More Sanditon stuff
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shallownessI posted fic! Finally! (I haven’t posted any new fic since May 2021, and nothing of comparable length since January 2021.)
The name on his lips. DW/AO3. Sanditon. Spoilers for ep 2.1. Sidney Parker/Charlotte Heywood, Sidney Parker/Eliza Campion, OFC. Second person POV. 673 words. Universal. Summary: A servant is not paid to notice everything, but of course you do.
Bless Sanditon for inspiring me, though why does it keep making me lean into Sidney/Charlotte angst? Sidney’s death was so big, and those opening scenes were so striking and perhaps because they were wordless, the idea of Sidney calling out for Charlotte came to me.
I don’t quite know what I think of it, I’m too close to tell, really, but I wrote and polished a ficlet to the point where I felt I could post it. Perhaps knowing there’ll be more canon – I doubt it’ll joss it too much! – propelled me to post it, although I can’t post it to ff.net because it’s second person POV.
Sanditon 2.2
I watched the opening episode on catch-up and almost watched this one live, but it was easier to watch it a few minutes before it aired on ITVHub than switching to ‘Watch Live.’ My intention was to try to stick to watching it weekly around the time it airs, but I think I’ll have problems with that tonight.
Less involving episode although we had sword fighting and a ball where they eventually did some period-appropriate country dancing. The latter raised the question of how were there so many men to dance when the Youngest Colonel in the Army invited the gents to retire for some gambling.
He’s a funny one, I mean, he’s set up as a love rival to Colbourne, being obviously taken by Charlotte (but we had two men fancying Charlotte in the previous season and you wrote them both out, show.) Charlotte was all ‘thanks for the tactical advice’ oblivious, which is fair enough because she was also dealing with dancing with someone else when her last partner was Sidney. But is he really such an idiot that he’s fallen for Edward’s deceit? Maybe he’s too much of a born bookmaker in a redcoat to see Edward’s Foreheadness, urging Tom to fall off the bandwagon and gamble. (Kris Marshall is so tall, taller than all the other men in the cast.) But then the Colonel was urging Edward to stop getting into gambling debts in the previous episode.
Georgiana and The Artist continued to think that just being rude is witty banter. Not so much. He tried to get Arthur to talk him up, and then decided to toast Boney while being the guest of soldiers who had fought against the Frenc. Bad form, sir.
Georgiana had a bit more of an idea of her dues and tried her best to stop Alison from being blatantly obvious in front of Captain Himbo, I mean, Carter. Obviously we are meant to root for the actual poetry reading regulations stickler, although I’m mainly confused because his accent sounds Irish to me but he has a Scottish name. I tend to think he deserves someone who’s not 95 per cent ninny, so let’s hope Alison gets some character development.
There was a lot of ‘let’s show where the budget went’ in the filming of the dinner scene.
The conversation between Miss Spinsterest and Esther was excruciating. I could completely understand why Esther was rude to everyone she was rude to (Edward in particular. Best of all was seeing her just walk away from him. She seems not to trust him an inch. Quite right, too.) I mean, the vicar and his sister aren’t breeders either, so they should shut it and read Hannah’s story in the Bible. Anyway, the follow up in the churchyard was awkward and clumsily written. It’s truly best not to compare the writing to Austen’s pen. I don’t know how Esther went to see this witchy/homeopathic midwife when she wasn’t given her name and particulars. Did she just wander around Sanditon asking any woman she didn’t know if they were a midwife?
But of course, Clara turning up very heavily pregnant with Edward’s (bastard) child has got to hurt Esther in her empty womb. And reminded me that I was wrong last episode, not everyone bar the hot men had returned.
But to get to the most interesting strand, I read a comparison of it to The Sound of Music, which seems accurate. Anyway, I am enjoying the girls showing up Charlotte’s Charlotteish effort to make them both more ladylike, socialised AND educated, but appreciating that she’s busy trying to make them feel that someone cares for them.
I mean, I thought Charlotte could have been blunter with the needling Augusta but she chose to take the high road, and her sharing got somewhere. Still, Charlotte must have been the only one who didn’t see the likely outcome of unlocking the spinet coming, but I’m fairly sure Colbourne didn’t really believe the cover story, given the proper name of things one-upmanship. He may be clueless about his charges’ emotional needs, but not that stupid. Also, the uncertain, disappointed note at the thought of Charlotte leaving (as you were laying into her for her failings as governess, sir, her assumption she’d get the sack wasn’t the craziest thing on the show) got to me. I laughed when it turned out that the housekeeper had the bet about how long Charlotte would last with him. (But gambling again!)
