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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was the one who recently posted another thread about this show (I did do a search before to check if there were any existing threads, but didn't find this one because of the misspelling in the show name). I appreciate the earlier insights. It seems many people think it is a good or at least okay show, but not really appropriate for children. This makes me sad as I have always thought of Anne of Green Gables as a story for older (8+) children.

Has anyone watched this show with their older children, and what did they think? [/quote]

From the reviews here and online, it's seems like more of the extremes--like it or hate it camp.  The changes made to the story line don't make any sense if you read and loved the books.   [/quote]

Does anyone who hated it because it deviated so much from the tone of the book think it worth watching? I loved the Anne books but the many changes sound awful. I understand the PTSD aspect, which is warranted but the others just sound gratuitous. I've been thinking of hate-watching it.[/quote]

I couldn't get through it, even to hate watch it.  The creator did stuff like Breaking Bad and Flesh and Bone.  I think she's tone deaf when it comes to Anne.

Upon watching interviews, I'm also pretty convinced that she didn't read the book very carefully.  She talks about when the book was written vs. when "they" set the story, duh, the story did take place in the late 1800s:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjgnAec1hlk

In every interview, Wally-Becket relies the same patter--"timeless and timely:' the story deals with "feminism and gender parity."  Apparently, the girl they cast as Anne has done a lot of work on stage, which make sense why she was such an inconsistent (and pretty terrible) on film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6qoIhkk1r8

Wally-Becket also full of herself, how she sticks so carefully to the iconic moments and changed things with the author's "permission" (2:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4xEr7PhICs

LM Montgomery is spinning in her grave.
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