I'm already annoyed by this Vanity Fair adaptation.

[Burney]

The actress playing Becky Sharp is not a redhead (which is a key trait of the character in the book). This, to me, is depriving ginger actresses of work and highly racially insensitive.

[barrybueno]

The actress playing Becky Sharp is not a redhead (which is a key trait of the character in the book). This, to me, is depriving ginger actresses of work and highly racially insensitive.

'Gingers have no souls' Eric Cartman

[eastgermanautos]

The actress playing Becky Sharp is not a redhead (which is a key trait of the character in the book). This, to me, is depriving ginger actresses of work and highly racially insensitive.

Never read that British sh!t. Who is it, Dickens?

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

Never read that British sh!t. Who is it, Dickens?

Dickens - It's Thomas Hardy, you colonial numpty.

[Burney]

Dickens - It's Thomas Hardy, you colonial numpty.

William Makepeace Thackeray - as well you know.

Anyway, the wife and I had a bet on how long it would take before the first historically-unlikely black character appeared. I had five minutes (this not being the BBC) and she took 2 minutes. Lo and behold, on 1 minute, 59 seconds and 57 hundredths of a second, there was a black chick at Becky and Amelia's school.

Fine result for the wife, there.

[WES]

Dickens - It's Thomas Hardy, you colonial numpty.

He's an ex-colonoial numpty, 71. Or 'rebel numpty' should you prefer.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

William Makepeace Thackeray - as well you know.

Anyway, the wife and I had a bet on how long it would take before the first historically-unlikely black character appeared. I had five minutes (this not being the BBC) and she took 2 minutes. Lo and behold, on 1 minute, 59 seconds and 57 hundredths of a second, there was a black chick at Becky and Amelia's school.

Fine result for the wife, there.

Pìss, pot, all, same. Having suffered this sort of shíte at Eng Lit 'A' Level, I care not one jot for it now.

Except for Lark Rise to Candleford. That was excellent.

And not a BME in sight

[Sir C]

William Makepeace Thackeray - as well you know.

Anyway, the wife and I had a bet on how long it would take before the first historically-unlikely black character appeared. I had five minutes (this not being the BBC) and she took 2 minutes. Lo and behold, on 1 minute, 59 seconds and 57 hundredths of a second, there was a black chick at Becky and Amelia's school.

Fine result for the wife, there.

His house in Tunbridge Wells is now a rather fine restaurant - or at least it was 15 years ago. wd wmt.

[Burney]

His house in Tunbridge Wells is now a rather fine restaurant - or at least it was 15 years ago. wd wmt.

I seem to remember having eaten there many moons ago.

Didn't he also have something to do with the Post Office?

And he wrote Barry Lyndon, which is very underrated.

[Burney]

Pìss, pot, all, same. Having suffered this sort of shíte at Eng Lit 'A' Level, I care not one jot for it now.

Except for Lark Rise to Candleford. That was excellent.

And not a BME in sight

There would be if they did an adaptation today. Some of the characters would simply turn up as black as your boot and there'd be not a hint of an explanation of how they got to late 19th Century rural Oxfordshire or why none of the other characters ever makes any reference to their pigmentation.