dogandcat

I think I'm the only person who likes Rainbow Valley. I found the plights of the Merediths quite touching. Those poor kids were basically raising themselves and it was nice that John and Rosemary found a second chance at love with each other. I know those are ongoing themes in all LMM's stories, but if she wasn't going to write about Anne then I'm glad it was about the Merediths and not Susan the irritating housekeeper. There was already more than enough of her in Rilla.

Why would Gilbert even want to go to the Sorbonne? Do the writers of this show not know there are plenty of good North American universities he can attend? And it makes much more sense for a Canadian family to pull strings to get him into one of those instead of one in Paris. And if this Gilbert is as smart as his book counterpart then he shouldn't even need strings pulled for him. This whole story line is ridiculous. Why would Winnie's dad even want her to get engaged to a teenage boy? I guess Anne will get the residential school shut down next week, no matter how completely unrealistic that is.

Thanks for pointing out that Jane does exist after all. Hopefully this season they will remember that she is supposed to be Anne's friend.

I truly don't get why they have turned Gilbert from Anne's charming popular classmate and academic rival into a tragic orphan who has to leave Avonlea to go work as a child labourer. I get wanting to give him his own storyline but they could have done that without completely changing his character. And why would he even return to Avonlea since Moira Walley-Beckett has inexplicably killed off his whole family? Also don't get why Jane Andrews doesn't exist in this version yet they found the time to turn her brother Billy into a one dimensional villain. I had to laugh at the part of the trailer where we have yet another scene of mild mannered Matthew Cuthbert wildly riding a horse like a Victorian hero. And despite all my reservations about this adaption I will still watch the new season because I'm a sucker for Anne. :)