#mrs. jennings

[bethanydelleman]

Rereading S&S and Mrs Jennings is just chef's kiss ❤️

Mrs. Jennings is the best! Here are my favourite parts of her:

She [Mrs. Jennings] then went away, walking on tiptoe out of the room, as if she supposed her young friend’s affliction could be increased by noise... Elinor, who did justice to Mrs. Jennings’s kindness, though its effusions were often distressing, and sometimes almost ridiculous, made her those acknowledgments, and returned her those civilities, which her sister could not make or return for herself. Their good friend saw that Marianne was unhappy, and felt that every thing was due to her which might make her at all less so. She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays. Marianne was to have the best place by the fire, was to be tempted to eat by every delicacy in the house, and to be amused by the relation of all the news of the day. Had not Elinor, in the sad countenance of her sister, seen a check to all mirth, she could have been entertained by Mrs. Jennings’s endeavours to cure a disappointment in love, by a variety of sweetmeats and olives, and a good fire.... “My dear,” said she, entering, “I have just recollected that I have some of the finest old Constantia wine in the house that ever was tasted, so I have brought a glass of it for your sister. My poor husband! how fond he was of it! Whenever he had a touch of his old colicky gout, he said it did him more good than any thing else in the world. Do take it to your sister.” -Ch 30, Sense & Sensibility

I too believe that wine, olives, tiptoeing, and good fires is the best way to get over a disappointed heart!

[historicalreusedcostumes]

This dress with Flowers on is worn on Patricia Routledge as Mrs. Jennings in Sense and Sensibility (1971) and worn again on Anne Blake as Princess Drubetskoya in War & Peace (1972) and many years later worn on Eloise Webb as Augusta Markham in Sanditon (2022)

[velvet4510]

If it weren’t for Billy creating the Road, Sharon would’ve died completely alone, never again having a taste of sisterhood or adventure.

If it weren’t for Billy creating the Road, Jen would never have unbound herself or regained her power.

If it weren’t for Billy creating the Road, Alice would never have known what her mother did for her or broken the curse, achieving what her ancestors could not.

If it weren’t for Billy creating the Road, Lilia would never have achieved closure within herself or understood her own purpose in life.

If it weren’t for Billy creating the Road, Agatha would never have learned to love a child again or realized that she could still be more than just a killer.

Every member of the coven, whether they physically survived in the end or not, was given something immeasurably valuable by Billy through his Hex of the Road.

He may have “killed” some of them.

But in truth, in one way or another, he saved all of them.

[this-is-malarkey]

okay I finished the book again. Marianne does get better yay. Like I know part of the point is the contrast of her and Elinor, since they’re both teens in the same situation — losing their father, their home, and being pretty impoverished; plus their disappointments in love — and how they handle it. Butttttt it’s still frustrating to read. Like Lydia is also extremely self-centered and a brat but she annoys me less somehow? Maybe because our main character, Elizabeth, has Jane to lean on (even if she doesn’t always confide in Jane), whereas poor Elinor is on her own. Me & my older sister have the same age gap & idk, I hate the idea of her not having any support.

And to expand on Elinor and Brandon, I just think they’re better friends / know each other better and their personalities are well suited. Marianne and Brandon seem mostly to be together because he sees his old love in her & he’s deserving of being loved?? Which he is, and she also deserves love after being devastated by Willoughby, but does that inherently mean they two should be together? Ehhh. 🤷🏻‍♀️

P.S. Mr. Palmer was cool when it counted lol. God bless Sir John and especially Mrs. Jennings and their good intentions.

Hot take: Elinor Dashwood should have married Colonel Brandon. I think they suit each other so much better.

(also Marianne is selfish. I’m listening to the audiobook and I don’t remember if she ever stops being less of a self-involved brat)

[the-ominous-owl]

The coven before they were the coven.

[idkwhatever580]

I was gonna make y’all wait but I’m impatient too so here you go!

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Happy day. I hope that you like my personal beef with Jen. I know she’s not horrible and all but I still kinda beef with her. She’s pretty though. (Honestly I just thought it would be funny as hell bc she seems to have a lot of beef with Agatha (not talking about the binding incident that’s a diff story) and I think that Rio wouldn’t take it lightly. I also couldn’t help but create some drama and who else to stir the pot with than the potions witch???

[mrswife-mrhubs]

Please Enjoy Jen

Taken by me Mr Hubs

[borgialucrezia]

"Lizzie was incredibly loyal to Tommy and their relationship has grown steadily. He trusts her very much and that’s why he married her. You have to keep important people like that close!" — CILLIAN MURPHY (2019, TV Times Magazine)

[agathaharknesscovernofquotes]

Rio: Agatha. Darling. Sweetheart. Light of my life. Agatha: You're angry with me, aren't you? Rip: *Smiling sweetly* Livid.

[bethanydelleman]

What exactly was considered good manners and being vulgar? I know Mrs. Bennet and I think Mrs. Jennings are described to be vulgar but apart from being quite chatty without minding the feelings of others (the argument country vs. city or teasing endlessly about 'Mr. F' come to mind) i can't really picture the exact behaviours that are being criticised this way. Maybe because to me vulgarity would be dirty language or burping in company which neither of them do.

This question is hard, especially in some scenes in Mansfield Park when Edmund and Fanny talk about Mary's "little errors" and I'm like ???? Though I think the main point is, even though the Admiral has treated Mary like crap, she isn't supposed to say so because family ties and not airing dirty laundry.

