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JaneJeffer · 25/08/2019 21:01

Anyone watching?

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PerkingFaintly · 16/09/2019 09:27

Ah yes, in Austen, by their carriages and driving style ye shall know them.

Also by their card games.

QueenOfIce · 16/09/2019 09:36

I just want Sidney to give me Charlotte a good seeing to à la Harlots.

JaneJeffer · 16/09/2019 09:48

I'd love that to happen Father. If only.

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FatherFintanFay · 16/09/2019 09:58

Flavia is that really all that's seen of him? I'll have a read of it later but if so, Andrew Davies seems to have tried to make him like Mr Darcy x 100, only at the moment he's reversed his brief redemption arc. There'll probably be something revealed about Miss Lambe's beau that will be important later, a la Mr Wickham having seduced Georgiana Darcy.

FlaviaAlbia · 16/09/2019 10:49

Yes FatherFintanFay
He's described a bit by Mr Parker but that's the only time he actually appears.

The descriptions lead you to think he's good humoured, intelligent, eligible and a social asset so quite a contrast from the Sidney of the TV series Grin

FlaviaAlbia · 16/09/2019 10:50

Perking Grin

FatherFintanFay · 16/09/2019 10:55

Also... aren't they all mispronouncing Miss Lambe's first name? I thought it was said Jaw-jayn-a, not Georgie-ah-na.

ReturnofSaturn · 16/09/2019 12:18

Who else finds the foreman heaps more attractive than Sidney?

FatherFintanFay · 16/09/2019 14:08

Saturn lots of us on this thread are Team Stringer, but we're not hopeful that he'll end up with Charlotte by the end...

PirateWeasel · 17/09/2019 19:40

Proud to say I married my Young Stringer. No Sidney Parkers for me!

FatherFintanFay · 17/09/2019 19:57

Do tell us more PirateWeasel Grin

Rhubarb01 · 17/09/2019 20:02

As much as Sidney has a lot to recommend him from a purely superficial and obvious point of view, I have to say that Young Stringer is the one I find myself rooting for more at the moment. However, on the whole, I'm not really that bothered who ends up with who.

Babybel90 · 17/09/2019 22:07

I think Sidney has got some sort of personality disorder, it’s not very “Jane Austen” to be having a slanging match in the middle of the street.

I hope Lady Denham pops her clogs, leaves her fortune to Miss Heywood and she marries Young Stringer.

I also can’t get past my disbelief that Sidney, Tom and the other one (Arthur?) are supposed to be brothers, they don’t even look like the same species.

CatherineVelindre · 19/09/2019 22:28

I've watched all the episodes so far in the last 3 days.

I can't not watch it, but in a terrible "I can't believe they're actually doing this" kind of way.

The 3 things that are most annoying (ignoring the elephant in the room that is the script, plot and everything else....)

Charlotte's hair. She's out in society. Her hair should be up.
The appalling CGI.
The music. It's so dreadfully unsubtle and inappropriate.

DD1 and I are rooting for Young Stringer who is handsome, pleasant, hardworking and, involved in neither the slave trade nor sexual coercion.

I honestly can't see how the putative hero's story arc can be pulled round in the time left.

(DD1 when asked if there was anything she liked about the production could only think of Charlotte's green velvet jacket. That isn't a good sign for devoted Austenites is it?)

mogtheexcellent · 21/09/2019 19:09

The hair is annoying isn't it. Its not even tidy. Confused

I suppose its to show the difference in social standing but even the housemaids in Downton abbey can manage an up do.

The green velvet jacket is lovely.

I'm on team Stringer.

FatherFintanFay · 22/09/2019 09:02

Right, I read the fragment, and I can sort of see where AD got some of his ideas from, but he has clearly plucked some of the others out of nowhere.

The most obvious "change" is with Edward and Esther. Edward is presented as being a silly and foppish man, who pays a lot of attention to Charlotte in the initial part of the book. The conflict between them and Clara could be seen as coming from the situation with Lady Denham's inheritance, but there are certainly no open hostilities and I don't know where the hell AD got the thing about them only being step-siblings. I suppose it was so he could throw in the juicy incest bit, like he did with Helena and Anatole in his War and Peace adaptation. He seems to have a very unwholesome fondness for that sort of thing.

Sidney is barely seen but is spoken of fondly. I think if we assume that Austen intended for Charlotte to end up with someone, he is the most likely candidate, unless she was planning to introduce another character later on. But I think, unless I'm misremembering, that she usually introduced all the main players in the early chapters. It didn't say anything about Sidney being Miss Lambe's guardian either.

Sadly, there was no Mr Stringer or similar character. I suspect that it would be seen as a step too far for Charlotte to get together with a character who wasn't in the original text but who knows... enough liberties have been taken thus far so I suppose it's still possible!

JaneJeffer · 22/09/2019 12:16

The Parker family are a disaster. Tom can't manage his money. Sidney is aggressive. Arthur is an idiot. Diana is a hypochondriac. Charlotte should just get the next coach home.

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Rhubarb01 · 22/09/2019 12:28

In other words @JaneJeffer they are a full set of the usual Jane Austen types Grin - apart from perhaps the aggressive manner of Sidney. (For all his social awkwardness, Darcy never quite forgets his manners - he might have been cross with Elizabeth at the ill-timed proposal, but I'm sure he would never have shouted at her in the street).

Rhubarb01 · 22/09/2019 12:40

I'm also curious to know why Sidney won't let Otis anywhere near Georgiana. I know the implication from Charlotte is that it's purely racist (Otis is a former slave and poor), but I'm fearing we're going to learn Sidney is more noble than that and poor Otis has behaved in a Wickham-like manner. I would very much like that not to be the case. I'm hoping there is a twist of some kind and Sidney's motives are different in protecting her. Perhaps Georgiana and Otis can be together and he will indeed be everything he appears to be.

JaneJeffer · 22/09/2019 21:26

Will the workers turn up for the cricket? Absolutely riveting stuff.

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Rhubarb01 · 22/09/2019 21:30

Yes, I had similar thoughts myself - it has dragged a bit today.

JaneJeffer · 22/09/2019 22:01

I wonder how many episodes there are. A lot of filler tonight.

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Rhubarb01 · 22/09/2019 22:03

Unbelievably there are 3 more episodes!

Babybel90 · 22/09/2019 22:04

I thought I might be the only one still watching, it was so dull this week.

Rhubarb01 · 22/09/2019 22:08

So, Miss Lambe has been kidnapped and Sidney is laying all the blame on Charlotte. As much as it's rude and ungallant of him, it's also...true!

Young Stringer is so much nicer...here's hoping.

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