tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post5988541907933320097..comments2024-02-18T22:40:55.084-05:00Comments on Jane Austen Today: More on Emma 2009Vichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13668098318085667188noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post-57753905333905426182009-11-01T09:28:40.724-05:002009-11-01T09:28:40.724-05:00I agree. While I too watched the series with an ey...I agree. While I too watched the series with an eye for all the little errors (which every Austen adaptation has, to some degree or another), I do not believe that the attempts at modernizing the body and verbal language of the characters somehow resulted in the plot being lost. Emma is, in many ways, a bildungsroman, a fact which this adaptation captures admirably. There are many justifiable Alexa Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10086472405632748174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33189102.post-46323816157779925622009-10-31T17:10:37.829-04:002009-10-31T17:10:37.829-04:00Quite aside from the pedantry, which the author bo...Quite aside from the pedantry, which the author both knows is unattractive and revels in (and invites others to prove him wrong - which I, unfortuately, am attempting to do by going to the OED, since he seems to have entirely overlooked that), the last paragraph is quite insulting to viewers who enjoy the series and honestly attempt to intellectually as well as emotionally engage with it.<br /><ibmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16914380316134426353noreply@blogger.com