#daniel vincent gordh

[firthbetterorfirthworse]

Welcome to the Darcy auditions, please give us your best impression of a disgruntled penguin

Thank you, we'll be in touch

[haveyouseenthisromcom]

Mod note: While the spin-off series like The Lydia Bennet! are absolutely worth watching, IMHO, we're just including the main channel videos in this question, to keep things simple.

[shipwreckedcomedy]

In today's episode, secrets are revealed at Mel Hammermeister's Christmas party.

FEATURING Julia Cho as Sheilah Graham Daniel Vincent Gordh as F. Scott Fitzgerald and more

On Apple Podcasts and Spotify! 🎧

[pennyngram]

Every single Darcy ever.

1938, Andrew Osborn

1940, Lord Olivier

1952, Peter Cushing

1958, Alan Badel

1967, Lewis Fiander

1980, David Rintoul

1995, Colin Firth

2003, Orlando Seale (the one with the Mormons)

2004, Martin Henderson (Bride and Prejudice)

2005, Matthew MacFadyen

2008, Elliot Cowan (Lost in Austen)

2012, Daniel Vincent Gordh (The Lizzie Bennet Diaries)

2013, Matthew Rhys (Death comes to Pemberley)

2016, Sam Riley (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies)

2016, Chase Connor (Before the Fall, not featured as I wasn't able to find a decent picture)

2016 & 2018, Ryan Paevey (Unleashing Mr Darcy & Marrying Mr Darcy, not featured as I remembered these movies only after creating the infographic ops)

2022, Conrad Ricamora (Fire Island)

I'm not counting Bridget Jones since it doesn't market itself as having ties to P&P

[baatheblacksheep]

am i wrong tho

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

I can't believe I share my birthday with both Curt Mega and Daniel Vincent Gordh.

And also a very old Dutch guy with the INCREDIBLE name of Rombout Hogerbeets, but that's neither here nor there.

Happy birthday Curt and DVG! Thanks for art. It has lifted me up more than I can say.

[elizabeth-freaking-bennet]

all of these men are like mixed together in my head to make the perfect darcy

[thesarahshay]

My roommate suddenly remembered this video, so we rewatched it tonight and GUESS WHAT: it's still friggin hilarious. Daniel Vincent Gordh is a treasure.

[boysappetit]

Daniel Vincent Gordh

[twomrw]

Video ID: Black background. Still of a cameo: white silhouette of girl with negro features and textured hair, surrounded by golden oval frame.

Text below says "All That Glitters" in gold cursive

Then in gold upper case letters "Track 9 Muddy Boots"

About This Song

So it turns out I couldn't not do a Dizzie song for Pride and Prejudice. As I was wrapping up the album, this one just spilled out of me.

It's one of the rougher ones in the sense that I was literally still figuring it out when I recorded it (I think you can actually hear that in some places), due to the fact that I recorded it the day after I wrote it while I had been working on some of the others for months.

But I love it so much, it's my precious baby. It's not my favourite song, because that award goes to the album's titular song "All That Glitters", but it is the one I'm most proud of.

The sound quality is questionable though, so if a lovely someone with the skills and equipment would like to remake it, by all means, take it away. I'd love you forever if you tagged me so I could hear it.

Entire Album Track List

I don't know that these are particularly spoilery lyrics, but they're beneath the cut with the chords anyway.

Muddy Boots Lyrics and Chords

Don't remember the capo or the intro T.T

Verse 1

C              Am F

Looking back I can barely believe it

C Am F

It was in fact a miserable evening 

Am.  C. Am G

I spent the whole night alone in the corner

Am.  F. Am G c

I’d spend my whole life alone if it wasn’t for you

Interlude

C. Am F G

Pre chorus?

C

Muddy boots

Am

Artful pursuits

F Am

Walking in a circle around the room

C

Meeting eyes

F

Speaking your mind

Am.      F                    G                C

I never felt quite this way before you

G.                    Am. F

 Though darling it’s true

C

(...not handsome enough to tempt me)

That blow was so low

Am

(I was in the middle before I knew I'd begun)

That burn was so slow

F Am G

But somehow we made it here

C

I hope that you know

Am

There’s no place like home 

F Am G

And somehow we made it there

Verse 1 repeated

[ace-fandom-dumbass]

started Case of the Greater Gatsby as background noise while cleaning/packing up and this one bit in episode one just swung right into Night Vale vibes, just the death threat note in an unreasonably cheery casual voice completely ignoring the actual content its killing me it sounded exactly like how cecil would react to something like that

[shrinkthisviolet]

And the Look Back Diaries episode about it was GREAT 🥰

TODAY IS AN INTERNATIONAL HOLIDAY

It’s officially been 10 years since the best video of all time was released!!

[myclutteredbookshelf]

Please reblog for a larger sample size.

