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21st century girl swaps places with Elizabeth Bennet and falls in love with Mr. Darcy, who later returns her affections. Is it just me, or does that show read like bad fanfiction?
Except it apparently got really good critical reviews, so... it was done well?
Any of you guys see it? It aired on ITV a while ago, and I'm intrigued.
ETA: Why does the Doctor Who timeline make no sense? So Saxon is basically elected Prime Minister about 18 months after the downfall of Harriet Jones, meaning about 18 or 19 months after Christmas (TCI). This would make the election sometime around July.
However, since Winters is the President Elect, that would put it sometime between November and January.
...Help?
ETA2: Also, how the hell does Lucy work on Harold Saxon's autobiography? He never wrote an autobiography! And since they met probably within 6 months of him coming to Earth, wouldn't that have been published already if she had been helping him with that? And why would he need her help if he'd already published the novel?
Ignoring that bit from the website, 'kay? 'Cos I'm gonna count that as a screw-up rather than discount Martha's description of his book as a "novel." Especially since I doubt even the Master would title his autobiography Kiss Me, Kill Me with a bright kiss-mark on the front while trying his damndest to get elected. (Okay, fine, I don't doubt it very much but still. Makes more sense if that's the mistake, rather than a mysterious second book that never gets mentioned in the episodes.)
21st century girl swaps places with Elizabeth Bennet and falls in love with Mr. Darcy, who later returns her affections. Is it just me, or does that show read like bad fanfiction?
Except it apparently got really good critical reviews, so... it was done well?
Any of you guys see it? It aired on ITV a while ago, and I'm intrigued.
ETA: Why does the Doctor Who timeline make no sense? So Saxon is basically elected Prime Minister about 18 months after the downfall of Harriet Jones, meaning about 18 or 19 months after Christmas (TCI). This would make the election sometime around July.
However, since Winters is the President Elect, that would put it sometime between November and January.
...Help?
ETA2: Also, how the hell does Lucy work on Harold Saxon's autobiography? He never wrote an autobiography! And since they met probably within 6 months of him coming to Earth, wouldn't that have been published already if she had been helping him with that? And why would he need her help if he'd already published the novel?
Ignoring that bit from the website, 'kay? 'Cos I'm gonna count that as a screw-up rather than discount Martha's description of his book as a "novel." Especially since I doubt even the Master would title his autobiography Kiss Me, Kill Me with a bright kiss-mark on the front while trying his damndest to get elected. (Okay, fine, I don't doubt it very much but still. Makes more sense if that's the mistake, rather than a mysterious second book that never gets mentioned in the episodes.)
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Date: 2009-01-04 07:40 am (UTC)Which is my round-about way of saying 'go for it'!
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Date: 2009-01-04 07:53 am (UTC)Also, why don't you like her, just out of curiosity?
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Date: 2009-01-04 08:40 pm (UTC)Seriously, my mother made me watch every miniseries ever made when I was little. It was supposed to make me love them as much as her, I guess, because I was too little to read them on my own. But now whenever I try to read them, I get a few pages in and then get kinda twitch and think of a million other things I'd rather be doing and... IDK, I can't even force myself to actually read her. There's only so much grumbly Collin Firth my brain can stand (and that is the only Mr. Darcy I will ever know. ~headdesk~)