To those just discovering Toby Stephens as Poseidon and on the struggle bus waiting for next week and need something to watch with maximum yearning?
Look no further than the 2006 BBC miniseries of Jane Eyre.
You can thank me later.
I won’t spoil the BEST bits, but here’s an appetizer…
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"You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it. You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away. Floating on with closed eyes and muffled ears, you neither see the rocks bristling not far off in the bed of the flood, nor hear the breakers boil at their base. But I tell you — and you mark my words — you will come some day to a craggy pass of the channel, where the whole of life's stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master wave into a calmer current — as I am now."
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
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Michael Jayston (Jane Eyre, 1973) was the best Rochester. He just gets the weirdness and adheres to it throughout. Considering many Rochesters opt to ditch the strangeness in favour of conventional charm, I think it’s a true feat that Jayston amps up the oddity when he’s trying to woo/ retain Jane. Especially since book Jane is drawn to him expressly because he’s weird, just like her!
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"You are altogether a human being, Jane? You are certain of that?"
Artist: F. H. Townsend
Publisher: Service and Paton, 1897
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Rochester feeling personally attacked or offended by Jane… a thread:
Rochester: “do you think me handsome?
Jane: “no sir”
Rochester: 👁️👄👁️
Rochester: “it’s nearly 4am go back to your room the servants will be up soon”
Jane: “okay goodnight”
Rochester: “WHAT? YOU’RE LEAVING ME?”
Jane: **leaves the party Rochester forced her to be at…**
Rochester: “why didn’t you come speak to me🧍♂️”
Jane: “I don’t know or speak to any of the men here”
Fortune Teller Rochester: “Will you say that of the master of this house!?”
Jane: “he’s not here”
Rochester: “so I just don’t exist now. does that exclude him?🥲”
Jane: “I am back, my aunt is dead”
Rochester: “gone from me a whole month and forgetting me quite I’ll be sworn”😔
Jane: “I anticipate you’ll love me for about 3 months after we marry then I hope you at least like me after that”
Rochester: “WHA-(don’t cry Eddie😭💔) HOW DARE YOU SULLY MY LOVE FOR YOU JANE… TAKE IT BACK NOW😡”
Rochester: “I’m sorry Jane plz forgive me with a kiss🥺🥰”
Jane: “I’d rather not”
Rochester: “hard little thing”😠
Rochester: “it’s the last night of our engagement plz have dinner with me🥺”
Jane: “no”
Rochester: “Do I eat like a pig that you are repulsed to eat with me?😔”
Jane: “I’m just not hungry but I’ll sit with you”
Rochester: “yay😁”
Rochester: “if you were mad do you think I should hate you?”
Jane: “yes”
Rochester: “THEN YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME OR THE SORT OF LOVE WHICH I AM CAPABLE OF😡… prepare for one of the most romantic quotes you’ll ever hear🥹”
Jane: “St. John is young and very handsome… he’s tall, blonde, and with a Grecian profile”👀🤭
Rochester: “Damn him”😡 “fine Jane go marry this cousin the husband you have chosen😔”
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Hey, Tobes? Can you do me a favor? Just as a treat? Can you say “sexual” a bunch of times while dressed as Rochester?
What’s that? Oh hohoho, I think we both know why. 🥵😜
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". . . and (he subjoined moodily) I will keep my word: I will break obstacles to happiness, to goodness — yes, goodness; I wish to be a better man than I have been; than I am — as Job's leviathan broke the spear, the dart, and the habergeon, hinderances which others count as iron and brass, I will esteem but straw and rotten wood."
— from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
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