[man-down-in-hatchet-town]

Enter Sandman

Spoilers for The Case of the Greater Gatsby Episode 9 below the cut.

I really, REALLY enjoyed this episode! Lots of fun quotes and little moments that piqued my interest and got ye olde wheels churning (not necessarily a good thing for the rest of you, but fun for me). And what a great use of set-up and pay-off with Willie's book club!

But before we get to all of that, a massive CONGRATULATIONS to my man Cliff Calloway on the romantic getaway to Ibiza with his contractor! And another massive CONGRATULATIONS to his household staff for not having to worry about any more bathrooms being added to the mix. It's nice when things work out! (Please let this work out. Do not take this away from me and Cliff and his housekeepers, Shipwrecked).

But onto the actual events of the episode. So Darby is getting tutored, which is perhaps the most sensible and least surprising thing happening on that entire set. Unless our note writer is using Mr. Broderick to infiltrate the set, I don't really think Darby's education will have anything to do with the case, but she did drop the potentially crucial factoid about Mel having a shindig on the night of Fitzy's death. We know he and Sheila were out partying that night--was this the event in question? (I might be wrong, but I don't think we've gotten the answer to exactly where he was that evening, right?) If so, that could place so many people with F. Scott the night someone decided that he had to die.

Also on the set, Leery received a threat of his own! The most notable thing about this note, besides its method of delivery (bold, and also underlines the suspicion that whoever writes/delivers the notes has free access to the lot and probably is or links back to one of the cast/crew/creatives) is that we don't know what it says. This is the only one that hasn't been read to the audience. Is this because it's the same-old same-old, nothing notable, anti-Grapes of Wrath stuff? Or are we meant to think that way, when in fact there's an important clue within that Shipwrecked is waiting to reveal? Even if it is simply another anti-adaption hit piece, it's notable that our Fitzgerald-penned movie has had three stars threatened--more than any other production that we know about. On one hand, a tap-dance version of The Grapes of Wrath is clearly a whole new level of egregious, so its understandable why whoever writes the letters would hate it the most. But still, the clear focus on Grapes is a definite tick in the "the anti-adaption letters are a really a smoke-screen for something else" column.

And then there's the big reveal of the episode: F. Scott Fitzgerald kept tapes of his writing process. Besides explaining Daniel Vincent Gordh's casting as Fitzy (I've genuinely been wondering about how they were going to incorporate him for months), this is huge for the cast. The tapes likely hold at least some answers as to what secrets The Greater Gatsby contained, why it was stolen, why Fitzgerald was killed, and maybe even who committed the murder. (It also could tell us and Fig about the secret Ford is protecting. I STILL HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT.) But where are these golden clues? It's possible, though unlikely, that they're boxed away at the studio like Sheila suggested. It's possible that whoever took the script also took them. But I keep coming back to the Persauds taking time out of the narrative to describe some of Zelda's paintings on the walls--particularly the one that shows a man whispering something "surreptitious" and is hanging slightly crooked. Like someone's been messing with it. What if the tapes are behind that painting? Could there be a safe in the wall, or even one or two tapes with the most vital information taped onto the painting's back (if the fame is bulky enough)? The subject matter of the art equates it with the hiding and telling of secrets, both making it an appropriate work to use to protect such things and also referencing the nature of the script stored on the missing tapes. And that would explain part of why Fitzgerald was so keen on keeping some of Zelda's work on the walls--one painting to protect his work, the others to distract. The psychological implications of him using Zelda's work to protect his precious secrets is also really interesting.

(My other thought is--what if F. Scott Fitzgerald was recording the night that he died? What if the final tape captured the voice of his killer, or even the murder itself? In that case, it certainly wouldn't be with the other tapes potentially hidden behind paintings or stored in studios, but it could be the set-up for a great reveal later on.)

Speaking of Zelda, welcome to the party Tessa Netting! I know that "it's the loose ends with which men hang themselves" is an actual famous quote from the real Mrs. Fitzgerald, but boy-oh-boy was it sinister in this particular context...

And off our duo goes to try and figure her out, anyways. I don't know about you guys, but I'm excited for the potential chaos of "no cop, no cop" if Ford actually ends up going along with Fig's shenanigans for once (he's thawing! I love him!).

[flutishly]

LBD rewatch, part 5

It’s hard not to feel that the last batch of Lizzie Bennet Diaries episodes are a bit of a letdown. Where the pacing was excellent at the beginning, the story by now feels drawn out. The Lydia subplot ends up feeling like the show’s main climax, instead of the romantic realization between Lizzie and Darcy. Everything that happens after “Okay” especially just feels a little... out of place, at least in a binge era. I don’t remember it feeling quite this slow back when the show was originally airing, but it did now.

