You takes your pick and you gets your choice
Well, perhaps not quite. 
The Daily Mail has a (rather precipitate in our not so humble opinion) poll on which is the best Mr. Darcy: Colin Firth or Matthew Macfadyen.
Wouldn’t it be better to wait till some of us have actually seen the new film? Though we dare say that will not stop truly determined Darcy fans.
Thanks to Alert Janeite Lorraine for sending in the link, which she found at the Republic of Pemberley.
August 9th, 2005 at 4:05 pm
I’ve been wondering if they’re planning another which-Darcy-do-you-prefer poll after the film has come out, when anyone who might be interested in taking the poll has seen the new P&P. Probably to compare M.Macfadyen’s appeal before and after the film’s debut. Match his “meteoric rise to fame” (as he may reasonably be supposed to do) to that of Colin Firth?
August 9th, 2005 at 6:24 pm
I am not really surprised. The Daily Mail is a xenophobic, homophobic and anti-feminist paper somewhat to the right of Attila the Hun politically. It is typical that they would not let the fact that only a small number of people have seen McFadyen’s performance stop them from giving readers who are already prejudiced against him because he isn’t Colin Firth and determined to find fault with the whole film a chance to exhibit themselves. Really, the way some of these Firth fanatics go on one would think that it was planned to forcibly seize all copies of the 1995 version and remaster them to remove Firth and Ehle and replace them with McFadyen and Knightley.
August 10th, 2005 at 10:43 am
Ooooh … that’s rather unfair, isn’t it ? Did they ever conduct a poll comparing CF to, say, Laurence Olivier or David Rintoul BEFORE the miniseries made its debut 10 years ago ?
August 10th, 2005 at 11:17 am
I see the emotions really run high here. What? over an internet poll? You can find millions of these silly, meaningless polls on internet. It’s a way website use to get more visits, thus more adds. And what is this poll has anything to do with Firth fanatics?