[Edited for typos 29/1/25.]
The name on his lips. DW/AO3. Sanditon. Spoilers for ep 2.1. Sidney Parker/Charlotte Heywood, Sidney Parker/Eliza Campion, OFC. Second person POV. 673 words. Universal. Summary: A servant is not paid to notice everything, but of course you do.
Bless Sanditon for inspiring me, though why does it keep making me lean into Sidney/Charlotte angst? Sidney’s death was so big, and those opening scenes were so striking and perhaps because they were wordless, the idea of Sidney calling out for Charlotte came to me.
I don’t quite know what I think of it, I’m too close to tell, really, but I wrote and polished a ficlet to the point where I felt I could post it. Perhaps knowing there’ll be more canon – I doubt it’ll joss it too much! – propelled me to post it, although I can’t post it to ff.net because it’s second person POV.
Sanditon 2.2
I watched the opening episode on catch-up and almost watched this one live, but it was easier to watch it a few minutes before it aired on ITVHub than switching to ‘Watch Live.’ My intention was to try to stick to watching it weekly around the time it airs, but I think I’ll have problems with that tonight.
Less involving episode although we had sword fighting and a ball where they eventually did some period-appropriate country dancing. The latter raised the question of how were there so many men to dance when the Youngest Colonel in the Army invited the gents to retire for some gambling.
He’s a funny one, I mean, he’s set up as a love rival to Colbourne, being obviously taken by Charlotte (but we had two men fancying Charlotte in the previous season and you wrote them both out, show.) Charlotte was all ‘thanks for the tactical advice’ oblivious, which is fair enough because she was also dealing with dancing with someone else when her last partner was Sidney. But is he really such an idiot that he’s fallen for Edward’s deceit? Maybe he’s too much of a born bookmaker in a redcoat to see Edward’s Foreheadness, urging Tom to fall off the bandwagon and gamble. (Kris Marshall is so tall, taller than all the other men in the cast.) But then the Colonel was urging Edward to stop getting into gambling debts in the previous episode.
Georgiana and The Artist continued to think that just being rude is witty banter. Not so much. He tried to get Arthur to talk him up, and then decided to toast Boney while being the guest of soldiers who had fought against the Frenc. Bad form, sir.
Georgiana had a bit more of an idea of her dues and tried her best to stop Alison from being blatantly obvious in front of Captain Himbo, I mean, Carter. Obviously we are meant to root for the actual poetry reading regulations stickler, although I’m mainly confused because his accent sounds Irish to me but he has a Scottish name. I tend to think he deserves someone who’s not 95 per cent ninny, so let’s hope Alison gets some character development.
There was a lot of ‘let’s show where the budget went’ in the filming of the dinner scene.
The conversation between Miss Spinsterest and Esther was excruciating. I could completely understand why Esther was rude to everyone she was rude to (Edward in particular. Best of all was seeing her just walk away from him. She seems not to trust him an inch. Quite right, too.) I mean, the vicar and his sister aren’t breeders either, so they should shut it and read Hannah’s story in the Bible. Anyway, the follow up in the churchyard was awkward and clumsily written. It’s truly best not to compare the writing to Austen’s pen. I don’t know how Esther went to see this witchy/homeopathic midwife when she wasn’t given her name and particulars. Did she just wander around Sanditon asking any woman she didn’t know if they were a midwife?
But of course, Clara turning up very heavily pregnant with Edward’s (bastard) child has got to hurt Esther in her empty womb. And reminded me that I was wrong last episode, not everyone bar the hot men had returned.
But to get to the most interesting strand, I read a comparison of it to The Sound of Music, which seems accurate. Anyway, I am enjoying the girls showing up Charlotte’s Charlotteish effort to make them both more ladylike, socialised AND educated, but appreciating that she’s busy trying to make them feel that someone cares for them.
I mean, I thought Charlotte could have been blunter with the needling Augusta but she chose to take the high road, and her sharing got somewhere. Still, Charlotte must have been the only one who didn’t see the likely outcome of unlocking the spinet coming, but I’m fairly sure Colbourne didn’t really believe the cover story, given the proper name of things one-upmanship. He may be clueless about his charges’ emotional needs, but not that stupid. Also, the uncertain, disappointed note at the thought of Charlotte leaving (as you were laying into her for her failings as governess, sir, her assumption she’d get the sack wasn’t the craziest thing on the show) got to me. I laughed when it turned out that the housekeeper had the bet about how long Charlotte would last with him. (But gambling again!)
[Edited for typos 29/1/25.]
