And the bridging theme is: protection
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shallownessPoldark – episode 3 (watched on TV)
I wasn’t expecting that ending! I mean, I wasn’t surprised at their getting married, maybe, but it felt very sudden in the grand scheme of things especially in how it followed on from the previous scene . The more I think about it, Ross ‘taking on his responsibility’ (especially after bossing/enabling Jim) is how he’d put it to himself, plus I don’t think he could bear for Demelza to leave and respected her realisation that she couldn’t stay in the house as was. (Thanks, Elizabeth for making it so awkward and being so mean/significant about the wildflowers!) So, what was he to do? Silly boy, I don’t think he’s quite realised how much it means that Demelza has grown to be his main confidante and they’re basically having dining table conversations sorting out the world, so they might as well be married. He’s thinking more about the fornication. As were the trailers for this episode, so the smiley dancing and then all those conversations were a delight, except for the one where there was an abrupt cut and then it carried on, making me wonder if it was a pick-up because they’d forgotten to film a page of script, or summat.
So basically Demelza was being fab most of the episode, having now upgraded to mostly happy, and so being even more winsome. And she can cook!
At the end of the series, I hope for a video of all her bobs (you can't call them curtsied), because they are a thing of beauty.
But the trailer suggests the next episode will be bumpy for the newly-weds. Because whatever is between them, there’s class, education and their previous dynamic for them to deal with, and that in a context of snobbery and envy, not to mention Ross’s feelings (which are probably more complicated than hers, or she’s more in tune with hers, and doesn't have an ex.) I'm rooting for them, obviously.
Otherwise, I do hope Elizabeth seriously does pursue discovering more about mining, because Useless!Francis is going to fail at that, like so many other things. (The feisty prostitute has got a hatrick!)
Poor Verity, hearing a baby’s cry and forced into a horrid variety of old maidness. After her aunt dies (and it looks like her father might do so first) she should just go to Falmouth, frankly.
It’s still all broad-brush, although you can tell they’re trying to make it all relevant to today with the nasty bankers, substitute ‘starvation wage’ for ‘minimum wage’, substitute ‘sanctions’ for ‘punishment’ etc etc. And Our Hero will not have it! But I did spend the end of the court scene, not being swept up by Ross’s passionate appeal to mercy but thinking ‘you’re going to get done for contempt of court/regret this if you’re in trouble with the law again’.
Revenge 4.8 Contact (caught up on)
So, add stepping all over Emily/Amanda’s big moment of truth and reconciliation with her father to Emily’s list of things against Victoria. Of course she wasn’t going to save her, David. But even after been struck be lightning, Vicky can play dirty.
Interesting flashback from David about the crescent (?) mark.
It took Emily rescuing him in her patented hoodie for him to really start having a clue about who his wee!Amanda has become. Does he really buy Victoria’s partial truth? Hasn’t he just told a partial truth to Emily about what happened to him? It took me until she picked up the poker to realise Our Ems hadn’t let what happened to David to go. Of course she didn’t.
Although she’s powerful (enough to have a towncar) and angry, I don’t know that Margiaux on her own can beat Louise. So the way they wrote Nolan into all that worked well, whereas the set up for Louise’s brother was heavier of tread. By the by, sorry, Nolan, Jack is the closest thing you have to a normal friend.
Speaking of, like, yeah, as if he should be working that case. I don’t know what to make of the fact that he thought Emily had killed that guy when she pulled such a line over it with Charlotte. Meanwhile, Carl’s babysitter must be raking it in. (And when David gets the time, his conversations with Jack and Nolan should be fun.)
So, Daniel isn’t good enough for Margiaux, can’t handle Louise, but by not being a pawn is capable of having interesting, disillusioned ‘Parents, eh?’ conversations with Ems. It’s in keeping with this season for him not to buy what Victoria was selling.
A better than usual episode...
I wasn’t expecting that ending! I mean, I wasn’t surprised at their getting married, maybe, but it felt very sudden in the grand scheme of things especially in how it followed on from the previous scene . The more I think about it, Ross ‘taking on his responsibility’ (especially after bossing/enabling Jim) is how he’d put it to himself, plus I don’t think he could bear for Demelza to leave and respected her realisation that she couldn’t stay in the house as was. (Thanks, Elizabeth for making it so awkward and being so mean/significant about the wildflowers!) So, what was he to do? Silly boy, I don’t think he’s quite realised how much it means that Demelza has grown to be his main confidante and they’re basically having dining table conversations sorting out the world, so they might as well be married. He’s thinking more about the fornication. As were the trailers for this episode, so the smiley dancing and then all those conversations were a delight, except for the one where there was an abrupt cut and then it carried on, making me wonder if it was a pick-up because they’d forgotten to film a page of script, or summat.
So basically Demelza was being fab most of the episode, having now upgraded to mostly happy, and so being even more winsome. And she can cook!
At the end of the series, I hope for a video of all her bobs (you can't call them curtsied), because they are a thing of beauty.
But the trailer suggests the next episode will be bumpy for the newly-weds. Because whatever is between them, there’s class, education and their previous dynamic for them to deal with, and that in a context of snobbery and envy, not to mention Ross’s feelings (which are probably more complicated than hers, or she’s more in tune with hers, and doesn't have an ex.) I'm rooting for them, obviously.
Otherwise, I do hope Elizabeth seriously does pursue discovering more about mining, because Useless!Francis is going to fail at that, like so many other things. (The feisty prostitute has got a hatrick!)
Poor Verity, hearing a baby’s cry and forced into a horrid variety of old maidness. After her aunt dies (and it looks like her father might do so first) she should just go to Falmouth, frankly.
It’s still all broad-brush, although you can tell they’re trying to make it all relevant to today with the nasty bankers, substitute ‘starvation wage’ for ‘minimum wage’, substitute ‘sanctions’ for ‘punishment’ etc etc. And Our Hero will not have it! But I did spend the end of the court scene, not being swept up by Ross’s passionate appeal to mercy but thinking ‘you’re going to get done for contempt of court/regret this if you’re in trouble with the law again’.
Revenge 4.8 Contact (caught up on)
So, add stepping all over Emily/Amanda’s big moment of truth and reconciliation with her father to Emily’s list of things against Victoria. Of course she wasn’t going to save her, David. But even after been struck be lightning, Vicky can play dirty.
Interesting flashback from David about the crescent (?) mark.
It took Emily rescuing him in her patented hoodie for him to really start having a clue about who his wee!Amanda has become. Does he really buy Victoria’s partial truth? Hasn’t he just told a partial truth to Emily about what happened to him? It took me until she picked up the poker to realise Our Ems hadn’t let what happened to David to go. Of course she didn’t.
Although she’s powerful (enough to have a towncar) and angry, I don’t know that Margiaux on her own can beat Louise. So the way they wrote Nolan into all that worked well, whereas the set up for Louise’s brother was heavier of tread. By the by, sorry, Nolan, Jack is the closest thing you have to a normal friend.
Speaking of, like, yeah, as if he should be working that case. I don’t know what to make of the fact that he thought Emily had killed that guy when she pulled such a line over it with Charlotte. Meanwhile, Carl’s babysitter must be raking it in. (And when David gets the time, his conversations with Jack and Nolan should be fun.)
So, Daniel isn’t good enough for Margiaux, can’t handle Louise, but by not being a pawn is capable of having interesting, disillusioned ‘Parents, eh?’ conversations with Ems. It’s in keeping with this season for him not to buy what Victoria was selling.
A better than usual episode...