Part of the problem is how the show handles Darcy’s presence. The choice to wait a long time before “revealing” Darcy created a lot of hype around his first appearance, which was frankly a fairly brilliant narrative choice. Except that Darcy ends up adding only a little to the story, in retrospect. He shows up a couple handful or so times, with each appearance wielded like a sharpened weapon. His obvious discomfort on camera alongside his obvious infatuation with Lizzie creates a rather uncomfortable dissonance. I find myself not wanting to watch him, because unlike Lizzie, he doesn’t feel like someone who wants his drama online. Except, of course, Lizzie continues to film and upload videos of/with/about him. And honestly? Much as I appreciate what Daniel Vincent Gordh does with the character, there was a sense that there just wasn’t enough done with him to fully justify Lizzie’s emotional shift. So much time is spent showing us that Darcy is so so so into Lizzie (which becomes a little weird, honestly!), but her reciprocation doesn’t come across quite as successfully.

So much is happening behind the scenes (which was actually kinda cool, from a realism perspective!), but since Lizzie doesn’t actually really vlog about that before all the Lydia stuff goes down, the only time we really get Lizzie vlogging about her changing feelings is in “Talking to Myself”. This episode has some of my favorite Ashley Clements acting in the series, in the way she so perfectly conveys Lizzie’s confusion, discomfort, apprehension, and desire to figure things out. (It also has the very excellent “This far, no further” First Contact reference, so that’s great.) It also does a really good job of calling back to what worked so well in the first part of the show - we’re watching Lizzie’s diary. We don’t actually need to constantly see other people or have them randomly walk onto the vlog. Lizzie’s interpretations and her presentation are kind of what sell it and the fact that this tiny last batch of episodes has so many camera-breaches is part of what makes it less to my taste.

“Talking to Myself” also works because it’s the breather before the Darcy finale. It’s one of the most direct episodes of the series and one of the ones that makes most sense as a vlog, in a weird way. The temporal aspect feels real when we can literally see/feel the gap between it and “Special Delivery” a few days later. It’s not a false gap, induced by editing or the production powers that be, it’s real. And Lizzie’s explicitly sharing the video because she’s trying to reach out to Darcy and communicate, even musing over the fact that surely if he watches her videos, he must know how her feelings have changed. (Even if I’m not convinced, I can certainly understand why he would be.)

But then? I don’t know! Part of it is certainly that secondhand embarrassment (I quite literally had to pause as soon as Darcy sat down, it was so overwhelming), but part is also the way “Gratitude” doesn’t make much sense. It’s obvious that LBD had to show the Big Damn Kiss, but it’s also... not? Something about how it plays out feels weird. Lizzie’s coy opening is excellent, but then the fact that she still shows this whole dang conversation is unsettling! And like I felt at the beginning of my rewatch, it’s not that it felt outdated (UNFORTUNATELY), it just feels uncomfortable. Obviously still very romantically satisfying, but still... public videos?!

And then the show... ends.

This is the part that I found so much more disappointing on rewatch. In a movie - particularly in a movie where the romantic angle is the primary plot - it can work for the story to wrap up quickly and neatly within a few minutes of the Big Damn Kiss. In a TV series, it’s more of a question of how the story framed its ending, but the gist is the same, if the romance is the point. The problem is that LBD did such a fantastic job of selling itself as so much more than just a story about Lizzie and Darcy (and again, Darcy is a secondary character, all things considered!), that this ending feels baffling in how rushed it is. Lizzie goes from spilling her heart out for weeks on end to saying “mm yeah, I’m done”, without a deeper conversation about that. She doesn’t even really justify it in the context of consequences arising from her videos. It’s just... “The End”. Especially knowing how other shows would do it in the future in much more realistic ways (Jane in the Autobiography of Jane Eyre starting to post less near the end of the show’s run, before justifying why she no longer feels the need to keep posting videos, or much more amusingly, Benedick saying he’ll post his regular video next week and then simply not doing so in Nothing Much to Do), this feels like a deflation rather than the series ending with its head held high.

It’s not that there aren’t brilliant little bits in these episodes. Again, I still feel an immense emotional rush at seeing Lizzie and Darcy kiss and talk in “Gratitude”, as well as their ridiculously overly-adorable affection in “Future Talk”. I love that Lizzie emphasizes her growing relationship with Lydia and that Lydia appears in the last episode. I love that Charlotte comes to cheer Lizzie up and is also there are the very end. And against all odds, I like the ending itself! Once I set aside the deflation aspect, the last episode does a nice job of wrapping things up, thematically. And goodness, I had 100% forgotten that post-goodbye ending scene!!! I laughed aloud.

I’m still trying to wrap my thoughts around some aspects, but I’ll do a rewatch recap at some point soon. In the meantime... what’s the next webseries rewatch, hmm? I should probably start thinking about that...!