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.

what i didn't like about the recent Jane Eyre was it lacked any real menace or darkness...it was all rather tame and Jane was so utterly sensible, you didn't really get a sense of any underlying darkness or passion or anger anywhere. Loved the recent adaption of Wide Sargasso Sea..that was beautifully done and spine shivering.

gosh
didn't see it tho.
Is it just me or is his name.. weird?
Like Rupert Bear, no?

He and Keira look uncannily similar JackieNo...

bloody hell Wide Sargasso Sea? I really should watch tv more. Or are these all cinema?

I didn't manage to watch Wide Sargasso Sea, but it pretty much followed on from the Jane Eyre, I seem to remember, but possibly only on one of the BBC digital channels?

Agree about Rupert's name - slightly strange.

This one, Onebatmother.

it was bbc2 or 4 - the only channels i watch of course.
Thing is onebat i haven't read a book for, um, at least two years.

Unless you count Dig Dig Digger amd The Whale and the Snail....

Ruty nor I for at least a year. Have started several but fell at first hurdle. Apart from 'Pass Your Driving Theory".

So that's no films. Bugger all TV. No books.

Where does the time go, I wonder?

What do you do in the evenings onebat? [Don't tell me you're having sex or something equally outrageous]

kk and rf an item, apparently.

ruty - she's on here, of course, as are we all.

really, surrounded?

they're all a bit odd, though, aren't they, actors?

I mean they've always been odd obv but I do think are odder now than in my youth.

Sorry to join at this late stage, but my problem with the KK version (apart from MMF looking as though he had a ghastly stomach ache all the way through) is that it was JA as filmed by Charlotte Bronte, terribly intense and romantic. Disappointing, very.

that's interesting pp. Not seen it but can totally imaging what you mean...

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'can totally imagine what you mean.'

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that is a very lovely cottage cod...

It wasn't bad, it just wasn't very Austen. I guess they are perfectly entitled to take a plot and film it how they wish but since Austen has such a unique tone, it just felt rather odd.

OK--I still have one pressing questions.

Sir John Ferrar's little boy (ie, step-nephew of Marianne and Elinor), glimpsed briefly in the first episode and last episode. If that were your son, would you have let them do him up like that? I mean the OTT red hair and looking very fat and twittish?

That crossed my mind too. Of course the kid might look like that in real life .

If he does - he's clearly Archie from Ballamory's son.

I am still rereading it and being so that everything is wrong

he was making it up

quite often Elinor says something very definite to someone in the TV version which is the complete opposite of what she says in the book