Sanditon - who is watching?

alh
Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:08:51 +0000

I also thought they had intended a second season, but there is no getting around the fact that this season was just bad imho.

It would have been fine with me to do something outlandish - like Charlotte turns Sydney down to go study architecture herself (and then fold in your plot line and we have a husband/wife firm) Not period likely but fun, imho.

spoilers below

When Charlotte took off to save Georgiana, I just assumed she would accomplish the rescue on her own without needing to be rescued herself, and was just disgusted Sydney saved her and then took over, although Charlotte did “help.” That scene was sort of where I gave up on the whole production. It is fun for me when contemporary regency romance writers create the sort of heroine who can take care of herself without a man, thank you very much.

I thought the character of Clara was interesting and had a whole lot of potential but it just fizzled.

adding: Catherine in Northanger Abbey makes her way home by herself, after being banished by her future f-i-l. I thought Charlotte’s rescue of Georgiana was going to be an elaboration and parody of that scene. Of course there could be no real comparison of the two. And Northanger Abbey jokes about her journey being perilous, iirc It’s already a parody of Udolpho