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Will someone please stop giving Paula Milne jobs?


Rant Alert!

I cannot help but think this great book would have been a great film without being given to hack Paula Milne.

Yes, she was good once. Very very good.

But she now seems to be the writer who can take great novels and turn them into utterly hackneyed and dreadful tv shows.

She's lately like a one-woman destruction machine. Why doesn't somebody tell whoever is hiring her now that the emperor has been unclothed for sometime.

"White Heat?" Okay in places, but was pretty poor. And it had such potential.

She utterly destroyed the fabulous novel "Night Watch." It was a wonderful, moving book--but in her hands it just became trite WWII story of a couple of lesbians who drove ambulances. It was a shame what she did to that film.

And "The Politicians's Wife?" Excremental! Only Tennant and Watson made it tolerable in short bursts.

She's just passed her sell by date or something. I swear she's not writing any of these adaptations...her cat clearly climbs onto the desk and walks along the keys to produce her work.

I was so looking forward to "Legacy," (what a cast!) but when the credits came on at the start, I groaned out loud when I saw her name.

And my fears were realized. Shallow characters, horrid pacing, trite dialogue. The great actors gave it their best, but her dreadful work once again has let down a great cast.

Will somebody please tell her she needs to just stop before she wastes another load of license money by destroying another great book? And don't ever, ever let her near anything "biographical" as she did in WH. Ugh.

Go. Away. :-)))))))))))))))))

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This was a terrible drama with even worse historical inaccuracies and blatant revisionists statements from the off. Just truly dreadful.

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