Jane Eyre

[Boleyn]

OK who is going to watch it at 9pm?

Very '80s, but lovely production. Jane is fantastically dowdy but passionate. Dalton is gorgeous.

Hi there, Am new to this but a total Jane Eyre fan. I was wondering did anyone think Toby Stephens occassionally sounds slightly Irish?!!!!!

.... also, some of you were talking about bad continuity, what about the bad CGI of rain when they'd kissed. I thought it looked really fake as did the lightening. Other than that like I said, I'm loving it!

The girl who played the lead in North & South asked me directions yesterday. (Completely off-thread I know, but I'm starting to feel embarrassed by fancying Toby Stephens... )

Am re-reading Jane Eyre for the umpteenth time - tho not for ages - & the Lowood section is soooo sad!

I have literally just finished watching my DVD of North and South! Swooned at the train station scene where they kissed, even though it wasn't like that in the book! I do wish programme makers would stick to the real story

Three different people have told me Jane Eyre in this TV version is the spit of me.

Lol at those who say she is dowdy

At least she is a lot younger than me tho as one helpful colleague pointed out

Hmmm... Grace Poole as nanny to Mr & Mrs Rochester's kids? This is the person who was supposed to be guarding a pyromaniac lunatic who regularily escaped and roamed around creating merry hell? WHo had a bit of a gin drinking problem (at least in the book...)? I don't think so! The bit where Rochester was stroking Jane's neck was quite erotic though

wasn't that the lovliest ending....??? i'm such a sucker for a lovely ending!!! sigh!... almost blubbed!!!

I cried. Even though the family album shot was a bit sissy. But oh, when they find each other again...! Wish they'd had a voiceover from Jane at that point though saying 'reader, I married him'.

Oh and agree re Grace Poole that was VERY odd.

Have to say I thought Ruth Wilson was brilliant. Didn't like her at first but she really grew on me. I know Jane Eyre has a happy ending, but the way they showed it was somehow..... just pants. It was like a great big anti-climax really. At least in Wuthering Heights they all have the common decency to die . Jane Eyre is a brilliant book though.

Agree re: Grace Poole. But quite liked the ending , though they left out that he recovered sight in 1 eye. I actually preferred Toby to Timothy Dalton - though his facial scarring was pretty sissy compared to the 1980's version - remember being completely freaked when I saw it (was young and rather easily scared).

Oh Peggoty I was just in the mood for a completely sappy ending though. I liked that in this version you could see Jane and Rochester's chemistry. Still ticked off that they flew over her childhood as the child Jane was brilliant.

I don't know what is happening to me as I also like a Keira Knightly film now even though I feel like I am betraying the 90s P&P!

I haven't read the book for a very long time but I'm sure I remember Rochester getting his sight back (or some of it?). Am I completely imagining a scene at the end where Jane is bustling about and he suddenly asks her if she is wearing a blue dress? Perhaps I'm getting mixed up with something else.

Pixel he does. Not sure why not in this version..

Strawb, they were trailing Wide Sargasso Sea at the end, Jean Rhys's book about the first Mrs Rochester, on next Sunday. Will be odd to see another actor playing the young Edward, though.

Ruth Wilson was fantastic. Loved seeing her reading the bedtime story on Beebies too.

The more I think about that final scene, the odder it gets. Grace Poole and Adele? Surely A. just fades out of the book?

SAd it's over, as a Jayne groupie, but a little disappointed with the whole thing, apart from notably Ruth Wilson. Conveyed the sentiment and emotion brilliantly.

I think this series has been also commissioned for the US market, and so this does explain alot of the 'inconsistencies' and omissions...they have made the whole exercise more digestable for those unfamiliar with the book.

Soo agree on skimming over jayne as a child, esp. the walk on/off part of Helen at Lowood.

Hard to be analytical though on ANY production of such a heroine. Just great to get another airing for this masterpeice.

Found the ending rather too sickly sweet and the sea of faces confusing. The original was a little less of an idyll iirc, with more physical and psychological damage, but liked the passion of the reunion. I recall him recovering some vision too.

He did recover some of his sight.

I didn't mind the soppy ending tbh - the book is filled with such misery and cold weather that the ending is a huge relief. I imagine that if you were just watching this without knowing the book though it might not seem quite like that.

And hiring Grace Poole as the nanny was just daft.

I just caught this for the first time yesterday as I was recovering from a hangover. Very good convalescence material.

I thought Rochester was Damian Lewis with his hair dyed - same creases on his face. I succumbed too. What did he say.. ?I will not tempt you into a life of sin..? Haha - a nation a women willed him to do the opposite!

I thought the end bit with Syngeon (sp?) was daft - don't these Bronte's know when to stop? They did it with Wuthering Heights too!

Haven't read Jane Eyre though but might have a look now. Is it as boring as WH in places?

Don't like the look of young Rochester in Wide Sargasso Sea - he looks like one of Mitchell and Webb.

liked Rochester in this. thought he did the biting sarcasm brilliantly. Came across as attractive in a very contemporary way, which isn't always the case -- easily identifiable as the template for jilly cooper's heroes.

Just caught the repeat. Ending was a tad soppy but thought overall it was very beautifully done and the actress playing Jane was amazing.