OMG - Brideshead - no!

I saw on somebody's lj that they'd been to a screening of the new 'Brideshead Revisited' film. So I googled to see when it will be released (Oct 3rd over here apparently) and found a video of a trailer. Oh it's awful. Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain looks spot on and I'm sure her performance will be great but one of the lines in the trailer is her saying "Mr Rider will stay for the rest of the vacation". Also they seem to have completely mucked about with the Charles/Julia and (far worse) the Charles/Sebastian storylines so that Charles and Julia have a relationship while Charles is still at Oxford and Sebastian shouts at Charles "You don't care about me! You only wanted my sister!" during what I think must be the drunk scene which supersedes "Charles is my guest and I was bloody to him".

The tv series when I was 15 is still one of the favourite things of my youth. And I still read the book now and then and I just can't believe that they've mangled it like this. Perhaps the film as a whole will make more sense. I know I shall still do my best to go and see it. Probably by myself on a Monday when D is at school. But oh I am disappointed.