As I said in one of my first mails was that Bleasdale should have had a Seafaring man as an advisor. If you are writing about a seafaring event then have Seafarers advising the events. Then he could have had a credible story to tell.
If he listened to passengers and other survivors then why did he not consider taking professional advice instead making a fool of himself by creating stupid and unreal characters who insult the integrity of Seafarers.
As I have said before, the story was already written by the Official Records of various nations involved and also the story written by the survivors over many years since WW2.
I bet anyone, there was no record in his research of a wine steward stealing money and of a Navigation Officer baby sitting while he should have been on Watch in a war zone and then on another occaision entering a lady passengers cabin while she was out and rooting through her personal effects.
Ask him where he found that information.
It was an easy thing to do, anyone could have done it, All he had to do was to join up the survivors stories instead of maliciously creating ficticious characters who insulted everyones intelligence.
I still think he should give his appologies to all the Seafaring men who were in WW2. He gave the public the impression of Seafarers being thieves and whimps.
Also this is from my previous post, repeated again........................
So this describes what happened to the survivors and their harsh treatment by the French.
Why did Bleasdale not portray these events. The story was only half told, even then it was a amatuerish attempt.
Bleasdale said it was a little known story, I knew of this story many many years ago.
I still think he insulted Merchant Seamen in war, these guys were the bravest of the brave, when he shows a steward stealing money and a whimp of a Junior Third Officer baby sitting for a passenger instead of being on Watch in a war zone., and also entering a passengers cabin and rooting through her belongings while she is out. These are sackable offences, where did he get those stupid ideas from. again totally unbelievable.
Bleasdale should give an appology to all Seamen over that.
All in All it was a waste of three hours TV
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Also the Labour Party should also appologise for stealing the money France paid in compensation to seamen, passengers and other POWs of France for the diabolical harsh treatment in North and West Africa. No one got a penny, the Labour Government kept it all.
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