User blog comment:Eikakou/L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars review/@comment-4934571-20170222142729/@comment-3493059-20170226124538

I agree that it is very easy to get caught up in an adaptation and let it fill in pictures for the characters in your head. I don't have the same problem as you (perhaps because I am not as visual), but I do remember rereading AoGG a little while ago and realising that Prissy is never really shown as stupid or ditzy. She's quite good looking, and she tells Sara Gillis that Anne has a pretty nose (Anne's first compliment!), and there are lots of lines about her and Mr Phillips, and she recites a poem at the hotel concert, and she gets into Queen's without being a dunce at geometry (while Miranda Sloane is 'ever so much stupider'). But because the 1985 film is so close to the book, it is easy to take the parts that are not so close as canon.

I haven't watched The Good Stars yet, but I will when it (hopefully) comes to my country. I'm not sure I like all the plot differences, though. I am not always a stickler to the book (I thought the 1940 AoWP was not bad, and I love RtA, while the BBC AoA is a bit of a trainwreck), but I was not a fan of the portrayal of Gilbert in last year's movie, either. He just did not seem much like Gilbert at all.

The one thing I nitpicked about the 1985 movie was that it focused a little too much on Anne and Gilbert for my liking (that and the Diana-secretly-being-in-love-with-Gilbert part). So I am curious to see for myself how this film seems to focus on Anne's personal growth ahead of any budding romance.