Thread by @lainasparetime

Okay, ready for today's #LainaWatchesAnne thread? It's the last part of Part 1 of the mini-series and has a particularly memorable part in it for any of you who have seen this at any point, I think.

If you remember from last Tuesday, Phillips is leaving so his goodbye party (not in the book) is replacing Diana's birthday party. Still a party, not a huge deal obviously, but you know.

I just hate Mr. Phillips so much XD

#LainaWatchesAnne Anyways, we're at the party and Josie hops up to walk on the fence. Which is not particularly impressive looking, tbh.

#LainaWatchesAnne Anne agrees with me and then brags about a girl she knew who could walk the ridgepole of a building (which is the thing that runs along the middle of the roof).

#LainaWatchesAnne There's a lot more Gilbert in this scene than there was in the book (it was a party of girls, after all) which to me makes it lose some of the rivalry between Josie and Anne. Not everything is about Gilbert between them.

#LainaWatchesAnne Josie does flirt with Gilbert sometimes, but Anne also was willing to do very reckless things solely to show up Josie because she was Josie. And a Pye.

Anyways, Anne takes the dare and goes splat.

#LainaWatchesAnne Only a sprained ankle, though, it seems versus her broken ankle in the book.

Since Gilbert is there, he offers to help her home and she turns him down. This is not book canon but it is VERY in character for them both.

#LainaWatchesAnne In a choice I find very odd, they put the haunted forest bit here? I kind of get it, I guess, since although the prose in that chapter is wonderful, nothing much happens. It just seems strange to me to put it here, of all places.

#LainaWatchesAnne Especially since Anne then immediately falls in a hole.

#LainaWatchesAnne She has now twisted her OTHER ankle.

So Diana's father has to come get her out of the woods and carry Anne home anyways, which is what happens in the book.

Just seems like an unnecessary change to me, really.

#LainaWatchesAnne Marilla is very proud to hear Anne tied for first place in the term results and very worried about Anne being injured. It's super sweet.

#LainaWatchesAnne We don't see any of Anne's recovery but it's just sprains so I assume it isn't the six weeks in bed she had to spend in the book to get better.

Having spent most of 3 months in bed healing a spine fracture this year, I feel Anne's pain even more now.

#LainaWatchesAnne Anyways, Anne is fully recovered and it's tea time! In another very cute Marilla moment, she seems very proud of Anne hosting a guest.

Also I love this shot of the pantry

#LainaWatchesAnne And a lesson in why we label our homemade food well!

Diana drinks one glass of "cordial"... then another... and another...

#LainaWatchesAnne And all this has happened while Anne made a pot of tea and set up this tray

#LainaWatchesAnne Like Diana well and truly CHUGGED almost a full bottle of wine. Marilla's right - that would have been a little rude even if it was actually cordial.

#LainaWatchesAnne She stumbles home very drunk and Mrs Berry is pissed. Mrs Rachel, of course, sticks her nose in where no one wanted it, and Mrs Berry bans Diana from being around Anne anymore.

#LainaWatchesAnne When Marilla gets home, she's super chill which I love. It was an honest mistake, some of which she takes responsibility for, and she goes to talk to Mrs Barry.

Mrs Allan, who drove Marilla home, goes to and comforts Anne on the way.

#LainaWatchesAnne And this scene is great - Marilla calls Diana greedy and tells off Mrs Rachel for her "demon liquor" comments and her meddling.

Go OFF, Marilla!

#LainaWatchesAnne It, ah, doesn't help Anne much but this scene really is so funny.

Anne says about Mrs Barry that "I don't think God himself would entirely meet with her approval". Marilla is like "prolly you shouldn't say that in front of the minister's wife but also yeah".

#LainaWatchesAnne And Mrs Allan totally gets a kick out of the whole thing

#LainaWatchesAnne Anne is heartbroken, Marilla is sympathetic and also annoyed at the potential gossip. She says again it's not Anne's fault, which I love.

#LainaWatchesAnne Diana comes over to say goodbye and it's saaaaad.

Diana: "I could never love anyone as much as I love you, Anne."

It's absolutely shot like a breakup, is all I'm saying. Get your queer feels here, folks.

#LainaWatchesAnne Anne even cuts off a chunk of Diana's hair and they kiss.

On the cheek, but still.

#LainaWatchesAnne INTERMISSION TIME! We have officially reached the halfway point!

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