Thread by @lainasparetime

Okay, it's not a holiday in Canada so how about a #LainaWatchesAnne thread? We're looking at Project Green Gables season one, episodes 21-30 today (plus a bonus episode).

#LainaWatchesAnne Our first episode is about Anne breaking her legs and props to them for this fake cast. It's pretty good for what they were probably working with.

#LainaWatchesAnne Starts about how you expect, party at Diana's, with Josie Pye teasing Anne about liking Gilbert and then bringing up her hair.

And then she called Diana's mother a bitch, and accused Diana's father, who has to travel a lot for work, of having an affair.

#LainaWatchesAnne Hey, fuck you, Josie Pye.

Also now we have Queen's being a "college prep course" which Diana hasn't applied to because her family apparently can't afford it. I think she has a couple more siblings in this.

#LainaWatchesAnne After Anne threatens to punch Josie's lights out (lol), it goes how you expect with walking on the roof and Anne falling off aaaaand broken leg.

#LainaWatchesAnne Twenty-two is an annoucement of Anne and her friends making a short film for school.

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode twenty-three is Anne talking about the woods in winter and nature and stuff. Character building, but filler for our purposes beyond her mentioning she still has her cast on.

Next!!

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode twenty-four is a "What I Got for Christmas" which I NEVER watch on Youtube. I'm not like the most anti-consumerism person ever, but it just reminds me of being 12 and poor, listening to people brag about getting cell phones in 2004

#LainaWatchesAnne But Anne's is more realistic than most. She's also never really got Christmas presents before and it's sweet how happy she is.

Matthew even gave her a stocking from "Santa" which I find adorable.

#LainaWatchesAnne She got a CD, socks, pens, books, an alarm clock, and a planner. All her friends gave her a gift.

And last but certainly not least, she got her strapless dress!!

#LainaWatchesAnne It made her cry and Matthew thought she didn't like it, but of course she loves it. Mrs Rachel helped him pick it out.

And Aunt Josephine sent these!

#LainaWatchesAnne She's so happy and it's very cute.

Episode twenty-five is a "Story Time" where Diana paints while Anne tells a story she's working on.

Character building filler again. Next!

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode twenty-six introduces the Poetry Club. Along with it being Anne and her friends, it's now also an online club.

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode twenty-seven is called "The Most Tragic Thing Has Happened to Me" and opens with Anne crying.

She recently got a pop-up ad for a hair relaxer, and against her better judgement, bought it.

It made her hair fall out and she has a bunch of bald patches.

#LainaWatchesAnne She says, "I just wanted to look pretty like the other girls. Normal, you know?"

Oh, Anne <3 That's heartbreaking.

#LainaWatchesAnne Diana comes over to comfort her with a huge stack of printouts about how to take care of natural hair.

Which I THINK is really sweet? I don't think Anne has had a lot of people in her life to teach her how to take care of her hair.

#LainaWatchesAnne It sounds like she's spent most of her life living with white families or in majority-white group homes and I don't think she'd ask, like, Mrs Rachel who seems to have a bit more of an old-fashioned view anyways.

#LainaWatchesAnne This seems like another "We're going to use Diana to teach the audience something" moment, but I could see how it could come off a bit White Savior-y?

But this was written by a WOC (and in 2016) so I thiiiiink it's a sweet moment?

What do you all think?

#LainaWatchesAnne Anyways, it definitely makes Anne feel better and it makes her feel cared about.

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode twenty-eight is clips from the Christmas concert!! Which happened a bit ago, but I guess Anne hadn't "edited" it yet lol

It's so awkward, oh my God XD We meet Jane for the first time, though!!

#LainaWatchesAnne We hear Gilbert reciting a poem Anne insists he stole from her, but we don't see him yet.

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode twenty-nine is another Q&A and Anne is wearing a scarf over her hair here. We have some continuity!!

That is seriously more than the 2016 movie did.

#LainaWatchesAnne There's one question clearly from Diana teasing Anne about Gilbert and we learn Anne's goal is to get a scholarship for college, but the rest is just filler.

#LainaWatchesAnne Then we have an unnumbered bonus episode that is the Lady of Shallot short film that Anne had been making with her friends before Christmas.

This is a heck of a view.

#LainaWatchesAnne It's about as high school student film as you'd expect it to be, but it's clear they worked very hard on it.

I like the people just ignoring Charlie Sloane right now. This lady in particular is just like, "Ugh, kids. I just wanna go to work, can you not."

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode thirty is the "Behind the scenes" of the film.

Anne's still on crutches at the beginning of shooting, and her cast comes off in the middle, showing how long it took to make.

Seriously, nice continuity. I'm impressed.

#LainaWatchesAnne They make fun of Ruby for not dressing warmly enough which is cute.

Also, this is confirmed to be Jane in this second picture.

#LainaWatchesAnne I think a lot of this episode is the cast just ad-libbing so they're very relaxed.

Since it's the middle of winter, the lake/boat scene is replaced with Anne getting lost when they're filming on the bus.

#LainaWatchesAnne She was supposed to ride to a particular point and then have the girls pick her up, but she ends up at the wrong stop.

Ruby PANICS which is very sweet how worried she is, and very in book-character. Overdramatic, but sweet.

#LainaWatchesAnne Anne ends up halfway to Carmody, stranded at a bus stop in the middle of nowhere with her phone dead.

She ALSO assumes she's dying and starts drafting her will.

And then who should happen to pull up asking if she needs a ride?

#LainaWatchesAnne Well, we don't really see who it is, just hear his voice. But when he asks what she's doing, she sarcastically replies, "I'm hiking on my broken leg."

Soooooo I have my guesses!

But that's the cliffhanger I'm leaving YOU on til next week!

#LainaWatchesAnne Or, well, you could go watch it. I'd recommend it!! But if you want me to tell you, you're stuck waiting til next Tuesday :P

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