Lost in Austen, one weird choice

[Tatyana]

   For those of you who've never seen Lost in Austen, it's a four episode British TV series about an avid P&P fan who one day walks through a secret door in her bathroom and finds herself in the Bennetts' house. The lucky girl's name is Amanda Price and for her reading P&P is a form of escapism, being as she is totally unsatisfied with her own life. Stuck in a boring job, with her every lover falling hopelessly short of her Mr.Darcy ideal. Poor girl
  Unfortunately for her, once she swaps places with Elizabeth, the world of P&P turns out to be different from what she expected and the most frustrating aspect of it all is that her presence there instead of Lizzy makes events unfold in unexpectedly nasty ways; Jane winds up marrying the abominable Mr. Collins, Mr. Darcy keeps acting like an ass the whole time and even after revealing his love, now for Amanda, he still turns his back on her as soon as she confesses she's not 'a maiden'. He does follow her through though when she finds another secret door into her own world, where she locates Lizzy, who's now found a job as a nanny and seems to be liking it in our world just fine.
  Now the weird choice is the one that Amanda Price finally makes, she decides to stay in the P&P world eventually. Well, sure enough her bf in our world dumps her once she rushes back through the secret door in her bathroom to help sort things out in the P&P world, he kind of doesn't give her a real choice, telling her as soon as she walks through that door he's out of there, and yet it's still puzzling how can a modern woman possibly give up independence and paracetamol for those embarrassingly ridiculous gowns women had to wear in P&P. Plus once  your escapist dream becomes a reality doesn't that essentially defeat the purpose of escapism and won't it eventually turn you into a complete nihilist once you've realized that all this dream world you've broken through into is in actuality just another little cell little different from the one you escaped from?.
  Anyway Lost in Austen is good entertainment, even though the ending is patently weird.

[Eliza101]

something you're used to is not always the best thing there can be for you.
Think about people who relocate to other cities or even other countries. I suppose that relocating to a different historical period is not much different, especially if the only man you've ever truly loved lives in that period, but then again not being a woman you probably won't understand this last sentiment.
Can't say I personally could have fallen for Darcy though, my own personal favorite in the book has always been Mr. Bennett, the girls' father, old though he may be, Darcy's just too intimidating.