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

[HarrietKettleWasHere]

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?

Sorry she waa eleven.
Still unlikely!

(Unlikely in half starved orphan in early 20th century PEI) not unlikely now.
But then I like the Megan Follows Anne and the Anne from the books.

I've just read an online essay, re: Beth possibly being a candidate for Anorexia Nervosa. Quite a compelling case for it. Plus some bonus Pa March criticism about a quarter of the way through!

malmaison.typepad.com/malmaison/little-women-on-the-couch.html

A lot of the accents in Eastern Canada, including PEI, have a pretty distinct Irish influence.

The journalist Lyse Doucet comes from New Brunswick, which is next to PEI. Her accent has a slightly Irish sound.

livingdownsouth I did enjoy writing a character assassination of Pa March in an essay

Have you read "March" Geraldine Brooks'(s) - not too sure about the necessity for the extra s - Pulitzer winning prequel to "Little Women"? It is about Pa March, and whilst I can't remember many details about the book, I remember that he made me want to slap him very, very hard.

I've loved every version I've ever seen but I think this is the best so far. The characters seem darker and more real than the two dimensional versions I've seen in previous adaptations. And I loved the depiction of Brook going off to war. It seemed authentic, not glorified. I think Heidi Thomas has done a great job of giving depth whilst staying close to the source material. Although the dad is a bit af an arse.

It reminds me of the Netflix 'Anne with an E' that was on earlier this year, which although it strayed from the Anne books in terms of plot explored the character's past in more depth than would have been possible when they were written. I would love to see an adaptation of the Little House in the Prairie books done in a similarly realistic style. It might finally solve the mystery of how they want to the loo during the Long Winter.

Oooh I had no idea HarrietVane! I always thought she came from Ireland! 😲

Fun fact people- AmyBeth McNulty who played Anne With an E is actually Irish, from Donegal (Up Donegal!) so presumably has her own very distinctive accent and her mum is Canadian. The combination must have been very helpful in playing her part.

I really hate Little Men; it has a very clear "disabled people are better off dead" message.

But my mind is quite blown by the possibility of the Ballet Shoes girls being biological half sisters and the results of GUM's philandering.

I really enjoyed this, even though I wasn't very taken with the characters in the first episode. It relieved me of a dreadful burden of thinking poor Jo had gone off and married a gruff, bear-like middle-aged man on the rebound from Laurie, because the prof was quite appealing. Though Laurie was gorgeous too, and even John Brookes came across as quite charming as well.

(I don't think Marmee would approve of me watching the adaptation for the eye-candy.)

Re Ballet Shoes - I never thought twice about why an elderly man kept coming home and leaving babies with his niece when I first read it. He must have been a real babe magnet. Gets coat

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

I have only seen trailers; it's won't be seen in the US until later in 2018, but based on what I heard, the accents aren't authentic to the place and time. The real test is in the pronunciation of "Marmee." It should sound very much like "Mommy." The New England accent is one of the few non-rhotic accents in North America, and it was even more so in the 19th century. If you want more authentic accents, then you will need to see the Katherine Hepburn 1933 version.

Before writing Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild wrote an adult version of the story called The Whicharts. It certainly paints a rather eartheir picture of The girls' origins!

Seneca , they were saying 'mommy', particularly Jo.

My favourite adaption of a children's book was the one the BBC did of A Box of Delights in the mid-80s. Still available on DVD and wonderful.

My mind is blown by the GUM revelation!!

It might finally solve the mystery of how they want to the loo during the Long Winter

Potty, surely?

I was very distracted throughout by Amy's peculiar orange hair. Why oh why??

I just found the 1970 BBC version. It's a bit blurry and the sound isn't good, but the acting is excellent so far, as are the accents.

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

Laurie is only 3 years older than Amy.

I know this *spikey( but I think the book and the 1993 film do exaggerate the fact that she is a child when they first meet (she looks about 8 in the film!) and don't ever make him (or Jo) look 15. I can rationalise it but I still feel a bit grossed out. I love Laurie but he never looks beyond those March sisters!

The BBC adaptation was clearly avoiding a sense that Amy was a little girl and had Laure looking at Amy form the start in some kind of admiration. Anyone who didn't know the story would assume he fancied her from the off (but loved Jo) which is fine since she looked 16 at least.

What I have learned, this morning, is that GUM was indeed, a real babe magnet.

That article is quite interesting!

And Pa was a bit crap at times.

If we're talking Harry Potter, and I'm sorry if someone else missed it, the casting of his parents in the films annoys me.

James and Lily both died aged 21 in the books.

The actor who played James in the film was 43 in the first film.

The actress who played Lily was 34 in the first film.

It provokes me every single time, James in particular for some reason.

Not if someone else missed it. If I missed someone else saying it.

actualteenadultteen.tumblr.com/post/73528692877/the-cast-of-little-women

If you like commenting on the ages of alleged teenagers on film you might enjoy this

None of Harry's parents generation are the right age, but I forgive them because if they hadn't aged them all up we couldn't have had Alan Rickman as Snape.