I really dug Persuasion. I think it would be hard to do a teleplay for, but it was romantic. And I didn't hate Northanger Abbey, which is hard to like because she is such a dimwit. But Mansfield...I thought it might just be me because I was in a weird/bad mood yesterday, and had already been disappointed by Volver.
Good luck. Try not to kill people. Hands! Hands!
Willow ,'Storyteller'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
bon bon - Jan 28, 2008 5:36:47 am PST #5802 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
lisah - Jan 28, 2008 5:39:42 am PST #5803 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
I really dug Persuasion.
I wasn't crazy about Persuasion (although I thought ASH was perfect!). I thought it was kind of lifeless and rushed.
sumi - Jan 28, 2008 5:40:07 am PST #5804 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
No, Mansfield was bad and boring. Persuasian was not in the same class as the Amanda Root/Ciaran Hinds version and they made some inexplicable changes to the story.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 28, 2008 5:47:30 am PST #5805 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Oh, my god, Monday. No. No, no, no.
I don't think my brain is awake enough to fully appreciate the horror that is Monday....
My Monday (so far; all of this occurred before 9:30):
People, if you keep saying the M-word, you're only going draw it's attention.
continues avoiding M----y like someone I owe money
msbelle - Jan 28, 2008 5:50:52 am PST #5806 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I took the plain coffee back to dunkin and they replaced it with my ordered yums latte. YAY!
Sophia Brooks - Jan 28, 2008 5:51:36 am PST #5807 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Why couldn't they have, at least, done something about her HAIR?
I know. I don't think she refused, because I saw a commentary from who where she was saying that her hair was dyed red for a part or audition or some such. I was left thinking that somehow they couldn't afford a wig?
hippocampus - Jan 28, 2008 6:59:24 am PST #5808 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
NSFW (audio) YouTube "Google Maps"
§ ita § - Jan 28, 2008 7:07:55 am PST #5809 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That's fucking brilliant. I love two things: the look on sandy guy's face about a minute in--it's precisely "But, okay, I know these things, and that's not technically possible." and the sound effect of mouse clicks over the closing credits.
Love!
megan walker - Jan 28, 2008 7:09:02 am PST #5810 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Where is all this Austen you all are talking about? I set my TiVo to record anything Austen and it is not catching it.
Tom Scola - Jan 28, 2008 7:15:48 am PST #5811 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
On PBS, Masterpiece Theater is doing a "complete Jane Austen" thing. Which includes some new productions, and a rebroadcast of P&P and Emma which previously aired on A&E.