History WebVideo / TheLizzieBennetDiaries

* CharacterDevelopment: As they go through their trials and tribulations, Lizzie and Lydia in particular are growing more aware of the mistakes they've made and the potential problems in their judgement and attitudes towards others.

Lizzie Bennet is a normal young woman, pursuing a Master's degree in communications and desiring nothing more than to be her own person. This is in clear contrast to her mom, who just wants to get Lizzie and her two sisters married off to someone rich as soon as possible. She even got them all shirts saying [[SignatureLine "It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."]] Lizzie doesn't buy it, and is going to explain exactly why to the whole internet in the form of video blogs.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: There's a passing reference to Mr. and Mrs. Bennet going to Uncle Phil's Hannukah party. However, the Bennets also explicitly celebrate Christmas, so who knows.
** The novel makes it more clear that Uncle Phil married one of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet's siblings.
* {{Angrish}}: Lizzie, when confronted to Mr. Collins.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: What, you didn't see this one coming?
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling:
** Lydia.
** Some of Gigi's antics could make her one as well.

** Mary Bennet. The first time we see her she's reading through all of Lydia's antics.

* CatchPhrase:
** Each episode before the intro tune has Lizzie saying: "My name is Lizzie Bennet, and ..."
** Lizzie's "I forget nothing!" She says it whenever somebody is baffled by her extraordinary memory. She remembers every word of every conversation.
** Jane's "Hi, it's so good to see you." She greets viewers with this line, and Charlotte claims that's how she greets her friends, mortal enemies and the mail-man alike.
** Lydia's "Whaaaaaaaat!"

* CreatorCameo: Lizzie meets Hank at [=VidCon=].

* CharacterExaggeration: In the source material Lizzie is a pretty good judge of character, with the exception of Wickham and Darcy. In the vlog Lizzie is a lot more prone to being a bad judge of character because of her personal biases. This forces more CharacterDevelopment.

* ChekhovsGun: Gigi proudly describes Domino, Pemberley's latest prototype, as being able to auto-edit and auto-upload anything it captures. [[spoiler: George Wickham downloads Domino without thinking]] in the 5th demo video, [[spoiler:making himself traceable...]]

* CulturallySensitiveAdaptation: In both ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' and ''The Lizzie Bennett Diaries'', [[spoiler: Wickham]] takes advantage of Lydia's naivete in a way which could genuinely ruin her life, but fortunately [[spoiler: Darcy]] intervenes and protects her from the worst of it. The 19th century intervention, which takes the form of finding [[spoiler: Wickham]] and pressuring him into marrying Lydia, was definitely not going to work in the 21st century (and would ''absolutely'' not be seen as a positive outcome by the audience even if it could).

---> '''Lizzie:''' Okay! For the record, when the nicest thing [[AllLovingHero Jane Bennet]] has to say about you is "tall", you have personality problems.

There is also a [[RecursiveAdaptation novelization]] of the series called ''The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet'', which consists of her written diary from the same time period. It serves partly as a novelization and partly as a companion piece to the videos, often expanding in greater details upon subjects that for practical reasons are only hinted at in the videos. This novelization also got a sequel, ''The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet,'' which is narrated by Lizzie's younger sister Lydia and focuses on her life after the events of the series.

** "Friends Forever"
** "Convertible Carpool"
** "Swimming with Scissors"
** "Staff Spirit"
** "Sisterly Support"
* AerithAndBob: The central characters of the show are Lizzie, Jane, Lydia, Charlotte, William (who tends to be called [[LastNameBasis "Darcy"]]), Caroline and... ''Bing''. Especially noticeable since Darcy's first name is changed from "Fitzwilliam" to the far more common "William".
* AgeLift: The series' modern setting wouldn't fit with [[ValuesDissonance 15-year old Lydia or 16-year old Georgiana]]. Lizzie and Jane are several years older than their book counterparts as well. Inverted with Charlotte, who was 27 in the book, but is Lizzie's age, 24-years-old, in the adaptation.

Though it's scarcely the only update of ''P&P'', what was surprising about ''The [=LBDs=]'' was the exciting and devoted fan reaction towards it. The show boasts over 260,000 Website/YouTube subscribers, and its DVD release raised 500% of its goal on Kickstarter within just one week of its month-long fundraising drive. Oh, and then it won an UsefulNotes/EmmyAward for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media -- Original Interactive Program, which is pretty darn impressive.

* HeroesWantRedheads: It is certain this is where the story is going to end up, as all three sisters have varying shades of red hair.

If you haven't realized yet, ''The Lizzie Bennet Diaries'' is a modernized VlogSeries [[SettingUpdate adaptation]] of ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'', written by Bernie Su and produced in part by [[Music/HankGreen Hank]] [[WebVideo/VlogBrothers Green]]. Though it's scarcely the only update of ''P&P'', what was surprising was the exciting and devoted fan reaction: the show boasts over 260,000 Website/YouTube subscribers, and its DVD release raised 500% of its goal on Kickstarter within just one week of its month-long fundraising drive. It can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/LizzieBennet on YouTube]] or [[http://www.lizziebennet.com/ at its own website]]. Oh, and then it won an UsefulNotes/EmmyAward for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media -- Original Interactive Program, which is pretty darn impressive.