Come on - this was BRILLIANT!!!
Okay I was 11 and I only ever watched the first episode.
But still...
I think about it every so often.
I want to hear from a fan.
Tell me about it.
Yours,
CNP
P.S.
I am 20 now, just to remind you how old I am. And how old you are.
I LOVE the Cadfael series! it Is brilliant, I still think so, and I watch it very often. I never used to like the books before. I rather like them now, but only after watching the series. Am 27 ys old.
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I'm 18, and I used to watch Cadfael with my dad when I was around 9 or 10 I think. I loved it!! Bloody brilliant. I most vividly remember the episode "Virgin in the Ice". I was just looking through a catalog today and the complete DVD set was on sale in there, but it's so expensive. Maybe someday.
shareYep! Isn't "The virgin in the ice" simply one of the best episodes? Oh God! That Olivier! Yummie! "A morbid taste for bones" is another classic!
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Hey! I'm eighteen and have been wayching the show since I discovered it was at our Library. I adore all the episodes! We just watched "The devils novice" and it was thrilling!!!
"I should like to give you...a thimble."
Hey!
I have been watching the show too for a long long time. It is wonderful!
We found it at our library too! My mom brought it home one night and me and my brother were all like "Oh great...this looks really dumb" And then we watched it with her...I think that it was One Corpse Too Many and we were so surprised because it was really great!
I wish they would do more. I was so excited when we found that there was a series we hadn't seen that included Holy Thief Potters Field and Pilgrim of Hate. My oldest brother had bought them as a surprise and we were all excited because we had never seen those ones because our library hadn't gotten them in.
I always try to think of which is my favorite but I don't think that I could. I like them all in different ways. I tried the books and I do like them but I must say that Derek Jacobi does such a wonderful job in the films so I definately ( i don;t think I spelled that right!) like them best. ALTHOUGH what in the WORLD Was up with Sean Pertwee not being in the series after series one??? Did anyone else notice how GRUMPY ALL THE OTHER one's are??? IT's like they thought that since they changed the actor they should completely change the character. He's like always losing patience with Cadfael it seems and they defina(oh no...not this word again)definately don't seem as good friends as they were. But that's just my opinion. Anyway I thought it was cool that people are still talking about it.
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Sean Pertwee definitely was the best Hugh... I believe he left after the first season to pursue his acting career. Shame, though.
PBS still shows the Cadfael series every once in a blue moon, or you could check BBC (for you lucky British viewers). Ebay also has a number of the DVDs, both individually and in sets, for reasonable prices.
I agree, I really missed Sean Pertwee and noted the character change after he was gone. To me it's the biggest error of the series, the way Hugh's character was changed. It's one of the things that I love about the books, that after their initial mystery they like and trust each other. Having that dynamic change in the video series is just awful. I probably could have stood the actor change better if the character had remained the same.
shareI find this series faultless.
I know that fans of the books may have issues with some of the later stories, but purely as TV shows-Cafael is up there with the best of the best.
Well worth getting on dvd-an absolute charm.
Why the &^%$%#$ didn't they make an episode (better yet, a double episode) from the last book of the series?? The one where Cadfael has to rescue his son from prison - IMHO, the best story of the series.
And yeah, I wish Sean Pertwee had stayed on as Hugh.
I adore Cadfael. I think that Derek Jacobi is amazing as Cadfael - even if he isn't physically right, but it was great to see the whole series. My mum has asked for the DVD box set for xmas - it's a bit of a double-edged sword, coz I have to buy it. I love the Leper of St Giles, i was so happy with Lazarus. It was v. faithful to the book as well.
Dear God, why do You shackle me with *politicians*?
I like Cadfael. My mum is a huge fan of the books and she used to watch all the Cadfael series' when I was small (I admit I hid on the stairs for some bits) It's just so cool though :) When I was 11 we went on the Shrewsbury quest and saw all places from the series and Cadfael's workroom and herb gardens :)
shareI watched this series when i was younger, then found it again by accident at our local library (thank god for those places!) And am madly in love with it all over again. Sean Pertwee was the best Hugh, though he did always look a bit silly (his clothes always seemed to be six sizes too large!) but he was the best. Morbid Taste for Bones is my personal favorite, though Holy Thief might run a second. I'm eighteen now.
shareMy mother got me hooked on Cadfael when I was moving up from kiddie books to real books, so I kind of went from "See Jane. See Jane Run. Run Jane, Run!" to "See Cadfael. See Cadfael solve murders." Then we watched the series on PBS when I was oh, I don't know, fourteen or so, and I remember really liking it. Then a couple of months ago, now 23, I wandered across the DVD in the files at the library, and you better believe I snapped it up FAST. Went home and watched them all back to back. I do love that series.
And am I the only one who actually LIKED Brother Jerome? I thought he was so delightfully snoopy, but not really evil, and then I read The Holy Theif (I think that was the name, shows you how awake I am), and the scene where he confessed "murder" was just amazing. It wasn't bad in the episode in the series either. The look on Julian Firth's face was just a delightful "Oh S***" when Radulfus was reading that verse, and then his "beaten puppy" face when Cadfael told him he couldn't have killed the shepherd was so sad I wanted to reach through the screen and give him a giant bear hug. (Side comment, but he was REALLY funny as Bicky Bickerstith in Jeeves and Wooster.)
Anyway. Good to see there are at least some Cadfael fans still out there besides me.
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Indianna Jones, I hate to say this, but if you are going to use the word as much as you admit, its 'definitely' not 'definately'. It's a common mistake (not helped by generally being pronounced that way). I apologise if you think I'm being patronising.
I agree about Sean Pertwee, though (son of Jon, the former Doctor Who). Hugh was described as short and dark in the book, so why replace Sean with someone tall and blond? And, as you say, since when did he start being so crabby with Cadfael?
And, as you say, since when did he start being so crabby with Cadfael?
Yes, I second that - it's great to know there's other fans out there! :D
My story's much the same - I used to stay up past bedtime to watch this with my Mamma (who's one of these technophobe hobbit-types who probably would've been HAPPIER living in mediaeval times, heh!). And I LOVED it (that theme tune and for some reason that image of the deaths-head in the opening credits woodcut, always stuck in my mind...)
Lol, I can't help feeling that a childhood spent watching this, plus Sharpe and The Scarlet Pimpernel has warped my mind...now when it comes to books, filsm or music, I always seem to exhibit a bizarre preference for the historical or period-costume stuff. Somehow it just feels right...although it's debatable whether I like those things because I naturally like history, or because I was introduced to those things that I now like history...!
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