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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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![/quote]

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.

[b]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. [/b]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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

The creators thought they'd get at least a second season and so deliberately left things feeling unfinished or vague. They were quite surprised. I read an interview with someone from the show who strongly hinted that there would ultimately be a happier romantic ending, as there always was in Austen novels.[/quote]

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