Following Qualapec's Lead (Really I'll Take Any Excuse To Do This Meme)

[redbrunja]

Fandom Tennis Match Meme!

Okay, here's how this is going to work. You comment with a fandom question. I answer it and then ask you a question that has some thematic relevance to the question you asked me.

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

(Didn't like the finale, by the way. Bland much?)

So bland.

In the web series, I don't think they do justice to this part of her at all. She's often portrayed as petty and judgemental and an unreliable narrator. They make it seem like her fight with Lydia is entirely her fault, and that she's even responsible for Wickham's actions. She gets called out multiple times for a handful of negative things she says about her little sister, who in turn spews constant remarks about how Lizzie is (paraphrasing) lame and nerdy and not attractive, and no one ever defends her.

Personally, I liked some elements of Lizzie as the unreliable narrator but the narrative's idea that Lizzie was somehow responsible for Lydia's arc (which on its own had SO MANY problems) drove me up the fucking wall.

I was let down by the writers' need to make everyone happy and wonderful people. CCaroline would have been better served if they'd let her be the vindictive bitch she is in the book.

Agreed.

[errant-shadows.livejournal.com]

While I would concur that the unreliable narrator thing was necessary to an extent given the medium, I think they took it too far.

It was badly timed, too, because when Jane and Charlotte brought it up, only a few episodes earlier Lizzie had called Jane in to give her take on Lizzie's portrayal of people who were introduced via costume theatre. She agreed on pretty much every point, with the constant addition of "... but sweet."

Lizzie tries to express her doubts about Caroline's trustworthiness, but is ignored. She encourages Jane to be careful about rushing into a relationship (emotionally, at least) and is again overruled. In both cases she is dead on in her assessments of the people around her, yet she is criticised for being judgemental.

Her cynicism evolved as a defense mechanism in reaction to her mother's ridiculousness and her father's callous indifference. Her sisters have their own forms of dealing with it, yet Lizzie's method proves most effective, given that if anyone had really listened to her, they could have saved themselves a lot pain. They make a big deal about Lizzie not listening to the people around her, but nobody ever bothered to considered that no one ever really listened to her.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Her cynicism evolved as a defense mechanism in reaction to her mother's ridiculousness and her father's callous indifference. Her sisters have their own forms of dealing with it, yet Lizzie's method proves most effective, given that if anyone had really listened to her, they could have saved themselves a lot pain. They make a big deal about Lizzie not listening to the people around her, but nobody ever bothered to considered that no one ever really listened to her.


You're really right; I wish they had kept more of that dynamic (and I wish that her relationship with Wickham had been a lot more serious.)