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To the people involved in making Anne: The Continuing Story and An Avonlea Christmas:
What is with your obsession with showing these characters during World War One? The Continuing Story doesn't even make any sense since in the books, by the time the war comes, Anne and Gilbert already have two sons old enough to fight. The two of them go off to fight, and one of them is killed. Gilbert, though, does not. And the war is never the focus of any of the books except Rilla of Ingleside, which comes much later and after Anne and Gilbert are married with several children. Your movie makes no sense in terms of both chronology and character.
Yes, Anne of Avonlea diverted from the books. In an interview you even said that you didn't really think there was a good story to tell in any but the first books. But at least you took things from the book and then changed them, and at least you stuck to the spirit of the books. You made a pretty good movie there. However, making things up wholesale for the third one, things that don't fit with the spirit of the books and don't make sense for these characters, is not cool.
Road to Avonlea was pretty good too. Again, you deviated a lot, but in good ways that stuck to the spirit of the book (though the last season went off the handle a little). But again, you randomly bring World War I into things and make a movie that is not in the spirit of either the books or even the show you yourself created. And the characters are off. The are like caricatures of their former selves. Hetty in particular was never that extreme.
What is with your obsession with showing these characters during World War One? The Continuing Story doesn't even make any sense since in the books, by the time the war comes, Anne and Gilbert already have two sons old enough to fight. The two of them go off to fight, and one of them is killed. Gilbert, though, does not. And the war is never the focus of any of the books except Rilla of Ingleside, which comes much later and after Anne and Gilbert are married with several children. Your movie makes no sense in terms of both chronology and character.
Yes, Anne of Avonlea diverted from the books. In an interview you even said that you didn't really think there was a good story to tell in any but the first books. But at least you took things from the book and then changed them, and at least you stuck to the spirit of the books. You made a pretty good movie there. However, making things up wholesale for the third one, things that don't fit with the spirit of the books and don't make sense for these characters, is not cool.
Road to Avonlea was pretty good too. Again, you deviated a lot, but in good ways that stuck to the spirit of the book (though the last season went off the handle a little). But again, you randomly bring World War I into things and make a movie that is not in the spirit of either the books or even the show you yourself created. And the characters are off. The are like caricatures of their former selves. Hetty in particular was never that extreme.