To think that Jane Austen would be spinning in her grave...

[SaggyOldClothCatPuss]

If she could see 'no tits' Knightly playing Elizabeth Bennet?! And as for Matthew Mcfaddyan [sp] he just spends the entire film looking like he's had a bucket of water dumped over his head!

Paul Rudd. Yum.

Friends kept at least one viewer thanks to him being in the last two series.

Paul Rudd indeed, ooooo er.

I will watch North and South immediately. I started last night but only got about ten minutes before I realized how late it was. Promising start, though!

It won't disappoint, CheerfulYank I've got the box set and tempted to put in on now, I'm supposed to be baking flapjacks!

No one told me North and South has Mr Bates. It was just the part where she's being jostled around and he comes and gives her her purse and takes her to her carriage and I luuuuuurrrrrvvveesss him.

Did you watch all of it, CheerfulYank?

If you're a Mr Bates fan, you may enjoy the TV adaptation of Catherine Cookson's The Glass Virgin He's the main character and plays a diamond-in-the-rough Irishman

MMMMM! Brendan Coyle!

It's quarter to four in the morning and I've just finished.

OH, the last scene! The kiss! The way he was staring at her! Ohhhhhhhhhhhh! I really loved it, it was marvelous. Period dramas are always so much...sexier to me, I guess! How they barely dare to brush hands sometimes...arrrgghh! Gets me every time. :o

Mr Bates as a diamond in the rough Irishman, y'say?

Now I'm off for a few hours of pervy dream filled restful sleep and then lots of coffee.

It's fabulous isn't it, CheerfulYank?

The final scene is possibly my favourite TV moment ever.

It really was fabulous!

I invited a friend of mine (and fellow fan of the period dramas :) ) over last night and we watched the entire thing again. She wasn't a fan of Mr Thornton at first and I kept telling her to wait... :o

It's the way he looks at her in the last scene, like he hasn't smiled in so long.

Over on Sleb Twaddle, Mr Thornton has many fangirls :)