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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just binged the first season.  Loved some aspects, hated others.  A lot of changes from the books, in terms of aging Anne up a bit.  It is much less about an adventurous child and more about the adult characters, but I think the flashbacks to her time before she came to Avonlea add a depth that is [b]hinted at but not explored in most versions[/b].[/quote]

Just watching this, and it really, really sucks.  Portraying Anne as having PTSD with the upsetting flashbacks and OCD with pinching herself didn't happen in the original version.  They took a lovely kids book and turned it into a pile of sh*t.

There are plenty of kids stories and movies that show the gritty sides of things--To Kill a Mockingbird, Oliver! Bridge to Terabithia come to mind.  The creators of Anne with E are just capitalizing on the popularity of Anne of Green Gables.  The horrible writing of Anne saying stuff like 8 children made the Hammonds very vexed--Anne wasn't stupid, but apparently the script writers are.  They've completely missed the humor and subtlety of how Anne characterizes things,

"I'm sure I could never have lived there if I hadn't had an imagination. Mr. Hammond worked a little sawmill up there, and Mrs. Hammond had eight children. She had twins three times. I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is too much. I told Mrs. Hammond so firmly, when the last pair came. I used to get so dreadfully tired carrying them about..."

The 1985 version showed life with the Hammonds "gritty" without being gratuitous.  Yes, Anne was an over-worked, abused orphan.  The new Netflix version is not a kids' show and it should be.  
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