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Monday, 26 March 2007 15:07![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I have not made a post in An Age so shall maybe do one now. Well. I have just moved into the flat I was wibbling about in the last entry and it is brill. Ok it is a bit of a mess. But! on Saturday my chest of drawers should arrive, then I shall do mad DIY to it and put stuff in it all tidy like. Also on Friday, BT permitting, I shall have shiny bright new fastness of internets! No more languishing upon dial up for me, oh no. Although at the moment I have been mostly using the interwebs to purchase thingses so maybe this is not so good. Now I have 23 Dr Who books. And today I bought the first four Gallifrey audios. And a couple of old Dr Who related books that looked vaguely interesting. Hmm.
Telly! The reception at New Flat is a leetal rub on channels that aren't one or four so have been terribly decadent and bought a second digibox. It is a bit random and sometimes when you have pressed a button it thinks you want BBC2 regardless of what you actually wanted. But it was only twenty quid so I do not feel I can complain too much. Anyway, telly is all shiny and good and soon there will be New New Who to watch. In things I have already watched, I saw Mansfield Park. It was very shiny and not necessarily in a good way. It felt very slight - I think Mansfield Park could benefit from a really long adaptation. Two hours (less, with advert breaks) just wasn't enough to do more than skim it. Billie was very good but I think her Fanny was too lively and likeable, and this really took away from one of the major themes of the book. One of the most interesting (or annoying, depending on your perspective) things about the book is the fact that the good characters are so unlikeable when compared to the ...less good characters and it's really making an interesting point about how easy it is to look good and how unappealing actually being good can be. The adaptation did touch on a related issue a bit with the comment from the father about how he'd brought his daughters up to be good mannered rather than morally good but I felt it could be gone into more, especially since a lot of the time Austen shows good manners as being both morally good in themselves (because they show consideration for others) and an effect of one's innate moral goodness. Emma's failure of manners, for example, is clearly a failure of morals. Anyway, tv!Fanny felt a bit anodyne, a bit "generic heroine" for my taste, more appealing but less interesting than book!Fanny. It was entertaining though.
Well, I have rambled away for a bit. Time to stop now!
Telly! The reception at New Flat is a leetal rub on channels that aren't one or four so have been terribly decadent and bought a second digibox. It is a bit random and sometimes when you have pressed a button it thinks you want BBC2 regardless of what you actually wanted. But it was only twenty quid so I do not feel I can complain too much. Anyway, telly is all shiny and good and soon there will be New New Who to watch. In things I have already watched, I saw Mansfield Park. It was very shiny and not necessarily in a good way. It felt very slight - I think Mansfield Park could benefit from a really long adaptation. Two hours (less, with advert breaks) just wasn't enough to do more than skim it. Billie was very good but I think her Fanny was too lively and likeable, and this really took away from one of the major themes of the book. One of the most interesting (or annoying, depending on your perspective) things about the book is the fact that the good characters are so unlikeable when compared to the ...less good characters and it's really making an interesting point about how easy it is to look good and how unappealing actually being good can be. The adaptation did touch on a related issue a bit with the comment from the father about how he'd brought his daughters up to be good mannered rather than morally good but I felt it could be gone into more, especially since a lot of the time Austen shows good manners as being both morally good in themselves (because they show consideration for others) and an effect of one's innate moral goodness. Emma's failure of manners, for example, is clearly a failure of morals. Anyway, tv!Fanny felt a bit anodyne, a bit "generic heroine" for my taste, more appealing but less interesting than book!Fanny. It was entertaining though.
Well, I have rambled away for a bit. Time to stop now!