Its dramaturgy reminded me of the new Poldark. We dont differ as much as it may seem. That is what I call a good mini series. I also was really bothered that all the other Parkers let Sidney take all the weight of the financial burden. Once I realised that, I sat back and enjoyed it, though, as someone else said, the comments here were far more entertaining. He gave only surface treatment to the serious topic of hypochondria that Austen had set up with three of the five Parker siblings, and eliminated Susan altogether, while introducing characters not mentioned or hinted at by Austen. I didnt have the benefit of wine and cheese but my reaction to the final scene was identical to yours. They were trying to tie everything up at the last minute. This leaves Charlotte heartbroken and she decides to leave the town of Sanditon and Sidney behind. In their scene together he says all the words that a hero would say at the VERY END of a romance, but we are only halfway into the story! I would hope Clara comes back but if its again these seething melodramatic absurdities Id just as soon skip her doing more handjobs. The horses gallop along a beautiful stretch of beach. I went into this looking at it as Austen inspired Davies drama with extremely low expectation and I still feel let down by the ending. I agree. This is fantastic, Pensnestand couldnt agree more about Charlotte putting on her bonnet! Perhaps we should plan a simple country wedding. Case in point, Miss Jane Austen herself. She knocks on Mrs. Griffiths door to visit Georgiana and espies Sidney nearby talking to Tom. Once again, the scenery of the Downs is sublime. I could go on and on but suffice it to say, it was the transformation of the character unfolding that was actually changing me. Okay, obviously there are things in Sanditon that are triggering me to figure something out so I can revisit events and then revision.my own life. without a chaperone. So the series is highly inconsistent and that goes with having different writers. The night is dark and only candles light up the space when Old Stringer touches his chest, then his left arm. The last episode of Sanditon saw that Sidney and Charlotte finally confess their love for each other. Spirited and unconventional, Charlotte is shocked by its scheming and ambitious. Fans of the show on PBS won't want to miss Sanditon by Kate Riordan. At the end of my, er, analysis, well finish with a poll to measure our collective satisfaction quotient. The music climaxes in volume. Or does she know something more sinister about him? Will Arthur win Miss Lambes hand, or did his final speech imply he was gay? Feeling the weight of guilt for his last angry words to his father, he now lives in his Das cottage. I always preferred Stringer for Charlotte. Recall that he trotted out Otis to say goodbye to you. Due to SPAM, we will no longer accept comments on posts after 30 days of publication. We absolutely enjoyed Sanditon and can hardly wait for the next season. I got much too carried away and meant to but neglected to acknowledge Vic. Like Downton Abbey it deserves more from these fine actors and actresses. Later in the series, Georgiana gets kidnapped to be a man's wife because Otis had mentioned her when he had debts to pay, and after she is safetly back home she breaks it off with Otis because she can't trust him anymore. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. This is also not Poldark, where the marriage is the focal point rather than the culmination. Their meeting stinks, in my humble opinion. Marriage and children was never a vision I had for myself. II, By CHARLES G. HARPER. Austen fans are likely quite familiar with Sense and Sensibility, Emma and Pride and Prejudice, but many may not. While disappointed overall in the show did enjoy your comments! If we were able to see Sidney take a step back and truly suffer through this decision perhaps coming to terms with his life-long self-inflicted agonies and habit of denying himself happiness and/or chasing the wrong things and/or always being the responsible one in the family, etc. My other question is why give Lord and Lady Babbingtons story more focus than the main characters themselves? Miss Lambe gave him a conspiratorial smile. Sidney, you may think that a woman is there for you to use for pleasure or money, to play games with or exploit. Austen fans are likely quite familiar with Sense and Sensibility, Emma and Pride and Prejudice, but many may not. (Although that sounds awful when I reread it but I think you know what I mean.). If we had a season two to look forward I really do think wed get something happy out of it but we will never know. This denouement is occurring too soon! I expect the second season (if there is one) will spotlight Young Springer as the worthy love she deserves, a man who seeks success through work, study, and architectural vision rather than financial flimflam like Sidney Parkers brother. Let's watch the announcement of the series Sanditon Season 2 Episode 5. And for your lovely salutation. Charlotte should end up with Stringer. :-P. I wish