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If you're an Anne of Green Gables fan have you heard about the new series?

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BuntyFigglesworthSpiffington · 05/04/2017 14:48

Written by the creators of Breaking Bad (!) so bound to be on the dark and gritty side. Coming to Netflix in May.

I think Megan Follows will always be 'my' Anne but I'll certainly give this a watch. There was a recent film version of AoGG on TV and it was really terrible, a stage school Anne-brat with false freckles. I wanted to slap her

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squoosh · 09/04/2017 15:51

Yes it's hard to adjust our modern tastes to watching those older BBC dramas isn't it? The sets and staging and acting all seem a bit wooden. Naturalistic acting wasn't yet the fashion I suppose.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 09/04/2017 16:03

Ha, found a snippet of Anne of Avonlea with Kim Braden on youtube - not quite as wooden as I feared!

ISaySteadyOn · 09/04/2017 18:51

Thumbwitch, that's great! Are they really all gone? I couldn't get them anywhere?

waitinforsuperman · 09/04/2017 21:16

That clip is brilliant! It's like watching a school stage production. I quite like Rachel Lynde in it.

MrFMercury · 09/04/2017 22:59

After the wonderful start of the 80's mini series and then the sucker punch of part 3 I'm very nervous about this new adaptation but will no doubt try it out eventually.
Gil was definitely my first love, in book then film form and I remember spotting Jonathan Crombie in an episode of The Good Wife not long before he died and getting very excited. I really did feel so sad when I heard he'd died. Both the books and that particular adaptation mean something to me I struggle to quite articulate somehow.

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BuntyFigglesworthSpiffington · 09/04/2017 23:09

I know exactly what you mean Mercury. I think when you're a child, things you love become a part of your soul (I'm aware of how cheesy that sounds!) that you carry with you through life. So although you may read a book or see a film as an adult and adore it you don't embrace it in the all encompassing way as you do when you're 8.

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MrFMercury · 10/04/2017 16:33

Yes that's pretty much it Bunty
I read it and then saw it and a very specific point of my life definitely.

shesnotme · 10/04/2017 16:38

Looks great

AmeliaPeabody · 10/04/2017 16:51

Yes, I've heard of it. I'll be interested to watch, I shall have to have a look at Netflix as I don't have it.

How far into the books will they be going I wonder. The Follows version of the first ( secondI , and possibly part third) think would be difficult to better, and they don't stick to book details there. It's only after Anne and Gilbert's marriage (they are married at that point aren't they) it all starts to go wrong, where they deviate too far, with the Follows adaptation. The latter books do need a bit of adaptation after a point, so I'll be interested to see what they do with them.

StickyProblem · 10/04/2017 18:29

Thanks so much for this! The only thing ever advertised on my Netflix is zombie crap, and I hate gore and violence. I have the books with Megan Follows but Kim Braden is the Anne I remember.
We are partial to laughing at Murdoch Mysteries I have to say - his eyeliner!!

bettys · 14/04/2017 13:20

Kim Braden is my favourite Anne too! although the BBC lost the first series, you can buy the second, Anne of Avonlea, which follows the books more closely than the Megan Follows version

AmeliaPeabody · 14/04/2017 13:24

I like the sound of that, Betty's. Pity the first was lost

bettys · 14/04/2017 13:29

Sadly Christopher Blake, who played Gilbert Blythe, also died young at only 55.

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 14/04/2017 16:48

Thank you bettys - just ordered that!

I have an extremely vague recollection that the BBC accidentally deleted the original Anne of Green Gables series, but not sure where I heard that...

diddl · 14/04/2017 17:10

I think I remember seing some of the Christopher Blake one. Anyone remember him in Love for Lydia?

CorporalNobbyNobbs · 14/04/2017 18:01

I've watched three episode of it I quite like it. A bit more focus on Anne's horrible life before moving to Avonlea and some other plot deviations but overall faithful enough.

diddl · 14/04/2017 18:23

Does anyone know if it's possible to watch the series with Megan Follows somewhere?

bettys · 14/04/2017 18:46

Yes! He was very good in Love for Lydia

MerryMarigold · 14/04/2017 18:51

My dsis bought me the complete AoGG series on DVD for xmas. (But really only Part 1 and part 2 are the proper ones). I think it's dutch but it works in my dvd player and is not subtitled or dubbed.

I love, love, loved the casting of the Canadian series, but it really lost it once she left Avonlea. It was all made up after that and nowhere near as good as the books which I read over and over - complete set, up until the first world war.

bettys · 14/04/2017 18:53

CorporalNobbyNobbs I've watched the trailer for the Netflix one and am torn as to whether to watch it or not. Can't even contemplate Martin Sheen as Matthew so not going near that one!

MerryMarigold · 14/04/2017 18:53

Watched the clip and whilst I quite like Anne, no-one can ever replace Matthew.

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