Sanditon

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like it’s impossible for a show with an incest storyline to be fun. Icky.

They aren’t genetically related.

Still gross. Yuck.

Well yeah- it’s not presented as socially acceptable.

They’re kinda the bad guys

I just prefer my Austen tv to be frothier, I guess.

Mostly this isn’t working for me because I hate the main “romance.” I think he’s a jerk and she’s a child.

I think she’s super cute, but A. I could do without all the squinting, and B. would decent women of marriageable age really have been running around with fully uncontained hair at that time in England? Even during social engagements?

Well the one time her hair was “done” it looked truly awful so I prefer the wild look. I thought it was meant to demonstrate her lack of wealth.

DP. Yet her clothes (I guess...paid for by Tom and Mary? Too nice for a farm girl to afford) ranged from simple but very well-made to incredibly elegant (the two ball gowns). So the always-down hair the rest of the time wasn't in keeping with the fact she was dressing like a town girl of marriageable age, living in the home of the best known person in town. I'm not a huge stickler for perfect historical accuracy in these kinds of shows, but although the producers surely thought her loose hair signaled her innocence, in that time and place it would have signaled just the opposite, probably. Young ladies on the marriage market just didn't go around hair-down in public. It's just one example of how a detail can be distracting and pull viewers out of the world of the story.

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I get that she did not have a lady's maid at her disposal but even so I believe she would have neatly put her own hair up. Women today are capable of such.

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Tom is very annoying and selfish.

Lol at the “handy” PP!
I think the show isn’t very good but I’m interested enough to want a second season. I especially want to see them develop Miss Lambe’s character and give her more to do. And I want to see more of Sidney’s “swimming skills.”

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Anonymous wrote:Tom is very annoying and selfish.

Lol at the “handy” PP!
I think the show isn’t very good but I’m interested enough to want a second season. I especially want to see them develop Miss Lambe’s character and give her more to do. And I want to see more of Sidney’s “swimming skills.”

I don't want to see more of Tom's swimming skills, I want to see more when he comes out of the water

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Anonymous wrote:I feel like it’s impossible for a show with an incest storyline to be fun. Icky.

They aren’t genetically related.

Still gross. Yuck.

Well yeah- it’s not presented as socially acceptable.

They’re kinda the bad guys

I just prefer my Austen tv to be frothier, I guess.

Mostly this isn’t working for me because I hate the main “romance.” I think he’s a jerk and she’s a child.

I thought the same, til the last 2 episodes. She’s pretty mature in the last one, and he’s gotten kinder. I sort of hoped they’d get married and we could see what that would be like in Austen times. A marriage with two people who hardly know each other. Could be interesting to flesh out for that time period.

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I also thought Charlotte looked really young (I guess she has really great skin; she's 26!), and it made it feel a little icky that Sidney was into her.

I did enjoy a lot of other aspects of the show.

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Oh, and in the finale, did Charlotte and Georgiana ever get to say goodbye to each other?

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Sanditon sounds like a baby name. Lol

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Just finished this. Loved it! Season 2 might be happening!

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I came on here to see if anyone else had watched this. It started out slow for me, but by episode 4 I really liked it. The main character, Charlotte, was a bit girlish, but she grows up towards the end.

I didn't realize this wasn't a stand alone season, so expected a Jane Austen ending. What a shock that Sydney & Charlotte's ending is left open! I wonder what the writers would plan next. Could be interesting to see an Austen style drama extended - maybe look at the marriages of that time with an Austen style wit? I'd like to see Charlotte come into her own. Plus more of Georgiana.

This was fun - Sydney is yummy:
Top 5 Sydney/Charlotte moments
https://decider.com/2020/03/02/sanditon-video-top-5-sidlotte-moments/

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Theo James could punch me in the face and I would say thank you

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Anonymous wrote:Tom is very annoying and selfish.

Lol at the “handy” PP!
I think the show isn’t very good but I’m interested enough to want a second season. I especially want to see them develop Miss Lambe’s character and give her more to do. And I want to see more of Sidney’s “swimming skills.”

I don't want to see more of Tom's swimming skills, I want to see more when he comes out of the water

Yes, that’s what I meant! My quote marks indicate it’s a euphemism for “his bod”!

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, and in the finale, did Charlotte and Georgiana ever get to say goodbye to each other?

They did not, and it stood out as weird to me too. I also really thought Georgiana was going to save the day with her money at the last minute. Like she would offer and Sidney would somehow find a loophole to get it from the trust. It felt wrong that Georgiana just dropped out of sight in the finale, and it was unsatisfying that Sidney just let Charlotte go.

I enjoyed the season and hope one of the other services picks it up for season 2.

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of unfinished strings - hope they get a second season!! Sidney is gorgeous! But aside from the other modern plot points, is he an Austen hero to marry for money? Have to show why that doesn’t work out!

It's already been announced in the UK that there will be no second season because ratings in the UK were not good. Ratings here won't matter because it's only on PBS here -- a self-selecting small group to begin with.

I know you liked it PP but I have to say this somewhere since no one I knew bothered to watch it, unlike other costume dramas that my friends all watched....

I think it doesn't deserve a second season. The program had a few virtues (some good performances, some potentially interesting story threads) and just threw them away episode after episode.

Sidney's choice to marry for money? Out of character, out of the blue, and we were told about it--not shown it. Zero time spent on it. Lazy plotting and writing. Poor Miss Lambe's story was shabbily done overall; she had a fascinating background but was made a grimly one-note character (pining, angry) and essentially sold out to pay her boyfriend's debts; and it seemed that was all just an excuse for writing one exciting rescue scene to show us Sidney's A Hero, after which she was largely shoved out of the story. Lovely Stringer was never given enough to do despite being a potentially interesting case of a man trying to move up honorably in life. I ended up rooting for Esther and Lord B. despite the fact they and their "romance" were so thinly developed. I'm sure some fans will say that obviously Davies, the other writers and producers were expecting a second season in which to get Sidney and Charlotte together etc., but if that's the case, they were astonishingly naive for people who have done this for decades. No program is guaranteed to get a second chance.

So disappointed in Davies, who has done some terrific series in the past. I think his reputation as the king of adaptations blinded people and no one realized how patchy this was without enough source material from Austen (the UK coverage noted that only the first 30 minutes are based on her fragmentary novel, so the remaining faults are all Davies'). Yes, I did watch it all, mostly because of the acting, and the overall storyline of developing a fashionable resort, which was intriguing.

The writers probably figured that given the time period this was set in, it didn't need explanation. No one married for "love" back then, that wasn't really a concept people would have understood. You married for money or status or to preserve your money and status. If you were lucky, you fell in love after or you had discrete affairs.

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The main characters in Austen,s novels married for love! That’s what the ending of this show was jarring and unexpected.