Re: Lise's Keeping Principles
Lise, you don't have to continue the story at length to finish it. Just a few more scenes to show the Fitzwilliams happy with their children and get along well with his relatives the Darcys and her...
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Yes, Emma really degrades and denigrates Martin when she insulted him, calling him clownish and illiterate and beneath Harriet when he is richer and better read than Harriet -- she read sensational...
View ArticleRe: A Clear Path and Intertwined Paths
Thanks to you, Nicki, and the others too. Your comments encouraged me when I was writing the stories, and now again.—Nat
View ArticlePictures tell a thousand words (Emma Approved)
... and the story these are telling is quite painful.[www.boxxhill.com] -- password: boxxhill
View ArticleRe: Pictures tell a thousand words (Emma Approved)
Ouch :( well, we knew this was going to be bad. I can't wait to watch today's episode.
View ArticleRe: Pictures tell a thousand words (Emma Approved)
Yeah, ouch.I can't wait to watch and at the same time don't want to. I wouldn't say it's my least favourite part of the story, because I find the whole Box Hill sequence exceedingly well written (in...
View ArticleSPOILER if you have not seen episode 64: And they did go there
Previously, I wrote:Mari Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Ok, I can accept that as the producers of Emma> Approved have presented her, this version of Emma> is...
View ArticleThoughts on the Emma-Jane relationship in EA
I’m feeling a bit defensive on Jane’s behalf, because I like her both in EA and in the novel, and many YouTube commenters don’t. In one of Jane’s early episodes, where she is trying to evade Emma’s...
View ArticleThank you... (also spoilers)
...for educating me! I had to google Chekhov's gun, but I like that principle. It's something you know instinctively as a reader, but he verbalized it so succinctly and memorably. Makes me think I...
View ArticleNo, I think you're right.
In my post above, I was just writing about how there is no one single thing going on between Jane and Emma, but potentially, many years of issues between them that have build up.
View ArticleRe: Thoughts on the Emma-Jane relationship in EA
Very thoughtful analysis! Especially your point that in previous years Jane would not, for economic reasons, feel she could protest Emma's treatment of her. I think Jane showed a lot of restraint when...
View ArticleI have so many issues with EA at the moment
But I have vented them enough today.Jane lost me totally however when she implied that Emma had never tried to get to know her. Emma has done that, in her own typical terrible Emma fashion and Jane...
View ArticleI love this!
Despite my not really caring for how they have adapted EA at the moment (I too found the Annie bit really really really weak) I totally agree that both series do try to make the realisations come more...
View ArticleRe: I love this!
I prefer the slower progression in LBD too, and I find I appreciate it much more in hindsight than I did while the series was airing. It's more messy but also more true to life. I think the Pemberley...
View ArticleRe: I have so many issues with EA at the moment
I agree that Jane shouldn't have accused Emma of not getting to know her etc - but I think she realised it, and that's why she cut herself off.i wasn't too pleased with this portrayal of Jane Forfar...
View ArticleRe: I have so many issues with EA at the moment
Gee, when Amy A-NW said that some commenters had a problem with Jane, I just discounted her remark. I don't read the comments on Youtube often so I was not aware. So, reading Shemmelle's comment was a...
View ArticleInteresting discussion about Jane
... going on at another site. (Sorry, don't know if I'm allowed to link to other sites here. If a mod sees this, maybe they can let me know?).Anyway, those in the discussion are talking about the...
View ArticleRe: Interesting discussion about Jane
If it's a site that doesn't contain mature content, it may be linked.
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