The ‘Lizzie Bennet diaries’

Been reading Jane Austen? Pride and Prejudice? Want to think about an update? Try this: it’s become pretty popular.

http://www.pemberleydigital.com/the-lizzie-bennet-diaries/

The provocative question, of course, is how does this affect your reading of the original? Does it enhance it? Does it spoil it?  What happens to a text that undergoes such a transformation?  Is it like or unlike what happens when a film is made of a text like this?

And maybe the biggest question of all might be: does your IB course help you to come up with some norms or practice to make some  judgments about all of that?