Just watched the second episode of the new Emma, and must say that I like it very much! The dark tone mostly vanished, and there was a lot more humour. Mr. Elton is perfect, and I still like the interaction between Emma and Mr. Knightley. And lots of the book is in there...whole scenes taken straight out of the book instead of the truncated versions of conversations that adaptations usually give us. Yay!!
I still have a couple quibbles...Emma is still not poised enough, Mr. Weston is still too morose and John Knightley is a little too bad-tempered... but their characters are recognizable at least! Oh, I'm so relieved to like it!
The chapter is coming along. It will probably take me a couple more days to finish it, and a couple days after that to edit it, but hopefully it will be ready by the end of the week! :)
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Oct. 13, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by ibmiller
Sorry to burst in all of a sudden, but a) I love Charity Envieth Not, as Emma is my favorite novel, and your rewrite is quite detailed and adds a lot to the novel (instead of a lot of other Emma fanfics, which really don't); b) I'm curious about your thoughts on previous Emma adaptations?