this story had featured Esther and Lord Babbington as the main hero/heroine instead. Chapman first published a full transcription of the novel in 1925 under the name Fragment of a Novel. Cant live without it. James, such a sweet and likable character, stomps out, calling his father a miserable old man. What exactly he was doing abroad is a mystery to his family, though they're determined to find out. Thank you for your review, Christina. ;-), Sorry for the duplicationmy computer is acting up. Sanditon introduces a delicious cast of supporting characters, including Miss Georgiana Lambe (Crystal Clarke), the first significant person of color in an Austen work, and Miss Lambe's. The camera pans to Sidney chasing after Charlotte on his powerful steed. The actors did an amazing job. It doesnt mean that Jane, ergo Charlotte, did not love or wasnt loved by men, but as in the movie Becoming Jane or Miss Austen Regrets, for one reason or another, none of her relationships with men led to marriage. I am mostly sad that Georgiana was dropped from the storyline completely and had no ending. For some reason, the elder Stringer, instead of attending the ball, works late by candlelight on a stepladder to complete the Crescent all by his lonesome. :-). Arthur interrupts to ask Miss Lambe to dance. I mean, this is way better than most of the heaping garbage people put money into so why not make it happen? Notes and references Esther and Edward realize that Clara poses a significant threat to their ambitions. Sanditon is believed to feature Jane Austen's only black character in Miss Lambe, an heiress from the West Indies, even though she's never explicitly described as such in the novel. Tom Parker is happy. STAGE-COACH AND MAIL IN DAYS OF YORE: A PICTURESQUE HISTORY Miss Lambe, though, was a most promising character in the show, and surely Austen had some intentions for her, had she only lived to write more. And Sidney ( after being rude and aggressive) all of a sudden is overly polite when he tells Charlotte that he is best when he is around her. Worse, how could he face his Mary? Yes, it has that feel, doesnt it? Im assuming you are rooting for a season 2? All care toward making things accurate to the period was forfeited, and Charlotte, this common-folk visitor girl was allowed in every conversation and situation. WellI had problems with the Sidney/Charlotte relationship, anyway. He is not, as far as we know, a seducer. We had no idea that they were friends, then he appears in her bedroom while she is in her nightgown??? In fact I wasnt sure if it was the end. I wouldve liked her being so cunning as to use it as a way learn about her heirs suitability for receiving an inheritance. The couple meanders along the Downs, lost in tender emotions and lust. I reach for more wine and learn to my surprise that one can gulp 3 ounces in one fell swoop. Davies and his writers failed on so many levels to pick up on Austens clues. What can a second series do? And she enjoyed her independence. Description. OF THE COACHING AGE, VOL. *Yeah, whatev,* I think. "Lady Denham requests your attendance at a luncheon party and pineapple tasting in honour of Miss Lambe." That sounds very grand indeed. mp_sf_list_2_description: What to Know: Bohemian artist Charles Lockhart made quite a splash in Season 2 and seemed the only man uninterested in Miss Lambe's fortune. My knowledge of medicine, learned in lifeguard training classes in college, kicks in. The show can be watched on PBA stations in the US and have a total of eight episodes available. Instead Davies will have Sydney go off to fight Napoleon to get away from Eliza. Presuming says lambe if no legal heir it goes to Lockhart and he is gonna try and show that g is not legal heir hence the search for alive g mom who shows up with legal documents etc. At Denham House, Clara witnesses a scene that raises her suspicions. I also was pleased that Esther seems to have found some sort of happiness. Jen, I have often wondered if Jane saw Charlottes fate similar to hersas an independent spinster, courted by men, but with no desire to marry. As others have noted Miss Lambs character development and story line vanished once she returned from London. Lord Babington makes his romantic intentions known, but faces being rebuffed. Thank you for visiting this blog. No, noplease not another season. Read the full article in The Sunday Times. Charlotte folds in on herself like a wet noodle. Sidney is the Willowby character from Sense and Sensibilities. My sense is that cost and ratings will both play a huge part in the decision. Like, really Charlotte, your good friend Georgiana comes home from a traumatic kidnapping and you go visit her like what, twice? Thoughts of Sidneys sweet talk and proposal interruptus swirl in her head. Either the writers were setting the whole thing up for a second season, or they have no idea how to write a satisfying romance. Thank YOU for allowing all of us to vent and share in our love of Jane. Definitely need a season 2I love this series even though it does feel a bit rushed.Im already hooked on