2.We all love the moment where Colin Firth comes out of the water. I'm sure many a period-piece obsessed woman has had her moments of Googling "Colin Firth + wet shirt". But my favorite scene, perhaps an even better still than the wet-shirt, is this look Firth-as-Darcy gets on his face, this sort of starry-eyed bit of magic when he's thinking of Lizzie; I couldn't find a clip of that, but this is the look I'm talking about:
But yes, I'm also quite enamored of this scene, the awkwardness around the middle makes it:


I need you to understand something. I didn't know Richard Armitage from anything other than Robin Hood, where he's kind of a jack ass. (He grew on me eventually, but in the beginning...) So when I first sat down to North and South, I was fully prepared to continue in my dislike of him. But of course, if you've seen it, you know he won me over, and he crowns it with this scene near the end of the movie. The look Armitage (as Thornton) gives Margaret Hale (Daniela Denby-Ashe) is breathtaking. He looks so completely full of wonder and love that it makes my stomach drop. It's worth watching the movie just for the build-up to that scene. (Other people praise look back at me" scene, too, and I can find no fault with that...)

(psst! If you have Netflix, you can watch this NOW on instant streaming!)