User blog comment:Eikakou/Anne (2017) episode 3 - But What Is So Headstrong as Youth? review/@comment-4934571-20170404224013/@comment-1442230-20170405014759

I'm just going to say that I agree on all your points. And Diana does really get a chance to be her own character in this episode, instead of Anne's sidekick all the time. I really liked this version of the slate scene too - the L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables seemed too flat, and the 1985 series a bit too dramatic (and at the same time, rushed).

One of the most powerful scenes was Matthew providing that perspective to Marilla that it's Anne that they need to be worried about. She's heard and seen things that she doesn't really understand, and it's not her fault. And problematically for Anne, she doesn't know the whole picture regarding the scene between Mr. Phillips and Prissy (I suspect the hand touching was intimate, at least on Mr. Phillips' part, but there was no "touching his pet mouse" involved). I really like how the writer put the issue into the series as something has bearing today - while there are a number of children learning about sex and conceiving children from the internet, there's also a lot of incomplete or contradictory information being provided (especially for women) that threatens their lives even today (even in developed countries like the United States).