She’s baaaaaaaaaaaack!
Bridget Jones, that is. Brand-spanking-new entries from Bridget’s diary are reappearing in the BBC’s Magazine, courtesy of Helen Fielding. Given how Edge of Reason ended, the BJD readership was hoping for a Brand-New Bridget in a Brand-New Diary. One reader, Rebecca Moy, shares her disappointment on The Comeback:
But reading Bridget’s comeback column, there is a slight sense of deja vu. She’s still single. Still smoking, still drinking (Chardonnay, Bridg? How late 90s), still counting calories. And still going on about Mark Darcy and Daniel Cleaver.
Not to worry, though. Although the basic plot is old, the details are new:
. . . Helen Fielding has promised that her heroine is going to be entering a new phase of her life. An unexpected pregnancy, perhaps? Or maybe turning her thoughts to what women have to offer? . . . The one thing the film never captured was Helen Fielding’s take on current events (something which led her to the original obsession with Pride and Prejudice, since the Colin Firth/Jennifer Ehle version was on TV then).
But I was glad to see there’s still a touch of that around, eg in Bridget’s comment on braving public transport even after the 7 July bombings. “[I have] pride at how well am personally handling the crisis. Not entirely sure where pride comes from as have not exactly done anything except resolving to take trainers to work when wearing unsuitable shoes. But still.”
And again: “Really wanted a little baby to love, though not, obviously, weekend nanny to shag ex-husband.”
Oh, Bridget. How we have missed you!
August 4th, 2005 at 9:56 pm
So what happened to Mark and Bridget? Are we supposed to believe they got divorced? (Sigh.)
I believe I’m officially tired of Bridget.
August 5th, 2005 at 12:51 am
They never got married.
August 5th, 2005 at 1:20 am
I would have rather liked to have seen Mum!Bridget–resolving to be glowingly happy whilst playing Mozart and feeding Baby organic homemade baby food.
Then the cold hard reality could crash in on her.
August 5th, 2005 at 8:47 am
I don’t see why she can’t be full of angst AND dating the man she loves. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.
August 5th, 2005 at 9:06 pm
Where can I read her new Bridget columns?
August 7th, 2005 at 4:51 pm
Where can I read her new Bridget columns?
According to the review posted here, the Independent is charging people to read the new Bridget Jones’s Diary. If it’s as mediocre as people seem to think, perhaps it won’t be worth paying for.
October 17th, 2005 at 10:55 pm
Does anyone know where to get the original BJ columns from 1995-8? The reason I want them is that the column and books are so disconnected that it’s weird to read the new columns after reading the books. In the books, Mark Darcy is like an Aidan-type person, very loving and just wanting to be with Bridget. The column Darcy is like Big, but worse! (Sorry for the S&C references.) They are almost like 2 different stories … apparently the column is meant to take place only a few months after the end of Edge of Reason, which is weird because Bridget was going to work from home and/or go abroad with Darcy and I can’t see her every getting back together with Cleaver.
January 1st, 2006 at 7:31 pm
I don’t know, I have been reading what is on the website for the Independent and am I very confused, Mark and Bridget were going abroad and now it is 10 years later and they are not dating anymore? I liked the movie where they were engaged at the end. I don’t like what I am reading will just wait for next movie so they can fix it.