Gonna be a super nerd here, but did you ever see the commentary where he talks about how it’s super important that he’s not wearing a tie in this scene? I just remember thinking “Yeah it is, because you needed maximum hotness to end the drama on, obvi.” I think all the other actors also were just “Yeah, he’s fiiiiiiine”
I read that he writes diaries for each character that he plays, including Thornton, so I don’t doubt that he thought out the tie not tie dilemma very carefully.
I feel like “Yeah, he’s fiiiiine” is exactly what Henry Lennox thought when he saw Thornton at the train station at the end. 😉
I always find it so amazing how Beanies all seem to have the same good taste! None of my real life friends know North and South (a travesty really), so I’m extremely glad to find like minded people😀
Same! And the similarities between beanies continues. They didn’t even know Austen so I had to introduce them to her first. I think only one friend took my advice to watch it, but we haven’t seen each other in a while😥
It’s because Gaskell doesn’t get her due outside the literary set. She was totally underrated. Though I had to read Ruth in my Victorian lit class and it made me ragey, but it was an excellent commentary on that kind of bullshit story that was so popular at the time. I mean, it was basically a Candy story, but with pregnancy.
I love Gaskell and will defend her to ends of the earth. If I had had to read North and South serialized I would have been driven crazy. You know, I think one of the reasons Beanies love kdrama and North and South is that the structure of a serialized novel is similar to that of dramas.
YES The serialized novel is definitely a precursor to dramas. I think you can likely trace serial novels in newspapers to the cheesy serial novels of the early 1900s to serialized radio series preceding the advent of televisions which finally brought dramas into being (of course there was evolution within each media to bring us what we think today of each form)
I wish I was still a student with university access to look for articles about this.
Oh, I straight up know for a fact that my love of k-drama comes from my love of literature. My timeline is:
Loves books –>Majored in Lit –> Became Obsessed with BBC Costume Dramas –> K-dramas (because law school ruined tv for me).
I think my favorite Gaskell stories always involve her fights with Dickens when he was her editor. He tried to convince her that he knew the BEST way to write serial novels, and I love that the writers of this miniseries tried to adjust the plot to reflect her original ideas from letters.
I love that as well. Gaskell was a badass, and North and South was basically an FU to the critics of Mary Barton. She is one of the authors at my dream dinner party.
Why has no one made a movie or series about this. It would be fantastic.
I forgot that. I always forget Dickens was the most ridiculous person and yet he’s held in such high esteem today. (I mean, I love him, don’t get me wrong.) Is Gaskell the one who also got back to churning out chapters within days of giving birth? I feel like I remember something about that too but it’s been too long since university for me to remember.
@mollyp I don’t get on rabbit unless I’m on my laptop (it’s one of my failing measures to be online less), but I will add all of y’all to my group for Thornton’s Swooning Admirers next time I log in.
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 9:38 AM
Attention Mr. Thornton Fan Club
We are going to have a meeting to look back and admire next weekend, Friday and Saturday, 10am EST/3pm GMT
Hope to see you there,
Coco
@egads @rukia @mollyp @wishfultoki @bammsie @suriyana-shah (tagging you lovelies since you commented on a previous Gaskell post)
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 9:39 AM
Feel free to bring tea and snacks as you feel led. *goes off to plan the noms*
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 5, 2019 at 9:57 AM
Ummmm, you forgot an important gif
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 5, 2019 at 9:58 AM
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 5, 2019 at 9:59 AM
Not really, but more Thornton is never a bad thing.
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 10:30 AM
This puts me in even greater awe than before
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 10:12 AM
#storyofmylife
Oh, tell me, how are you posting gifs? I have lost my ability, whenever I try it just disappears
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 10:13 AM
WAIT THAT WORKED
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 10:13 AM
DOES IT ONLY WORK WITH THORNTON? WHAT IS THIS WIZARDRY?
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 5, 2019 at 10:20 AM
#thepowerofThornton
SnarkyJellyfish
January 5, 2019 at 10:21 AM
Gonna be a super nerd here, but did you ever see the commentary where he talks about how it’s super important that he’s not wearing a tie in this scene? I just remember thinking “Yeah it is, because you needed maximum hotness to end the drama on, obvi.” I think all the other actors also were just “Yeah, he’s fiiiiiiine”
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 5, 2019 at 10:25 AM
where is this magical commentary?
