No matter how many times I watch it, I’m still enthralled by it. I love the characters — espcially Mrs. Bennett as played by Alison Steadman. What a wonderful drama queen! She reminds me very much of a person I once was friends with. Yikes!

I love the layers of the characters involved, and how Mr. Darcy’s character in particular is revealed piece-by-piece. Isn’t that so true of real life? So often our first impressions lead us astray. Why is that?

Is it, perhaps, because so many of us have learned how to conceal our true natures, as Mr. Darcy did, behind facades and masks? We deceive people as to who we really are, what we really think, and the depth (or lack of) and nature of our character, out of fear of rejection, or fear of conflict. Then we live in fear of being discovered for the frauds we are.

Others of us prejudge those wearing the masks, as if we are better than those living a lie, because we are not as they, whatever they may be living as.

Perhaps the biggest crime of all is that both of us fail to realize that we suffer the same malady of the heart: Pride and Prejudice.

…oh, here comes the good part! Talk with ya later….