Dear ITV movie/miniseries thing 'Lost in Austen'...

[rispacooper]

How can you spend all this time and effort making Wickham cool and interesting and wicked sexy and then just *completely abandon* his storyline at the end?

WTF????

I mean you take liar/child molester WICKHAM from Pride and Prejudice, and make him all secretly honourable and smart and funny and good no matter how hard he tries not to be, *and* you give him all this tension with the heroine, and then you have her get with (your boring ass version of) DARCY and then leave Wickham's plotline just hanging.

(Don't get me wrong, Darcy is normally the hero of all romantic heroes, but this version----meh. Wickham was suddenly not a horrible monster and not only that, but charming and misunderstood.

I had total crush while watching it and then...NOTHING.

I repeat: What the fuck?

Comments

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Wickham got way too little screen time, Elizabeth was kinda not cool and the ending should have been different.

I still liked it. The boob flashing alone in the beginning...
:)
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[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

Yeah I just didn't get a lot of it. The motivation for some things was just...what?

They should have gone all the way and had Elizabeth and Caroline Bingley or something. Mostly I just think they were trying to be funny without worrying about the consequences.

But still...Wickham! He got to flirt inappropriately and she liked it. And he got to say things like, "Everyone around you would prise your fingers from the raft and watch you drown. Everybody, but me." and then walk off.

*love*

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

The last part is by far the weakest, as if the writer got a better idea middle way through and just went with it despite what was already there.
I personally would have abandoned the Darcy crush and book plot entirely for more Wickham and Mrs. Bennet. If you can't win...:D

Just realized, it would have been awesome if they'd done this (or a whole series of classics?) kinda in the style of ShakespeaRetold. Twist the pov around, hero-->villain, modernize some shit.
I think wronged antihero Wickham as the main character would have sold like hotcakes.:D

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

It's really tempting to do something like that. Just take the Wickham they wasted and go with it. I wonder if they'd sue. Probably.

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

I'd be more worried about those rabid Mr. Darcy fans...:)

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

But the Darcy they picked was so...boring.

BOOOOORING.

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

Boring, a bit simple (!) and bitchy in the wrong way. :/

Could have been worse. They could have made him all emo like in the latest movie. :)

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

I was down with the last movie...until he came out of the mist with his shirt open and then they made out on the table.

Whatever in the hell that was about.

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

Heh. They had to try something to up Firth's wet shirt in the miniseries. (Nothing trumps Wet Shirt!Colin!)
I had more issues with the ending where maybe not yet married Lizzy and Darcy canoodle on the grass after sunset. ('Cause nothing says outside shenanigans like Mr. Darcy.:)

...Ok, I admit, not a bad movie even if it misses the point in the book nearly entirely. It's light and different and I liked what they did with Lydia and how the bad example!marriages (Bennets, Collinses) worked despite the difficulties.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

heh. Yeah I mean, if you're going to have a modern (and sexually experienced) woman there to challenge Darcy, then someone needed to jump someone's bones. I mean, really. Outside all the better.

I mean in the ITV version obviously.

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

And that would have been beyond hilarious. (Imagine Amanda slinking all cougar like from the stables and dazed/confused Darcy following her with straw in his hair and his fly open.:)

It's so totally unfair they didn't go the extra mile to make it *great*.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

People rarely just full on go for it.

I mean, has Darcy ever had sex. And if so, with a whore or some widow, right? Why was this issue not addressed?


And I'm still upset that there wasn't one scene of her reaction to the chamber pots.

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

I can't believe you're making *me* upset that there wasn't chamber pots.

Also, hair doesn't go like that without proper shampoo, conditioner, a ton of hair crap and a blow dryer. I'm ignoring the make up 'cause it's tv.:)

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

Yeah I buy her having lip gloss on her...but eyeliner?

She had flat-ironed hair...unless she took an actual iron to it, it wouldn't have stayed that way.


Sorry. But my first thought when I read the description about going back in time was...the bathrooms?

What about being on her period?

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

I think it all depended how long was she there. She had to have washed her hair at some point, right?

What about being on her period?

It could be argued that she might be using semi-permanent birth control that don't allow periods?
Heh. Did you know, not all people think like this when watching tv? :O!

The eyeliner was totally over the top. It actually would have been a nice point to have her have a lot of make up going in and then having to brave the day with none. (Scrounging coal from the fireplace for emergencies!)

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

Another lost opportunity.

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

Total vision!

A Wickham/Amanda vid set to either Barracuda or Womanizer.

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

Do it! Do it! I dare you!

...oh, come on.:D

[rispacooper.livejournal.com]

I don't have the technology, sadly.

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

Well, poo.