WORTH Reading ENTIRE Anne of Green Gables Series? RANKING & WRAP UP Books VS Movies | Bonus Minisode 5

Today we’re officially wrapping up and ranking everything in our latest coming of age miniseries covering the Anne of Green Gables 8-book collection by L.M. Montgomery, and the classic movie adaptations! And… announcing the POP-u-lar book series we’ll be covering for the fall. 😉

We’re here to give you the “411” on everything from the most popular to the lesser-read books in the series, and answer the question of whether or not they’re ALL worth the read. Then we discuss the popular 1980’s miniseries and the subsequent year 2000 reboot. Did we love or hate them? Our opinions might surprise you! 

Check out our kickoff episode all about what the Bildungsroman is, why women and girls’ stories are so important for everyone to read, and how Montgomery expertly uses this book series to critique social and political issues of the early 1900’s, with an emphasis on women’s roles in society. We also provide a bit of context by discussing Montgomery’s life, and the political climate in Canada when this story takes place. 

Coming of age tales can be so much more than simple children’s books. We hope that you enjoyed our coverage of this beloved classic, and that it inspired you to pick it up for the first time, reread, or learn a little bit more about the social issues Montgomery used these books to examine! We know we did. 

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Chapters

• 0:00 Spoiler Free Intro
• 6:13 Book Series Review and Star Rating of Anne of Green Gables
• 10:30 Movie Series Review and Star Rating of Anne of Green Gables
• 12:50 Book VS Movie Showdown
• 45:50 Ranking all the Books and Movies
• 51:58 Is it WORTH reading the entire Anne of Green Gables Series?
• 56:28 Anne of Green Gables Fun Fact
• 57:53 ANNOUNCEMENT: Next Quarter Book Series!

Transcript

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This didn't happen at all because it didn't. Okay, that's going to be a fivestar baby. Movie three was like a crash and burn. Why is Ann right now undercover as a nun? I understood the hype and fandom just from being a part of the hype fandom.[Music] Welcome to the Besties in the Books podcast, guys. I'm Liz. And I'm Ashley. And today is part five of our Ana Green Gable series. Oh my goodness, look at this. What a journey through like hills and valleys, gables and gilberts and gimlets. Wow. We fully got in the trenches. Well, actually, yeah, with this one, which we'll talk about because yeah, this is a wrap-up episode. We're going to be talking all about everything, books, movies, everything like that. For those of you who have stuck around through every one of these mini episodes that really truly are they mini I don't know let's call them bonus bonus series episodes. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. If you're new here though, welcome. If you just want to see what our ranking is of the movies and the books and everything like that. We're going to be discussing today like a little more rapid fire, but you can check out each individual deep dive of these books that we did. Of course, we'll have them linked down in the description box. this is, you know, we're hoping that this is, you know, building that water cooler of the future. That's our goal here, you know, and so join in in the hype and the interest. We've done now, gosh, we've done Harry Potter, Twilight, we did Hunger Games earlier this year and that led up to Sunrise on the Reaping, which was so cool to be a part of. Oh my gosh. Cuz like this is most of our first time in entering these fandoms, you know? Yeah, sometimes most of the time Liz has read some of them and I'm new to it and she's rereading it, but some is completely new to us. Like 50 Shades of Gray. Oh my goodness, what a time that was. So new to me this year was Ander Green Gables. It's a reread for Liz and new takes, I would say. Yeah. I mean, I only read through book three, so everything after book three was a first time read for me. So yeah. Yep. Yeah. So, we'll be announcing, you know, our next quarter series, quarter 4 of 2020. What year is it? Five. And you guys, it's a good one. It's a good one. A lot of us kind of got maybe introduced to it last year, you know, just as a little hint there. We don't want to spoil it, but it's going to it's going to be a good one and it's going to line up just right. So, we'll announce that at the end of the episode, so stay tuned for that. You can also follow us on Instagram for another announcement over there. That's at Besties in the Books podcast. Yes. Yeah. So, what are we gonna be doing today? What What are we actually here for? What are we doing here on this floating rock? Yeah. We don't know. Truly, we don't know. Um, so we're going to be talking about the whole book series, Ann of Green Gables. Literally rating it as one collection. So, all eight books. We're going to be ranking the books. We're going to be ranking the books in the movies, comparing them. Um, and just so that you guys know, we're specifically talking about the 1985 and 1987 miniseries that they turned into quote unquote movies. Um, and then the third installment, which was the miniseries reboot that came out in 2000. So that way there's no confusion. Yeah. if you guys are trying to figure out which ones we're talking about because there are and have been a lot of iterations of Ann of Green Gables turned into TV and movie adaptations, but those to us are like the classics that most of us grew up loving. So, if you want to follow along, you haven't, you know, watched those yet, those are the ones that we're talking about, just in case you're curious. Um, and as I said before, this was my first time reading books uh 4 through eight. It was Ashley's first time reading all of them. I had seen the movies a lot of times. This was your first time actually sitting down and watching them, right? Like all the way through. Yeah. I had no memory of this place whatsoever. Yep. So, we'll also be kind of, you know, answering the question that we had when we went into this. Is it worth reading all eight books? because most people as a kid either just read the first book or read at the most maybe the first you know three which is like the original trilogy and then no more after that. So after this whole experience would we suggest reading the whole collection which is all eight books. Um so you know if you're curious about following along um you know with us we do post reading updates over on our Instagram as we said before. We do have fable book club chats going on for some of the books. Um, but before we get into all the details and our thoughts, we just want to say thank you so much for being here. Yeah, seriously, thank you so much for being here. Make sure to like, follow, and subscribe if you are new to us. That way, you don't miss out on our future episodes outside of our bonus series that we do where every quarter we're focusing on a different popular book, you know, trilogy series, what have you. We post every Tuesday. So, no matter what, rain or shine, unless we're both on vacation and we pre-plan it, we are here every Tuesday for you guys. And we would love to have you a part of our little crow fam. So, thank you guys so much. Besties and the Books podcast everywhere, Tik Tok, Instagram, all that. And then the Fable Book Clubs that you can join. It's like a virtual book club that is free to download. It's an app that you can search for Besties and the Book Club and there we will be. Yep. With all of the things, a variety for all. Yeah. Yeah. All kinds of books and such. Yeah. I mean, I'm like, what do we even have going? Like, we have everything over there from like, you want an Green Gables, great. You want Haunting Adeline, we've