Hi, what are some of your favourite and least favourite things about W&P?
Sorry this answer is late, I’m an overachiever with brainrot so I wanted to answer this for every adaptation I’ve seen. Also disclaimer these are completely subjective and off the top of my head
Pierre and Andrei’s relationship 🥺
The Bolkonsky family as a whole (excluding Old Prince B of course)
The scene where Nikolai sees the Tsar the second time (I have it bookmarked sjjajs)
The duel and it’s surrounding circumstances
The scene where Andrei forgives Anatole
Pretty much just all the characters and how interesting and realistic they are!
Honorable mention to Dolokhov
The insane age gaps in almost every relationship
The amount of war history and redundant philosophy
Pierre talking to the Rostov’s pigs
The Dolokhov/Nikolai implications
Tuppence Middleton 🥰 Not Hélène’s character but. Her.
Dolokhov, Anatole, and Hélène’s characters
The rampant sexualization of everyone and everything
None of the kids are played by kids except Petya and Nikolushka
Romanticization of the epilogue
The Ball scene with Anatole and Natasha!!!!!!!!
I believe in Comet canon Pierre and Sonya supremacy
I genuinely think a musical is the best medium for W&P adaptations since it allows for internal monologues to show character much more than any other medium
It was my introduction to the source material and I will never not love it
The Dolokhov/Anatole kiss and Hélène/Katya kiss
Hélène and Dolokhov characterization is really off (don’t get me wrong, I love Comet Dolokhov and Amber Gray is insanely talented, it just doesn’t mesh well with canon)
“but now I like it very much indeed” this line delivery makes my skin crawl every. Time.
The ball scene again makes me so uncomfortable I tend to skip it even though it slaps
Ingrid Michaelson’s characterization of Sonya 😬
*I never saw the last 50 minutes or so cause they took it off Amazon Prime :/
The scene where Dolokhov drinks the vodka in the window
Idk how accurate it is but Andrei smiling to himself while he listens to Natasha talk about him in the window with Sonya was kind of adorable
The opera scene where Natasha and Anatole meet. It’s so innacurate but it is HILARIOUS
I think Audrey Hepburn is a great actress and she does some sides of Natasha very well (I just wish we had gotten more depth to her character)
Every Balaga should look like that
It’s nowhere near accurate to the book and actually made me appreciate BBC W&P a little for that
Too much Napoleon RPF not enough Nikolai or Marya content
The battle scenes and the duel were so boring
Acting like Hélène and Pierre were in love while also highlighting that they were cousins
Their Andrei is terrible. You could replace him with a cardboard cutout and it wouldn’t change anything
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