Jane Austen discussion

Earlier this year I came across a vlog style youtube adaptation of Pride and Prejudice called "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries". I watched all 100 episodes of it in a few days. The same people are making an Emma adaptation called Emma Approved, and it's already 7 episodes along. I'm just wondering if anyone else has seen it and what they think of it. I personally really love it - even though I always think of Emma as blonde (I probably have Gwyneth Paltrow to blame for that). I can't wait to see the direction they take it in because LBD had some very interesting updates to the classic story.

Amy wrote: "Earlier this year I came across a vlog style youtube adaptation of Pride and Prejudice called "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries". I watched all 100 episodes of it in a few days. The same people are making..."

I loved LBD and really appreciate the care taken with Emma Approved. I think they established Emma as a hate-able character in the first couple of episodes and have already slowly pulled back the curtain and shown the cracks in her "flawless" front.

I like the idea of updating Austen in creative ways and I applaud the creativity the team has put in these series.

It's amusing. Emma is too perky.

I prefer LBD by a lot but Emma Approved is pretty good too:) I can't wait to see out it all turns out!

I started watching and I'm not into it so far. I can't relate to Emma at all the way I can relate to Lizzie. I hate fashion and I do NOT like being told that my personal style is wrong because I don't have style.

I've watched all of the episodes and have also watched LBD which I thought as absolutely fantastic.

Emma isn't one of my favorite Austen novels but I really love how they are putting a modern spin in classics and doing so in such a creative way through videos. I still don't know if I like the character Emma but I'm sure she'll grow on me. I enjoy her spats with Alex Knightly and really look forward to see how they'll play out the romance between the two. :)

I absolutely love Emma Approved and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, and I am looking forward to seeing future adaptions of Jane's other novels.