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?

The Secret Garden (95?) adaption is one of the best I've ever seen, I love Mary Lennox.

I'm sort of relieved they've not really touched that one again yet.

I like it and also looking forward to tonight's last instalment. Though did find a good bit of the first episode fairly meh.

I was always under the impression that they joyously gave away their breakfast because they were supposed to as decent religious girls. (Fake joy in other words.)

As for the poor side of things. It's the same in the Railway Children; apparently in apparent perpetual penurt. Yet there's a cook and a sizeable house. (Suppose it's like on here where posters claim their not rich, or well off despite earning £××××× because there's people who have more money then them.)

As for the poor side of things. It's the same in the Railway Children; apparently in apparent perpetual penurt. Yet there's a cook and a sizeable house. - yes - like the most recent Jane Austen I saw (the one where the brother, abetted by his wife, talks himself down from giving a portion of his inheritance to his mother and sisters to, finally, an occasional gift of a joint of meat) where the family moved into a "cottage" the size of a small manor house.

They also really ought to attempt to stop their cat from breeding. Endless litters of kittens can't be helping matters.

I hate Amy. That is all.

I spent a lot of the book wondering if Pa March was a illusion caused by some kind of group hysteria, he was so lacking in presence.

And those pickled limes sounded disgusting 🤢

I always found Beth a big drippy.
I find the Classics so boring
Isn't Jo (Maya Hawke) the spitting image of her Mum ?

I was obviously a spoilt brat growing up because my favourite character was always Amy! Could never stand Jo, although I actually quite like her in the current adaptation.

I liked Amy too she was insufferable but she had charm!

I've disliked Amy in book and all three other productions of this. The feeling continued here!!

I think it's rooted in the fact that I'd love to be indulged the way Amy was, and to get away with her level of confidence.

Alas I'm a bit Meg in reality.

Genteel poverty could be pretty horrid though. Think of the poor Brontes: that vicarage is bloody freezing. Keeping up appearances on bugger all must be worse than being lower class but comfortably off, in trade for instance.

The second episode is much better than the first. The scenes with jo and Beth were very touching.

I hadn't been able to put my finger on what bothered me about it, but it is that they all look the same age and all look about 30! And why not just use American actresses and film it in America?

I did some work on it for my degree too, and Louisa May Alcott actually said she didn't put Jo and Laurie together just to piss her readers off!

Wtf is in Amy's hair?

I turned off after 5 mins. Dp told me to give it a chance. It's one of my fav books but I only like the 1994 adaptation with winona Ryder.
The accents where annoying.
They looked wrong.
Amy was too old
Heidi Thomas who adapted used the same/similar music as call the midwife which irrated me immensely.
Just hated it.

Amy looks so wrong. She looks like Bethany Platt from Corrie or the blonde sister from Leeds in Gogglebox. I keep expecting her to have a Mancunian accent.

I think the actresses are American? Except maybe Beth.

Pa March seemed a bit irresponsible, taking 20 years to write a book and relying on his teenage daughter's income to provide him with goloshes.

1994 version is my favourite. Susan Sarandon is a great Marmee, Winona Ryder as Jo. Much warmer.

Amy is too old, also her bad dye job is quite ginger.
Surely drama schools are full of girls just panting to be Amy March and it's not a difficult part. Why have someone so much too old, it doesn't fool anyone.
Beth was much better in the last episode though, and Professor Bhaer is adorable.

I read and re-read Little Women/Good Wives/Little Men loads as a teenager. Couldn't stand Jo's Boys though, too many characters to follow, and the next generation were irritating as fuck.

I can't remember, how did Pa March lose the family fortune again? I remember that Meg could "recall the departed days of plenty", but that's all.

Yes but it is ewwwwww because he first sees her when she is a young child. Ewwwwww

Laurie didn't think of marrying her till she was grown up, though, did he? He spent years mooning after Jo first.

And he's only 3/4 years older than Amy. When she's eighteen he's only about 22; nothing eeewww about that.

Professor Bhaer actor was in that Registry office thing with Ashley Judd wasn’t he? Or it looks very much like him.