A Tale of Two Darcys

For the true Pride and Prejudice fans among us: A Comparison of Two TV Versions of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" by Lisa Warrington. I found this fascinating, and agreed with almost all of it. Especially this description of the "other" Darcy (from the 1980 BBC production):

So what about the other Darcy, David Rintoul? He has a pleasant, soothing, gentlemanly voice, he is tall and dark and could be called handsome, in a rigid, plastic sort of way. Odd head shape, I thought. He is also remote, passionless, virtually expressionless, and walks about as though someone has inserted a very stiff poker up his bottom. He has no life force, and no existence beyond the need for him to pop up in Lizzie's life on demand as the story dictates. There seems little excuse for this. I looked back at the novel to see how Darcy behaves, and he is actually a living, breathing, human being, with real emotions.

Lisa's whole page is interesting; check it out.