This
series was actually something that I thought was very clever and well done.
They take a classic and well known story, and give it a modern touch and update
the language and technology. However, I’m not the biggest fan of how it is performed
and executed, it makes sense that there are no other sets and scenes, but it
makes it boring and bland (until we get much later, but that’s only for a few
episodes).
The
characters are very well portrayed and match the book characters very very
well. The way they portray Mr. and Mrs. Bennet is spot on to what we know from
the book, Mr. Bennet is always looking for ways that he can annoy and tease his
wife (Lizzie has the chart saying that all he likes is to annoy her). Mrs.
Bennet is also showed as the woman who is trying to find her daughters a
husband, and making sure to get their name out there no matter what, finding
every opportunity to “help them”. They also got how Lizzie first feels about
Darcy, calling him Mr. Douchey and making him seem like a total jerk off and
ass, much like how the book portrays him.
There
are however a lot of characters that are completely over the top and sometimes
extremely annoying. Gosh, Lydia is someone that I cannot deal with at all, she
almost makes the series completely unwatchable at times. Every time she enters
a scene I want to fast forward or turn it off. After about episode nine the
series, to me, was getting very repetitive, the same set, same stories, and the
same overused jokes. Even at times Lizzie can just be way too over the top,
forcing me to want to look away and focus on something else, but alas I must
type up this blog.
Really
this isn’t a bad show at all, there are some things that it does extremely
well. It portrays quite a few of the characters almost perfectly taking exact
themes from the book and hits their quirks right on the head. Then there are
quite a few times that makes me want to turn this off as quick as possible
(anytime with Lydia) and it takes time to actually go through and try and watch
all these episodes.
I don't really enjoy this series as much as I could simply because the characters tend to annoy me. I agree with you, Lydia's character is so annoying and I hate it whenever she appears in a video (of course she was in video 69). The characters just seem to over act more than they should and it makes it less believable to me. I do enjoy watching just to see the different ways the change but incorporate the parts of the novel. But overall, if I didn't have to watch this for class, I would never watch it on my own.
ReplyDeleteI think the creators did the best they could possibly do since it's a vlog. I definitely think they handicapped themselves from doing this edition, but in the end I thought they did a fine job.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree!
DeleteI think the diaries were GREAT. Lydia wasn't that annoying tbh. She acts just as any younger sibling would. My brother does roughly the same things, yeah it can be annoying but at the same time I know its just him showing me love. I love the modern take they did on the story, I'm pretty sure this is what helped me understand it more.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I was excited to watch the diaries, but since I watched them in bulk, I became very bored and disinterested. However, the more breaks I took in between,the more tolerable it was to watch.
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