this show..please, please give us a season 2 with a better outcome ( for Charlotte & Sidney), No one can write like Jane. Which is the best version of P&P? I dont think there should be another season.Just leave it ,ragged, and unfinished. Sigh Colour me outraged! As i am firmly Team Stringer, i dont really mind that Sidney Parker is henceforth unavailablealways excepting an early widowhood, possibly his wife will die in childbed and he will make haste to provide his infant daughter with a kindly stepmother and his feckless elder brother with a fortune to squander. S1 E6 - 47m 34s Charlotte and Sidney must reconcile enough in order to search for a missing Sanditon resident. But almost anyone can know her intentions when she took up the pen. Like Matthew Crawley's (Dan Stevens) death in Downton Abbey, Sanditon killing off Sidney is also a smart move because of all of the story possibilities that spawn from it. At this point Ive eaten all my crackers and cheese, texted my Janeite friends with my observances, and poured another glass of an outstanding 94-point Fox in the Hen House wine. Sentimentality such as in the scene between Tom and his wife and then Sidney and Charlotte on the cliff grates on me by its untruthfulness. Its wrenching to see a story end in the middle. I dont really understand all the outrage. As it turns out, Sidney Miss Lambes guardian is the lamb put to slaughter for his family. (#1 goes to the London ball, and #3 to the assembly ball at the beginning of the series.) Charlotte . Premieres Sundays . His attitude towards us is disrespectful. Ive just finished reading Sanditon by Jane Austen and Another Lady, in which Miss Lambe is a nonentity (disappointing), but this story starts off by bringing Georgiana to the viewers notice and then then huh? Hurray for the REAL men after all the boring buffoons in fancy dress! Her complexion glows. PBS fans saved the canceled adaptation of Jane Austen's final unfinished novel. In that day and age a woman of means lost all her wealth if she was wed to an unscrupulous man. Please, no second season, no final episode One season was painful enough Thanks again! The two are forming a friendship based on mutual respect and Sidney goes so far as to ask Charlotte to look after his ward and her friend, Miss Lambe (Crystal Clarke) while he is away. The opportunity is there for a real love story, but not until she grows up a little and he commits to being honorable and seriously understanding his responsibility to protecting her and her money. But especially I dislike happy endings unless I am made to believe in them. Im royally Pi-d! Ultimately, on the other hand, the decision to . Its the same feeling I had when Lady Edith married her Bertie in Downton Abbey, making her a marchioness. Her role was more as an observer. I dont want more I want a redo. I do love all her work but it is the depth of her characters here that are vibrant and compelling. The neglected tombstone found in an overgrown burial ground. There are 2 good dvd versions of P&P, the BBC miniseries with Elizabeth Garvie and the 1995 BBC version with Jennifer Ehle. In your comments you write independentcourted by men which is fully understood by women of the 21st Century. Topics include Regency fashion, historic foods, Jane Austen societies, British sites, related topics. Arthur hints he is homosexual to his sister so will not marry Miss Lambe and his sister will now not be lonely. He didnt go quite as far in some character resolution within the 8 episodes, as I may have liked, especially in regard to silly and irresponsible Tom Parker. Dont have this strong, individualistic, hard-working woman being manipulated by an older man. Sidneys words turn Charlotte into a boneless mass of compliance. Sidney Parker essentially sold himself out to a past love?!?! Charlotte and Sidney clash over Miss Lambe's illicit meeting with Otis. The scene segues to Georgianas bedroom. Here's everything you know about plot, cast, director, filming location and more! She is just there because they paid this actress. His character should have and could have become so much better! Sanditon airs Sundays at 8:00 p.m. and is available to stream the following day. How could Sidney have done this? Miss Lambe is a prize well worth the winning. Will Tom Parker ever stop being a fool? Maybe hell come home paralyzed for life (which will last exactly one episode) before finding Eliza in bed with another man. Spoiler Alert: Weve invested many hours in Davies Sanditon on PBS Masterpiece and where did it get us? Charlotte and Sidney clash again, only for Charlotte to be left confused by a chance encounter. CONTAINS SPOILERS. Perhaps another visit to Sanditon would awaken tender feelings for Mr. Stringer? I hope I am not completely alone in championing Andrew Davies, he is a skilled and prolific writer and I quite like what he has done with expanding the brilliant first 11 chapters that Ms. Austen put to paper 203 years ago. I dont think Davies can get Sidney out of this hole he created. If you thought that ending would make viewers happy, you deserve a smack