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Anyone see it? I'm interested in thoughts.
Well, it seems that post modernism is sick of textured stories which hilight virtue and beauty and would instead like us all to focus on the lowest depravities and abuses for their entertainment value.
My special needs son is reading the book now. I’d hate to see a Breaking Bad style “darker” Anne. Sorry. Not going to watch.
sounds like crap
I really detest when writers/filmmakers take over an existing work to put their own bizarre spins into it. It is a parasitical way to proceed. Let them write/film an ORIGINAL work, don’t trash someone else’s art.
My wife has read these books and we have driven to the actual site of Anne of Green Gables. We have met the surviving relatives in their 80s. She will be outraged. I think I will skip telling her just as I imagine she hasn’t spent much time with Pride, Prejudice & Zombies.
Artists ruin almost all art. It is the infantile traits I guess.
This is akin to going into an art gallery with a can of spray paint and defacing the paintings. No normal person would call this “art”.
I watched about 15 minutes. Anne is ugly and nasty, insists she can do a man’s work, ignoring that back then it meant physical strength. Maybe it will improve... let me know.
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I find myself completely distrustful of people that mistakenly use the term ‘gender’ in reference to a real person.
Gender can only refer to a word; a noun or pronoun. Nuts, bolts, pipe fittings and extension cord plugs.
Sex is the word they fear.
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I’ve seen the first four episodes and am enjoying it. I don’t think it’s anywhere near as dark as this article implies, but it does have its moments. Far more happy ones I feel.
Even the NY TImes title gives away their purpose. They say “The Other Side of Anne of Green Gables” when in fact it’s a unrelated story by design. “Replacing the character and values of Anne of Green Gables with a miasma of modern slime we prefer you read about” would be far more accurate.
All these new rewritings of classic stories are meant only to rip, tear, destroy, guilt, and divide us all. There is nothing new under the sun, only the expansion of degeneracy.
But in an invention of the show, she is also overcome by memories of being beaten by her former employer<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Political correctness aims to destroy purity.
Dirty Ba$tids themselves.
To take it even dirtier the directors and Walley-Beckett could have given Anne a slave girl companion who was raped by Gilbert Blythe.
Revisionist lefty dirt is not literature or art.Its not even imitation. It comes from a dark place.
I won’t bother. I live the book and the original series. I don’t need to watch some modern author’s angst driven propaganda piece
I think I’m going to give this a pass. I enjoy the flights of fancy, the scope for imagination, and the delightful joys of Anne and I don’t want someone with a darker soul to tarnish it for me.
Obviously, Walley-Beckett is not of the race the knew Joseph.
Why cannot society simply allow a story, good and wholesome, to exist as it was. While I am not naive to believe that human darkness did not exist 130 years ago, I often revisit Montgomery’s world to escape the dreadful times we live in.
I won’t be watching.
There is nothing I like better than a good zombie or chainsaw movie. Having said that, why must the “entertainment” industry take something that is sweet and delightful in its own right and p*ss all over it? Surely there is room for light as well as dark?
Write your own story rather than take someone else’s work from a different time and place and painfully jack it around to fit your own twisted modern sensibilities.
Anne was thin. Hadn’t “a pick on her bones.” Must have had an eating disorder. She resisted Gilbert for a long time and told her best friend, Diana, that she would never marry and that she felt jealous at the idea of Diana ever marrying. Clearly, Anne was a lesbian and in love with Diana. Marilla and Matthew, neither of whom ever married, must have been gay, too. I’m sure Avonlea was filled with LGBT-whatevers who had eating disorders, drug abuse, ADHD, and so forth. How could we have missed this for so long?
Anne of Green Peace . . .
I know this is an old article, but I really liked the first season of Anne With an E. I thought it was faithful to the original, and the flashbacks to abuse at the hands of orphanages were occasional and still in the spirit of the book.
Season two is constant homosexual propaganda, and the abuse flashbacks are more frequent and detracting.
Why is this necessary? Clearly, as a character, there was none stronger than Anne. Why must we now detract from that?
Sad, a charming tale to be ruined by liberal trash.