud was perfect, though and I loved DD, fabulous soundtrack too. Despite the inaccuracies I did absolutely love it.
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I think the man playing Tony B is great though, all smarm.
 
Clodagh said:
Yes he is definitely a disappointment. I haven’t read the book for probably 40 years (or since it first came out) but I remember enough of it that this is like a prompt.
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Can't (or don't want to lol) believe that book can possibly be 40 years old 😱
That's made me feel bl****y ancient.
I remember getting it for a Christmas present when it first came out and how excited I was to read it x
 
Ceifer said:
Age gap didn’t bother me half as much as the lack of chemistry and character development for Taggie.
Give the girl something to do!
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She was supposed to be a bit thick and childlike and that adds an extra bit of ick. It didn't really register with me when I first read the book, I was 13 and someone Taggie's age would have seemed old to me at the time but on re-reads it's definitely icky.
 
Is that a Basset's head on your small picture Jules 2003 ?

Sorry, i am obssesed by all things Basset at the moment ! :rolleyes:
 
honetpot said:
I grew up in this period, at twenty I was married and had my own home. The way she is portrayed she is so niave, how could she be with her parents and her parents friends around her. Even the girls I knew that went to boarding school were pretty clued up about life, even if they had a very sheltered lived compared to living in an inner city council tower block.
RCB just seems an offensive s!agging machine, I know its supposed to be retro, I watched it with OH and half the amusement is wincing as the compleatly bad behavoir that was seen as acceptable in the past, but he has no charm, whereas the Danny Dyer charecter has it spades, so you sort of forgive him for cheating on basically unoffensive wife. The sex scenes were as exciting as Mad Nads over the hill lettuce, but perhaps more like real life, bordering on slapstick funny.
To update it perhaps RCB should be gay or bi, and his crush CC, would explain all the tension?
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God, no! But in the books he wasn't fussy and didn't have a type- anyone remember Thrillary?
 
I'm Dun said:
ooh Season two is out on May 15th!
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I can't wait. I was a teenager in the 80's and discovered life in the late 80's & the 90's. Jilly Coopers books were pure escapism. All the behaviour in the books was totally ok then and I loved all the characters in the first series. I agree RCB isn't how I would have imagined him but he's far better than RCB in Riders.
 
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