Sanditon ITV

[JaneJeffer]

Anyone watching?

Strange music. Similar to Gentleman Jack.

Weird music. Reminds me of Gentleman Jack.

Oops.

I'm not sure this will remain interesting for another seven episodes. They've already exhausted what JA wrote.

Sanditon shows that Jane Austen had read Clarissa, not just Sir Charles Grandison by Richardson, but she was already very ill when she started it, and who knows where she would have gone with it. I missed the beginning, but what I saw appeared to be entirely Andrew Davies(apart from the scene of some sort of romantic/sexual encounter, which is in Sanditon, but dealt with by Davies in his own way). I couldn't recognize any Austen dialogue at all. If people want to watch it they will have to take it for what it is - the names of some characters created by Austen, but otherwise entirely Davies.

I also read the most of the sets are studio to try to be authentic, as seaside resorts have changed so much since the Regency. Also a few actual historic houses are used.

It s ok but I found it hard to follow. Very similar to P and P I think. Her and the brother hate each other, he thinks he's better than her, they argue then fall in love. Seems very predictable. Seems lots of lines are copied.

Would men really have swam naked in those times?

Tobias Eaton’s appearance gave me a pleasant surprise!

Am not regarding it as an Austen adaptation, but a regency romp, and enjoyed it.

Agree with PP that it would’ve been good if they’d plausibly explained who paid for Charlotte’s dresses, living expenses and dancing shoes!

As far as I am aware, there is very little chance that men would have swam naked where they could have potentially be seen by ladies. I think those bottoms were a Davies touch.

It was ok but not at all keen on Sidney Parker’s poundshop Darcy

Austen wrote only a few thousand fairly rough words of this — has Andrew Davies just invented the rest?

The sets look so fake!

It's different to the book that was finished by someone else

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11790472/Marie-Dobbs-author-obituary.html

I liked the book.

This is OK but the actress Rose Williams reminds me of Keira Knightley which was a bit distracting. I like Anne Reid in it.

This is more of an “inspired by Jane Austen” really isn’t it. Not feeling it so far - some of the casting is not great IMO. Will give it another episode.

I switched off after half an hour or so because the crap sets (cardboard scenery is spot on!), boring story and endless shots of Miss Hayward looking meaningfully at things did my head in.

I read the Spectator instead. Much more entertaining.

Weird music. Reminds me of Gentleman Jack.

Good call. Except for calling it weird. O'Hooley and Tidow who wrote the GJ theme tune and Julie Fowliss who wrote the ballroom music tonight and did a cameo all play the same folk festivals.

Have never heard of Hunderby, is it a spoof? Good?

I managed about 15 minutes before throwing in the towel. It felt too "modern" to me and I couldn't warm to the characters.

I think it is just Andrew Davies having got very bored with doing straightforward JA adaptations for the BBC and (accoridng to one newspaper) sexing it up for ITV. JA meets love island.

The problem is there have been so many tv adaptation of JA and others, that something like this just seems a parody.

To quote a newspaper reviewer, in going for the bling zing style it just doesn't have any of the JA quiet observations and implied content behind polite conversation.

Or maybe its just JA meets Beecham House.

Men would have bathed naked during the Regency period, and they wouldn't have been segregated from women to any great degree. It was only later on in the 1840s and 1850s that people started worrying about public decency and seeing nudity as something immoral.

As for Sanditon, I'm not familiar with the fragment that Austen wrote, but what there is seems to suffer from even more than the usual surfeit of characters. There are too many brothers and cousins for my liking! I assume we're meant to think that Charlotte will end up with the grumpy Darcy/Knightly hybrid who told her off at the ball but I can't see myself being interested enough to stick with it for the whole 8 episodes to find out.

The music is really annoying.

So Charlotte’s parents let her leave the farm and go off with random people. The Parker’s are happy to feed and clothe her? I presume Charlotte is meant to be a middle class farmer’s daughter?

The brother and sister and rather sinister and incesty.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/inews.co.uk/culture/television/sanditon-where-filmed-filming-locations-jane-austen-series-itv/amp/

Wikipedia says that Charlotte's father is a "country gentleman", so probably a cut above a farmer. The Parkers were meant to have stayed for a fortnight while his injured ankle healed, and they offered to take Charlotte back to Sanditon with them as a thank-you gesture. People did seem to have a much more easy attitude towards hosting people they barely knew and staying with friends for months on end. I suppose when travel was so much more difficult you didn't make flying visits!

It was pretty shit I thought, but I may well watch again next week! All the script subtlety of a blunderbuss, plotlines flagged up with huge arrows that should have knocked our heroine right over, token grumpy arrogant git who our heroine will end up marrying and will finish her days in seething resentment of his cantankerous condescension, an unpleasant and money-grabbing brother and sister borrowed from another novel, cardboard sets, hammy acting from Kris Marshall and his buffoon brother, and a myopic heroine. I kept wanting to hand her some specs, the way she kept scrunching her eyes up. It's quite ITV. But harmless enough on a Sunday night.

Rats.

I forgot to watch/record but saw it's on catchup. Not sure if I'll bother now...

Very sad it's not replacing my Downton Abbey sunday nights