So I never read Anne of Green Gables but I started watching the Netflix series bc my TL was gushing abt it and it's drawing me in
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I'm probably the opposite of the target audience bc I have no attachment to the source material but I don't see why the complainers are mad
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I mean yes it's "gritty" but it's about as gritty as a portrayal of the life of an orphan ought to be
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many fans are loyal to the much gauzier 1980's TV adaptation
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Replying to @WFKARS @arthur_affect
To be fair, that version is pretty true to the source material. Anne is a fundamentally romantic character.
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Mostly bc in early 1900s, LMM would never have been able to get it published if she'd described what life in orphanage was really like
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My sense is they're mostly adding stuff that the text had there by implication
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ms_christinak and
Like the book does say Anne was forced to work for a family helping raise eight kids and it was hellish
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ms_christinak and
But it doesn't actually show any scenes of what that would've been like so the tone stays light
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ms_christinak and
Kind of reminds me of The Simpsons. "Funny story, after the war I was shipped to China where I worked in a slave labor camp for 15 years."
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"That... doesn't sound funny at all." "Well, I guess you had to be there"
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