Super nerd is always welcome btw
SnarkyJellyfish
January 5, 2019 at 10:28 AM
It was on the DVD, but he starts talking about the costumes here:
https://youtu.be/QLAKAkT_9Jg?t=167
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 10:41 AM
mwuahahahahaha
I own the DVD, brb going to watch the commentary
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 10:36 AM
Please tell us where to find the commentary ~
I read that he writes diaries for each character that he plays, including Thornton, so I don’t doubt that he thought out the tie not tie dilemma very carefully.
I feel like “Yeah, he’s fiiiiine” is exactly what Henry Lennox thought when he saw Thornton at the train station at the end. 😉
SnarkyJellyfish
January 5, 2019 at 2:09 PM
Henry Lennox took one look at Thornton without his cravat and was like, “Yeah, I’d leave me for that too.”
Also: I just got a rabbit account but have no idea how it works or what I need to do…username is same as here
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 5, 2019 at 3:18 PM
I’m not finding you. You can find me at @egads.
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 3:29 PM
Can’t find you either…
SnarkyJellyfish
January 5, 2019 at 3:41 PM
@egads I think my privacy settings made me hard to find, but I fixed it. I did add you.
@hotcocoagirl is your username the same?
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 5, 2019 at 3:32 PM
@hotcocoagirl Henry Lennox was totally into Thornton. This is canon.
Jellybn
January 5, 2019 at 10:09 AM
I always find it so amazing how Beanies all seem to have the same good taste! None of my real life friends know North and South (a travesty really), so I’m extremely glad to find like minded people😀
SnarkyJellyfish
January 5, 2019 at 10:17 AM
Please tell me you were a good friend and introduced them all to it? This was my happy place drama for years before I got hooked on K-dramas.
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 5, 2019 at 10:22 AM
Same.
Jellybn
January 5, 2019 at 10:31 AM
Same! And the similarities between beanies continues. They didn’t even know Austen so I had to introduce them to her first. I think only one friend took my advice to watch it, but we haven’t seen each other in a while😥
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 5, 2019 at 10:21 AM
I have introduced Thornton to many many people. It amazes me the number of Austen fans who are ignorant of his magic.
SnarkyJellyfish
January 5, 2019 at 10:26 AM
It’s because Gaskell doesn’t get her due outside the literary set. She was totally underrated. Though I had to read Ruth in my Victorian lit class and it made me ragey, but it was an excellent commentary on that kind of bullshit story that was so popular at the time. I mean, it was basically a Candy story, but with pregnancy.
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 5, 2019 at 10:29 AM
I love Gaskell and will defend her to ends of the earth. If I had had to read North and South serialized I would have been driven crazy. You know, I think one of the reasons Beanies love kdrama and North and South is that the structure of a serialized novel is similar to that of dramas.
There might be a paper in that. Hmmmm.
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 10:46 AM
YES The serialized novel is definitely a precursor to dramas. I think you can likely trace serial novels in newspapers to the cheesy serial novels of the early 1900s to serialized radio series preceding the advent of televisions which finally brought dramas into being (of course there was evolution within each media to bring us what we think today of each form)
I wish I was still a student with university access to look for articles about this.
SnarkyJellyfish
January 5, 2019 at 2:05 PM
Oh, I straight up know for a fact that my love of k-drama comes from my love of literature. My timeline is:
Loves books –>Majored in Lit –> Became Obsessed with BBC Costume Dramas –> K-dramas (because law school ruined tv for me).
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 10:40 AM
I think my favorite Gaskell stories always involve her fights with Dickens when he was her editor. He tried to convince her that he knew the BEST way to write serial novels, and I love that the writers of this miniseries tried to adjust the plot to reflect her original ideas from letters.
egads aka Dame Maggie
January 5, 2019 at 10:59 AM
I love that as well. Gaskell was a badass, and North and South was basically an FU to the critics of Mary Barton. She is one of the authors at my dream dinner party.
