They did a surprisingly good job of it though? Like, compared to real 13 year olds, yeah, she looked older, but the evolution of her dresses and hairstyles did a damn good job with the time skips considering.

I am absolutely charmed by your extensive knowledge of these books.

That’s not Ruby Gillis! It’s Prissy Andrews!

Maybe so, but it’s a hell of a lot easier than the other way around. Just look at that pic. No way on Earth she could convincingly play 17. And for the record, Megan Follows is, now and will forever be the one true Anne Shirley (with an E).

True speach: Because somehow my tiny brain decided, ‘fuckit, when will I EVER get another chance like this,’ I asked a Green-Gables-era Megan Follows (a significant seven years older than me at the time.. I was eleven, at best) if she would slow-dance with me at an ACTRA Awards after-party, and SHE SAID YES! AND THEN…

I agree but I also loved that Anne was a bit ridiculous and people loved her for that. She was no Pollyanna. She wasn’t perfect by any stretch. She was stubborn, she had a temper, she misjudged people based on her own preconceived notions of the world. She could be overbearing at tomes. But she tried to be good and…

I remember being unable to contain my excitement leading up to the CBC broadcasting Anne Of Green Gables. I grew up with rabbit ears on a 13" TV, that picked up a grand total of 3 channels (one of which was French), so this a defining moment in childhood. I had read the books and had a vision in my head of how the…

There is the other side that gets more annoying and patronizing—this idea that these writers knew better what life was like in Montgomery’s era and that somehow Montgomery got her own character wrong. Plus, even in Montgomery’s version childhood friends died of now preventable diseases, father figures dropped dead in…

Loved the whole cast in that version. Cannot be replaced in my heart.

And next year anybody who wears them will have to go through a door sideways.

Don’t make me cry. I can’t believe that Matthew, Marilla, and Gil have all passed away. SOB SOB SOB

Megan Follows did it perfectly.

Megan Follows did it flawlessly. She was convincing at ever age group even though she was 16 when filming the first mini series.

I rewatched Avonlea as an adult during a rough period in my life and that show was like a warm bath.

She’s cute and all, but sorry, no. There will never be another Anne for me.

Yes. There is an innocence around the Anne books that I find really lovely. It always felt like Montgomery was writing a bit of an ideal life for herself - not perfect or without hard times, but with an uncompromisingly happy main character whose strength comes from always seeing the glass half full. Life may have…

When I was little only rich people had cable. When Anne of Green Gables played on the CBC it was like Christmas.

I’m pretty sure insulting that version (or Anne in general) is a capital offense in PEI.

I just want to know who they dared to cast as replacements for these guys.