{"id":3897,"date":"2010-02-09T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-03-23T04:25:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T04:25:28","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=3897","title":{"rendered":"So, What Did We Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>So, What Did We Think<\/b><br \/>\nabout the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/emma\/\">Emma<\/a> that was on Masterpiece for the last several weeks?  <\/p>\n<p>Well, it has been awhile since I read <i>Emma<\/i> so I&#8217;m not going on the novel so much as previous movies and my own sense of the book rather than its particulars.<\/p>\n<p>I really liked the series.  <\/p>\n<p>I liked how the interpretation of Emma&#8217;s character possessed the youthfulness that it needed while leaving off the snarky-ness that some other adapations have had.  I loved the Mr. Knightly character.  I thought that it was just wonderful and exactly right.  (The actor who played Knightly is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/emma\/characters.html\">Johnny Lee Miller<\/a>, an actor who I&#8217;ve enjoyed in every role I&#8217;ve seen him in thus far.)  Additionally, the screenwriter for this adaptation of <i>Emma<\/i> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/masterpiece\/emma\/screenwriter.html\">Sandy Welch<\/a> who has done a couple of excellent adaptations that I have LOVED, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0780362\/\">Jane Eyre<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0417349\/\">North and South<\/a>.  I frankly can&#8217;t wait to see what she&#8217;ll do next.  Finally, they got some excellent supporting actors, Michael Gambon, to name just one.  I just really, really enjoyed it &#8212; except, of course, the picnic scene where Emma insults Miss Bates.  That will make me cringe from here to eternity.  I suppose that only means that they did the scene really well to make it so cringe-worthy.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s my take.  What&#8217;s yours?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, What Did We Think about the new Emma that was on Masterpiece for the last several weeks? Well, it has been awhile since I read Emma so I&#8217;m not going on the novel so much as previous movies and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=3897\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}