The Gang of Five

Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Arts => Silver Screen => Topic started by: Intrepid on December 05, 2004, 05:55:36 PM

Title: The Animals of Farthing Wood
Post by: Intrepid on December 05, 2004, 05:55:36 PM

Anybody watched FW? I used to watch it as a youngster and I still love it now, I feel it somehow apeals to adults too as it can sometimes be seen as very serious and very sad when a member of the group dies  :cry

anyone seen any episodes?

Title: The Animals of Farthing Wood
Post by: Malte279 on December 05, 2004, 06:12:57 PM

Unfortunately I watched not all of the sequels and missed the other ones. It was even translated to German.
The animals of Farthing Wood is one of the very, very few cases in which I consider a movie better than the book (which I read). I'm especially fond of the absolutely crazy and horrible Weasel in the movie. It would be difficult to make such a character likeable in a book.

Title: The Animals of Farthing Wood
Post by: Petrie on December 05, 2004, 08:18:19 PM

In the book, Weasel was number one, male, and two much more serious. ;)  She was very goofy in the tv series.  I've seen the entire second season...I'm still awaiting the day someone makes a dvd of it so I can get it over here in the US.  I still haven't finished the original book (they just escaped the barn) but I plan to over Christmas once all my classes are done. :)

Title: The Animals of Farthing Wood
Post by: Malte279 on December 06, 2004, 03:44:42 AM

In the German version the Weasel was a male. I think it would've been quite difficult to make a character likeable in a book who is laughing and goofing around while his friends are in mortal danger. As I said I have sadly not watched all the sequels, yet I did read all of the books.

Title: The Animals of Farthing Wood
Post by: Petrie on December 06, 2004, 01:13:03 PM

^ It would probably also be hard for someone to picture someone so goofy in a book. ;)  I was actually surprised how many characters were changed to female for the series-Kestrel, Owl, Weasel, Adder, and I can only think that such a thing happened because there were so few female characters in the original book.  :unsure:

Title: The Animals of Farthing Wood
Post by: Nick22 on December 08, 2004, 10:51:38 AM

I never saw the show. Was it shown in America?
Nick

Title: The Animals of Farthing Wood
Post by: Cera on December 08, 2004, 11:59:24 AM

the first series wasss but not the other two!!

yess you heard me! I sed something sensibleee!  :lol

Title: The Animals of Farthing Wood
Post by: Petrie on December 08, 2004, 11:11:22 PM

Well, actually no, the first series was not shown in the US.  That "American" remake isn't the real thing....  :angry:

Title: The Animals of Farthing Wood
Post by: Nick22 on December 09, 2004, 10:17:47 AM

I looked up 'Farthing Wood' and there were no episodes shown in the US.
Nick

Title: Re: The Animals of Farthing Wood
Post by: Daddytops2021 on September 27, 2022, 09:05:28 AM

me