got you. You know what I mean? It's like everything in between. So, you know, if you're like, I don't know, I want to participate in a book club, but I'm not sure if they'll have something that I like. We probably will. Yeah. Probably. Yeah. Honestly. Yep. Truly. So, okay. So, let's just kick this off with our review. So, one sentence review and star rating. One sentence we use loosely over. Yeah. Okay. Um, of the whole entire book series as one. Like, if we're rating all eight books as one collection, what would your star rating be and why? Okay, let's do it. All right. Uh, you go first this time. Great. Well, anytime that I find myself seeking out decorating myself in said fandoms, let's say, you know, book series as such as my shirt with the Green Gables on it, wanting to get little trinkets of the things and special things. Um, I would say that's going to be a five star, baby. So, overall, all in all, five stars for the whole series, even though there's a couple of them that I'd say, hey, you might not you might not have to read, which we'll go into later. Mhm. Yeah. Uh I would agree with you. I mean, this is a five-star series for me through and through. I feel like it's exactly what Ashley's saying. It's got longlasting like it's just going to stick with you. You know what I mean? No matter what uh age you are, I feel, you know, whether you read it originally as a kid, originally as an adult. I feel like, you know, when we were covering Harry Potter, that was kind of one of the things that we were wondering about, right? like if you didn't have the nostalgia from childhood, would it still hit the same? And our answer to that would be no. Like reading it for the first time as an adult. I feel very truthfully and 100% with 100% conviction that if you read this series for the first time as an adult, I think that you might not have the same feelings as you would have had as a kid, but you'll still it'll still resonate in a lot of different ways and you'll still love it. So, I fully I go all in on the five stars, no questions asked. Um, for many different reasons, but mostly because I feel like there's something for everybody in this series, regardless of who you are, where you're coming from, background, etc. Um, yeah, I feel like that pretty much says it. Oh, and then just so that just for the record, just so that everyone knows, this is 100% zero spice series. So if you have any sort of, you know, concern about that, there you go. Zero spice. Yeah. And I have to say real quickly, you know, you speak of, you know, all different types of people can enjoy this series. There's not a lot of books that all ages can take something out of it. Not just enjoy it, but like actually glean some insights for all different things, all different themes. like each my 10-year-old was reading along with us at the beginning and then, you know, she has to kind of she can't keep up obviously cuz we're reading super fast. So, she's going to continue on. She's pulling different things out of it and life lessons and anecdotal stories that we're and then we're picking up different things. Yeah, there's not a lot of book like Harry Potter. I didn't get that. You know, it was it's great for kids. Yeah, I would have wanted to be a part of it then, but for as an adult, I was just like, no. So, I agree. We're finding that we're finding that is this is a rare book series I think. Yeah. Beautiful. Just as entertaining, I feel, you know, just as captivating, but then also like the deeper themes, whether they be, you know, feminist themes, political themes, just life lessons, like I feel like those are useful for like people of all ages. So, I agree. It's really unique that way. And therefore, I would recommend it to literally anyone. I'm pretty sure you would, too. My I mean, my four-year-old was listening. I was first reading the first book out loud, you know, and at the end we switched to Audible and then the second book, I think we got halfway through with them and, you know, they're loving it. Yeah. She doesn't really know fully what's going on, but she's contributing to the conversation. Gilbert, you know, like things like that. So, literally all ages and they all love most of the movies. So, obviously Taylor's oldest time. Like, that's beautiful. It's great. We're all enjoying it. We're all having a good time. So, okay. So then here we go then. Our one sentence star review of the movies as a whole. So again, we're talking about the three DVD three DVD. I don't even know what to call it. I don't I don't know how many episodes it was when it was a miniseries. I have no clue cuz I didn't watch it on TV. Like I've always watched it like on the DVDs that I have. So I'm not sure. Um but anyway, whatever. We're talking about those ones from the 80s and then from the early 2000s. So, how would you rate it if you This was so hard for me because of reasons we will get into here in a little bit. Um, but yeah, how would you rate the movie series as a whole stars-wise? Oh, that's so hard cuz we have so much to talk about and I only get one sentence and I'm going to try my best not to ramble. I guess I'll go with four stars because I can't give it a five stars for the way it went. Literally off the rails, but I can't give it a three stars cuz I loved the first half so much of these three movies. And they're long, guys. When we say movies, they're like 3 to four hours long a piece that they broke them down to. I don't know why they did it the way they did it. It was crazy. Um, I guess I'll go with four stars. Yeah, that's what I'm going with too. Yeah, I'm giving it a four star because of exactly what you said. First half, five star community star. Second half was like very low. So, we're meeting in the middle. Yeah. Give an average. Mhm. It's still worth the watch, I think. But most of it, we'll get into it. Most of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Most of it until it took a weird turn, but yeah. So, four stars. Um for yeah, I'm locking it in. But it is difficult. It's difficult to rate the movies as a whole. For sure. Yeah. Harder than the books. Cuz the books I'm willing to like say, "Oh, these are a couple things like I didn't love, but it'll be good for other people." The movies was weird. It got weird. It got weird. Got weird. Got weird. Not fast, but it got weird eventually. Yeah. Um Okay. So, uh we must say it even though you guys probably already know. This is going to be full of random spoilers. We're going to be talking about obviously the movies and the books, how they compare to each other for the whole series. So, just so you guys know, if you don't want any spoilers, this would be the time. Yeah. Kaka, get on out. Yeah. Um, okay. So, should we just get into the book versus movie showdown? So, like go through the list and see which ones we liked better. Well, we can. Or I can just tell you necessary. Okay. Yeah. I was like, I could save us all a lot of time here. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Literally books over the movies, hands down, which across the board, you know, that's pretty typical, you know, with most movies versus books. However, I've come to, you know, over these series that we've done where they have movies to pair. every single every every single every single series we've done so far has had movies. Um, so I've found an appreciation for them as an extension of the books, you know, and sometimes the books certain books I'll like better, movies I'll like better because of whatever reason. This, however, though is an easy one because the movies went a little kooky. I will say though, movie one is such a like beloved classic that I do it's very seared into my mind as like one of my favorite movies from childhood. And also it's like every time I picture an every time I picture Gilbert, Merrila, like I literally picture those actors from that movie. So it definitely did stick with me for sure. I wouldn't choose it over the book like if I had to. But I will say movie one definitely holds a very very special place I feel like in my heart but then also in just like the Ann of Green Gable's world as a whole. