It is the 1980 P&P! And that's a pretty good summary—there are some things in the writing that I'm :| about (it's got a sort of ludicrously harsh Mr Bennet and very jarring spots of melodrama in an otherwise very staid, low-budget approach), but by and large I think it's both the most accurate and most interesting in terms of character.
With Darcy and Georgiana, say, we really feel their intense awkwardness more than we do any other characteristics, even those characteristics are there—it's just where the emphasis goes. Elizabeth Garvie's Elizabeth is at once spirited and thoughtful and in love with herself: definitely my fave. Mrs Bennet falls about halfway between the 1995 and 2005 extremes of sympathy, Lady Catherine is silly but stylish with a real presence, etc. It can be hit and miss, but much more hit than miss for me.
(I would say that cinematically, it's ... not good, even allowing for the budget. I almost always watch scenes here or there rather than the mini-series as a whole. But it's much like the other ones that way. You either roll with it or it's a dealbreaker, I think. I occasionally get recced as "she writes good fic and meta, but for SOME UNFATHOMABLE REASON likes the 1980 P&P," lol.)
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With Darcy and Georgiana, say, we really feel their intense awkwardness more than we do any other characteristics, even those characteristics are there—it's just where the emphasis goes. Elizabeth Garvie's Elizabeth is at once spirited and thoughtful and in love with herself: definitely my fave. Mrs Bennet falls about halfway between the 1995 and 2005 extremes of sympathy, Lady Catherine is silly but stylish with a real presence, etc. It can be hit and miss, but much more hit than miss for me.
(I would say that cinematically, it's ... not good, even allowing for the budget. I almost always watch scenes here or there rather than the mini-series as a whole. But it's much like the other ones that way. You either roll with it or it's a dealbreaker, I think. I occasionally get recced as "she writes good fic and meta, but for SOME UNFATHOMABLE REASON likes the 1980 P&P," lol.)