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Very specific Britlit question
Mar. 2nd, 2026 12:22 amEarlier tonight, my neighbor and I sat down to watch Sense and Sensibility (1995) with Alan Rickman brooding magnificently across the screen, interspersed with lush garden shots.
I took an Austen seminar in college and read all the novels during that time, but something about seeing Marianne Dashwood onscreen made me reevaluate the extent to which her trait "it always rains when I step outside alone" is inherently comedic. It reminded me of the podcast Wooden Overcoats. It's always raining when WO protagonist Rudyard Funn steps outside, while antagonist Eric Chapman happily babbles about how sunny and nice the weather's been lately.
I've read a good deal of British literature, but these two data points have left me with a question I can't answer from my experience alone. Is it a thing for comedic characters to suffer under perpetual rain? And if so, what other examples have you read or seen?
In typing this post, I've remembered the Hitchhiker's Guide character who discovers that rain follows him wherever he goes because he's a minor storm god and the clouds love him. So there's a third case.
I took an Austen seminar in college and read all the novels during that time, but something about seeing Marianne Dashwood onscreen made me reevaluate the extent to which her trait "it always rains when I step outside alone" is inherently comedic. It reminded me of the podcast Wooden Overcoats. It's always raining when WO protagonist Rudyard Funn steps outside, while antagonist Eric Chapman happily babbles about how sunny and nice the weather's been lately.
I've read a good deal of British literature, but these two data points have left me with a question I can't answer from my experience alone. Is it a thing for comedic characters to suffer under perpetual rain? And if so, what other examples have you read or seen?
In typing this post, I've remembered the Hitchhiker's Guide character who discovers that rain follows him wherever he goes because he's a minor storm god and the clouds love him. So there's a third case.
