Sense and Sensibility

69Worth an evening.

Austen's argument, kept: sense has to answer sensibility, or a girl is ruined.

The review

The 2008 series gives the Dashwoods their reduced cottage and their actual waiting. Marianne is allowed to be glorious and wrong. Elinor is allowed to be the one who keeps everyone fed while her own hope is privately buried.

Watch this one, not a poster of dresses. Then ask which sister your house has been rewarding.

Journal

Keep Sense and Sensibility in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 69. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Little House on the Prairie

81 instead of 69

Little House on the Prairie is still a series show, and it scores 81 instead of 69. What you gain is industry: Plowing, teaching, milling, winter.

The eight

5
Industry
The women have no profession the age allows. Managing a reduced house is the work.
9
Household
The whole plot is which marriage a sister can survive.
5
Piety
Conduct stands where a sermon might. Marianne's excess is not blessed.
7
Courage
Elinor carries the secret and does not make the room pay for it.
6
Republic
A neighborhood still has an opinion, and the opinion can save or sink them.
8
Temperance
Willoughby is charm with an appetite. The story sends him the bill.
8
Truth
The first feeling is not the last fact. Elinor waits for the fact.
7
Stewardship
What the mother can leave her daughters is the only fortune that remains.

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The Rings of Power

68Worth an evening.

The old moral world. Uneven as a show, sound as a compass: do not serve the devouring thing.

The review

Tolkien's world was built by a man who believed courage, pity, and stewardship were facts, not aesthetics. This series is an expensive, uneven attempt to stand in that world before the Ring. Judge the attempt by its compass, not by the discourse around the budget.

The compass is right. Evil devours. Craft can be turned. Power offered as a gift is the oldest trap in the book, and the book is older than television. You do not need every episode. You need the standard it assumes: a thing can be worth losing your life for, and a shortcut that saves you by enslaving your children is not a shortcut.

Journal

Keep The Rings of Power in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.