User blog comment:Eikakou/L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars review/@comment-4934571-20170222142729

What an interesting review! I am really happy that someone has already seen it and can tell us about the plot, the differences and the whole impression the film makes. Unfortunately, I don't have the chance to watch it right now and I will probably have to wait until they broadcast it here on HBO (with Czech dubbing). That's how I watched the first film - almost 6 months after the premiere. It was pure luck that they decided to distribute it around the world because it would have been really hard to watch it for us from abroad if the film had been an ordinary Canadian TV production.

Anyways, I've seen the trailer and I knew that aunt Josephine, Miss Stacy and the Allans would be in the film. I noticed the 'budding romance' between Anne and Gilbert and considering what you mentioned in the review... well, I'm not happy. I usually like some small changes or different perspectives, but this is just not what Anne and Gilbert's relationship is truly about. A similar scenario is in the 1934 film and I didn't like it. However, I'm really curious about Mr. Phillips' storyline. I definitely can imagine him being frustrated and not enjoying his profession. What helps is that both in this adaptation and in the upcoming TV series Mr. Phillips is portrayed by young actors. You can check in our galleries how the character looks like in the 1985 and 1934 films. There he was middle-aged or at least much older than his students. It felt really weird to me that a man of his age should court 16-year-old Prissy. His real age was never mentioned in the books (at least I don't remember it), but I think it is likely that he was in his late teens/early twenties (like Anne and her friends were when they started teaching). After all, his uncle was a member of the Avonlea school board.