Big Sap

I am such a sap. Sap, I tell you. I just finished rewatching Anne of Green Gables, the Continuing Series and for all the faults I loved it.

There were things I got wrong from my last entry Anne and Gil does give-up Green Gables after all. I think I'm reconciled with the fact that Anne will never again live in Green Gables, yeah, after 15 years. XDD

I did miss Anne's occasional witticism but, heck world war on going. Yes, I could suspend my disbelief and find the changes acceptable because as I said, Big Sap.

I see Anne and Gil together, tears in my eyes. Anne smiling at Green Gables, tears. Anne slapping Garrison? Big smile -- uh, wait.

Jack Garrison wasn't as bad as I remembered and I finally realized why he was so familiar. He's the guy in FX: The Series!

I'm going to miss Anne. *cries*

Current Mood: nostalgic
(listens to Anne of Green Gables Theme ::cries some more::)

Revisiting Green Gables

I seem to be in a nostalgic mood this week, I've been rereading The Anne Series and rewatching the miniseries. I liked how the series developed and not that many issues about it, I actually *liked* the continuing series because Anne's strong spirit shines through and even adds interesting angles to the story.

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I never quite agreed with Anne's moving away from Green Gables I always thought she would return to it and inherit it. So I was quite glad when the series showed how much Green Gables meant to Anne and that she was determined to live in it and restore it.

I didn't like the Continuing Series at first, mostly due to a severe loyalty to Gilbert and a grudging crush on Jack Garrison.

Anne's going to France during the war seemed an Anne thing to do and I liked how she managed to battle the odds just to find Gilbert. She's so much more in the TV series than in how Montgomery portrayed her in the books as she got older. Book Anne seemed to be content in just being a mother and wife to Gilbert and seemed to have forgotten her ambition to be an author.

Whereas the TV series gave her a chance to go to New York, have her book published, retain her famous temper and slap around some rogue American writers. ;p

The downside of course was that they killed of Marilla. I'm such a dork, and almost *cried*.

It's too bad they weren't able to write in Leslie Moore, although I think in Anne's House of Dreams, Montgomery was more interested in Leslie's story than in Anne's. Granted, Leslie *is* a lot more interesting.

I kind of think Leslie is what Anne could have been had she suffered the same fate. They're almost alike in everyway. It's like Leslie is the dark reflection. Kinda.


Sometimes, though, I sort of wished Montgomery ended the series when she could, like Neil Gaiman said, if you don't know how to end a story soon eventually of all the characters will die, or something like that. And Anne changed too much for me, she wasn't the same as the imaginative little girl with big words and temper. *sigh*