Thread by @lainasparetime

Okay, #LainaWatchesAnne time!! Today we'll be looking at episodes 11-20 of Project Green Gables, season two. Y'all ready?

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode 11 is another "Chatting with Gilbert" episode and the audio was awful. I honestly couldn't hear most of it because it was filmed in a coffee shop and they're just using the in-camera mic, and it picks up ALL the background noise.

#LainaWatchesAnne Luckily there are subtitles because I would have not gotten a THING from this.

Gilbert uses the term "first year" to refer to the students they're tutoring, which is also a thing we don't say in Canada, lol.

#LainaWatchesAnne Honestly the tutoring plot doesn't work great because they treat it as seriously as full on teaching, lol, and I just have trouble suspending my disbelief that afterschool tutoring is THAT serious.

#LainaWatchesAnne Otherwise, though, the convo is basically straight from the book. Davy and Dora also get their first mention in this episode.

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode 12 has Anne mention "a creepy clown epidemic" and Donald Trump being a presidential candidate and my soul left my body for a minute.

Oh, Anne. You have no idea what's coming.

#LainaWatchesAnne But yeah this is just announcing Marilla is taking in Davy and Dora. Their mother is still liv at this point, just seriouly ill.

And they age them up to eleven which I am SO very okay with. Davy is still "a handful" apparently, though.

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode 13 is all about Davy.

I don't care.

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode 14 is called "Microaggressions". Mr H still doesn't like Mrs Rachel and he said something like, "Women like her are so prone to being aggressive."

Remember, Anne and Mrs Rachel are the only two Black women in Avonlea.

So, yikes.

#LainaWatchesAnne (Wait, should I be saying Mrs Lynde instead of Mrs Rachel in these threads? I always call her Mrs Rachel because the book does and I think it's cute but I don't want to be disrespectful.)

#LainaWatchesAnne Anne talks about microaggressions and how "racim can often be unintentional". REALLY good wrting in this episode. It really blends things like this with the book well.

#LainaWatchesAnne Mr H took it well, also, and basically said Anne was right and he should be more careful about what he says.

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode 15 is another Q&A, this time with Paul!

Anne's hair is really cute here.

Also her mug is so close to the ace flag on the bottom lol, that I honestly wondered if this was a pride flag I just didn't recognize

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode 16 is a Student Council meeting, which is the AVIS replacement in this book.

The hall paint job is "off-white" instead of "eggshell" now and also it's the inside of a hall because, like, that's the room they could use to film in.

#LainaWatchesAnne Diana's back, too! She was missing for a bit, and I missed her.

That's it.

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode 17 is a vlog from Diana where she finds Anne hugging a tree. It's winter and it's pretty.

In the webseries canon they haven't been able to hang out in a while - I'm thinking real world scheduling conflicts.

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode 19 has Paul having a sleepover at Anne's which really makes me continue to think Paul is queer.

I can't see Marilla allowing it if they could be romantically interested in each other, you know? But maybe they're just European and less uptight XD

#LainaWatchesAnne They talk about faith/religion and I continue to enjoy the way this series handles that. It feels very natural and organic.

#LainaWatchesAnne Honestly aging Paul up and making him and Anne basically equal friends is a good choice. He's also shy now, especially about his writing.

This is a cool, low key video, two friends just sitting on the floor in the middle of the night in the almot dark, talking.

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode 19 is Christmas shopping!!!

Someone drove this car a really long way from Finland to PEI

#LainaWatchesAnne No, I'm just kidding.

This is just a cute little shopping in the city montage. It really looks like fun and all the stores are small and cute and I liked it.

#LainaWatchesAnne Episode 20 is Anne talking about the year. Making friends, coming out as queer, Queen's, working.

Also there are fireworks because it's New Year's. New Year's 2016. Boy that was a year.

#LainaWatchesAnne She also mentions losing Matthew (aww) and her goals for 2017.

That's a cute way to also wrap up this thread! Happy New Year! 2017 wll be so much better than 2016!!

(No one tell her.)

#LainaWatchesAnne I think actually I am going to put this on pause for the rest of the year. I've got a lot to do next week and this does seem like a very natural place to pause. We'll call it a mid-season hiatus, like TV does, okay? ;)

#LainaWatchesAnne So, that's it for now!! I'll be back in January, but if you liked this thread, please RT something you liked so other people can find it, and my tip jar is open if you wanna help me buy Anne books ko-fi.com/A0602GN