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. But I would agree with you. I'm always going to pick the books over the movies in this case. For sure. Yeah. Okay. So then if you had to pick a favorite book, so out of all eight books, which one was your favorite? And Greening Gable's book one. That's for me. That's the one. I mean, right out of the gates. Yeah, literally is what started it all. Mhm. Mhm. What about you? Yeah. I mean, I put the same thing, but I do have like a little bit of a disclaimer. I put here as a kid book one or like until I did this read as an adult it's very very close with book eight. Yeah, it was really good, guys. It was um So, I put here as a kid, book one. As an adult, book eight. If I had to choose one, but probably if I had to choose one, I'd probably still choose book one, but I don't know. So, obviously, I was very undecided about this. Um yeah, but if like someone forced me to choose one, I would still pick book one because I feel like it just had such a longlasting like effect on my personality as a whole. Um, but yeah, I mean it's very like just buy the smallest hair of hairs beating book eight, I feel. Yeah. I mean, they both could be standalones. You could literally pick up Railla of Engleside and be fine. You don't have to know the backstory. It's great, but you don't have to know it. You don't have to. I think you'd have more emotionally invested in the characters probably just because by the time you get to book eight, you don't really know much about an Yeah. Mhm. because she's not really that present. So, because it's about her daughter mostly and her kids. Um, so I think that you'd probably get more out of it as far as like the things that happened would hit you more emotionally if you had more invested, but you could totally read it on its own also. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Totally. Um, so if you had to pick a least favorite book, A Rainbow Valley. Oh, book seven. That's funny. Didn't care for it, you as we went deeply, you know, with that deep dive. Um, you know, it's a lot of point of views of all the children at younger ages. So, it's still not it's not poorly written. It's something that younger audiences might enjoy more. It's my least favorite as an adult. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What about you? Um, mine was Ann of Wendy Popppler. So, yeah, you really like that. I really didn't like it. I really didn't. Um, it made me afraid for the rest of the series cuz I was like, "Oh no, is this where we're going with this." Um, I just at the end of the day, and I've had lots of times to marinate on it, okay, at the end of the day, I did not like that we were supposed to, you know, get this. I felt let down because it's like her and Gilbert are finally together. He's survived typhoid and pulled through. Okay. Yeah. And like then they're separated, which you know, that's just kind of how things went in those days, right? She's teaching as a principal at a school. He's at medical school. I feel like after all that, I wanted a little bit more of their love story. And we just got nothing. Like it was just like those weird letters that she would write to him for three years or however long they were separated and not a single letter back from Gilbert that we got to read. And I just didn't like that. Yeah. Yeah. I still die on the hill that I think it was intentional by the author. Women, their voice. Also, there's no phones back then. And also, there was not. Um I think that maybe Ella Montgomery was like, "Hey, let me try this out." And was like, "Oh, I won't do that again." Cuz she didn't. She did not. Um I'm okay with like a letter or two, but if it's like compos like comprised mostly of letters, I'd like some correspondence in return. You know what I mean? Yeah. And yes, I did definitely take into account what you said just about how, you know, Ella Montgomery was wanting just um Ann's POV, which does make sense entirely, and I see what you were saying, but it doesn't make me like it anymore. Yeah, fair. Yeah, fair. You're you're allowed to like what you like 100%. Yeah. Um and that being said, it was still a four-st star read for me. So, you know, like we're picking things, but it's not like I hated it. I just didn't love it as much as the other ones. Yeah, totally. So, we've kind of already talked about this a little bit, but um I I would assume our favorite movie of the series was movie one. Yeah. Easy. Yeah. Other things, you know, it sticks the most to the plot of the book. And I felt like there was just everything about it was just in my opinion done really well. Like I feel like the story was told really well. The acting was great. Like the casting was perfect. Like I I love all of that stuff about movie one. It's golly 30 something years old now. Almost 40 years old the film. Mhm. Right. And it stood the test of time. It still looks great. It still captivated my daughters who are always like put reading rainbow on. Why is it chippy? You know. No, they got pulled right in. They loved it. They didn't notice anything. It just it feels dreamy, you know. They did an incredible job. So, book uh movie one that mostly covers what? Book one and two the most and a little bit of pretty much a little bit of a three. Mhm. Yeah. Did a great job. Yep. I can see why. I get it now. Yeah. Mhm. That's the one that like cuz I have seen obviously in the past before we did the series. I actually own all three of the DVDs and so I've watched them multiple times. Um, but the first movie is the one that I've watched a billion times. Yeah. And like now that I've read all the books, it makes sense also why. Like I would gravitate much more to that first movie. Yeah. So, what would you say your least favorite movie was out of these three? Well, Liz and I finished these last night. Movie three. What the hell? What the hell? What the hell? It's like if someone read Ann of Green Gables and then said, "I'm going to do none of that, but I'm going to do all of these other random things instead. Let's do that." And then someone said, "Great." And that's what they did. It was weird. Blasphemous at this point. Like, why'd you call it that? Why did you call it and the continuing story? Because this ain't nothing about the books at all. literally went so hard off the rails. I question who I was and if I'm okay. Is it me? Like what? Nothing about it is the same. The timeline's not even the same. So, it's like what I loved about Reilla of Engleside was that it's all about World War I, but it's about Ann and Gilbert's kids and how it's predominantly obviously it affects them as well, but it's predominantly about how it affects the kids and how it affects the town and what the women were doing and giving voices to what was going on with the women during the war that we never had insight for before, you know? Right. Um, and that's one of the reasons why it's like one of my favorite in the series and this movie. It's like it's like why is an like a spy? Like why is she undercover as a nun? Who is this guy Jack who is a main character who literally is from nothing? Like where did he come from? Like who is this person? Yeah. And then you have this weird he's such an a-hole and they have this weird tension that I'm just like can we not? This is so strange. I think it was like trauma bonding. You know what I mean? It's like they have that his child that he's kind of an a-hole about too then pretends