Miranda and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
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shallownessMiranda 3.6 A Brief Encounter
Some funny bits, some bits I know all too well from like, some less successful bits. All the recurring characters reminded me that we lost Gary’s sidekick. And all the business didn’t really hide the fact that Tom Conti wasn’t there.
Wouldn’t Penny have responded to Miranda’s attempt to run away? Even though nobody believed she was going to go away.
THE KITTENS! Cat in a bag! The Where’s Wally? Reprise. Leaving the shop with all the Gary paraphenelia (that was probably my favourite bit of Miranda-centric pratfalling)! Most of the Miranda-Stevie business!
I don’t know what I think about the double proposal as an ending, although I was amused by the credits. I was happy for Miranda that she had all the kissing and celebrating, but...well, this episode was pretty typical of this third series for me, funny in bits, but I spent some other bits peering at it through my fingers, which I don’t remember doing with the first two.
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries - Eps 21 to 30 and Lydia’s first two. Watched off the show's website itself rather than futzing around YouTube, which I think is better.
Ep 28 = off the scale ADORABLENESS. I thought it was even more adorable than kittens.
I am also delighted that they’re tackling a question that had occurred to me – what if one of the people Lizzie talks about sees the vid? I wasn’t expecting it to be Caroline, but I love that they went there (what a cast explosion!) and we got her and Lizzie being warily cordial.
Lizzie came out better on the ethical question. I mean, if this was RL, I would have expected a student in Lizzie’s field and a postgraduate to boot definitely not to have shown Bing under false pretences. It is wrong. But as a fan watching the web show, I have no problem with it whatsoever. However, watching Caroline be so blasé about the lie just confirms that she isn’t so different from Book!Caroline, and is probably plotting to use the diaries against Lizzie.
Meanwhile Mary is 1, not a kitten but a Goth and 2, not a sister but a cousin.
I also like that they’re exploring some of the implications of Lizzie channelling the novel’s obsessions in this day and age and coming up with a Lizzie who seems slightly too obsessed with her sister’s love life and rarely mentions her studies, and that they’ve come up with a Lizzie who is maybe sublimating. And her very real ‘Jane’s leaving me’ angst was really touching.
Some funny bits, some bits I know all too well from like, some less successful bits. All the recurring characters reminded me that we lost Gary’s sidekick. And all the business didn’t really hide the fact that Tom Conti wasn’t there.
Wouldn’t Penny have responded to Miranda’s attempt to run away? Even though nobody believed she was going to go away.
THE KITTENS! Cat in a bag! The Where’s Wally? Reprise. Leaving the shop with all the Gary paraphenelia (that was probably my favourite bit of Miranda-centric pratfalling)! Most of the Miranda-Stevie business!
I don’t know what I think about the double proposal as an ending, although I was amused by the credits. I was happy for Miranda that she had all the kissing and celebrating, but...well, this episode was pretty typical of this third series for me, funny in bits, but I spent some other bits peering at it through my fingers, which I don’t remember doing with the first two.
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries - Eps 21 to 30 and Lydia’s first two. Watched off the show's website itself rather than futzing around YouTube, which I think is better.
Ep 28 = off the scale ADORABLENESS. I thought it was even more adorable than kittens.
I am also delighted that they’re tackling a question that had occurred to me – what if one of the people Lizzie talks about sees the vid? I wasn’t expecting it to be Caroline, but I love that they went there (what a cast explosion!) and we got her and Lizzie being warily cordial.
Lizzie came out better on the ethical question. I mean, if this was RL, I would have expected a student in Lizzie’s field and a postgraduate to boot definitely not to have shown Bing under false pretences. It is wrong. But as a fan watching the web show, I have no problem with it whatsoever. However, watching Caroline be so blasé about the lie just confirms that she isn’t so different from Book!Caroline, and is probably plotting to use the diaries against Lizzie.
Meanwhile Mary is 1, not a kitten but a Goth and 2, not a sister but a cousin.
I also like that they’re exploring some of the implications of Lizzie channelling the novel’s obsessions in this day and age and coming up with a Lizzie who seems slightly too obsessed with her sister’s love life and rarely mentions her studies, and that they’ve come up with a Lizzie who is maybe sublimating. And her very real ‘Jane’s leaving me’ angst was really touching.
