aka Darcy and Elizabeth and a MURDER

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Overall it was...okay. The parts about the murder were interesting, although it sort of just dissolved by the end. But the parts that rehashed Pride and Prejudice I found boring as anything. It read sort of like those meta fics that rehash episodes only to provide their slant on what happened. Not that I found anything in the book to be controversial, but I couldn't have cared less about all these motivations that supposedly happened six years ago. Nor did they really relate to what happened in the present day, no matter how much the author tried to shoehorn that in at the end.

The one thing good about making this into a miniseries is that presumably they'll need to focus on the murder mystery rather than the dreary internal monologues.

It will be interesting to see if they tweak the characters at all from the book. In it everyone is extremely passive, letting events wash over them. I kept expecting Darcy or Elizabeth to start investigating or doing something, but they pretty much trudged along.

I also wonder how Jenna Louise Coleman will do playing Lydia. In the book Lydia is very much one-note and extremely unsympathetic. And for some reason hates Elizabeth with a burning passion. (I do not remember this from P&P.)

So I guess to sum up, I enjoyed the mystery (while it was a mystery), but the characters not so much. The mystery could have been just as enjoyable with OCs (and would have basically lost nothing), but I suppose it wouldn't have gotten the publicity it did with these characters. Well, it is basically well-written fanfic.