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Re: Find My Past - New television series
« Reply #63 on: Friday 28 October 11 07:21 BST (UK) »
I must admit that I missed some of the second half of this one, because the repetition was driving me mad again, so I drifted off to do something else.     So, if there were really good bits, unfortunately, I didn't see them.   My overwhelming feeling at the beginning, though, was that they told us too much at the start so my reaction was, Oh, is that it?

This might be very difficult for the prgrammers to do, but it struck me that it would be much better if, instead of introducing everybody all at once, they did it piece by piece so that, for instance, you would meet Bloke A, and learn about his ancestor and find out about him first and what he did in 'the dramatic incident'.     Then you could start guessing about what the connection might be when they introduce Woman B, and talk about her ancestor, and so on.       Just a thought.

My other thought is that they could chop the whole thing down to half an hour!
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Re: Find My Past - New television series
« Reply #64 on: Friday 28 October 11 09:26 BST (UK) »
I agree with Milly.
This was much better :)

I have quite an interest in the Titanic. I used to teach children with special needs and one boy was almost obsessed with the Titanic story! I learnt lots 8)

No sign of Nick Barrett this week. :-\

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« Reply #65 on: Friday 28 October 11 11:14 BST (UK) »
The other thing I am not too keen on is when they make the people read aloud. As they are not experienced it sometimes feels a little embarrassing. They did a mixture this week of the real people reading and also a "professional" reading and it was much more effective when the "professional" did it..

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« Reply #66 on: Friday 28 October 11 11:49 BST (UK) »
As Milly said. It must have been a bit nerve racking to read the accounts out loud, and it also (unsurprisingly) caused them to become emotional which was probably the idea, but uncomfortable to watch.
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« Reply #67 on: Friday 28 October 11 12:08 BST (UK) »
I quite enjoyed this programme compared to last week's disappointing start. 
It does just show how difficult it is for untrained people to come over well on the TV but this weeks group were both interested and moved by the accounts of their ancestors.
I do agree with the previous posters that the repetition (and the adverts) are just plain tedious
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« Reply #68 on: Friday 28 October 11 12:24 BST (UK) »
I didn't mind them getting emotional - it was when they were struggling to read it aloud like in a classroom that I didn't like.   It makes it quite hard to follow what they are saying when they stumble and don't manage to put feeling into the reading.  Not their fault and I'm sure I couldn't do any better.  But you could really see the difference when they had someone more experienced reading one of Nellie's extracts. 
 

And I forgot to mention earlier - I still didn't like the "show and tell" bit with the presenter at the end saying "tell us about what you learnt".

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« Reply #69 on: Friday 28 October 11 13:52 BST (UK) »
Milly - reminds us of our school days, that's the trouble ::)
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« Reply #70 on: Friday 28 October 11 13:53 BST (UK) »
Head down, avoid eye contact with teacher...hope for the best.  ;D ;D


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Re: Find My Past - New television series
« Reply #71 on: Friday 28 October 11 16:11 BST (UK) »
I agree with Milly.
This was much better :)

No sign of Nick Barrett this week. :-\

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Both of the "historical researchers"* Laura Berry & Amber Strang are from Nick's "stable" of researchers and write for his magazine.  I guess he has thrown his hat in with the FindMyPast crowd now and broken away from the "other company". ::)

I agree with most of the comments  and  I did enjoy this episode far better than last week.  Thankfully, Chris has slowed down in his narration style from the last episode.  However, I have still not warmed to him as a presenter.  Again, the continual recapping after the commercial break!.... I may be getting old but I certainly hadn't forgotten what the story was about in the few short minutes for the adverts!

* Anyone know what the difference is between a genealogist and a historical researcher?  ???