Talk:Road to Avonlea/@comment-27031373-20160121195713/@comment-3493059-20160124065845

@Christine: Fair enough. You may be more of a book person, but I do recommend the Anne movies and RtA anyway.

I must have got muddled, sorry. I haven't read TSG and TGR closely recently and I forgot Jasper Dale was actually the Awkward Man's name; thanks for reminding me. Anyway, I think I wrote 'based on' because both Olivia and Jasper are significantly different from their book namesakes in terms of personality and plot developments. In RtA, Olivia is still sweet and Jasper is awkward, but because of the changes in the King family tree, there are a lot of changes from book to TV series. Regarding the King family tree:

In RtA, we have Hetty, Alec, Roger, Ruth and Olivia King, who are all siblings. At the beginning of the show, Hetty and Olivia are unmarried and live together until Olivia gets married to Jasper Dale in Season 3. Alec is married to Janet Ward and they have three children (Felicity, Felix and Cecily), Roger is a widower with a son (Andrew) and Ruth has passed away (she married Blair Stanley and had a daughter, Sara).

In TSG and TGR, the King siblings are Alan, Alec, Felicity, Felix, Roger, Olivia and Julia instead. (I may have missed some.) Alan, whose wife has passed away, has two sons (Beverley and Felix). Alec is married to Janet Ward and they have three children (Dan, Felicity and Cecily). The older Felicity has passed away (she married Blair Stanley and had a daughter, the Story Girl). Felicity's twin Felix has also passed away; this happened on the same day. Roger and Olivia are both unmarried and live together until Olivia gets married to Dr Seton. Aunt Julia lives in California.

TL;DR: Well, Olivia and Jasper are kind of based on their book characters, but it's more complicated than that. I think RtA's Olivia is based on her book character, but also inspired by Laura Murray and contains original stuff from the writers of RtA, if that makes sense. Sorry for waffling. You get the gist.