![]() And we see him looking for Wickham and Lydia in London and then present at their wedding, before Elizabeth learns of it! Maybe they thought it wasn’t important since they figured viewers had already read the book? Most people likely had not (and still haven’t) so it irritates me. We see Darcy at Pemberley before Elizabeth does (in the infamous pond scene). And I don’t like that Andrew Davies gives away the book’s surprises before the characters learn of them! We hear Darcy narrating his letter to Elizabeth and see flashbacks of its contents before she reads the letter. It was sexed up (mostly, but not only, Darcy), etc. Bennet) Andrew Davies, the screenwriter, included a lot of extra Darcy scenes that are not in the book. Hurst), for others I did mind a lot! (Mrs. Many characters are exaggerated even more than in the book and are made into caricatures. And Lizzy has some really beautiful gowns (not so some of the other women).īut then there are things that I don’t like about it so much. I like how it followed “show, don’t tell” throughout even though the timing of some of those “showings” bothered me (I’ll get into it). It is beautiful to look at (as long as you don’t have the bad DVD set!), being shot on film and with higher production values than older adaptations had. I shudder at any adaptation ever being called definitive, but even if I didn’t I would not think this one was! I do appreciate its length and being able to see more of the story than in any of the others (it is longer than the 1980 version as well). This is probably one of the, if not THE most famous and popular Jane Austen adaptation ever. ![]() The colors are so vivid and I can finally see all the beauty of the costumes and the scenery that I didn’t before due to the grayed, washed out older DVDs. I recently got the new remastered version and it is much better. I’ve seen the series quite a few times since I purchased the DVD boxset 4 years ago. There were (and still are) some parts that still irk me but there’s nothing I can do about it, really. Then I heard them talking and realized that the beauty was Elizabeth and the “ugly” one was Jane! It took a while to get over that initial shock but I managed to enjoy the series all the same. I wondered if the blonde was Elizabeth or if she was someone else. I remember seeing a gorgeous brunette and a not so pretty blonde and thought immediately that the former must be Jane, because of her beauty. I was so excited to see it because I read the book for the first time shortly before this and only saw the “WTF” ending of the 1940 version. I can’t remember exactly what point it was when I first turned it on, but I believe it was the Meryton Assembly. ![]() ![]() This was the first adaptation I saw (almost) in full. ![]()
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