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IT'S TUESDAY SO GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS???

Time for another #LainaWatchesAnne thread! We are moving on to part 2 of the mini-series today! I'm using a lot of exclamation marks because I slept horribly last night!

#LainaWatchesAnne Anyways, like I said, we've entered part 2 of the mini-series and time has passed. It's a bit unclear, but Anne has this nice sweater and Diana has new friends.

Traitor.

#LainaWatchesAnne No, they both look quite sad.

But happily for us, it's time to say hello to Miss Stacey!

#LainaWatchesAnne We love her and she's great. Anne seems very inspired by her. We get a really nice learning montage and God, props to Miss Stacey for teaching like 15 students of different ages all at once.

I think we've all got more of an idea of how hard that is now, eh?

#LainaWatchesAnne Anne and Diana continue to give each other longing looks. We have not seen Gilbert yet, amusingly.

Anne gets caught reading during math class and Miss Stacey is very chill about it. She also seems to be none too fond of Mrs. Barry XD

#LainaWatchesAnne I really like this actress.

Also her hair and outfits overall are great. I'm going to come back to this, but she's very fashionable.

#LainaWatchesAnne I just want to show how pretty this is

#LainaWatchesAnne Miss Stacey comes to talk to Marilla, who assumes Anne has done something wrong, lol. But actually Miss Stacey wants to invite Anne to the Queen's special class.

We're again going by the book here, but I just love Marilla's reaction.

#LainaWatchesAnne This actress has softened Marilla at just the right rate. She's still gruff and firm, but you can see just how proud of Anne she is.

#LainaWatchesAnne Marilla is so pleased, in fact, that she invites Miss Stacey for supper.

Dead mouse sauce, and all.

Miss Stacey cracks up and everyone follows suit except Anne. It's a very cute scene.

#LainaWatchesAnne Poor Diana - her mother has such low expectations for her. Marilla thinks girls should be able to work for a living, and Mrs. Barry thinks Diana should focus on learning to be a wife.

#LainaWatchesAnne WINTER! And a horsie. Who jingles!

#LainaWatchesAnne Again, time did pass like this in the book sometimes - especially in chapters like this one. It is a bit confusing visually, though.

Marilla looks sharp here.

#LainaWatchesAnne She's going to see the speech the Premier is giving and Anne is mostly home alone since Matthew will be working. Marilla doesn't seem worried at all, which is really sweet.

#LainaWatchesAnne Tangent - sometimes I say to Luce that Canada's British roots are still very strong, and obviously there's more than that in Canada, but the influence is undeniably there and this actually illustrates that well.

#LainaWatchesAnne This pung sleigh is decorated with the Union Jack. Canada did not actually adopt the modern red and white maple leaf flag until 1965.

#LainaWatchesAnne Mrs Barry gives Anne a rude look and they leave.

Later, Anne and Matthew discuss politics and then Anne asks Matthew if he ever went courting. He says no, because you can't court a girl if you can't talk to them.

#LainaWatchesAnne This whole scene is so lovely and cozy and so cute. They look so utterly comfortable with each other.

#LainaWatchesAnne Suddenly! Diana bursts in, sobbing, and says that Minnie May is sick with the croup and they don't know what to do. Matthew immediately leaves to get the doctor and Anne goes to this really cool medicine cabinet ove the pantry.

#LainaWatchesAnne Uh, sorry for that picture, Diana.

But look at all these cool old bottles! "Blood purifier" seems to have contained a lot of random things - one I foud had iron, arsenic, strychnine, potassium, iodine, plant extracts including a laxative, and alcohol.

#LainaWatchesAnne That is several kinds of poisons. That'll probably kill you faster than whatever ails you :P

#LainaWatchesAnne Anne grabs the ipecac and tells Diana to stop crying because she knows exactly what to do for the croup. She says, "Ipecac is an expectorant."

#LainaWatchesAnne Now, if you are new here, you should read my blog post about this scene in the book lainahastoomuchsparetime.wordpress.com/2019/04/20/ann…

#LainaWatchesAnne Long story short, what Minnie May has is likely not modern croup (or, previously, "false croup") but diphtheritic croup. Anne is exactly right to give her an expectorant, even though that is not what you should do for modern croup.

#LainaWatchesAnne Minnie May has a wad of dead cells, essentially, blocking her airways and slowly smothering her to death, and those need to come up.

Vaccinate your kids, folks!

#LainaWatchesAnne (I read an article once where the author was like "Anne poisoned a child!" and like. No. You just didn't do enough research. And I'm still not over it.)

#LainaWatchesAnne Anyways!

Minnie May's actress is doing a great job here. She looks just miserable.

#LainaWatchesAnne So I always got the impression "Young Mary Joe" was not much older than the girls? And they were like 12 at this point in the book. They call her a girl, not a woman. I didn't really get the idea that she was meant to be an adult.

#LainaWatchesAnne This scene is going super by the book, though. By the time the doctor gets there, Minnie May has "coughed up the phlegm" and is resting peacefully. The doctor says Anne saved Minnie May's life and Matthew looks soooo proud.

#LainaWatchesAnne As they drive home, Anne is falling asleep on Matthew's shoulder, but is also loathe to miss school and let Gilbert get ahead of her.

