Lizzie Bennet Diaries #89 – Bow Ties and Blue Eyes


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02/18/13 12:00pm
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Time to see what the pajama fest is about from last week’s Lizzie Bennet Diaries promo. Knowing this series isn’t taking Presidents’ Day off like everyone else is music to a home-working-person’s ears!

OK, what we got here, let’ssssssss see.

  1. Another leap of faith. Because if Charlotte is “looking into” who made the video go away and hasn’t instantly stumbled across all the @s, the Pemberley involvement, etc…. Yeah, as amazing as this show is at bringing it from the world of Web to real world, we have to be a little understanding that there are always leaps of faith and suspensions of disbelief to be had. Were these real people in real time, the question of Pemberley’s involvement would have been  a two-second revelation from the second that first Domino video hinting at “The Incident” went live.
  2. I suppose not suspecting Darcy’s involvement is fine for Lizzie in the book, because she has some sort of alternate explanation of what went on. Darcy cleverly makes someone else take ownership of the rescue. However, here? Lizzie, you’re a grad student, self-admitted over-analytical mind: have you really not once, in the darkest recesses, thought about Darcy as a possible answer here? As the literal only other interested party involved here – outside of everyone you know you can check off the list because they’ve already told you they had nothing to do with it – who knew the potential outcome? As someone with huge history with Wickham and a large incentive to dislike him? It’s the insomnia, Lizzie. Woken, bright-eyed, intelligent Lizzie, without alternative explanation, would have wondered this already.
  3. Has she wondered about Darcy already? I suppose it is possible. It’s not reading that way onscreen though. It is entirely possible I’m crazy and you guys think it’s totally reasonable that Lizzie hasn’t yet wondered about Darcy. Fight it out in the comments.

Also, even the Bennet jammies are cute. Stop, guys. Just stop. Jane, stop. Lizzie, stop. It’s like you were all born with Modclothey genes.

Also of note:

“Oh, it was…[look at camera, at audience who knows EXACTLY how it was]…nice.” Nice. Nice in the way you wanted to jump the CEO’s bones.

In real-world land, Ashley Clements’ Instagram has shown us HOW NICE it really was, and I’m sorry, I just must put this here, for reasons.

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You bunch. Of merciless. Trolls. It’s not even like, the fun hide-info-from-you trolling, either. This is MEAN. ;)

Anyway, Jane shows up in her jammies, and we watch her go to the special place when she hears Bing heard about her. Big “awwws” everyone. She gets all wide-eyed and unable to speak, and it’s super cute, and hails the beginning of the arc in which Darcy fixes things so that Jane and Bing have another shot, because super-secret superman Darcy is doing things behind the video screen at this very moment. We won’t know what, because damn Domino ended recording.

Jane goes off to watch Lizzie’s videos, and big money is on her talking to Lizzie next time about HOW MUCH LIZZIE LOVES DARCY even if she doesn’t want to admit it.

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Thoughts? Theories? Will Lizzie go to bed dreaming bow ties and blue eyes?

I will actually be on a plane or near boarding one when the next video goes up, so someone else is gonna have to do this recap. I’m looking at you, Wahlee. I’m coming for you in the comments.

 

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  • http://bluepanelgirl.wordpress.com/ BluePanelGirl

    “It’s not reading that way onscreen though.”

    Yeah, today was the first episode post-pemberly that I got the feeling she was thinking about him. But as someone smarter than me pointed out, she would have edited out any overt references to him in the past couple of weeks.

  • Aisling Greene

    Lizzie’s not going to admit her feelings online, just in case Darcy is still watching, which I bet he is! Jane was so cute, Bing needs a bloody good apology though. Does this mean Bing and Darcy should be on their way back to Netherfield?

  • http://twitter.com/imarielle Arielle

    I really just wanted to yell at Lizzie “How have you not discovered Darcy’s involvement yet?” I means seriously, if they are doing everything they can to figure it out then that means checking all forms of social media. This series just won a Streamy for best interactive web series, so where is our interaction? It is 100% not believable that in the fictional world of us, the viewers, no one was watching Domino!

    Random thought, no idea how plausible this is but anyway…What if it is Jane who brings up the possibility of Darcy’s involvement to Lizzie. I mean we can all guess that the next video is going to be Jane pointing out to Lizzie she is clearly in love with Darcy and he is in love with her and how he would do anything for her, and after learning about Gigi and Wickham and what Darcy did there so she’ll know he has a personal vendetta against George. If anyone can connect those dots, it would be Jane! Okay so I doubt it will happen this way, but the idea just popped into my head.

