in news of the totally unnecessary...
*eyeroll*
http://www.radiotimes.com/amp/news/2017-08-07/poldark-producers-to-adapt-pride-and-prejudice-for-itv
(via Austenblog)
Didn't ITV do that wretched Mansfield Park with Billie Piper - the one that went, "oh, who cares if our heroine is nothing like the Fanny Price in the novel, no one today could identify with her anyway"? That does not exactly fill me with confidence. (Also, I had to stop watching Poldark because there wasn't nearly enough narrative tissue between its various happenings - which seems to be this generation's period-drama affliction, not actually devoting enough time to showing why things between characters happen - so that's strike two.)
Mostly, though, I just cannot get worked up over the idea of yet another P&P adaptation. Am bored already.
http://www.radiotimes.com/amp/news/2017-08-07/poldark-producers-to-adapt-pride-and-prejudice-for-itv
(via Austenblog)
Didn't ITV do that wretched Mansfield Park with Billie Piper - the one that went, "oh, who cares if our heroine is nothing like the Fanny Price in the novel, no one today could identify with her anyway"? That does not exactly fill me with confidence. (Also, I had to stop watching Poldark because there wasn't nearly enough narrative tissue between its various happenings - which seems to be this generation's period-drama affliction, not actually devoting enough time to showing why things between characters happen - so that's strike two.)
Mostly, though, I just cannot get worked up over the idea of yet another P&P adaptation. Am bored already.