in the head from Jane Austen. He's so dreamy. Jane Austen characters are supposed to learn from each other and grow, so that by the end of the story the heroine and hero are made better by each other. Tony, you encouraged me to watch the series for what it is. Sadly, there will be no second season. The episode opens with our lovely Miss Charlotte walking on air through the one intersection of the Sanditon set that viewers have seen repeatedly. You made me laugh out loud with your Janewould have hired a hit man to take out Andrew Davies. LOL, Despicable ending!! Miss Georgiana Lambe (played by Crystal Clarke) is a wealthy heiress from the West Indies who is most certainly not afraid to speak her mind and make her opinions known. I like the combination of Sydney and Charlotte and as an interesting and unexpected love growing for him and for her, it is rather a shock for him because I think its something he has never experienced before- lets face it Mrs. Eliza Campion is simply incapable of making him feel and think like this and drawing out his real self.. I am more concerned with the Miss Lambe storyline. James Stringer receives a letter stating that he has received an offer of an apprenticeship in London. Turlough Convery as Arthur Denham in "Sanditon" (Red Planet/PBS) Someone else who is taken in by Lockhart is Arthur Parker (Turlough Convery). finale. What happens to Miss Lambe in Sanditon? The character Miss Lambe, a West Indian heiress, is "a real effort to represent someone in a very difficult situation at the time," said Crystal Clarke, right in "Sanditon." Credit . Overall, Im somewhat indignant that this series is labelled as having anything to do with Jane Austen. They could have had a lovely life together. Miss Lambe ( Crystal Clarke) arrives in the seaside resort of Sanditon under the protection of Mrs Griffiths, a middle-aged white woman whose other "charges" include the English Miss. The only reason for a man to ride pell-mell after his lover is to reclaim hernot to rub salt into her wounds. Sanditon's a place that's changing fast. But it's Tom Parker's brother Sidney Parker (Theo James) making the biggest impression. I think they could have been very good friends. If Jane could have seen this pathetic ending she would have hired a hit man to take out Andrew Davies. In ancient Greek theatre, this DEM device came in the form of an angel or god of sorts lowered onto a stage who would save the protagonists. Scant resources existed in the early 19th century to fight fires in buildings made largely of wood, and the structure is swiftly destroyed. Please find Mr Stringer someone nice he is quite unsuitable for Charlotte so I imagine Sidneys wife will die a gruesome death leaving him all her vast wealth, and then we can be left in limbo again, wondering whether he and Charlotte will marry in Series 3, which I will definitely not buy. Miss Lambe is a creation of Jane Austen and described as seventeen, half mulatto, and the possessor of an immense fortune. The viewers were cheated. Also Read | 'The Wilds' Season 2 Release . I agree. We do deserve one more episode. Anyway, I am disappointed that Charlotte didnt get her man. The opening sequence reveals that Sidney has died of yellow fever while in Antigua. I am trying to move forward but Im kind of stuck, I hope Mr. Davies does something to wrap things up cause its really bugging me and I dont feel like its my story to tell but I LOVE these characters and he better fix it. Vic dislikes a few things I liked very much or doesnt mention them. We agree on so many points. My plea to the powers that be is to think of your audience and order up at least one more episode to tie up loose ends and provide Charlotte with the logical ending she deserves. Good points all. And quite uncharacteristic of Lady Denham. Miss Lambe is described in Sanditon the novel as 'half mulatto,' and a wealthy heiress who may be sickly. Sorry about the duplication my computer is acting up. Lady Susan is the gluewhy was she even in the story if not to come to Charlottes rescue??? End of discussion. We must have the Charlotte with Sidney eventuality. He is a Harlequin Romance hero a pulp fiction depiction, and a mere shadow, of Janes best male portrayals. i find the end of episode 8 to be unfulfilling, to say the least, maddening and a tease, at best. Thank you for your subversive nature. Miss Lambe is a seventeen-year-old girl brought to Sanditon by Mrs. Griffiths, along with two Miss Beauforts. Do read Austens original manuscript. Come on. Charlotte/Sidney/James Springer dance to the same music as Marianne Dashwood/Willoughby/Col. Hes presented to us as a sort of Darcy manqu, but the blessed Jane didnt re-tread her heroes any more than her heroines. Miss Georgiana Lambe: "The wealthy heiress Georgiana Lambe who came to Sanditon she was Sidney's ward. Are you still proclaiming your independence? I felt so betrayed by this final episode and turned right to you for commiseration. Oh wait, I am mistaken, that is not a good mini series, that is the best! 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