to like it and then like uh it's like they almost wanted that child story from Engleside but they made it really really crazy and not at all like it. I it just it's like I knew it was all downhill. First of all, movie 2 it started getting a little weird like blendy which I I get like you know they're blending a lot of things together and I'm like oh that's that's unfortunate cuz now I know the story but like there's still it's still enjoyable right still finding things that like and then it started getting a little bit weird at the end and then three I was like oh no oh no because and because Gilbert joins the army or whatever it is the Canadian army and she goes after him like he's going as a medical doctor first of all and then she's just like I can't stand this. I'm going to go find him cuz she didn't answer a couple letters, you know. Well, no. He was taken as a prisoner of war for like several years. That's why. But they didn't know that at first. She just went off. She just got the letters returned to her freaked out and left. She joined like the equivalent of like the Peace Corps, right? like something like that to like go and be kind of like a helper or like a nurse or something, but needle in a hay stack going to go find Yeah. But like really her intention was to just like go search for Gilbert, which she eventually kind of she finds him, but only coincidentally. Like it doesn't actually have anything to do with at the end of the movie. Yeah. They're separated like the whole time. Yeah. It's I don't know. And like they end up they don't even move anywhere else. Like they don't move to Glenn St. Mary until after the war. They have no kids except for this like adopted war baby from this guy Jack who's like a complete piece of crap person. Basically the only part of the movie that I kind of like kind of resonated with me was when you guys are going to be like this didn't happen at all because it didn't. They moved they moved to New York. So they moved to the states which never happened in the books at all. So they move to New York and Gilbert is like going to this prestigious like residency for you know medicine or whatever and an is um working at a publishing house. Well they don't publish women's work. Okay. So I was like well they're dealing with these feminist issues so that's good. They're at least trying you know. So there's a published author for that publishing house who's like let me be your editor and we'll co-write a book together and basically this will be the loophole. And then you find out that basically like the publisher won't even do that. And so he's just planning on stealing her book and putting his name on it. Yeah. What a piece of crap. I was like literally staring at the screen with my mouth open like jaw on the floor. Like are you freaking kidding me? And this didn't even happen in the book. Yeah. Well, and I'm watching it the first half of that three cuz you have to buy each half on Amazon. It was super annoying. But like I'm watching it with them and even my husband was in the room at this time and he's like wait what's happening? And I'm like I don't know. Didn't you read the books? I'm like this is nothing about what's going on and they're not even a good job doing a good job like telling the story line. It's just chaos and stupid and I was mad at it and I still am. And it was just like a weak plot, too, because it's like, okay, so obviously there's all of these soldiers who are coming back injured. And so Gilbert's plan was to work and help them, right? Well, then all of a sudden he enlists. Yeah. To go overseas to France to help, which it's like, okay. They kind of took like the story with his kids having to deal with that and just made it all about both of them. Yeah. Yeah, cuz they didn't even have they weren't even married until right before he deployed, which was completely not the same. And then they had no kids until literally they adopt that stupid guy who stole her books, baby, because he ends up Guys, it goes completely off the rails. Yeah. If anybody's read the books, they're like, "What?" If they haven't read the watch this movie or you're yelling with us cuz it's so bad and you watched them, too. Yeah. It's like what? He ended up being a undercover operative for the United States and then he gets assassinated. Yeah. On the train after their weird tension like Yeah. And then she goes and kisses Gilbert and then he got shot. I'm like, "What the hell?" I know. And you could tell Gilbert like just didn't like him the whole time though, which Yeah. he shouldn't because he sucks. And then his baby, so you know, good for Gilbert. Yeah. Then they adopt his baby and that's how they end up with a kid. I'm like, in the books, they have six kids and this war happens when their kids are starting to become grown. I'm like, this was a mess. This was such a mess. I mean, I was glad that they ultimately had a happily ever after because since it went so off the rails, I was like,"Oh no, are they going to kill Gilbert?" And I was going to be like so sad, you know, but they didn't. So, that's good at least. I know. Like, she's gonna have to marry this idiot for some weird weird reason that was prepared. I'm like texting Liz and I'm like, "Dude, why is Ann right now undercover as a nun getting making a bomb? Like this cannot be the same movie as movie one, like the same series." And we did find out in our last episode that this was there's still no excuse. This was made like some 15 years after the first series. So, they wanted to obviously have those main actors for viewership, but I I want to know how successful that movie or series was. Probably not because what the hell? Find out. We could find out. Yeah, because I just don't I mean, that's the thing. I feel like anyone who is into the Ana Green Gables fandom would watch it once to find out, but then after that, you'd be like, "What is this and why?" And I would just stop. I would have stopped if we didn't have to watch it for this. I was done. I would have probably Googled what happened to Gilbert and then I would have been fine with it. You know what I mean? Like that's all I needed to know cuz they were separated the whole movie and I was like, "Oh no, this might end badly." But it didn't. So, hey, I didn't even feel like her character was the same. You know, she's all stressed out the whole time obviously, which makes sense. I don't know. It took all the everything that we love about it and said, "We know better than the author." That's what it felt like. Yeah. And it's it it felt like Jack stealing her story and changing it for his accommodations. That's what it felt like. Yeah. He's like, "Actually, I'm going to do it this way." Yeah. Jack is the director or screenwriter, whoever was responsible for that monstrosity. Fired. Yeah. Fired. Goodbye. So, that's our soap box of movie three. terrible skip. So basically it was Yeah. It was like movie one way up here. Movie two kind of was okay but steadily going down and then movie three was like a crash and burn disaster. Yeah. Yeah. Like if we had to rate it like movie one would be a five star for me. Movie two would be a four star and then movie three would be like a one star. Yeah. Literally. Like no. I'm not even giving you any stars. You get none. Like you get none. Well, because also I mean like like with movie two cuz things started getting so blended. I was just like I'm appreciating this as an extension of the story, you know. Sure, it's a little mixed up, but you know, hey, movie three, I don't even like war movies, you know. So, there's that. And it's something that I'm trying to watch with my kids and I had to you I'm like, you guys aren't watching the rest of them, you know, because it's not that it's it is pretty gruesome. Like the four-year-old definitely