flutish replied to your post: A small apology

I’m quite enjoying the onslaught! Expect queued reblogs as I take advantage of your diligence. :) Also when will you share your thoughts? This is most important.

Whew. I don’t have many coherent thoughts about North and South, at least not yet. I’m looking forward to reading the book, since it seemed that the miniseries frequently covered offscreen plot with a few lines of dialog that I didn’t always understand. I was confused about some of the relationships, though not enough to be pulled out of the main story. It wasn’t clear to me exactly what the timeline was in terms of the end of the strike, for example. And I want to watch again to track more carefully the evolving attitudes of John and Margaret toward each other.

I very much enjoyed the social/political commentary and the depiction of British society’s grappling with the emerging impacts of the Industrial Revolution. I didn’t realize until now, when I’d finished watching and did some reading about the book, that Dickens played a role in editing and publishing the initial serialized version. But that makes sense. It was interesting to have what felt like an Austen plot suffused with so much harsh reality about the class system, poverty, and death.

I loved how simple and uncluttered the depiction of the scene on the train platform was.

I liked Mr. Bell a lot. I also liked Mrs. Thornton, despite her occasional antagonism toward Margaret.

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