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For my self as a man born in Yorkshire who remembers society back in the 1950's the original stories of both the books and the original TV series perfectly captured the realities of rural Yorkshire folk in terms of their overall behaviour, the accepted norm for gender roles, the overall demographic and the farmers humour very accurately indeed, also strong men and women were not uncommon, both the TV series and the books nailed 1930's to 1950's rural Yorkshire, James Herriot despite being a Scot was apparently very happy with Christopher Timothy's very English portrayal, such artistic changes were necessary as so many real people the characters were based on were not only still alive but actually working, as for the remake, it is great for those who know nothing of that time and place and want a show that has contemporary values set in a world long ago, with exaggerated strong female characters that parody the genuinely strong women of that time and place, the character of James himself is very accurately played but the rest of the show is very much an adaptation for a modern audience, whether it's good or not, or better than the original or not is purely a matter of opinion, for me the new series is OK but nothing special.

about as different to disney as you can get and far superior in my opinion, its tongue in cheek fun based on norwegian folklore, one reviewer said that ""part of it was ruined by a cracked camera lens, well duhhh that was a part of the plot, its not a comedy, more of a drama with humour thrown in, great fun, dont take any notice of the detractors, make up your own mind.