Yesterday was a very difficult day for me, the 2nd anniversary of my dad's passing. Very, very sad day. When I planned the launching of my new book, a Victorian romance called ALL THOSE DUKES, I hoped to add jolly moments to the date.
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| "Pense no passado somente se a lembrança lhe trouxer prazer." pic do kwize |
But it didn't work.
I should have dedicated to marketing and all that, but I wallowed in the mire. In a way, I gave myself the opportunity. Grief is not easy to cope, anyway.
Thank God for Austen in the World
usually I write when I get down to, sort of, clean my well of sorrow. Kinda like transforming water into wine.
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Yesterday, nothing helped... When I emerged from pain, I remembered the time difference between UK and Brazil and was glad for a moment: SANDITON's last chapter was available! Yay!
but, nah...
Yieks, what a bazooka shot!
What was that, Sanditon?
Are you mad?
someone please, send her to Bedlam!
Ok, I get it that, at the end of the day, money is the final goal. Sadly, it is so and I painfully know the need. The writers and producers must have wanted to leave the seed for a second season. But, please, was it necessary to stop in the middle? Where we are, there isn't anything to grasp! It was all hurried, watered, spit as if one can't explain the plot! Oh, I hated it! someone please, send her to Bedlam!
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| pic from twitter - broken heart cookies: was it a PREMONITION? |
obs.: some pics came from my phone aimed at the TV, they may be a little blurry... sorry.
Anyway, I am the spoilers' queen, and will babble here. If you haven't watched it yet, you'd better change to one of my free reads or ebooks. All have satisfying happy endings.
Here I come: What killed me wasn't the lack of happy ending for Charlotte & Sidney, even if the sweet loving on TV would have helped me a lot yesterday. What disappointed me was the awful way they stopped it. Paused, really, because since last week a few
clues about a 2nd season started to leak.
I'll start by saying that I did consider the production as an inspiration, a perfume of Austen's novels that I so much admire. Why? Because Sanditon is a very small manuscript, not much to feed an adaptation per se. It basically has the characters' presentations and we know how Jane enjoyed fooling us, giving us wrong first impressions. She made us believe Darcy was a tyrant with a horrible secret to hide when he had just bad blood for Wickham. She also made us think Churchill was a charming gentleman when he was the worst cad vilan despicable man ever. So, she left us too little of Sanditon for us to guess what she was hiding to show later.
The show started pretty slow. Beautiful scenes, not much plot. Then we got to the middle and bam! Everything happening at once!
- Georgiana Lamb and her boy (fuckboy?)
- Esther and Lord Babbington
- Esther & brother Edward & cousin Clara
- Lady D pretending to die/sick and healed
- Burned will of Lady D
- Stringer, the ambicious constructor
- Stringer & Charlotte
- Mary Parker starting to make hubs walk the line
- Tom Parker in debt
- a very modern Doctor
- Charlotte who knew of Clara's improprieties
- Charlotte who worked for Tom
- fatty Parker courting the poor rich girl Georgiana
- Georgiana kidnapped
- Georgiana sold
- Georgiana taken to Gretna Green
- secret reason for Georgiana being Sidney's ward. Her dad save his life, it was said, but how? And why does she hates his guts so much?
- Workers x gents
- Lady Susan, Prince Regent's lover
- the Widow, Sidney's ex
- Sidney with puppy eyes for the widow
- Charlotte falling for the man who treats her like shit
And we arrive at the 6th episode to start to run for the hills! All subplots are either MIA or forgotten. Only the easiest most foul ones last. Oh, I was devasted.
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WAIT!
She was SOLD! A slave's daughter. Threaten of spousal rape after a forced marriage. Damn!!!
And that was all, folks.
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| the tvdb |
WAIT!
She could at least demand marriage, the guy compromised her twice: once in a crude handjob everyone saw and later on their aunt's house floor.
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| the tvdb |
WAIT!
No, it was not how it was done!
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Maria Grace talked to Kim Rendfeld about chaperones in Regency saying that young ladies could never be in a gentleman's company without a chaperone except walking to church or throught the park early morning. One needed to protect her reputation in all costs.
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Ah, but that was a poetic license!...
Fine, I'll give you that. sometimes it's very hard to fit a chaperone in a scene, it kills the rhythm.
But what about the show's final plot?
Can it be excused explained?
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-Sidney declares his love for Charlotte saying his truer to himself when with her, and that was why he sent the widow away
-Sidney kisses Charlotte on top of the hill
-Sidney admires Charlotte while she dances with Stringer
-Charlotte sends Stringer away believing Sidney will propose
-Charlotte meets Sidney at the ball room's balcony
-Sidney starts to propose, but Edward the Baronet starts a scandal
-Sidney has to take Edward away so Babbington can propose to Esther
-A fire puts the city in turmoil
chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp-
the following day...
chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp-chirp-
-Tom reveals he owns 80.000 bucks
- Parker brothers swear fidelity (huh?)
- Parker brothers swear fidelity (huh?)
-Sidney leaves for London to stay a week in order to find money to save Sanditon and his brother
-Charlotte waits writing to her sister - one that never wrote before
-Sidney returns saying he sold his bachelorhood to the widow, his ex, in exchange for the money to save everything
huh?
Did you get the plate of the truck that ran us over?
At least did you see the coach?
What an horrible solution!!!
There were so many other options to save Sanditon WITHOUT THE NEED TO EXPLAIN/JUSTIFY an understanding between Sidney and his ex besides the obvious unresolved love they shared - that he said was forgotten.
- Lord Babbington, his friend, Esther's fiancé who was Lady D's heir and so was interested in the city's sucess $$ no;
- Lady Susan with her connections and sudden adoration for Charlotte;
✔ sell his tight body to the pretty widow...
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WAIT:
no one deserves that, nor woman, nor man. If money is the issue, arrange a business deal. Pay for love is something I dislike.
Guess so...
It was what Ms Bingley wanted from Darcy, Mrs. Bennet wanted Lizzy to marry Collins, Charlotte Lucas did marry him for personal gain and that was roughly the same reason why Anne Elliot's dad advised her against Wentworth... Lady Susan spends the whole book scheming for a good marriage. So many characters.
BUT, WAIT A MOMENT:
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I don't think that leaving the story in the lurch is a very non-Austen thing to do. She'd tell us what happened afterwards. Specially if there were unhappy marriages....
I read somewhere that all marriages she included in her novels are miserable. The Bennets, the Hursts, Dashwoods, Mansfield Park's gang, Tilneys...
I can only imagine what she'd do with Sidney and his widow bride. He'd turn out fat and drunk all the time to escape her nagging reminding him that he was bought.
She'd show us Stringer living a successful life in London as an architect or big constructor.
Charlotte?... I read somewhere that all marriages she included in her novels are miserable. The Bennets, the Hursts, Dashwoods, Mansfield Park's gang, Tilneys...
I can only imagine what she'd do with Sidney and his widow bride. He'd turn out fat and drunk all the time to escape her nagging reminding him that he was bought.
She'd show us Stringer living a successful life in London as an architect or big constructor.
Don't know... Não sei.
Lady Susan, the instantaneous buff, maybe could chose an advantageous connection, a dashing Lord or landed gentleman.
Oh, what a lovely plot for a new novel! I can even see the first chapter...
How about that?
btw, my new book, a
a romance set in the Victorian era is already available.
It has even a booktrailer...
Check it out here
See ya!
