Is anyone else watching the new Sense and Sensebility atm?

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It is good but quite odd as the casting is strangely similar to the film version, ie they all look and sound very alike.

No, no, sorry, I meant Miss Marianne. You're quite right re Miss Dashwood, but he really wouldn't have called her Marianne at that stage, i'm full on certain about that.

I don't think Elinor is like emma T particularly tbh.

I thought Andrew D's dialogue was not impressive in the first 30 minutes, it was all so po-faced and sluggish, and they were so bitchy and nasty in front of the servants, and the whole of the expansion of Margaret's character was definitely straight from the film. I'd give it a C+ I think, as it did pick up a bit in the 2nd half.

the younger (margaret?) was posy in ballet shoes i think. most offputting.

I thought Elinor's inflections were very Emma thompson

I'm loving it - can never have too much Jane Austen IMO. David Morrisey is a bit swoonsome.........
Ofcourse its going to sound like the film - it is the same book

But we're not talking about the dialogue sounding the same Multitasker but the inflections of some of the actors, especially Elinor imho.

good point!!

Yes it is the same book and there are bound to be similarities but for example the film and TV versions of Emma and Pride and Prejudice were all very different while remaining faithful to the book. I think there is scope for different interpretations.

Perhaps future episodes will be more different from the film.

And some of the TV seems to be taken from the film but not in the book such as the friendship between Margaret and Edward.

oops my last post was refering to the 'same book' comment!!!

And surely the house at the beginning of the book was far too grand to be 'dear, dear Norland'. It looked more like a ducal mansion than the home of a country gentleman.

i watched the film which was on two hours earlier on living so it sort of spoilt the new series. was ok but you can't beat alan rickman can you really. though i have a soft spot for david morrissey.

and i kept expecting the bloke from the fast show to 'get his coat'.

Well, I'm just happy because dh sat and watched it with me. The whole lot.With no comlaints.And even said he quite liked it. You have no idea what a shock that was to me!

Yep agree that Mr Willoughby is just not cutting in and the whole point has to be that he is without doubt a complete God...without that no plot! Greg Wise impossible to beat as charming cad with little required in acting. The sisters are not a patch on the completely OTT Thompson/Winslet combo. Plus Mum is far better looking than the daughters!

Was completely thrown by the 'if I close my eyes that's Emma Thompson speaking' bit as well. And Elinor just isn't elegant enough in this version. But at least the ages of the actors seem slightly more accurate - re-reading the book now and Brandon is 35! Poor old Alan Rickman can't really carry that off (although I stand firmly by my belief that when he reads that poem to Marianne towards the end of the film, it's one of the most swoonsomely romantic bits of cinema ever!)

Gosh I'd forgot about the poem reading - that was great. My DH actually watched it all too and asked questions! Wonders will never cease.

I too thought they mostly sounded like their film counterparts, Elinor and Edward particularly.

And what was Arthur Weasley doing in Regency England? Did he get there via the floo network I wonder?

agree with the voices thing. I said the same to DH. Also think Willoughby is not as dashing as Greg Wise (but who is? )

I will keep with it though - is it always going to be on Tuesday?

No, next episode is Sunday.

Did not think that Willoughby was good looking enough. Really liked the colonel though. DH was reading the paper and then half way through got a bit interested and asked what was happening, as he always does with these programmes. We loved the way thet the cottage they were 'slumming it' in was our dream home!

I was a bit ??? because Colonel Brandon does not really know the extent of Willoughby's deceit yet. Well, as per the book anyway. Maybe he just sees him a rival. And Willouhby has no reason to dislike CB at all.

I only last read the book again last year, so we shall see how it measures up.

good programme for a Sunday evening anyway!

Yes DG I wondered that about Arthur Weasley!

but isn't Margaret wonderfully brattish?

I wonder if she worries re being typecast, what with this and Posy in the space of a week...

I am so glad they left out the atlas nonsense which was nowhere in the book.