Read it because its here.

SO far that has to be my biggest complaint. I almost had to cover my ears at some point for Grushenka's laughter. Oh man that was rough. It was a little too much for me. I think the film did a good job for that scene though. That and the scene where Alyosha hears about Ivan's love for Grushenka. Although I go the sense in the novel that he wasn't so open about it. Didn't he almost rejoice that he was free after Katerina's decision to continue loving Dmitry? I think they just made Ivan more open and personable in general in this film. Just as much as they made Alyosha more sullen and childlike almost in the film. That changed though when he was around Lise. I loved that part when he says he is leaving and she opens the door and juts her hand out but looks away. He just take the tips of her fingers and shakes it. Dare I say that they are cute?

Can I just say that the guy Dmitry is trying to wake up, Gorskin(?) reacts the same way to someone waking him up as I do. I don't get that long stare with the lady with the baby on the cart. Was that supposed to mean something? Have I missed something?

The scenes with Ilyucha are a little too brief and kind of thrown in there. I do like the boy's performance of the little man though. I think he is doing it spot on so far. The second captain isn't what I thought at first, but he is growing on me.

All in all why there are discrepancies and liberties taken with the characters I do like this miniseries adaptation and I will definitely watching the rest of it. I am also glad that this is something I am watching after reading the book.

Well that's it for the business. It is completed. Except for it's not. I was turning the next page to make sure that really was the end. I wanted to know what happened. Did Dmitry really escape? Does Alyosha really leave? Does Ivan live and does Katerina finally come to her senses and love Ivan properly? I do think it is somewhat appropriate now that we revisited the foreward, because it kind of explained the ending, There was a second book planned. The answers to our questions were most likely going to be included in that book. Or maybe not. You never know with Dostoyevsky it seems. While I don't have plans to reread this novel I would have read the second one. Kind of sad we will never get to read it. Thankfully my imagination usually takes care of my curiosity by coming up with it's own ending for The Brothers.

I just want to touch upon Alyosha and Lise. First of all, I think this is something that I think might have been in the next book and I really want to find this out. Isham put out the thought that maybe Lise had come to her senses and that is why she had sent the flowers and that they must have spoken lately and made up. I don't think that sending flowers means that any of that happened. I want to believe that, because I like these two. It's just that the last time we saw her she had good moments and then turned around and lost it. How do we know this just wasn't one of her good moments?

I think there may be some significance in the fact that the little boy's body did not smell. It, of course, brought me back to the whole issue of Zosima's body and it's scandalous stench. Did Ilyucha's body not smell because he was truly innocent? Does that mean that Zosima wasn't? Or it could just likely mean that it depends on other circumstances and it may just be up to chance.