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Originally Posted by ATDrake
Aw. I actually kind of liked Pride/Prejudice on the grounds that if you're going to mess with canon to tell your own spin on a well-known story that doesn't have all that much maneuvering room (unlike the endless possible Sherlock Holmes cases that can yet be discovered), then you should really mess with canon to provide extra entertainment value and distinguish your take from the rest.
This explains my fondness for the idea of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, even if the execution was somewhat lacking.
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That's the problem right there--messing with the story. Let the author tell her own story with her own characters, rather than twisting Austen's story and characters to suit her ends. But I don't mind modern retellings a la
Clueless, or something that uses Austen as a jumping-off point, like
My Jane Austen Summer.
I didn't find
Pride/Prejudice entertaining, but boring in the extreme.
No zombies for me.