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For the most part this was really enjoyable. It was fun seeing someone completely messing up Pride and Prejudice. (Jane married to Collins? EW. Wickham being the good guy? Ha!) And Alex Kingston was fun to see as Mrs. Bennet. This was a complete madhouse of an AU, and I loved the Etch-A-Sketch shakeup of the story.

But...the ending was a very big letdown. It wasn't so much that I needed to see Elizabeth and Darcy get together, it's just it wound up sounding like a very bad Mary Sue fanfic. Of course Darcy falls in love with the character insert - the one who's been fantasizing about Elizabeth and Darcy's romance all her life. That was...disappointing. Up until that, I was kind of hoping she'd drag Wickham back with her to modern days and they could go clubbing. :D

So I'd recommend it only if a textbook Mary Sue ending won't bug the crap out of you. I guess I should have seen it coming since every guy fell in love with her, and Jane became an insta-best friend, but still. SHE SHOULD HAVE GONE PARTYING WITH WICKHAM. That would have been awesome.

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I watched this a while back ago and thought it was kinda cute in a tongue and cheek way.

I didn't really mind the Mary Sue ending but I would have liked to have seen some of the adventures Elizabeth had on our side.

Wickham was da bomb!

I really wanted more of Elizabeth as well. When we caught up with her, I felt I'd almost have rather watched her and her life in the modern world. :D

Of course Darcy falls in love with the character insert

There's a Moffat joke in there somewhere. Still, it sounds really awful. Thanks for the heads up.

>snerk<
ya rly.

Hmm. I started it on Netflix and that isn't an ending I would be thrilled with.

I was really hoping for something else.

I HATED the end, but not for the same reason. Why did she go back? Why didn't he come forward? I'm not even a feminist but I'm always ticked at stories like this that the girl gives up everything for the guy. (Though the moment with the reflecting pool was most excellent.)

In general I agree with you, but in this she had a very unspectacular life and he had a giant mansion. :D

I wasn't overly bothered by the ending -- it seemed sort of inevitable, and I was kindly disposed toward seeing some Jemima Rooper character get a textbook happy ending after all the crap Thelma went through on Hex. (Though it's awesome in its way that they did the Dead Lesbian trope and then proceeded to make her the show's actual protagonist. As a ghost.)

That said, I like your version better. :-D

Maybe if I'd seen it coming (what can I say?) it wouldn't have bothered me so much. But I kept expecting something (anything) different.

I really didn't mind the ending, I think because, well, they mucked up the rest of it. My issue with the ending comes from the idea that a modern life, in a (by all accounts in fiction) great city is nothing compared to life in the early 1800s. But then again, Amanda always loved the ideals set by the story, and the character of Darcy, so it's not so bad?

Although you'd have to think that life in a mansion with scores of servants would be pretty cushy. :D

That's true. :D

Yeah, the ending was the only let-down, but the whole thing was fun on balance so it didn't bother me too much. Wasn't the person who played Adelaide Brooke in it somewhere? She played... someone.... I think.

Also I remember yelling "HOW CAN YOU GIVE UP A MODERN TOILET AND SHOWER, HOW???" which for some reason seemed like a bigger deal at the time than the self-insert.

I haven't seen this movie, but this always always bothers me in like, illogical time-travel movies. THERE IS NO FUCKING WAY I AM GOING BACK 50 YEARS, LET ALONE CENTURIES, TYVM.

They played around with some of the weird time travel stuff, but like... I couldn't even live without the Internet let us not even get started on modern plumbing. IMAGINE BATHING ONLY ONCE A YEAR. AND THEN ONLY IF YOU WERE RICH. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

RIGHT? Not to mention like.... a distinct lack of .... rights as a woman ... and... like... modern medicine... and... wtf...

I think this is what horrified me most about Blink. 1969 would be bad enough but JESUS 1900 OR WHATEVER, FML.

lol one day I'd love for the Doctor to take a companion back in time only for them to go "FUCK, NO, I'M STAYING IN HERE UNTIL YOU'RE DONE. AND THEN WIPING YOU DOWN WITH DISINFECTANT WHEN YOU GET BACK."

I wouldn't mind time-travel as long as I got to leave as soon as I wanted to like, go to the bathroom.

And also as long as there were magical TARDIS antibodies involved.

God can you even imagine. I bet Martha didn't go pee for the entire time they were in Elizabethan England.

You know, I'm pretty sure I'd be exactly the same way.

Doctor: Look! Ceasar crossing the Rubicon!

Me: Yeah, the TARDIS is where again? I have to go.

Doctor: History in front of you!

Me: DON'T MAKE ME HURT YOU.

Eh. It's only in winter (and HIGH summer) that indoor plumbing is really, really sketchy. That and being a child who's rear has to hang over privy seats built for adults. That is pretty harrowing.

Mind you, if there wasn't a pump nearby and/or some kind of boiler, NO THANK YOU.

Isn't winter like 6 months in England though? Meep!

MORE LIKE EIGHT. *shivers*

TAMPONS.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Yes! She played Lady Catherine. Probably the most likable Lady Catherines I've seen. :D

I wasn't overly thrilled with the ending. I was hoping that she would stay in the future, with or without Darcy I'm not sure, but it just... didn't sit well with me.

Love the rest of the series though.

Yeah, it just didn't seem like a happy ending. It just seemed weird.

Being a huge Pride and Prejudice fan, I was offered the DVD for Christmas. BUT, I had read about this mini series on the net and I wasn't pleased with the ending so I never bothered watching the DVD. And Mary Sues? They make me want to hit something. In the end, it looked like a good idea to not watch this.

Yeah, you probably would be really irked then. The rest of it was fun though.

She TOTALLY should've ended up with Wickham.

*NODS*

I loved this series so much. I remember a lot of theories about how Wickham was from the future too... I think that shows up in fic a lot now?

HA! I thought that for a bit too. XD

Up until that, I was kind of hoping she'd drag Wickham back with her to modern days and they could go clubbing. :D

ME TOO! And then I was a bit nonplussed at the end. But it was mostly cute.

It would have been the perfect story then!

I suppose that might have been too much of a departure from the standard happy ending though, for general audiences. And I can't really judge- I like happy endings! But still...

I haven't seen this because I've never got on with Austen (give me Elizabeth Gaskell or George Eliot, please,) but I may be willing to give it a try because the lead is played by Jemima Rooper, who I've vaguely followed since childhood. She played George in the TV version of The Famous Five that I used to borrow obsessively from the library, she was utterly superb in a BBC adaptation of Junk about ten years ago, and then popped up in The Railway Children and on As If.

She was pretty good in it. (Except for the ending, which really wasn't her fault.)

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