was like walking away. She like I'm like, yeah, for sure. And then my 10-year-old still wanted to watch it with me, you know, as something to do. And I'm like, you don't need to watch this. Like, it's not even good. You know, if you're going to have a war movie, at least make it good. So, there's nothing you can gain. My husband even commented. He was like,"Look at you watching a war movie." Cuz he knows I do not watch war movies. Like, period. Unless it's like Pearl Harbor with Ben Affleck. Like, that's it. Um, but like I was like, "Yeah, unfortunately that's what's happening right now." And it's not really by choice like Yeah. Well, in the first like what 15 minutes of but movie three that idiot Jack idiot boys making rash decisions. Hello. He's like, I'm going to throw myself over this ledge if you don't talk to me. He was being so inappropriate that I'm like, girls, this is not okay. Like, no. You know, he wanted to throw himself over the balcony, which wasn't even that high. But still, it's the drama that I'm just like, this is not okay. And then he's like opening the door with his robe open and like made her come in this room. Like it's almost like they're like let's try to make it a little more scandalous. But they didn't even do it in a good way, you know? It was defin It was filmed in 2000 which, you know, is definitely, you know, says something, but still. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I feel like they should have just stuck to the story. Turns out that war has enough material on its own without having to scandalize it more. You know what I It's like that's still what the later like latter half of the series was about. You know, they could have stuck to the story and still gotten a lot of like come through with a lot of the themes and the plot without having to like make it into something completely different. Oh yeah. Some idiot boardroom fat cats made this decision and I hate them for it. We have enough war movies like we were talking about with Rilla of Engleside. Is that what it was? Ra of Engleside. Um, we don't get women's stories during war and what's going on there and what that looks like or even like enlisting and what that was looking like for the men, you know, and the pressures and the social obligations. Why was that not good enough? That's so weird. It should have been good enough. Like I said, that's enough material. Like, we don't need more material. Yeah, we don't need more crappy fake retelling. And you could have still included the original actors Ann and and Gil for Ann and Gilbert and still had them present. You know, maybe maybe add them in a little bit more than the books do if you want that. It'll be fine. I agree. It would have been smarter because then you could follow Rilla and then really take the story wherever you want to and have watch her life grow up if the show is successful. You know, give give me the check. Let me do this. Like, let me handle this. I'll do it. You're doing it wrong. What a waste. So I know I know truly. So were there any moments about the movies though that you really really loved? Yeah. All of it of one. All of it. All of one. I That's what it is. All of movie one. Everything about it. Like I love just the scenery alone is amazing. You know what I mean? It's like it's we've talked about this before on other, you know, Anna Green Gables episodes where it's like we want to go to this magical mystical place, you know, that we only see in Ann of Green Gables, you know, in our dreams. Oh, wait. That's just a real place. You know what I mean? Guys, it's like Prince Edward Island is a real place. And so I feel like that alone was really depicted super well in the movies. But like you know I said before like in the first movie it's like the casting everything was just spoton. I don't know that I could like pick out like one particular scene. I mean, I'm kind of partial to like the love scenes between her and Gilbert, especially when, you know, he's on his like little typhoid deathbed. You know, he says like, you know, there was never anyone for me but you. Like, I love that kind of stuff. You know, it's just like so cute. Uh, and totally gives me just like an insight into my like into my personality now. I'm like, oh, I was watching this on repeat as a child. Like, no wonder. You know what I mean? Yeah. I love the scenes with Ann and Diane, you know, that her accidentally getting her drunk and like that was so obnoxious and we were cracking up because we're at your house and we were watching that and uh you know a big quote in our house right now is ice cream and chicken salad. You know, we were on a recent trip to Hawaii and I was eating a Caesar chicken salad and Cameron's like, "Are you in a hotel eating chicken salad?" I was like, "Yeah." So, you know, it's very cute. It's so cute. Yeah. Yeah. And then I mean I feel like we've already kind of talked about the movie moments we hated, but like pretty much everything in movie three I hated. I don't know that there was anything I liked about movie 3 except for Gilbert not dying. Yeah. Like that is the only thing that I liked. Yeah, that's it. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. They get the award for the worst ever one of the worst movies I've ever watched because of what it did. Um and that movie adaptations. Yeah, award is finding whoever's responsible for them and putting them upside down in a trash can. So, yep. Congratulations. So, okay. Would you say just as the Let's go back to the book series cuz obviously we've already talked about how we're we're not happy with the movie how the movie's concluded. Yeah. Would you say that you're happy with the conclusion of the books and the ending? 100%. Yeah, same. Yeah, I mean except I would say the one um critique that you were having of Engleside is how quickly they breezed over Merilla's death that she had died at one point. You know, I just felt like she deserved more um we we all deserved as readers too, more of an emotional um you know, few paragraphs at least, a chapter if you will, at some point even if it was in Rainbow Valley, you know, at some point. So yeah, that's the only thing that I was like bummed about. I think yeah, that Mirilla just didn't get her moment. Well, especially because I feel like there were so many other side characters who got their moment, especially like Captain Jim, like we got to experience him and obviously his death and like there was just a lot of characters who we got to see, you know, their life and then a few that we got to see pass away as well. You know, obviously Walter, like RIP. Oh my god, it's gonna haunt me till the end of days. But like, how did Merilla not get her like 15 minutes? You know what I mean? It's just weird to me. It was And I feel like the same thing happened in the movies where it was like all we know is that Mirilla passed and then they go back to visit Green Gables and it's all decrepit. That was so weird. Again, my daughter's like, "What? Why is Green Gables like this?" I'm like, I don't know. This is crazy and it's sad. I was like, I don't want to see the home like this. This is so depressing. And then it caught on fire. I was like, what's going on here? I mean, luckily they did restore it and Diane did restore it and they gifted it to her. It was random, but it was beautiful. Like, yeah. Yeah. But it was all very random basically. