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.

Elizabeth was much too pretty too, why do they always cast that way? Originally I didn't think that Jane was pretty enough, but she grew on me, although I don't think she was really the great beauty described in the book.

i think maybe it is time i actually read pride ad prejudice

It's worth reading stitch, but bear in mind that most women read it when they were impressionable teenagers so you may not fall as madly in love with Darcy as others have. Even if you find the story rather overly romantic it is beautifully written and a good insight into the lives and attitudes of the times.

Yes he does look like a young Jim Broadbent! It's no good picturing Jim Broadbent now, because he doesn't look like that, but, as you say, like a younger version. So far as I can remember, that particular duo played a younger and older version of Iris Murdoch's husband in 'Iris' and the likeness there was uncanny!

Am I the only one who wished that she had ended up with Whickham?!

I joined a friend last night to have a marathon watching this series... it was brilliant!!

I thought Jane was beautiful... and was very glad that she didn't have to stay with Mr Collins. I also agree that Mr Wickham was lovely... and his character had a nice twist.

Tinkerbelle... I'm trying to use the mininova to download the second episode - I'm going to have to explore this further . I don't know whether this is compatible with my apple?

No I fancied Wickham too LostGirl, I don't think he would have been right for her though as, although he was deeper and generally less self-centred than in the novel, he was clearly always going to be a philanderer.

Thanks rubytwokids, I was wondering if I was imagining the likeness between the two. I don't know what it was, perhaps the sideburns, but when I saw Hugh Bonneville I was reminded of Jim Broadbent in Moulin Rouge.