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I think the Gilbert of the books is almost perfect. i wouldn't say he was an ideal because everyone's idea of an ideal man is different. he wasn't Annes idea of an ideal in the beginning but he is the perfect match for her. i think my favorite thing about Gilbert is he can stand up for himself even against Anne and he's just as strong willed. I think Gill is one of the best male supporting literary characters i have ever read.

i don't think that you give the character enough credit if you look just at the actors physical attributes and judge the character on that. i believe the way L.M.Montgomery wrote Gil you can imagine him as handsome but you still look at his character as a well developed and rounded character because of his intellegence and his drive. where as if you look at him just as a character that Jonathan Crombie played and therefore is good looking because Jonathan Crombie is good looking you do not do justice to the character of Gil and so what you are really saying is that Jonathan Crombie is and was a hottie and that Gilbert is just some character he is interpreting.

I think that Jon did a fantastic Job portraying Gilbert, and since i saw the movies before i read the books, (big mistake) I can't picture Gil in any other way than Jon. I absolutely adore Gil, but i didn't picture him with Anne for a little while in the movie. I actually took Anne's way of thinking about him for a while. However; when i started finding more about Gil, i saw that obviously they were made for each other. I think that in the books, it was a little more clear that the two were destined to be together.

That's just my opinion though.

Oh, and i would take Gil any day.

i will agree that Jonathan is a very good looking man. even now at 40 he's still got his boyhood look.

I think Gilbert is amazing! Certainly the idea of a perfect man in my mind.

As i keep reading the books and i am nearing the end of the set now, i wish LM.Montgomery would have spent more time on Gilbert. he becomes such a secondary character as the books progress. i mean anne becomes a back ground character too, to a point, but you hardly hear anything of Gilbert and i wish there was more.

you might be right, but i still think Gil had a bigger roll in the movies then he did in the books. how sad is that. i just find myself wishing there were moments of Anne and Gilbert in these last few books and they don't really happen. i mean there is one really good one at the end of Anne of Ingleside, but i mean on the back cover of the book it acts like it is the whole plot of the story and it totally takes up the last two chapters of the book and thats it. it makes me so sad.


I had a fansite once cause i was a totally fan girl back in the day. it wasn't a jon crombie fansite it was for a band. but it is true. i was a fangirl in a past life. heehee.