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, other than Yeah. Merilla not getting her, you know, what she was due in our opinion. Because I feel like that's another thing too that, you know, we've gotten a few DMs and comments that are like, "Oh, no." Like from people who have read only the beginning of the series like, "I'm scared for when they kill off Merilla." And we're like, "Well, don't be scared because nothing happens." Yeah. But hey, you know what? Can't win them all. Right. We have one thing to say about it. The book series pretty much about the book series. Yeah. Like that was the only unanswered thing because I mean it really just it starts kind of back over while giving a lot of nods to like the original Ann of Green Gables through her daughter which I feel like was a really beautiful full full circle moment. um you know and it ends with Gilbert and an still being alive and like living out their golden years with you know their kids and you know probably in the near future grandkids right and so it's like it's a very happily ever after but it's still tinged by sadness and loss because that's life you know yeah so I was definitely very happy with the conclusion ending of the book series what about unanswered questions No. No. Feels good. Yeah, feels good. I agree. Yeah. I feel like I will definitely because I was thinking about this the other day. I was like, now that I've read all eight, I feel like what I want to do next time I decide to revisit this is probably just reread book eight. Like I think that's what I'll do next time is just reread book eight. Let that kind of like marinate and sink in. And then maybe, you know, years down the road, I'll go back through and I'll do a reread again. But yeah. Yeah. I feel like I could I could definitely read that book, I think, over and over, just like book one, and not get sick of it, which I love. Yeah, I wanted to have time to do it, but there just was not enough time. But I do want to give I think it's Ann with an E a try, you know. Oh, I the series. Yeah, I want to try, you know, other extensions of this. And um you know what I want to do? I want to go on a little adventure with you and definitely my older daughter uh and whoever else to go see the Ana Green Gables museum that they built and the style of Anakin Gables house. I've been watching people's vlogs. It just sounds and looks so magical. I know. I wanted to go there ever since I was a little kid. So someday reality we're going to we're going to do it. Yeah. Yes. Mhm. So, after all is said and done, do you understand the hype and fandom of Ann of Green Gables? Yeah. Well, considering I want to plan a vacation there, yes, I'd say I get it. I get it. And you guys, just to remind you, I had almost no context of this series. I was like girl with red hair and braids um running around a beautiful green place. Uh, my older sister used to watch them, but I didn't apparently pay attention at all cuz I knew nothing. I get it. I get it now. And I'm happy to be a part of it. Thank you for welcoming me with open arms. I'm sorry. I always am such a naysayer and I'm like, I don't know cuz you're always right. When will I learn my lesson? Honestly, what this made me do cuz, you know, I understood the hype and fandom just from being obsessed with an being a part of the hype and fandom. Um, you know, I don't even know. I wish I knew who told me to read Anna Green Gables as a child. Like, was it my grandma? She was the big reader influence in my life. It was my grandma. So, I'm wondering if it was her. If I just Well, the movies were so big, you know, for rewatches at that age cuz we were already we would have it already had to have been out for like 5 years by the time we were interested them. Um, and then you were such a reader anyways. Either Yeah. your grandma or you just picked it up at the library because you're like, "Hey, I love this movie." You know? Yeah, give the books a try. That's beautiful. But yeah, I mean, I've always understood the hype in fandom, but it's a lot more it's a lot more than I thought it would be. And I feel like if what this has done is it's shown me that we really should be reading and covering more classic literature written by women in the future. Yes. Yes. 100%. because it's just so it's so important and it's just so closely informs what we read and love now currently that I feel like you know I know we didn't read a lot of those like you know Pride and Prejudice and those types of books like I still haven't read so and I know a lot of people are very into them and so I feel like that is motivating me to knock those up on the list a little bit you know move those up on the TBR a lot higher. Yeah, 100%. For sure. Yeah. Hey, you know, special shout out to your sister-in-law if she's listening because I remember she was one of the people that you asked like, "Is it worth reading past book three?" And she was like, "Yes." So, thank you. You inspired us all around and we're so happy to be here. Yeah. So, all right. Well, I feel like this was an important question to ask too because you guys know how we feel about the movies, but at the end of the day, did they do a good job of showcasing the reason why we're talking about this, you know, the coming of age tale, the buildings Roman theme, feminist themes, were do those come across in the movies up until enough ways, you know? Yeah. Movie one, yes. Easy. You know, we were getting going. Movie two. Yeah, cuz she was learning how to function as an adult and different relationships and pull them out. Movie three. What? No. Nope. Literally nothing. Like, don't even be yourself. Like, just go be crazy and go to war and be I don't know what the hell. Hang out with this random baby. Go be a nun and make bombs. I don't know. Yeah. And save the baby. I don't know. And save the baby. Um, I will say that there were, like I said, it's almost like they were trying and just failing because there was obviously like the whole plot about Jack stealing her book. Yeah. Which we know from the research we've done that Ellen Montgomery dealt with a lot of issues with the publishing world um in the US and in Canada. Um, with her book getting rejected a lot, then them not paying her what they was agreed upon, etc. And so we know that those were real issues. Um, so it's almost like, yeah, they were trying, right? They were like, we're going to throw in some feminist stuff. And then obviously, you know, in movie three, they did show some aspects of how war was affecting women's lives with um, you know, obviously Diana's husband, I don't remember his name now. I'm blanking on it. Um but anyways, with him enlisting without telling her and how that affected her and the family, um you know, they did show a little bit of how that affected the town just because so many people were gone. Um and you know, they also showed that, you know, women were sent over there to entertain the troops, how they were treated. I thought that was an important piece. Um, yeah, because you know there was a lot of women in movie 3 who were nurses, who were working with the Red Cross, who were, you know, family members searching for other family members, just miscellaneous people who were killed for no reason, you know. And so I feel like it portrayed those things well, but didn't go deeper and didn't use Ann's character at all to like really explain. It was just very kind of like random. It was just I'm finding Gilbert. I'm in this war. Oh, I'm doing this. I'm finding Gilbert. Like I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. A scavenger hunt, but a nonsensical, very unsafe, sad scavenger hunt. Truly. Yeah. Um, okay. So, did you do a ranking of everything like all the movies and all the books? Okay. So, did I. All right. Let's do it. Okay. Starting at the worst or the best. Let's start at the worst and go to and end with our favorite, right? Like end on let's end on a high note. Are we defending our case or just boom boom boom boom boom? I mean I feel like it's already pretty defended. So this is more just for the record. All right. For the record as it goes. Yeah. Number 11 cuz there's eight books, three movies obviously and the continuing story movie