How cute is this though?

#LainaWatchesAnne The next day, Marilla is making pomanders! (The oranges stuffed with cloves. Originally a plague thing, fun fact.) So it's coming up on Christmas then.

#LainaWatchesAnne She also has left Anne sleep into the afternoon and looks very proud of her. Sweet Anne immediately asks about Marilla's trip and it's overall a very cute scene.

#LainaWatchesAnne Apparently Mrs. Barry came by begging to see Anne, but Marilla wasn't about to wake Anne. I love this scene so much - Anne needed her rest, plain and simple, and Marilla was going to make sure she got it.

#LainaWatchesAnne Marilla tells Anne she's invited to dinner at the Barry's and "I imagine humble pie is on the menu."

#LainaWatchesAnne Anne runs off right then, as she's "aching to see Diana". Marilla just laughs.

Minnie May looks much better and Mrs. Barry apologizes and thanks Anne, who takes it with graces.

Also they're sitting like this.

#LainaWatchesAnne We've got a fairly big change alert!

Instead of the event being a Christmas concert, it's now a Christmas ball in (the fictional) Carmody that Diana and her family invite Anne to.

#LainaWatchesAnne Sounds fun!

So of course Marilla says no.

Balls are for adults, not children. This is combining the Debating Club concert and the later concert that Anne takes place in while in Miss Stacey's class. Not a bad change, necessarily, but it is a pretty big one.

#LainaWatchesAnne Anyways, big no from Marilla. "This is a wound I shall bear forever," Anne says. Only being slightly dramatic there, Anne.

#LainaWatchesAnne Matthew, though, speaks up and says Marilla should let Anne go! A lot of their dialogue is just straight from the book, with "balls" swapped in for "concerts" (lol)

#LainaWatchesAnne Matthew calls her out and they add an interesting line for him about Marilla never getting to go to balls and about their upcoming being "cheerless".

That isn't exactly a book thing, but I like it being added. It rather echoes Montgomery's upbringing, in a way

#LainaWatchesAnne Marilla is obviously shocked as this is the most words he's said at once in this whole mini-series!

#LainaWatchesAnne The next day, Marilla agrees to let her go and it's exactly by the book. Anne is even doing dishes and drips water all over the floor in her excitement.

#LainaWatchesAnne We also bring back Anne's longing for puffed sleeves here. This isn't in this scene in the book, but she mentions it a ton of other times that have been cut, so not a big deal. Marilla still says no to the sleeves, lol.

#LainaWatchesAnne Cut to Matthew in town! And a horse that made Luce very excited!

#LainaWatchesAnne I also just love the general store set with its little clothing/fabric corner.

Matthew is very awkward with the female clerk, but does manage some actual words - to ask for garden rakes in December. She manages to find one, somehow.

#LainaWatchesAnne Then he asks for hayseed, which he obviously knows doesn't come until spring.

Only THEN does he manage to ask about... sugar. And buys 20 pounds of brown sugar. Poor Matthew XD

Also 20 pounds of brown sugar costs $1 and the rake was 75 cents.

#LainaWatchesAnne Oh, here's a cool thing. Matthew pays with a $1 bill. You may know Canada doesn't have those - we have $1 coins, the loonie. So is this a mistake?

Nope! We had bills before loonies. This might even be a PEI dollar as many provinces had their own bills.

#LainaWatchesAnne Shout out to the National Numismatic Collection, National Museum of American History for the picture of the PEI bill.

#LainaWatchesAnne Also while this doesn't work for our timeline, the bank collapse at the end of the book may have been inspired by the Bank of Prince Edward Island's bankruptcy in 1881.

#LainaWatchesAnne Realistically for the filming, they're probably just using an American dollar since those are super easy to get, look similar enough, and aren't 100 years old, lol.

#LainaWatchesAnne So, Matthew buys his 20 pounds of sugar, leans over the counter, and goes, "I need a dress with puffed sleeves" like he's asking for his 5th bottle of gin this week and he's about to be kicked out of the store.

#LainaWatchesAnne The clerk is happy to help, obviously, and helps him pick a ready-to-wear dress which is quite a big change. Ready-to-wear clothing wasn't very common, and was a lot more expensive, but I get it's a thing for time.

#LainaWatchesAnne Immediately we cut to Marilla in the kitchen, and Anne comes down in this

#LainaWatchesAnne And I... do not love this dress, I'm sorry! It does have big sleeves, but the shape is really rather odd. It's more of a sausage shape than a mutton leg shape. I also don't really like the colour or the collar or the fabric.

#LainaWatchesAnne It just looks very costumey to me and it lacks structure. And the fabric looks cheap to me.

But I know people like it! And Anne loves it.

Marilla is just annoyed about the 20 pounds of brown sugar.

#LainaWatchesAnne Now, the scene where Anne shows the dress to Matthew and thanks him is absolutely adorable. He kisses her on the forehead because he doesn't want to get her dress dirty, but she just hugs him super hard.

#LainaWatchesAnne And they're off!

#LainaWatchesAnne And I think this is a good place to cut this thread! Thursday we will see just what happens at the ball!

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