Update: First and foremost, I want to relate the exciting news that PBS’s blog, Remotely Connected, has published my thoughts about Persuasion. If you have any questions about the movie or book, please feel free to drop off a comment. I will be more than happy to address your opinions or questions.
Masterpiece Theatre Classics boasts a new interactive site. Click here to view it.
Laurel Ann from Austenprose, my co-blogger on Jane Austen Today, has included on her blog a short biography of all the bloggers and online personalities who have been offically asked by PBS to discuss the Jane Austen movies on Masterpiece Theatre.
In addition to all this fabulous news, find a full description of all the characters in Persuasion on Jane Austen Today.
Last, but certainly not least, Margaret Sullivan of Austenblog shares her opinion about The Complete Jane Austen series. What I love the most about the editrix of this fabulous blog is that she doesn’t mince words.
Tomorrow night PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre will kick off its 8-week The Complete Jane Austen Series. This Sunday, look for Persuasion, to be aired at 9 pm. EST on all PBS stations. And stay tuned to the PBS website for some fabulous features in the future!
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Congrats on contributing to the PBS site! I decided to comment here since there were already enough negative comments over there.
I was really disappointed with this adaptation. It was nice to look at and enjoyable enough until the end completely ruined it for me. Anne running around Bath was ridiculous and ending up the Kellynch? I was just left saying, “what?” There was already a happy ending; why ruin it with something that makes no sense?
And I didn’t think the casting was very good. You’re right that Wentworth didn’t look like he had spend a day at sea. His sister, while wonderful, was old enough to be his mother. Anne’s older sister was not pretty or annoying enough and Mary was, as you say, cartoonish. The only character I thought better cast than the previous adaptation was Mr. Elliot (he was too good looking in the last one).
Unlike you, I didn’t really notice Anne blooming in the second half of the film. To me she remained dull and dimwitted through the whole thing. I never would have mistaken her for a woman of intellect.
Finally, there were moments in the novel and in the previous adaptation that were laugh-out-loud funny and I didn’t find any humor at all in this one.
Hoping for better in the next in the series.