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.

Marianne was the bird, flying free, soaring in the heights of her passion! Colonel Brandon just sort of stood there, let her read his books and play with his organ (and who knows, maybe she even pinched some of the strawberries in that conspicuous bowl in the library) and then she came to him, all heaving bosom and tousled hair.

And then he took her home for a jolly good chafing.

Elinor was so upset she went and made bread. And then she and Edward chased some chickens.

Oh, I do love a clunky animal/baking metaphor.

Jackie no - Oh the Horsewhisper stuff

Everyone involved should just hang their heads in shame.

Really. Have some self respect!!!!!!

And I do so like to see the baddies punished, JA usually offers up bittersuit justice, but where was it?

Actually I did like the Miss Steels, comic but coarsely awful at the same time, which is how I imagined them.

I haven't seen the Ang Li film - a treat for later - so have come to this with fresh eyes, although rapidly did a re-read of S&S.

Thought the film showed far more of Col Brandon than the book does, especially the horse-whisering wooing of Marianne.

the wild bird tamed stuff was truly toe curling - and I can't remember but really can't believe that Jane Austen would put anything as crass as wild horse taming analogies in Elinor's mouth. Yuckety yuck.

I've watched too many fancy-dress series recently. They're all starting to merge in my mind.

I did wonder whether I'd seen Marianne and Edward's house at the end somewhere in Cranford. Or was it just that we'd seen it earlier in S&S?

It was much an adaptation of the film adaptation(and other Austen adaptations Lady Catherine de Bourgh playing Mrs Ferrars anyone? ) with a few episiodes of spelling it out (no duel or overheard Elinor/Willoughby conforntattion as I recall) and then glossing over details such as Marianne walking towards Willoughby's house. Disappointing and dumbed down

yes Kerry has recently cast off her foot! She's got such a devil-may-care attitude!

i'm hoping to cast off my sense of propriety Sue. Care to join me?

|I fear I am too firmly wedded to mine. It has its purpose, you know.

LIZS you are so right about Catherine De Bourgh! That'sense of deja vu's been really bugging me, couldn't work out why...

So many senses of deja vu. Is my summing up.

deja vu: also known as 'derivative filmic plagiarism and lack of original imagination and wit'

Iknow you are right Sue. I just can't remember what its purpose is.

Mine hasn't been tested, in any case, for a v long time. Is it like a smoke alarm, regular testing vital? If so, is there a tradesman one can pay to come and test one's sense of propriety?

It saves me from one form of heartache and gives me another.

. I suspect you speak for many of us.
I am feeling quite.. Elinor-ish at the mo. Actually more a sense of miasmic longing - a bit more Gothic, if you like, than Comedy of Manners.

PRIDE AND PREDJ Kerry, without a sliver of a doubt.

I would have thought you could test your sense of propriety on any passing tradesman...

i meant PRIDE AND PREDGE

Also now is maybe a good time, if you're forced to sit, which I know has been a 'mare. No pleasure in sitting if you still have to do normal life though, really, is there? So strike that.

Rusty don't be ler-yude-icrous. I always get references before employing any tradesmen. Goodness!

just make sure they are accredited Kerry, for goodness' sake!
Then, if they don't do a good job testing your propriety (not replacing batteries for example, or offering a short screw when a long one is required) you can report them, and have them struck off.

Sorry everyone. Don't know what's wrong with me. Think it's a sense of thwart, at last night's debacle.

Well, I feel cheated.

I sat down three weeks ago, saying 'I will not make negative comparisons with Ang Lee film (which I adore with a passion) before I've even given this a chance.'

So I gave it a chance. And look what happened - a ridiculously ineptly acted interpretation of not the novel, but Emma Thompson's screenplay! Sticking the duel and Willoughby's visit to Cleveland in to fill up the extra hour does not make it original, Andrew Davies!

I ended up brooding over why Elinor's hair was so rubbish compared to Marianne's and what that little hole was for in the back of Brandon's waistcoat - possibly not what I was meant to be thinking about during the dramatic final episode!

But it did inspire me to watch the film again to fall in love with the story all over again so that's a bonus.