Lost in austen
Sep. 18th, 2008 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopper...Lost in Austen, please stop doing that to me! And stop making me like Wickham, dammit! (never mind that I've always liked any character who's a bastard and shameless about it - it's why I've always liked the villains, they've got a personality) Amanda, you are eeeevil. I can't believe you did that whole postmodern thing. Bingley? :facepalm: Oh yeah, Caroline, Jane Austen never predicted *that*. Lady Catherine De Burgh, officially cool. We love the Bennets. Gah. Darcy, please stop being so much yourself.
Dad is currently wailing 'But they've only got one more episode! How're they going to wrap all of it up in that time? They need at least two more!'
One thing I utterly love about this series is that Amanda, although she has a massive tendency to insert her foot in her mouth, can speak the language and knows the exact polite phrasing perfectly. Just... thankyou, writers. She's a fan, she knows half of it off by heart, so if they'd had her *not* knowing how to apologise/give compliments/perfectly polite but utterly bitchy comments, and gone the route of 'mary-sue who's supposedly an utter fan of the books and period but has no sodding idea of how to act', you'd have scuppered it. As it is, watching Amanda vs. Darcy, Amanda vs. Caroline, and Amanda vs. Lady Catherine is an utter *joy*. Though I must draw little hearts around any scene with Amanda and Wickham, because they just completely *get* each other. Not to mention you know full well if they did ever fall into bed after going out on the town and getting utterly lashed, they'd both just shrug it off, mock the other's hangover and then pass the water.
:mutter: we hate skechers. they have a gazillion variations of the biker trainer with the cross-strap available in the US, but only two versions - embroidered brocade, both of 'em - in the UK. And the US site won't ship internationally.
Dad is currently wailing 'But they've only got one more episode! How're they going to wrap all of it up in that time? They need at least two more!'
One thing I utterly love about this series is that Amanda, although she has a massive tendency to insert her foot in her mouth, can speak the language and knows the exact polite phrasing perfectly. Just... thankyou, writers. She's a fan, she knows half of it off by heart, so if they'd had her *not* knowing how to apologise/give compliments/perfectly polite but utterly bitchy comments, and gone the route of 'mary-sue who's supposedly an utter fan of the books and period but has no sodding idea of how to act', you'd have scuppered it. As it is, watching Amanda vs. Darcy, Amanda vs. Caroline, and Amanda vs. Lady Catherine is an utter *joy*. Though I must draw little hearts around any scene with Amanda and Wickham, because they just completely *get* each other. Not to mention you know full well if they did ever fall into bed after going out on the town and getting utterly lashed, they'd both just shrug it off, mock the other's hangover and then pass the water.
:mutter: we hate skechers. they have a gazillion variations of the biker trainer with the cross-strap available in the US, but only two versions - embroidered brocade, both of 'em - in the UK. And the US site won't ship internationally.
