Day 028 (Or: EMAC and the plot of Anne of Green Gables 3)

We hung out with Emily MacDonald today. It was a lot of fun. She's home alone while Barry's in Normandy. I don't like that he's gone a lot of the time. He's got an army wife at home that misses him a lot. Anyways, so, bowling, pb&j, Anne of Green Gables... it was a good one.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand twelve weeks from tomorrow, I'm not driving anywhere ever after 10 o clock. You heard me.

Ehhh so. I guess that's it. Today was good. I'm tired of driving home. I'm going to bed.

OH YEAH and Emac gave us all kinds of dinnerware stuff- extras they got from their wedding and stuff. Seriously. Like a ton of plates and cups and other stuff. THANK YOU EMAC.

Oh yeah and here's the entire plot of "Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story." So Anne gets back from some boating trip and visits all her old stomping grounds and it's hard to tell if she's 30 or 60 the way she stumbles around like she's decrepit when she walks. She finds out Green Gables is in ruins. BUT WHO CARES there's Gilbert YAYE! Oh yeah and then she falls before she can reach him. She does that a lot throughout the movie. Anyways, so Gilbert is like "I'm gonna be a doctor in NY" and Anne's like "wtf?! YOU PROMISED" and Gilbert's like "COME WITH ME!" which she's hesitant about, contributing to the long run time of this film, but eventually she decides to go. So in NY, Gilbert finds out that the hospital is all politics, and he's the only noble one there. Anne gets an editorial job at a newspaper or something and meets a super sleazy guy named Jack who doesn't do one non-creepy thing throughout the duration of the movie. Still, Anne is attracted to him. What? He threatens to kill himself if she doesn't write a story with him or something, which she finds endearing. It turns out that he's swindling her. Heartless! Eventually Gilbert and Anne have had enough of NY so they go back home to Canada. This whole section of the movie is essentially pointless, save for the fact that we meet Creepy Jack. Anyways, back in Canada, Gilbert starts getting guilted into joining the Canadian army to fight in WWI. Eventually, he succumbs to the pressure, but not before Anne accidentally almost burns down Green Gables. Once it's in shambles, Gilbert asks Anne to marry him before he goes to war. Smart! And then she does it! So they're married, and then he leaves. Well, Anne can't handle it. So she joins the war too and I'm not really clear exactly what it is she's doing or how the heck she got into the war anyway. But into the war she goes. She happens to get stationed right where Gilbert is, but lots of dying people keep getting in the way of Gilbert and Anne being reunited. This literally goes on for like 45 minutes. So then Anne runs into Creepy Jack, who happens to be on the same train as Anne, and they rekindle their pseudo-flame. He claims he won't rest until Gilbert is found. Oh, and somewhere in the middle of it all, a baby appears. I forget where he came from, but he's REALLY REALLY important to Anne. I think it's Creepy Jack's kid. Anyways, so then for like another 30 minutes, it's just Anne and the baby stumbling around trying to find Jack. Along the way, we meet these really annoying Yankee ladies. They serve no point to the resolution of the movie. But still we spend a good 20 minutes with them. Eventually Anne ends up in jail and we're told they're going to kill her at noon or dawn or something. But thankfully she's got some gun powder and she totally blows that place up and gets out of there. And she gets the baby back! Yeah she lost the baby for about 10 minutes. Okay so then eventually she finds Creepy Jack but by this point she's in a nun outfit and she looks like a zombie. By now, we haven't seen Anne smile for about an hour and a half. Anyways, oh yeah! She's looking for Gilbert. We forgot somewhere in the last hour. So she keeps looking and keeps looking and eventually they end up in the same like...field area together. So they embrace and it's good. You really feel Anne's pain, as you've watched it unfold in an equally painful 2 and a half hours up to this point. So the first thing they do is hop on a train, where Creepy Jack hangs out with them and Anne's okay with that even though she hasn't seen her husband in like a year at least? So then Creepy Jack walks away and Gilbert starts telling Anne about how the only way he made it through the POW camp was to remember a specific memory of her everyday, to which Anne essentially replies with a "You look tired. Get some rest!" Um...a year, Anne. This might be forgivable except that the next thing she does is go find @#$%*^ Creepy Jack and sit next to him and start talking about unfulfilled dreams and all this crap...they share a knowing, intimate glance, and then she walks away, conflicted. What? She keeps talking about all he has done for her in this movie, but he has literally done nothing. Oh except for the fact where he LIED TO HER in NY about a story they were publishing. Everything else he's done was just stuff he said he was going to do. And then he just hung out while stuff happened that would have happened even if he hadn't've been there except he wouldn't have been able to touch her if he wasn't there. And he touches her all the time. It's all he does. He's Creepy Jack. Oh yeah, so then CREEPY JACK GETS SHOT. Like out of nowhere. Anyways, this is supposed to conclude His and Anne's arc, and now she can finally be at peace with Gilbert. So they go back to Green Gables, and that baby shows up again. So they adopt it, because Creepy Jack's last wish was that Anne take care of the baby. Gilbert buys Green Gables but then gives it to some friends two seconds later. What? And then the movie ends. And this is literally a three hour movie.