three. Bottom of the totem pole. Bottom of the list. Terrible. We don't need to say more. We've set it up. We're scrubbing it from the record after this. Just pretending like it doesn't exist. I was going to scrub it from my brain. Wash my brain with some soap. What do you got? Uh yeah, same. Good. I was going to be mad at you if you put Winnie Poppers below that. Like, man, get over it. No, I'm just kidding. That's what they're telling us about movie three. Uh, okay. Number 10 for me is Rainbow Valley, you know. Mhm. Yeah. Mine is Ann of Wendy Poppplers tracks. Yeah, I'll accept it now. Um, number nine, Ann of Engleside. Same. It was a similar kind of vibe as Rainbow Valley, I think. Yeah, that's why it got that um rating for me as well. It was very like another amalgamation of a bunch of random stories, which wasn't my favorite. Yeah. Uh, number eight would be Ana Green Gables movie 2. while I So now at this point I'm enjoying everything and I'm splitting hairs. Okay. Yeah. Same same. Yeah. So I enjoyed it but you know it did go a little it blended a little too much for my liking. Can we talk about movie two for a second here? Because hey uh I was enjoying it but I hated that Pringle girl with a passion. She was so evil. They casted her great because she was truly evil. Me and my daughter were like, "Oh my gosh, I'm going to have nightmares about her." Um, that and then the way they blended Royy's, was it Royy's character to be the dad of the girl? That was very weird. It was weird. And he's like, what did you call him? Like a poor man's um Robert Redford. Robert Redford. But by the end, honestly, by the end, I was like, "Yeah, weird but smash." So, I mean, for sure he grew on me. He grew on me for me, but not for Ann. She's still very young. On paper, for back then, he would have been exactly like Royy's character. Perfect husband and older than Roy. So, great. Yeah. Yeah. Roy was a little Yeah. He was like 20, you know. This guy was probably like at least mid-4s, right? At least. Yeah, for sure. I mean, it's hard cuz back then, even in the 80s, they feel like people always looked older than they were. Yeah, exactly. He could have been 30 for all I knew, but I don't know. I was looking at his like smile lines. I'm like, I don't know. I think he's in his 40s at least. I'd say I'd say 45, 47. And I'm like at this point, Ann's supposed to be like 20, 21. Yeah. I'm like the dating pool. Well, especially because she's like at that dance or whatever and she's dancing with that guy who literally looks like he's 18 and then she goes over and dances with, you know, whatever his name is who's supposed to be like old Roy. Old Man Winters. Yeah. Old Man Winters. He's like 45. I'm like,"Wow, the dating pool is wide." Like back then, you know what I mean? It's like just, you know, every everyone's fair game. Yeah. Um but yeah, I definitely he grew on me too, but he was he would back then good husband material. Nowadays, we'd be like,"You have issues." Yeah. Major issues. Yeah. Um Yeah. Mine was Rainbow Valley. That was the same one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Number eight for you. All right. Number seven for me is Ann of Wendy Poppplers. So, I didn't hate it as much as Liz, but Yeah. You know, there you go. There you go. Yeah. Mine was Ann of Green Gable's movie 2. So there. Yep. Pretty similar list, just like some minor flip-floppings. Number six, Ann of the Island. Mhm. Same. Um, so number five, Ann's House of Dreams with the birth of Just Like a Man. Love that. What was your number five? Um, my number five was Ann of Aly. Oo, interesting. Interesting. Number four for me, I'm going to be putting Anna Green Gable's movie one into it. You know, number four for me is Ann's House of Dreams because I freaking loved that book so much. I loved the stories in it. It was just so dreamy to me. Yep. Number three for me was Rilla of Engleside. Very good. Mhm. Number three for me was Ann of Green Gables movie one. Ah, yes. Yes, I saw that coming. Um, number two, Ann of Aan Lee. I really enjoyed it. It just felt like a full extension of book one for me. Yeah, for sure. For sure. Yeah. Uh, my number two is R of Engleside by the smidgen of a hair that we talked about before. Yep. And number one for me, An Gable's book one. Same for me. Same for me. There we go. There's our ranking. There we go. We'll put a box up on our stories this week just like we did for our Sarah J. Mass ranking that we recently did where you guys can, you know, give your ranking too of whatever media you've consumed so far. If you haven't done all the books and movies yet, whatever you've read so far, if you want to do a ranking, check it out there. We'll post that on Wednesday. Tomorrow. Yeah. Fun. Or wait, no, cuz this is a Friday. I don't know. We'll post it soon. someday check it out cuz I'm like wait what day is it? Okay, there you go. Yeah. So, here's the question then. Here we are. We've ranked the movies. We've ranked the books. We've told you the best. We've told you the worst. In our opinion, should you read all eight books? I mean, okay, here's the thing. Should you? Yeah, do it. Um, have to. No, of course. No, but I mean like do you need should you read past book three? Yes. But I do think that there's a couple books that you can skip because you'll still you won't be confused, you know, just like I feel like you could there. Okay. Specifically, these of three I think you could skip and of Wendy Poplers if that's not your style, the letter style because not much happens as far as developing her storyline. You know, she goes off and she's working. So, you're not missing out on that Gilbert Love story as Liz is so disappointed about. Um, if you like that kind of situation, you know, read it. You won't have a bad time. You know, I and I personally think you could skip the children's point of view with the exception of Ria of Engleside. So, that would be Rainbow Valley and kind of most of what is it Ann of Engleside. So, six and seven. So, that would be four, six, and seven. I don't think you would have to read if you are like us and you don't love those quick anecdotal stories all meshed together that kind of are chaotic and years in between multiple point of views cuz for me with her children's point of view um I didn't feel emotionally invested in them until we got to real side cuz you know it's focused more on one character I don't mind and we don't mind multiple POV stories but we need to already have that emotional connection and I didn't get that with those. Well, it's also harder to have an emotional connection when it's like told from the perspective of like a 9-year-old. