#aoje

and It's every well most adaptations OF JANE EYRE that's got me

- my feelings about Jane Eyre the novel are that I love Jane as a character but I’m lukewarm about the story she’s in. I feel the same way about AOJE. So… successful adaptation, I guess.

- I’m gobsmacked that they kept Beth/Bertha as the mentally ill secret wife living in a hidden part of the house, and they kept Simon/St John literally asking Jane to marry him and go with him to India. And that it WORKED! You have to suspend your disbelief a little, but I love that they committed to the out-there plot instead of changing the marriage proposals to business partnership proposals and stuff like the LBD did.

- I adore Diana and Mary and I’m so glad Jane has them now.

- it’s always going to make me uncomfortable that Jane and Rochester are white people whose happy ending depends on the tragic suicide of a mentally ill woman of color. It is. But I like that they remind us that Beth/Bertha was human. That she’s remembered as a good, beautiful person who got sick and couldn’t get better. That she was able to have a brief relationship with Adele before she died and Adele will have good memories of her.

- It sucks that Mr. Rochester’s actor left the series early and so Rochester never properly appears on camera again after Jane leaves Thornfield post-failed-wedding. It does. But at least this is perhaps the only classic lit story where you can get away with that, because Rochester only has one more big scene at the end and I do buy that Jane and Rochs would want that to be private and off-camera.

- Obsessed with Jane deciding to live on her own and just date Rochs for a while instead of jumping right back into marrying him now that Beth has died. Absolutely the right and most healthy choice.