Prejudiced against Pride

As I sit here, listening to The Fox by Ylvis and watching Robot Chicken, I am somehow thinking about the first half of the BBC's miniseries (don't ask how the two are interrelated and how they connect to P&P, it just does).  Specifically about how from the start I kind of didn't like Elizabeth. I was stuck with her point of view in the novel, and I must say it feels very liberating to be able to watch the events unfold from a more objective (or maybe it just feels liberating because I don't have to be restricted to Elizabeth?) point of view. As I've stated before, I instantly empathized with Darcy, that hasn't changed in the miniseries. I understand the want of being alone in a highly populated social situation and holding my fellow human being in little respect, resulting in a rather antisocial behavior with misanthropic tendencies (if only there were a shorter way of saying that). Any-who, the feeling I get from Elizabeth is one of supposed superiority, a kind of "I must behave in an unorthodox manner in order to be the smartest person in the room" feeling. (I cite her immediate acceptance of Wickham's story as fact "Like, OMG, Sum1 tots agrees wit me that Darcy is a total jerk-face! I can have a conversation with this guy!") Yes, Darcy did act like a dick in an antisocial and misanthropic kind of way at first, but I like to think that comes from a need to be financially practical as opposed to genuine hatred. Which is why his marriage proposal made so much sense, when he was talking about how marrying into her family would almost be a step down for him, I understood it as a means of measuring the situation with a toe-dipping practically and not a dive-in-head-first emotionally driven frenzy. I look forward to the series' continuation, and especially Elizabeth's disillusionment from Darcy's letter. How low the mighty hath fallen.  http://www.youtube.com/v/4ekLcUyDWaU?version=3&start=18&end=24&autoplay=1&hl=en_US&rel=0