adding to the noise

She/her | commenting like it’s my job

[misty-quigleys-glasses]

[anotherapologist]

And let this be a reminder that Enya is the perfect choice, every time.

[anotherapologist]

Patricia level motivation to start running again

[anotherapologist]

[anotherapologist]

I’m going to need a director to become obsessed with working with Dónal Finn the way Yorgos Lanthimos is obsessed with working with Emma Stone.

[eddie-redcliffe]

Mr Hayward, I am heartened to see you out in public so soon after your... disappointment with Miss Baxter. The whole situation was so publicly played out. I would have hidden myself away for a year, at least, with the humiliation of it all.

[anotherapologist]

His micro expressions and wrinkles are everythinnnngggg to meeeee

[anotherapologist]

I am seeing more and more criticisms crop up from this side of the Atlantic as episodes of The Other Bennet Sister are released. And while I can see and understand where they are coming from, I still find it disheartening to read.

How I set myself up for success with any adaptation is to remember the keyword is in the foundation of the material: adaptation.

In general, I find it very limiting and somewhat miserable to expect an apples-to-apples telling of one story to another story. Despite some historical missteps in TOBS, there is A LOT of good that can come from this “marketable” adaptation.

The biggest one I see: this might the first introduction into regency adjacent anything for many many people. If this is a first Jane Austen / regency era experience and people love it that is a MASSIVE win in a time of A.I. slop and short attention spans. I would be overjoyed to learn someone started delving into Jane Austen because of this series and found the joy and enrichment her writing has given to all of us.

It is on every individual viewer to draw their own conclusions, and I encourage everyone to join in on the conversation, but this series has proven to be incredibly valuable for so many reasons. From people who see themselves in Mary Bennet, they finally have representation, to studios having a damn good standard to reach for going forward!

Love it or hate it, this series is a massive success, and that to me is a success for all Jane Austen fans in one form or another.

Thanks to @hihereami for their original post! I appreciate you putting the core of my feelings into better words than I could have.

[hihereami]

I'm a longtime Austen reader and a history student and I don't feel an INCH of the rage Austen fans and influencers online direct towards Austen adaptations/Regency adaptations that don't conform to their ''this is what Jane would have wanted'' standards.

I like 'The Other Bennet Sister'. Are the book and show a bit innacurate at times? Yep. Are they a complete 1:1 to the Mary Bennet from P&P? Nope. Is that bad an 'ruining the Regency era'? No! Are you kidding!

The couple anachronisms the show dwells into (the governess situation, for example) are STORY choices with CHARACTER AND STORY PURPOSES. They are also meant to be anachronisms and callbacks to what modern audiences consider 'independence'.

Yes, TOBS is an adaptation of an adaptation and it's based off a modern romance book. It has modern sensibilities all over it. That's okay, it never claimed to be 1:1 period-accurate depiction. It's a story about a character letting go of self hate, getting some independence from her family and falling in love. That's it. Let's all chill out!

[anotherapologist]

in tears laughing at this perfect response to a debrief google doc I created to share with friends after they watch The Other Bennet Sister

[steelycunt]

fictional characters should seethe with jealousy always but this does NOT 🙅🏽‍♀️ mean they all have the possessive daddy dom confrontational gene. they do not all have the jealousy that makes them want to kill everyone gene sometimes they have the jealousy that makes them want to kill themselves gene

[anotherapologist]

Tom Hayward is somewhere in here.

[anotherapologist]

Let’s just do it shall we?

[anotherapologist]

ariana grande going from "I'll wait until you like me again" in 2024 to "just know I will find my way from you" two years later with the already set expectation that she's going to be taking a break from music after this album and tour is iconiccccc and yea I'll be an apologist about it

[anotherapologist]

The whiplash I had from watching The Other Bennet Sister (regency period drama, with bright and vidid imagery) to ep 6 of Widow's Bay was something else lmao

[cc-cowboy]

haven't known patricia widow's bay for very long but i fear we have another character of all time on our hands

[whooshsoohw]

Tom Hayward trying to read between the lines just like he does with the poems he loves and coming to the conclusion that Mary Bennet doesn't love him and Mr. Ryder is a better match for her anyway. Mary Bennet, who started to appreciate poetry only recently, has to punch him because she knows sometimes the curtains are just blue and the text clearly shows that she loves him very much.

[anotherapologist]

Everyone say thank you to Caroline Bingleyyyyyy

[bleulone]

When you're in a battle of who ships Mary Bennet and Tom Hayward the most and your opponent is Mrs Gardiner.

[anotherapologist]

ALL THE WHILE KNOWING HE'S ENGAGED LMFAOOOO!!!

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