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's like that's not super relatable when you're an adult. It's like we need more of a story to tie it all together, I think. Mhm. Um, yeah, I would say that I agree with you as far as the books that you mentioned being the least necessary um to the overall like plot or understanding of the series as a whole. And I would agree that like, you know, if you're thinking maybe I just read book one or I read, you know, same as me, books one, two, and three, and I'm you're curious if you should continue on, I would absolutely encourage you to continue on. I'm glad that I read all eight. I don't know that I will reread all eight. So, I think that's where kind of where I stand. Like, if you like Ann of Green Gables a lot, if you're into it, I would encourage you to read all eight books at least once through. Um, but then yes, I highly doubt that I will reread all eight probably. Like, I'll probably skip over a couple like we talked about just now. Um, because they're not really that important to the plot, the overall like overarching plot in my opinion. Yeah. With that said though, like that's as adults, as kids, I mean, they will love those books, you know, they'll love the ones with that point of view again. And then, um, I was worried reading past book three, which was the most that people usually read that the reason why people stop because it becomes very repetitive. So, I'm happy to report it didn't feel repetitive. There are some similar themes with the Kindred Spirits and stuff, but it's still done so beautifully that you're just wanting, you know, you just want more. So, if you want an extension of Ana Green Gables, it's there for you, you know? Yeah, it wasn't boring. I wasn't bored. I was never bored either. So, and and I feel like Exactly. I completely agree with you cuz I was worried about that, too. I was like, "Oh, is this going to be like the same like I was worried that like Harry Potter like, okay, a school year. Okay, here we go. A full school like all again, you know, back and forth. School year crazy Voldemort school year crazy boring Vold Voldemort. Then we go back. Yeah. It's like over and over. Very formulaic. I was afraid it was going to be formulaic as well. Like Ann was going to grow up, have kids, and then it was going to repeat the exact same formula with her kids. Yeah. Um but that is not what happened. So very exciting. Yeah. Yeah. Great job. Great job, Ella Montgomery. Hopefully you are in your grave appreciating this from where you lie. Yes. Yes. Living in the Anna of Green Gables of, you know, forever. Anna. Ann's house of dreams. Forever. Yeah. Okay. So, I do have a fun fact. It's just a simple one, but I looked it up because I was actually curious about it. And so, I thought maybe you guys would want to know, too. So, as I was watching the movies, I was like, you know, where were these filmed? because it's so beautiful and I want to you know most of the time movies are not filmed in the place that they are right so it's like you look it up and it's like oh this is in New Zealand whatever literally no the majority of the movies were all filmed on good old Prince Edward Island in Canada. Yeah. So even more reason for us to go visit it someday because it actually looks like that guys or at least it did 40 years ago. what it looks like. No, I mean I was watching some people's vlogs that recently went and I'm like,"Oh my gosh, and that's the bridge and that's the little boat and that." So like they that community seems to very much like appreciate Ella Montgomery's appreciation of their island and they you know it was busy too. It wasn't not like overly busy. It was like that perfect. Not a ghost town but not like smashed in like Disneyland, you know? Not too too touristy. It was It looked It looks very idyllic. Yes. Ideic. Whatever. So, yeah. If you guys were like wondering that, now you know. The more you know. The more you know. Okay. So, I was going to say, drum roll please, but Ashley's on it. Yep. Guys, will we be reading for our fall mini episode series? Fall/winter. It's going to blend. Yeah. End of year, quarter. Yeah, if you've made it this far, here's your little treat. We are going to be reading Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Yes, we are. So excited. So, since this is a series, we're not only going to be reading Wicked for anyone who is curious. We're going to be reading Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz. So, all four books in this universe that Gregory Magcguire had created and maybe Alphaba. We haven't fully looked into that yet. I do think we have it on the schedule. So, we might be reading Alphaba. Perfect. Yes. That snuck in recently some. It came out recently. Yeah. And that is a prequel, I think. Right. Yes. And it's also by Gregor Gregory Maguire, though, so it's not like a weird spin-off like he actually wrote it. Um, so let's just plan on doing that too. Then it'll be five books. So, Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Line Among Men, Out of Oz, and Alphaba. Um, if you guys want to follow along, we will be h uh posting more information about the schedule, what we plan on reading. But basically, we wanted to do it last year, but we didn't want to do any major spoilers before part two of the movie came out. So, we're going to be lining it up for you guys. Yep. Mhm. For that part two release of Wicked. Because if you didn't know, what they're doing with the movie is they're taking the musical and we don't I don't I've never read the book. You read the book, right, before. So, this will be a reread for you. Yes. But literally, it's been so long ago, I remember almost nothing, right? So, I'm excited. And the book, you know, just a warning from everything we've heard about is way different than the musical and the movie. Not for children, okay? So, keep that in mind as well. So, we'll be talking about all of those themes that they talk about, why it might not be good for kids, everything like that. Especially because I have a kid who has been trying to ask to read it, and I'm like, "No, no, no. I've heard really not." Okay. So, um, and it's like, from what I remember, even though I read it like 15 years ago, what I remember is that it's like very dense and very politically themed, like very heavy on the political themes and a lot more serious than the movie and the play adaptations. um show. So even if like someone younger wanted to read it, I don't know that they would even necessarily understand what's happening for a lot of the time, you know. Yeah. Mhm. But we'll be able to bring you guys all that information. Yep. And we'll be finishing off with, you know, as soon as we're done watching the movie release. Yeah. I cannot wait. And I will say Ashley and I have both been lucky enough to see the play as well. Um, this year too. It's actually Well, I haven't You saw it this year. I haven't seen it since uh like literally probably 15 16 years ago in San Francisco, but we will be going to see the play in New York at the end of this month. Oh my god. Already that's crazy. So it'll be pretty fresh in our brains to talk about that as well. So it's going to be a whole wicked time, guys. So if you're like watch the movie when Liz told me about I we did a wicked episode last year just talking about the movie. So if you need something to tie you over I just remembered that you know we lit it up and everything because we're like we have to talk about this movie. It was so good. You guys know everybody loved it. So yeah if you want something to tie you over before the movie and our series starts you know it's there talking all about movie one. Yep. Yeah. And then we'll have our nice little series. We'll compare it to Yeah. All the adaptations. We'll be able to give you guys the info, tell you if we think it's worth reading all of the books as well, especially cuz I remember nothing at all. Yep. For sure. I'm stoked. Um, so yeah. And then, you know, just like everything else, we'll make sure to post a schedule. We'll have templates over on Instagram so you guys can read along if you want. Um, we'll put up a fable at least for book one for Wicked. Um, and then we'll kind of see what we're going to do with the other ones. um for a buddy read that way if anyone wants to jump on that and we'll have that all going very soon. Well, thank you guys so much for hanging out with us today and joining us and hearing our ranking and wrap up and all of our crazy thoughts about Ann of Green Gable series. We are closing this chapter up for now. Make sure to like, follow, and subscribe anywhere you like to listen to your favorite podcasts, including YouTube. And you can go check us out on Instagram and Tik Tok. We're Besties in the Books podcast everywhere except Fable, as Liz mentioned. We are at Besties in the Book Club. And you guys, we're back to seeing you only next Tuesday for now. Okay. Goodbye. Bye.[Music]