To not merrily give away my Christmas lunch to a German family I've never even met?

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Ok not me but Jo March.

I'n watching the travesty BBC adaption of Little Women.

The mum comes home and makes them feel awful just as they are about to tuck in to all the lovely food, because of the poor immigrant family, who are, by all accounts, having a really horrible time. Even though Marmee has already given them all her firewood. And they skip out the door so jolly, with all their bacon, sausages and maple syrup, and cream that they get only at Christmas to bestow upon the family. Even selfish Amy!

I was just wondering if I'd have been quite so joyful about doing that at a similar age

Beth then gets scarlet fever from the baby, which goes to show no good deed goes unpunished.

It looks like it'll be a clementine for dinner, 1 segment apiece, but luckily the rich family from down the road then take pity on them and send a lovely ham.

This is lighthearted by the way. It can't be serious really because the adaption is quite awful.

I don't know is where they filmed it but it can't be Massachusetts as I keep hearing a Great Tit call and they don't have those there pedantic

Also Amy is supposed to be 12 and she looks 27.

What other classics has television managed to ruin for you with their adaptions?

Oh no :( is it really rubbish? I'd read an interview with Emily Watson, who plays the mun, and was looking forward to watching it. Apparently, they filmed it in Ireland.

Emily Watson is as always very good.

I'm not too impressed with the rest so far, but I'm just a bit loyal to the 1994 version.

I only caught a glimpse of it but one Is wonder about the Irish accents ??But yanbu it Christmas for goodness sake let the girls have their dinner .

Angela Lansbury is in it Roland she's also excellent.

I think it's the depiction of the girls I'm not conceived by, they all seem a bit flat.

Roland?! as well not bloody Roland

It's because they look too old?

Well they do look old, and they all look the same age, but they also aren't capturing the characters particularly well.

I hated all of them in the book apart from Meg and Beth. They’re better on screen 🙂

In the book they give up their breakfast, so both get to feel virtuous and eat Christmas dinner.

I never understood why the Marches always bleated on about their piverty when it was clear they were actually pretty well off (although it must have been tough only having the one servant) whilst the Hummels were starving.

Haven’t watched Little Women but to answer your question, the BBC once did an adaptation of Titus Groan which I had absolutely loved reading as a teenager. In my head everything was grey, gloomy, scary and odd. The adaptation was created by someone on acid, who hadn’t read the book I had. Weirdly colourful, and the acting was appalling. I didn’t stick with it. Upsetting.

I liked Jo, I think. She reminded me a bit of me. I found Beth a bit drippy. (Is that really mean to say??)

It is their breakfast, not the dinner.

I like the girls apart from Amy.

No, Beth is very wet lettuce.

Although I think later adaptions imply she has quite bad social anxiety.

In the 1994 one they just portray her as being very 'good'.

So good she goes and gets Scarlett fever from nursing the contagious baby.

I thought all the girls seemed the same age too, except Amy who looks older if anything.

Also, Mrs March tells Jo to stop up the broken window pane at the Hummels home with Hannah's hat! Blooming cheek. Use your own hat as you're so keen on giving.

And need Jo be so hideously dressed? That red flower pot bonnet.

ill stick to the book thank you it was a wonderful story to read the first time and i have read it many times since

It wasn't lunch it was just breakfast.

Considering they had a massive fuck off sized lunch a few hours later, it was no hardship I'm sure.

I wouldn't want to be sitting behind jo's hat in the theatre!

Yes I thought the window pane solution was off too!

And they do have a live-in servant!

I suppose Marmee means having all girls gives them limited earning potential in those days so unless ever marry off she'll be funding them for years.

I like the adaptation so far! it was filmed somewhere in Ireland IIRC.

Actors in C19/early C20 drama set in North Eastern N. America or Canada often seem to have slightly Irish accents at the mo. See also Anne with an E and Alias Grace.

Dunno if it’s authentic or just a fashion in period drama though.

OMG Are the Germans eating our Christmas dinners now? Its just like the Daily Mail predicted, its ALL come true ... oh hang on, you're talking about Little Women.

None of them are as insufferably good as Cousin Helen in What Katy Did though. Or even Katy post accident.

Staples

I suppose there were a lot of Irish immigrants at that time, perhaps it was catching.

And what are these pickled limes? They weren't candied fruit. They looked like squeezed-out segments.

I'm still only half way through. It's Christmas breakfast they give to the German family, they got a huge Christmas dinner not long after.
So far I quite like it.