Persuasion
Huh.
Well.
...You know, aside from "Haha, Larry Nightingale is Captain Benwick!" I really don't have anything to say about the ITV Persuasion. I can't really pick out anything major that was horribly wrong with it...but it never felt right, either. I mean, I can disagree with some things in particular that they did with regard to Wentworth's letter, but that wouldn't be enough to turn me off of the adaptation, if I'd really liked it, so I don't think that's the problem. (Though I do wish they hadn't had Anne keep looking directly at the camera like that!) Maybe it was just so rushed that nothing really made an impression--it wasn't actively bad; it just never really held my attention.
Next week, Northanger Abbey. I clench my teeth every time I see the commercial with Catherine saying, "It's just as I imagined," since, uh, the whole *point* of the novel is that it's *nothing* like her imaginings, but I still hold out much hope for JJ Feild as Henry Tilney. Fingers crossed.
Well.
...You know, aside from "Haha, Larry Nightingale is Captain Benwick!" I really don't have anything to say about the ITV Persuasion. I can't really pick out anything major that was horribly wrong with it...but it never felt right, either. I mean, I can disagree with some things in particular that they did with regard to Wentworth's letter, but that wouldn't be enough to turn me off of the adaptation, if I'd really liked it, so I don't think that's the problem. (Though I do wish they hadn't had Anne keep looking directly at the camera like that!) Maybe it was just so rushed that nothing really made an impression--it wasn't actively bad; it just never really held my attention.
Next week, Northanger Abbey. I clench my teeth every time I see the commercial with Catherine saying, "It's just as I imagined," since, uh, the whole *point* of the novel is that it's *nothing* like her imaginings, but I still hold out much hope for JJ Feild as Henry Tilney. Fingers crossed.