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metaphortunate) wrote2013-02-28 11:06 pm
metaphortunate) wrote2013-02-28 11:06 pm
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lizzie bennet diaries
Aieeee, Lizzie Bennet Diaries, how so good?
Really I only have three complaints.
1) I think they should not have cast a dude as Darcy who has 1/10 the charisma, acting talent, and charm of the guy playing Bing Lee. Okay, yes, he's taller, but is that really so important? And what is with that weird semi-British accent thing that his sister hasn't got?
2) Okay, I realize he's working uphill there with that massive charmlessness they wrote into William I Will Protect My Helpless Baby Sister Who Is Only In Her Late Twenties And May Succumb To The Vapors At Any Moment If She Has Any Excitement At All Like Girls Do Darcy. They could drop that aaaaany time.
3) They did a great job of updating almost all the characters, but Mama Bennet just does not make any sense outside of her economic context, as illustrated in the last entry in this series of Texts from Pride & Prejudice.
And this is not exactly a complaint, but Lydiaaaaaaa. ;_____; Oh man she's great. But she's not P&P Lydia, about whom: "Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless." You can't tame the Lydia! You can try, but YOU WILL FAIL! She is fearless! She cannot be defeated! I fucking love her, and I wish she could come hang out with this Lydia and cheer her up.
Really I only have three complaints.
1) I think they should not have cast a dude as Darcy who has 1/10 the charisma, acting talent, and charm of the guy playing Bing Lee. Okay, yes, he's taller, but is that really so important? And what is with that weird semi-British accent thing that his sister hasn't got?
2) Okay, I realize he's working uphill there with that massive charmlessness they wrote into William I Will Protect My Helpless Baby Sister Who Is Only In Her Late Twenties And May Succumb To The Vapors At Any Moment If She Has Any Excitement At All Like Girls Do Darcy. They could drop that aaaaany time.
3) They did a great job of updating almost all the characters, but Mama Bennet just does not make any sense outside of her economic context, as illustrated in the last entry in this series of Texts from Pride & Prejudice.
And this is not exactly a complaint, but Lydiaaaaaaa. ;_____; Oh man she's great. But she's not P&P Lydia, about whom: "Lydia was Lydia still; untamed, unabashed, wild, noisy, and fearless." You can't tame the Lydia! You can try, but YOU WILL FAIL! She is fearless! She cannot be defeated! I fucking love her, and I wish she could come hang out with this Lydia and cheer her up.