Why has no one made a movie or series about this. It would be fantastic.
SnarkyJellyfish
January 5, 2019 at 2:02 PM
I forgot that. I always forget Dickens was the most ridiculous person and yet he’s held in such high esteem today. (I mean, I love him, don’t get me wrong.) Is Gaskell the one who also got back to churning out chapters within days of giving birth? I feel like I remember something about that too but it’s been too long since university for me to remember.
JustMe
January 5, 2019 at 11:13 AM
What is Mr Thornton? And where csn I have one?
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 11:49 AM
Join us at the above time Just, and you will meet him
Molly~ my heart is burned by the Phoenixes #ningyizhiweiforever
January 5, 2019 at 12:18 PM
Girl. You are missing out
Molly~ my heart is burned by the Phoenixes #ningyizhiweiforever
January 5, 2019 at 12:17 PM
omg really? Yes I’m so herreeeeeeee!
Molly~ my heart is burned by the Phoenixes #ningyizhiweiforever
January 5, 2019 at 12:19 PM
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Molly~ my heart is burned by the Phoenixes #ningyizhiweiforever
January 5, 2019 at 12:20 PM
Also how are watching it? I’ve lost everyone on rabbit!
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 12:25 PM
Rabbit! I’ll try to find you again!
bam 🐢🐌💖~
January 5, 2019 at 1:22 PM
Let me send you the link to the mobile chat!
Molly~ my heart is burned by the Phoenixes #ningyizhiweiforever
January 5, 2019 at 1:44 PM
YES PLEASE
Molly~ my heart is burned by the Phoenixes #ningyizhiweiforever
January 5, 2019 at 1:45 PM
Im Mollp1990
also I have no idea how to add people on the update
bam 🐢🐌💖~
January 6, 2019 at 8:14 AM
There are no ‘friends’ in the new update because Rabbit is dreadfully stupid. Buuuut here’s the link to the mobile chat!
https://www.rabb.it/s/9t18xf
The old chat is still available on computer, which can also be accessed through the Chrome app on desktop mode!
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 6, 2019 at 8:32 AM
@bammsie so the mobile chat is different than the desktop?
bam 🐢🐌💖~
January 6, 2019 at 1:07 PM
@hotcocoagirl
Oui. But the people are the same. (Well, the mobile chat has less since we had issues during the shuffle.)
Molly~ my heart is burned by the Phoenixes #ningyizhiweiforever
January 6, 2019 at 1:24 PM
so @hotcocoagirl are you going to add me to watch the show?
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 6, 2019 at 1:54 PM
Ohhhh huh. Secret mobile chat then 😉
@mollyp I don’t get on rabbit unless I’m on my laptop (it’s one of my failing measures to be online less), but I will add all of y’all to my group for Thornton’s Swooning Admirers next time I log in.
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 12:26 PM
So excited Molly!!!!
Molly~ my heart is burned by the Phoenixes #ningyizhiweiforever
January 12, 2019 at 2:58 PM
IS this amazing thing happening tonight?
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 12, 2019 at 6:44 PM
Ahhhh it already happened… 🙁 🙁
Molly~ my heart is burned by the Phoenixes #ningyizhiweiforever
January 13, 2019 at 10:19 AM
Sorry I missed it! My timings are super off 😂
Rukia wants melona
January 5, 2019 at 1:00 PM
YAY!!! True happiness awaits!
Thank you, Coco!
Oh dear, I’ve run out of fans, this gives me a week to find us some more… We will NEED fans!!!
Molly~ my heart is burned by the Phoenixes #ningyizhiweiforever
January 5, 2019 at 1:11 PM
I’m worth 50 fans that’s house much I’ll swoon
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 1:12 PM
I was hoping you would bring the fans, since I’m already swooning from these gifs
bam 🐢🐌💖~
January 5, 2019 at 1:22 PM
I am THERE!
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 4:02 PM
Cocoa, The Fake Poet of February
January 5, 2019 at 4:03 PM
So pleased to have you darling ~
bam 🐢🐌💖~
January 7, 2019 at 11:49 PM
@ultramafic 😀