Jane Austen's Batman!

[olde_fashioned]

Okay. Imagine Jane Austen's world, or rather, Jane Austen's exquisite manner of speaking, only with a Gotham twist. Imagine Austen-esque words coming from the horribly twisted and scarred mouth of the Joker...intrigued? Heheheh. ;-D

fioriture was kind enough to point THIS out to me, and seeing as it made me laugh so hard as to nearly choke on my dinner and imbed pizza in the keyboard, I just thought I'd share it with the rest of you, only with a warning to not eat whilst reading humorous articles...

I'm not even sure what to use as an icon for this post! Batman, or Jane Austen? lol.

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[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Also, you will either love it or hate it, but you should see if you can watch Lost in Austen. It was on ITV in September. It's available on the ITV website but you have to be in the UK to view it (boooo!). I DID find some of it on alluc.org though. I think it was just four episodes long.

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

I couldn't get that one to work. This one might:

http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/television/Lost_in_Austen.html

It's working for me so far.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

So what do you think of LiA so far?

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think it's downright funny!

It's about this young woman, Amanda Price, who is absolutely a Jane Austen fan, you know, read P&P a bazillion times . . . one day another young woman appears in her bathroom who claims to be Elizabeth Bennett, and she finds that there is a door from her washroom into the Bennetts' house. She goes through it, but then the door closes behind her and she and Elizabeth are trapped in each others' world. Amanda discovers that she's right near the beginning of P&P (still not really believing she's actually there but thinks she's been caught up into some reality show), but then her presence there (and Elizabeth's absence) starts to mess up the plot -- such as Mr. Bingley thinking he's in love with her instead of Jane, and Amanda keeps trying to fix it ("this isn't the way it's supposed to go!").

So yeah, it's a very funny show and I think even Jane Austen would be amused by it.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

LOL! In her bathroom???? Hahahaha.

I wonder what JA would say if she could see the media frenzy over her stories! lol.

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's pretty funny. She goes up there one day and there's Elizabeth Bennet standing in her bathtub!

I think JA would probably be amused and perhaps even surprised at the popularity at nearly 200 years later.

I'm watching episode two now and I think one thing that stands out to me is how well-cast it is. Did you ever watch ER? Mrs. Bennet is played by Dr. Corday from that show, and I've never seen her in anything but ER, but she plays the role very well. Jane and Mary also just absolutely fit their roles well too, though Lydia and Kitty are, well they don't stand out (which means they're not bad). Mr. Darcy is actually pretty good-looking, and I think he fits quite well too!

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Mr. Collins . . . EEW! Hahahahaha.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I will love it, or hate it, but I certainly want to watch it when it aires here in America!! Do you know when that's supposed to be? (if you knew the state of my internet connection you would never suggest my watching anything online, mwaahaha) But thank you for the links just the same!!

[ceallaighgirl.livejournal.com]

Well, it's very Austen-y and I know you're a stickler for plot accuracy and whatnot, but in the miniseries, the plot got shot to heck. But deliberately, in some of the most funny ways.

I'm not sure if they plan on airing it in America. The videos I linked to aren't that great (but they're good enough), but I'm actually going to download the episodes through bittorent (which is WAY better). Obviously I wouldn't be able to mail you a DVD, but maybe you might have a friend who could do that for you who has a better internet connection? Hmm. I hope they do air it in the North America though.

[olde-fashioned.livejournal.com]

I am that, but I suspect if it's intentionally "wrong" then I'll probaly find it highly amusing. Plus the whole true-to-the-novel thing kinda goes out the window when you have Modern Girl Transported Back In Time. ;-P

They'd better air it in America!!!!!!! And Canada, too, eh? ;-P