tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918614552094913262.post9002514569461456290..comments2024-03-04T18:52:21.818+05:30Comments on Austenised: A Review of Sanditon Episode 1 Annahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03945462611904903179noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918614552094913262.post-69552468521375626182020-02-13T01:44:26.954+05:302020-02-13T01:44:26.954+05:30Thank you for your comment! I agree, the series is...Thank you for your comment! I agree, the series is very disappointing, but wait until you watch it til the end... No spoilers, but I wasn't impressed. What confuses me is how Davies created a masterpiece (P & P) and now this rubbish?Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03945462611904903179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918614552094913262.post-36669906659034311822020-02-13T00:28:39.376+05:302020-02-13T00:28:39.376+05:30Finally getting to watch this series in the United...Finally getting to watch this series in the United States. <br />I am over 4 episodes in.... I am really Trying to like it. I shouldn't have to try this hard. I love lots of JAFF reads, and all books /turned to movies. I do like Andrew Davies, and understand what he was trying to do, but its soooo boring, its the same thing over and over. <br />The brooding Sidney Parker is actually just an a-hole more than an uptight, upper-class elitist character we may be used to. <br />now I see future episode is another Ball where they dance together. I cant do it. I cant see them as "Our Dear Couple" on this one. Im glad Im not the only one so disappointed by this. <br />--Danielle :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06984289683184212243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918614552094913262.post-41135206540375986332019-09-07T00:41:56.087+05:302019-09-07T00:41:56.087+05:30Hi Pauline,
You are absolutely right, it's so ...Hi Pauline,<br />You are absolutely right, it's so sad to see JA's work used for sheer sensationalism instead of the finesse it deserves. Thank you for your comment. Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03945462611904903179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918614552094913262.post-22662675874940891572019-09-06T13:02:11.115+05:302019-09-06T13:02:11.115+05:30I am sad and disappointed at this interpretation. ...I am sad and disappointed at this interpretation. All possible storylines and interpretations, have been ignored for explicit sensationalism, oh for JA's own expertise to the end. This interpretation is in deficit of the quality deserved by Jane Austen's readers and and also by audiences of classic drama. Pauline Brown🦋https://www.blogger.com/profile/18315439539587268058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918614552094913262.post-27827293641665591222019-09-02T03:55:29.047+05:302019-09-02T03:55:29.047+05:30Thank you, Tony! Perhaps I was a little more merci...Thank you, Tony! Perhaps I was a little more merciful in my review (although I would not have been had it been a review of Episode 2!). Episode 2 shows that the series is not based on Jane Austen's Sanditon, it is only inspired by it. It completely ignores the social norms of the time, the language used in the dialogue is far too modern, there is no humour in the story, and the story could not have been written by JA. Disappointing! <br /><br />In the fragment, Sanditon is an old village by the sea, so I think there would have been many timber framed buildings there. The newer buildings designed by Tom Parker do look more Regency - soI think the architecture would have been a mismatch anyway so I don't think the set is too bad...<br /><br />The interiors are very tacky, though, and I would have preferred more classical, playful music...Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03945462611904903179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918614552094913262.post-76166320834532128292019-08-31T17:34:10.713+05:302019-08-31T17:34:10.713+05:30A well written review Anna. You are kinder than I ...A well written review Anna. You are kinder than I feel about the first episode. And yes, I thought Andrew Davis is using the traits of other well known Jane Austen characters to create the characters in this. Did you think the cello playing in the ball sequence was more ,"rock riffs," than 18th century dance music?. You mention the waltz. I am not a dance expert so I wouldn't know. Maybe my imagination made too many leeps. I didn't think the buildings portrayed were close enough to Georgian architecture in general. There were timber frame buildings.Did they mention old Sanditon? Maybe I missed that bit. The part in the novel at the end where Sydney is driving his own servant out of the mist, ( there was no mist and no servant) missed a key point about society being turned upside down. I just didn't the episode went the way I was expecting. Your review is very good though. Thanks . TonyTONYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07767998391294014275noreply@blogger.com