Comments on: Emma Readalong!: Part One

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Fri, 02 May 2014 12:54:12 +0000

In reply to hrichmond. I wish you could see my face right now. I LOVE IT I WILL CHERISH IT FOREVER.

By: hrichmond

hrichmond — Fri, 02 May 2014 04:10:39 +0000

(It’s a gif of “You guys got coke here?” from Clueless) 🙂

By: hrichmond

hrichmond — Fri, 02 May 2014 04:10:09 +0000

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By: Nish

Nish — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:10:39 +0000

I haven’t seen Clueless and I should. But have you seen the Gwyneth Paltrow Emma movie? Adorable

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 19:00:57 +0000

Yes to everything in this post. 🙂 And let us not forget, when gushing about “Emma Approved,” the adorable Brent Bailey!

Now I am really wanting to reread all of Jane Austen. Maybe next year!

By: anna

anna — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 22:45:41 +0000

In reply to Gin Jenny. this is why I'm not watching Emma Approved. Its hard to wait without having seen it. Waiting for the end with having seen it would be miserable

By: Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness)

Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness) — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:32:27 +0000

I really like Emma Approved. I think the way they’ve built her character and showed that she does see when she’s made a mistake is really lovely. I love her and Knightley too. So cute.

By: Ela

Ela — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:04:09 +0000

Another coincidence ahoy – I have just read ‘Emma’ after watching the recent BBC adaptation. I may have seen ‘Clueless’ only once or twice, but I did have a few “rolling with my homies” flashes when Harriet was thinking of Robert Martin!

The (2009) BBC adaptation was good, but not great. I thought Lee Miller was very good as Mr Knightley; I thought Garai as Emma was less good, though she did manage some things very well, maybe due to the way she was written more than because of her performance.

I didn’t find Emma so annoying from the beginning, maybe because I knew, from familiarity with the story, how she was going to mess up later on! And I do think Austen gives convincing and plausible reasons for why she is the way she is.

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:12:07 +0000

In reply to Karen K..

That’s fair! I can sympathize with that. I like the theme music even when marathoning episodes, but with webisodes it’s very very easy to think, like, “Oh, I’ll just watch one more! It’s only five minutes!” and the next thing you know you’ve watched twenty of them and it’s two in the morning.

Awesome! Thank you for those recommendations! I will try that audiobook and that adaptation even though I sort of dislike Romola Garai (and Jonny Lee Miller).

By: Gin Jenny

Gin Jenny — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:09:33 +0000

In reply to Alice. YOU ARE WELCOME. :p Aw, you have to read Emma now! It's so good! You have to read it. It's really funny and I love it, maybe even more than Pride and Prejudice.