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.

I bet she is loving it though!

I've been told to watch out for the wood chopping bit on Sunday.

Never saw the whole of the previous film - just bits and pieces - so looking at this version with fresh eyes and really enjoying it, but will definitely get hold of the original since you've all raved about it.

Ooh look: you can rent their cottage .

But it looks very different now (scroll down - it's Blackpool Mill). Should have left it, I reckon.

wow good links JackieNo - what a transformation. Reminds me of what they did to Lacock for Cranford!

I enjoyed it very much but agree about the similarities with the film--esp. Elinor's intonation.
The S&S film is wonderful. The scenes where Kate W. as Marinanne is singing and playing the piano and Alan Rickman is watching her always move me enormously.

oh yes me too Eliza - but then I just adore Alan Rickman

PaperChain--falling down next to you. Sigh.

I have just changed my msn pic to one of Alan. I am in Lurve

I have lost track of the number of times I have had to tell you all on here that Mr Rickman is mine - now get back to the end of the queue please ladies!!!!

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They really should have left out the line about Col. Brandon being 35. Mr Morrissey hardly passes for that. I have fancied him since he played Ripley Holden in Blackpool (a pretty different character!)

LOL. I wish they had left out the line where the mother says at 35, Col Brandon is only 5 years younger than herself. So that makes her 40 and supposedly past it. Not a great thing to have to contemplate when I have just turned 43!

For fans of the film, read this and hear Alan Rickman's voice in your head as you do...

What though the sea with waues continuall
Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all:
Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought,
For whatsoeuer from one place doth fall,
Is with the tide vnto an other brought:
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.

am hearing that voice

I agree that this is a difficult one to succeed with, as the Emma Thompson film was so very good (except I do agree, Kate Winslet annoyingly petulant as Marianne and the TV girl is making a better stab at her I think).

I think I prefer the TV Marianne too. I don't think Kate Winslet really got Marianne's impulsive wilfulness properly - she came across as a spoilt brat. And good as she was, Emma Thompson was too old to play Elinor.

For some inexplicable reason we in Scotland got this tonight (thought I sneaked onto the English channels to watch it the other night!)

So I'm watching it again, can't make my mind up about it though.

Anyone else think the soundtrack is very like "Last of the Mohicans" in places?

best bit in the film, by a country mile, is Brandon saying "Find me an occupation, or I shall run mad." OO, me knees are going at the memory.

If David Morrisey can do that, I might be impressed, but it is seeming a tad dull, for all the purported 'sexing up'. Willoughby looked a bit like a slightly pudgy schoolboy. I must be getting old.

just watched this with DH, sniggered for most of it but in a "I'm quite enjoying this" manner finishing with DH's response to the tv announcer ("next episode will be on Sunday at 9pm)...

"well, I shall be there, as long as I am not in Somersetshire"

I'll be there!! Brilliant!

(I don't watch period things usually!)

SueBaroo, totally and utterly agree with you re the best bit of the film. I am actually not an Alan Rickman adorer, but that one line in that film changed the way I saw him forever. When people go on about him and I find it hard to see what they like about him, that is the line I remember!

LOL at pp, Mrs Dashwood is by far the prettiest of her entire family!
Do you know I don't remember Cousin Middleton even having a wife and kids in the ET film? I thought he must be widowed and just good mates with his MIL. Was disappointed they didn't do the 'Fondant!' guessing game at dinner, guess it's not original Jane Austen dialogue.

Middleton has a very insipid wife who adds little to the plot, so the ET version cut her. I think she's probably there to contrast with him and with Mrs Jennings' "vulgarities" but emphasising that her coldness and over-awareness of "manners" are equally unlikeable - maybe a wake up call to Elinor to be a bit more emotional?

I thought it was hugely derivative of the ET (which I think is wonderfully cast and scripted by the way) despite whatsisname making a mahoosive fuss about how different it was going to be.
Willoughby's OK but not helped by the fact that I saw him just the other day as the oversexed sixth former getting off with all the boys and girls in sight in the History Boys.

Oh SueBaroo - I love that line as well.

I'm looking forward to tonight - I wonder if there is any chance at all that they will have included Lucy Steele's sister in this one - they always cut her out and I would love to see her done.