  • lollifant

    Wouldn’t it be so funny if Lizzie knows about Darcy’s involvement and deliberately thanked him again in this video? Trolling us all! :)

    Also, the LBD cast is perfect and those pictures were cruel indeed *dies*

  • http://twitter.com/TrillianBlack Trillian Black

    Right now I have decided to assume that Lizzie has thought of Darcy as the one who took down the website. But it’s the kind of thought that you have and immediately push away, because how highly do you have to think of yourself to think that someone did this for you? Someone that you’re not even sure is your friend. (Ok, yes, this is where it gets tricky, because I still believe that he PAID FOR HER FREAKING PLANE TICKET). But Lizzie would probably argue that Darcy is the CEO of a company and is way to busy to hunt down Wickham. Why would he even want to? Wouldn’t he rather stay as far away from Wickham as possible especially because of Gigi? And if he did it, why didn’t he call her yet? Just in case though she thanked “whoever” did this and looked straight into the camera. (She also looked straight into the camera when she said Pemberley was “nice” – that moment to me felt like she was looking straight at Darcy and not the audience – but that might also just be wishful thinking).

    [This post got off track somewhere and nearly turned into a fanfiction. Sorry. This show just gives me too many feels.]

  • Wahlee

    Yeah, they’re already stretching credulity with Lizzie not knowing who took the website down. They simply can’t stretch it out too much farther. If I were Charlotte, Darcy is the first place I’d look. Unless. . . what if Charlotte does know, but Darcy asked her not to say anything? Or maybe. . .

    Okay. Theory time. (Remember when I said I was trying not the theorize? :P )

    1) We know Lizzie unsubscribed/unfollowed Pemberley Digital, probably because she thought that she and Darcy were done forever and didn’t want to be reminded of what was. (Although, I just checked who she’s following on Twitter, and Darcy is there. How long has she been following him? I vaguely remember her following him after the SanFran tour, but haven’t checked lately to see if she unfollowed him in between. Is there a way to find out, or is there anyone out there keeping track?). So she didn’t see anything from there. Darcy hasn’t tweeted a word about what he’s been doing, and she isn’t following Gigi or Fitz either, so she wouldn’t find out what was going on that way.

    2) We can guess that she, like Lydia, is taking kind of an internet break. In the stress of the moment, I can see her wanting to avoid anything web-related (other than posting her videos), and I can also see her extending that in the aftermath.

    3) But at the same time, she wants to know how it happened, so she enlisted Charlotte. Charlotte, being the smart cookie that she is, figured it out almost immediately. But having watched the Domino videos, where Darcy said that he has no plans to tell Lizzie what happened, she’s reluctant to reveal the secret. So she actually knows, but isn’t saying anything? THAT’S MY STORY AND I’M STICKING TO IT.

    4) Thursday’s video will be Jane and Lizzie talking about their respective love interests. Jane will tease and/or goad Lizzie into admitting that she likes Darcy quite a lot more than she ever thought she could, but that she fears it won’t work out. Jane will say that Bing will have to prove himself before she would take him back. (As an aside: Bing does look more spineless in this adaptation than Bingley ever did, IMO. Especially since the last video with him implied that he realizes that Lizzie’s not filming letters to Charlotte, which means he’s aware of the videos. So did he not watch them? And if he did, why hasn’t he hastened at once to Jane’s side? GAH, BING.) Once Lizzie has finally admitted her feelings, her insomnia will improve, and she’ll venture back onto the web again.

    5) Over the weekend, Lizzie will start working on her write-up for school on her Pemberley Digital shadowing. She will discover the Domino videos. Monday’s video will be about her knowing that Team FiGi and Darcy helped with the video, and her expressing her thanks.

    I have not yet figured how they’re going to bring Lady Catherine into this, if they’re even going to. It’s a pivotal scene in the book, because it’s pretty much the only way that Darcy can know that Lizzy returns his feelings. But here, he can just watch the videos. So there’s little reason to have the confrontation. Unless, of course, Lizzie can’t admit outright on the videos that she cares about Darcy, until the Auntie Catherine confrontation. Hmm.

    (And, umm, maybe I can do the recap? I do have to work that day, though, so it might be shortish. . .)

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412429 Melissa Anelli

      now you MUST do the recap. Expect an email!