Mrs. Bennet and Mrs. Jennings are a bit easier to understand. Mrs. Bennet openly talks about how Jane marrying Bingley will be financially advantageous for the family, which even today is just crass. She also basically tells Darcy he isn't a gentleman:

“Yes, she called yesterday with her father. What an agreeable man Sir William is, Mr. Bingley—is not he? so much the man of fashion! so genteel and so easy! He has always something to say to everybody. That is my idea of good breeding; and those persons who fancy themselves very important and never open their mouths quite mistake the matter.”

I just realized how funny it is that both Mrs. Bennet and Elizabeth tell Darcy he doesn't at like a real gentleman!

Mrs. Bennet also openly disparages Charlotte Lucas to Bingley in order to show off Jan and performs acts of clear matchmaking.

Mrs. Jennings is vulgar because she's always attempting to pry into other people's business (like with Colonel Brandon's letter and Elinor's secret beau) and she also jokes about people being in love. The funny thing is that Sir John loves it and Lady Middleton, Mrs. Jennings actual daughter, hates it. I almost think he ought to have married his MIL.

However, Mrs. Jennings does know the rules and Elinor is pleasantly surprised by her behaviour in London. While she does gossip in London, she does seem to act as a proper chaperone to the Dashwood sisters. I personally suspect she's more intelligent than Mrs. Bennet under all her silliness.

But yeah, I think the idea is not to say anything that would embarrass other people and certain topics are taboo. Mrs. Jennings goes out of her way to make other people blush and Mrs. Bennet is constantly praising her daughters and attacking every other marriageable girl.

[snapheart1536]

Imelda Staunton racing in always makes me laugh.

Sense and Sensibility 1995

[katerinadeannika]

Notes after watching the full Behind the Scenes of Agatha All Along posted on Nov 13th 2024:

There was no way they could have written an ending for Agatha that did not involve death.

I have been saying this to all the naysayers from the get-go, to all the people making posts about being done or fed up or angry about the ending, or how it makes no sense, or how they should have could have done something different and been fine story wise. The behind the scenes confirmed my point.

The main through line for the entire show was the theme of Death; of Agatha never being able to escape it. Where she both loves and hates death and Death, the concept and the woman. Where she's been running from Death for centuries, but Death came for her son and was always coming for her the second she slowed down.

Every completed trial meant someone would die. Billy created the road based off the rumors and witch lore. And the only rumors out in the witch world were that someone knew someone else's aunt/relative/friend who had undertaken the road and never returned. In reality, that was Agatha's doing. But to Billy, it meant that somehow, the Road took its toll on them. And when the coven traveled it, the Road exacted the same price that Billy expected it to. Death or near death at every trial.

The first trial killed Sharon. The second gave Alice her power back and then Billy almost died (and probably would have if Agatha hadn't pleaded with Rio on his behalf, if the coven hadn't worked together, and if Billy hadn't made the Road with his own powers. Some interesting combo of the all the above). The third trial killed Alice who was trying to save Agatha. And the fourth trial killed Lilia and the Salem Seven.

Jac said she intentionally wrote it where Death was a very real thing that everyone in the show had to come to terms with.

And for Jen Kale, her gift was already dead, and she was supposed to resurrect it and take her own power back. She escaped because after Agatha's trial, the fifth one, someone DID die.

And this time it was Agatha.

Agatha had avoided it every other time by either being saved, or having the rest of the coven as fodder for death.

But in the end, when she could have left once again, she must decide who has to pay the final price for her invention of the Road. The Road that she has used to kill and lure countless witches to their doom over the past few centuries.

She can save the boy she has come to love and mentor after the loss of her son. Or, she can leave once again. And so she makes the final moment of self sacrifice, and chooses the final victim of the Road: Herself

She has been running from Death for centuries.

For Agatha's story to have a thematic ending that wasn't cheap or manufactured, she had to stay true to that through-line. That's how writing works. You find your themes. You write about and explore them. And you have a final consequence that determines if it's a positive arc or a negative arc for your main character.

They chose for Agatha to have a positive arc. A moment of final growth. To end the show on her finally making the right decision, even at the cost of the life she's sustained through countless centuries and via countless deaths.

There was no way the show could have ended any other way.

PS: There is no excuse to hate on it. At all.

It doesn't meet any of the criteria for the 'Bury your gays' trope. It doesn't even end Agatha’s story. But it does provide expertly written, well thought out, thematically poignant endings for all the characters in a way that satisfies their personal journey—throughout the show and the centuries.

And I am so glad they made it, and that it ended how it did. I wouldn’t want it any other way. As a writer. As an editor. As a viewer. And as a lesbian.

Agatha All Along is a masterpiece in TV writing. And I can’t wait for more.

PSS: Watch the Behind the Scenes on youtube that Marvel just posted. It’s super good and includes all sorts of info to help with fic writing and just general understanding of the writing and show creation. Also lots of Kathryn Hahn and Aubrey Plaza in interviews!

TLDR: Quit complaining and griping about the ending. It was written beautifully. The reason you got so invested is because of all the heavy death elements throughout that made things mean something. Embrace it. Or find media where you were the target audience. Cause if you couldn’t handle something well written that ends like this, you weren’t the target audience. And that’s okay. But move on before you keep griping and causing issues with the community and the cast.

[captain-jacks-coat]

Alice is Billy's cool big sister. Agatha is their weird mum. Rio is their femme dad. Jen is the bitchy aunt (who isn't related but might as well be). Patti LuPone is the kooky, wispy grandmother. Sharon is the sweet stereotypical grandmother.

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Lillia Calderu, the woman you were, are, and will always be.

I hope what it meant at the end of the episode was that she finally got to experience her life in a linear way.

[idkwhatever580]



[mrswife-mrhubs]

Shhh Don’t tell Hubs 😚