Anne of Green Gables: Animated Series

[Milz]

Well, I just finished watching the first episode. It wasn't a horrific 
travesty, but it wasn't spectacular imo either. At least from this 
first episode, they took Anne's hair dye scene from "Anne of Green 
Gables" and expanded it to be a cautionary tale about accepting people 
if they are different. The Diana character is background fluff, not 
really contributing anything, but seems to have been included just 
"because". The Gilbert character is dull-witted in comparision to the 
"real" Gilbert, but on par with every other cartoon young male 
character. The fairies and nymphs are there to be Anne's conscious: 
she talks to them and they give her good or bad advise. Actually, the 
animated series is like Anne fanfic for the under ten years old crowd.

Sullivan's first Anne movie wasn't too bad in terms of being "true to 
the book". In fact, I thought it was well done compared to film 
adaptations of other novels. I consider the second and third Sullivan 
Anne movies to be fanfic and don't give much credence to them. The one 
good thing about the second movie, imo, is that it at least borrowed 
enough from the books to retain the flavor of LMM's characters and 
flavor, such as, Diana entering Anne's story in that flour company 
contest. The third movie had its charm but COMPLETELY waivered from 
the books. Gilbert, Anne and international espionage during the First 
World War...PLUH-leaze! But then again, I've never been a fan of 
fanfic.