#AND D O N ‘ T get me started on mansfield park

[whenthegoldrays]

I don’t know what it is about the Jane Austen adaptations I’ve seen recently, but they just have so much trouble sticking the landing.

#i mean #ANY mansfield park adaptation?? #especially 1999 but that one has a whole bunch of other stuff wrong with it too #and I almost GET IT because in the book the conclusion *is* very quick #but isn’t the point of an adaptation to expand on what is missing in the book? #also Emma and p&p #both of those books have such good rich things happen after the accepted proposals but the major adaptations just totally gloss over that?? #Harriet and Robert meeting again in London! where’s my Emma adaptation that gives me that?! #Lizzy and Darcy being all cute after she accepts him!!! #I really feel like #in a miniseries ideally Darcy’s proposal and knightley’s proposal would both be at the *beginning* of the last episode #not almost at the end of it #because let! the other! things! happen! #let Austen’s storytelling shine!!! #can’t speak for the book in s&s discourse because I never finished it but like. 1995 and 2008 both had lovely endings #it’s not too hard in that sense #but it also is??? apparently? if we’re going by the 1981 #need to watch the 70s one too #AND D O N ‘ T get me started on mansfield park #where ?! WHERE?!?! is my adaptation where we actually get to see Edmund slowly falling for Fanny at the end???? #(I do not see 1999 it doesn’t exist) #like no. because in that one they paint Edmund like he’s been in love with Fanny forever and. no???? #and then 2007 with him just having this random epiphany- what? two weeks after he breaks up with Mary? #and then he just runs out and kdrama-arm-grabs Fanny in the garden and kisses her??? HATE IT THANKS #at least when kdramas do it it’s kind of romantic #this Edmund was just creepy #and since we’re back on this discussion PLEASE I’VE BEEN ON MY KNEES give us a likeable Edmund!!!!! #I just used up my tag limit so I’m gonna tag this for my files and shut up and go to bed :) <3 #elly's posts #jane austen