User blog comment:LilyLacreag/Anne: Journey to Green Gables - A Review/@comment-3493059-20160702123351/@comment-3493059-20160703023958

No space for character growth sounds about right. The animated series is more about teaching important lessons to kids, whereas RtA has a whole plot and a lot of really good character development. So it makes sense in context for the animated characters to have a few defining traits and be used as simplistic devices to get a message across.

I've always thought that Anne of Green Gables works better as a miniseries or TV series, too, because the books are long and generally quite episodic. I always wish someone would make a TV series adapting Rilla of Ingleside, but sadly that hasn't happened yet.