Janeite and other Austen buffs...

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Lost in Austen is on ITV at 9 tonight. Seems to be Life on Mars except that someone swaps with/becomes Elizabeth Bennett. I'm poised, ready and waiting, to mock but it might be strangely good.

Freckle, I think it was a long top with jeans underneath.

I've just watched the first episode, had to download it as couldn't get it to work on ITV. Had hoped to watch it before the next part came out but I think I'll have to download the next one too.

Funny how P&P's biggest fan is completely lost when put into the book, I'm surprised she doesn't know enough to get by.

TBM... where did you download it from? I see the link to watch it at the ITV website but I enjoyed the first episode so much I was planning to record the series to send to my mother.

I got it on mininova. It didn't take long to download, even though there weren't many seeds. If you want to download it let me know and I'll seed it.

I'm going to have to talk to hubs about this one because I don't know what seeds means ... I'll be back

i read that and have no idea either

A peer is someone who is also downloading a file and upload what they've already got while they wait for their file.

A seed is someone who has the full file and is just uploading it.

If there are only peers then you won't get the full file and the more peers and seeds the better.

You need to get the download file from mininova and open it in something like μTorrent. It's not as complicated as it sounds! The only bit you have to worry about (once you have μTorrent or whichever) is finding the file, telling it to run and waiting.

Or watch directly on the offical ITV site here

Didn't work for me that's why I downloaded it and someone else wanted to copy to send to her mum.

Just seen the second episode, it's absolutely hysterical! I don't know why she's trying to be true to the book, I'd be having as much fun as possible with it knowing it's not history so I can't change timelines.

I think it's hysterical too. And brilliant. It's the best thing that's been on telly in yonks and keeps me going until Spooks starts again.

Everyone at work keeps staring at me blankly, mainly, I think, as only one of them has ever read P&P, let alone watched it. Except for my intellectual snob of a boss who decided not to watch it because the Guardian was snotty and superior about it.

Lydia with the lipgloss is perfect.

I can't wait for next week's when we get the pisstake of Colin Firth in the wet shirt.

But am I wrong to find Hugh Bonneville attractive?

Does Hugh Bonneville remind anyone else of a younger, quieter Jim Broadbent? For a very brief moment in the first episode I thought "Blimey, Jim Broadbent's had a lot of work done on his face". (Can I just say in my defence that I'm not very good with facial recognition.)

That's a good point, I hadn't noticed that. I did have a familiar feeling about him and now you say, yes he does.

Noooo! He's nothing like Jim Broadbent!

I'm watching it live for the first time lol

"Bumface"- fantastic. I laughed like a drain. But then I was nearly crying by the end.
But whodathoughtit about Whickham, eh?

And Caroline Bingley?

Funny how Darcy accepted the book as just what she had written. The story was different and went on past the "present"

gosh gosh gosh...am loving lost in austen. am a big jane fan anyway but i reckon she'd have laughed herself hoarse at all the twists and turns! caroline bingley a closet lesbian? whickham a decent honourable chappie? got to admit was certain i'd hate all mr darcys proceeding colin firth but he is cute (young), and quite brooding in a really bad wig way! can't wait to find out what happens next! hoping that she'll shelve all hopes of staying true to the book and just have a good time!

But they can't leave Jane married to Mr Collins. That would be cruel.

nah, i don't think they'll do that ZRoHO, but i saw the spoiler and am a little confused as to what might happen next!

Me too. But that's one of the reasons this is so good. It's totally unpredictable. But you can't be his other half. That's me!

I've just watched this (I was out last night so had to tape it). I was really getting my hopes up when they were all waving guns around that Mr Collins would have a fatal accident, but it didn't happen. Something is definitely going to happen to save Jane though, otherwise they wouldn't have written non-consummation of the marriage into the plot.

Georgiana is really odd, isn't she? She's supposed to be 15 but her room looks like a nursery. The only character that hasn't really been changed much from the book is Mr Darcy's, I wonder if there will be a bit of a twist there too.

So what do we think of the ending?

I liked it. But then i am an unashamed romantic and couldn't imagine Amanda going back to her life in London.

You?

I actually felt sad when it looked like Darcy and Lizzie were going to get together! I was so glad she went back to the 21st C and Amanda stayed and everyone ended up with the right people.

I liked it, but tbh I fancied Mr Wickham more than Mr Darcy and felt that he was the 'better' man in this story. In the original P&P Mr Darcy goes out of his way to put things right (by making Wickham marry Lydia etc) but in this story all he really had to do was to give in to his feelings. He didn't sort out the Jane/Collins/Bingley triangle for instance. And I can't help feeling that the real Mr Darcy would have felt honour bound to remain engaged to Miss Bingley until released from the engagement by her.

Still I love a happy ending, although it wasn't very happy for Amanda's poor boyfriend in the 21st century was it?

I though it was a pity that they didn't have Mr Bingley's other sister and her husband, I thought they lost a bit of comedic value there.