Hi Alysson! Question- In Jane’s world, we know that she’s aware of Lizzie and her videos. However, I’m wondering; in this universe, is she a fan of the adaptation, or is Lizzie just a regular person who had a vlog? In other words, does Pride and Prejudice exist in the AOJE-verse? This is probably a silly question, I’m just curious.
Great question! We’ve always tried to align ourselves with the information Bernie Su’s about his in/out world theories. To paraphrase wildly, he answered this question by speculating that P&P doesn’t necessarily exist in Lizzie’s world (but adaptations of P&P do) ex: Lizzie says that Bridget Jones Diary is one of her favourite films.
We’ve tried to keep to that idea, and have avoided ‘Jane Eyre’ existing in Jane’s world (I imagine it would be fairly traumatic to stumble into a book store and find a book with her name on it, and then upon reading it discover that she was living in some kind of ‘Truman Show’ parallel of a 19th century novel), but Jane watches ‘Sound of Music’ and I imagine the film ‘Rebecca’ still would exist for her.
Since we’ve put Jane in Lizzie’s world more or less, P&P does not exist for Jane either.
Furthermore, in Jane’s world Lizzie was a regular YouTuber. A person who vlogged, and doesn’t vlog anymore. We felt Jane would be attracted to the family aspect of LBD, as well as the equality and respect in Lizzie/Darcy’s relationship. A lot of people have asked if Jane is watching Emma (and while some of our team definitely are (including myself)) Jane cannot for two reasons.
A) All videos Emma posts are out of world [X]
B) Even if Emma did post her videos – Jane would see Emma as a completely separate you-tuber, and probably wouldn’t watch them, because:
1) Jane would see a person similar to Blanche
2) Jane would be frustrated by the ‘approval’ aspect of Emma. It would seem very Johanna-like to her that everything/everyone should be approved by one self-selected individual.
3) Jane is disinterested with the commercial aspect of weddings.
From an objective point of view, I think Jane would admire Emma’s loyalty (as well as Knightley’s) but Jane is quick to distrust people (as might we all be in her shoes), though she has a penchant for changing her mind about people.
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