      As for ALL OF THIS YES… except I think that there’s more to Bing saying “are these really letters for Charlotte” than it meaning he knows about the videos. We know Caroline’s not telling him. Popular theory seems to indicate that he’s going through some…stuff… of his own so it’s not like his first kneejerk reaction would be hey! Let me see if they are vlogs! He might just think they’re part of her grad school studies. If he had known they were vlogs I don’t think that would have been the question that he asked, so earnestly – it would have been a little sarcastic. So he didn’t nkow before he asked that question. And if he watched afterward he’ll have SOME reason that he hasn’t galloped back into town and apologized for being such a clod.

      My guess is that he’s hip they aren’t Charlotte letters but doesn’t know quiiiite yet (though maybe soon) what they are. Also because they have to preserve Darcy’s repairing of his error, so, something here has to be Darcy’s doing. Maybe what he’s doing is saying hey. I was wrong. Go watch some stuff.

      • http://twitter.com/TrillianBlack Trillian Black

        I think Darcy’s intervention will have something to do with Jane’s alleged “indiscretion at Bing’s party”. Either Caroline highly exaggerated one of the encounters that Jane had with one of Bing’s college friends and Darcy has by now decided to trust Jane more (how could you not after watching Snickerdoodles, come on!) or he himself was involved in misrepresenting facts to Bing. (There has to be something more to all of this than just doubting her feelings or Bing would have called Jane weeks ago).
        It’s hard to imagine this Darcy knowingly lying to Bing (because lets face it, William Darcy is perfect), but FITZwilliam Darcy knew about Jane Bennet coming to town and decided to keep this information from Bingley. So there might be a bit more to this story than what we’ve heard so far.

        • laura

          About Jane’s “indiscretion”, I think it’s enough as an explanation the video where Lizzie jokingly teases Jane saying that she was surrounded by a lot of guys and Jane naively (as just Jane can do) answering “yeah, but you know that my attentions are just for one”.

          • http://twitter.com/TrillianBlack Trillian Black

            You’re absolutely right, that’s exactly what happened. I’m just not sure that’s exactly what Caroline told Bing. He said he always gives people the benefit of the doubt, so she must have made it sound a lot worse than it actually was for him to doubt Jane.
            I probably just read too much into all of it because I judge LBD-Caroline with P&P-Caroline in mind. In the novel they actually knowingly deceived Bingley which is not necessarly what has happend in the LBD version so far.

            • laura

              Yeah, I know.. :) I just meant that, once Bing will watch the videos, that particular one will be more than enough to make him see the truth about the episode of the “indiscretion”..

  • laura

    About Bing knowing about the video, I agree with Melissa that he doesn’t. He’s kind of going through a rough period, probably questioning some of his choices (at least since he appeared on Lizzie’s videos), especially about Jane, and just thinking about it. I think he is a very reflexive and insecure guy, so he will probably keep thinking about it for quite long before doing his move, and will need Darcy’s push to go back to Netherfield. He obviously is not an internet guy, so even if he suspects that Lizzie’s videos are more than just letters to Charlotte, he’s not the type who googles the people he meets.

    So probably Darcy is going to suggest that they go back to Netherfield to “try and make amends” and this will happen next monday, then Darcy will notice that Jane still has feelings for Bing and subsequently spill the beans to his best friend. Just at that point Bing will watch the videos, find out about Jane’s feelings and win her back.

    That’s my theory about Bing. They did make him really even more naif and insecure than in the book, anyway.

  • http://twitter.com/theitgirl theitgirl

    *argle* I want another video today *pout*

  • http://twitter.com/TrillianBlack Trillian Black

    To whoever will write the next recaps: Can we from now on just keep this recap title (just change the episode number) until we reach the episode that actually deserves it? (Which will of course be next episode. I am sure. Which is probably exactly what I said before the last episode.)

  • DiagonAlleyCat

    Seriously going through withdrawal symptoms over here. I need my LBD fix, now! *end pout*

  • Natalie

    Lizzie’s alternate explanation probably had something to do with the tens of thousands of viewers who knew all about this and might reasonably have tried to do something about it. Her list of suspects isn’t really all that short. Now, on the other hand, she should still probably be thinking about Darcy because of their relationship (even if she’s completely sure it’s just a friendship in this video, that’s still a relationship) and his ridiculous money.

    I think at this point we’ve got to assume none of these people check twitter regularly. Although an investigation into what happened shouldn’t be very hard at all, because if she suspected the internet you’d think she’d try looking there. She must find the internet exhausting and avoid it despite being a YouTube star. More importantly, her judgment when it comes to Darcy must be willfully haywire.

    Suspension of disbelief. Suspension of disbelief. Suspension of disbelief.