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.

It's funny I never really raved that much about Kate Winslett as Marianne, but seeing this one makes you realise just what a great actor she is. I know IABU, but this Marianne just has a very stupid face. She's very pretty but oh so annoying. KW just had it all so perfectly. This one's nearly good, but not quite.

well I thought it improved dramatically this week, starting to like Elinor and thought the Miss Steeles were very amusing.

Well it's bloody annoying me. The cottage right next to the sea, all the rugged countryside, all those rocks, waves, standing in a cave fgs. It's not flippin Bronte. Jane Austen I'm sure was a plucky type but for heavens sake!

Yes - there are an awful lot of dramatic crashing waves, aren't there.

Miss Steele was hilarious. Just like a Jane Austen version of Vikki Pollard.

Yes the cottage is annoying. They weren't THAT poor.

Having never seen the film nor read the book I'm enjoying this series except that it's exactly the same story as Pride and Prejudice!

Afficionados of Miss Austen- is that the case with all her books?

Yes, some of them do overlap a bit I think.

Elinor talking about money in front of people outside the family wouldn't happen either.

But I am quite enjoying this. I love Miss Steel and her beaux as well!

I'm really enjoying it, especially any scene with David Morrissey in .

I do think the screenplay is good. In the ET version everything between Marianne and Willoughby was a bit too chaste.

Dramatic crashing waves are not strictly correct but I am enjoying the location spotting as it was all filmed near where I live.

there's another version of this on?

Did they really go off unchaperoned for an afternoon in the book? Don't remember it but do have dreadful memory...

You mean the ET version? Emma Thompson as Elinor directed by Ang Lee i think. 1995 though or thereabouts.

Expat - it's a 3 part series. Tonight was part 2.

Yes, he did take her to see what she fondly imagined to be their future home - and Mrs Jennings did 'find her out'.

LittleBella, I did think that the "being very poor and money would make it better" conversation wasn't very Jane Austin. Although as Edward was their BIL (or at least their brother's BIL) he sort of was family, and presumably he already knew exactly how much money they had to live on.

It's so long since I read the book I can't remember whether there was any reference to Edward knowing about their financial situation.

evenhope, there are certain similarities - boy meets girl, there are obstacles to the path of true love, it all sorts itself out in the end. But P&P is about exactly what it says - about judgment, really. S&S is about the rivalry between old-fashioned discretion and stiff upper lip stuff and that new-fangled romantic movement, letting it all hang out. (Terribly anachronistic terms but YKWIM.)

Personally I like Persuasion best but that could be a sign of age.

Agree this one is too similar to the film - the Marianne actress looks like a poor woman's Kate Winslet.

I'm pretty sure that Elinor does have that conversation about money in the book - I'll check tomorrow!

I thought it improved and the Miss Steeles were excellent. Colonel Brandon gets better and better. Apart from that stupid scene between Colonel Brandon and Willoughby at the beginning.

I don't think it's the same story as Pride and Prejudice!

And Edward Ferrers a poor man's Hugh Grant.

She does have that conversation with Marianne, but they missed out the best bit of it - and the whole point of it!
Elinor is saying that it is better to have money and Marianne highmindedly and romantically disagreeing that being rich is important and it then transpires that the amount Elinor considers to be riches is the same as the amount that Marianne considers to be a mere competence.

Damn it, I missed the first half, does it repeat?

Andrew Davies does chocolate box versions of novels. Not too keen. And the summing up of the next episode at the end of each is a bit EastEnders. Love Janet McTeer and some of the character actors. I was surprised to see Marianne and Willougby going off unchaperoned too - will have to go back to book. And yes Willoughby is far too obviously a cad, and I think David Morrisey is far too obviously a gentleman - he is supposed to seem a bit more dull and dry, thought Rickman did that rather well.

yes exactly Rosa!