Sanditon - who is watching?

alh
Thu, 30 Jan 2020 04:05:04 +0000

I’m the only person I know enjoying it: the settings, the costumes, the silliness of interpretation. Everyone else has given up except one viewer who may keep going in hopes of another sexy swim scene.

It’s not Austen. But it seems to me there are elements. There is a whole lot of sex in Austen, just off page. Villains attempt to seduce and run off with innocent young women. Sometimes they are successful. One young woman is left abandoned with an infant. A naive teen visits a vacant country house with her brand new beau. There is a school girl who doesn’t know the identity of her father. Lots of scandals we just get a bit of in a larger story.

Mansfield Park alludes to riches from enslaved plantation workers.

If Austen was writing today, would there be explicit sex scenes? I wonder.

I keep wondering where those incestuous siblings come from. Anyone have any ideas?