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shallowness) wrote2015-04-03 02:48 pm
shallowness) wrote2015-04-03 02:48 pm
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confessions
I posted a The Mentalist ficlet yesterday, Cleaning-up duty, a coda to ‘Little Yellow House’ focusing on...Wylie and his feelings for Vega and his work. (In researching for it, I realised that his first name is Jason, which hadn’t registered before. But The Mentalist is such a surname show.) Yes, it’s another male POV The Mentalist ficlet – I have mixed feelings about that. I moved on from surprise that I could/wanted to write about The Mentalist to expecting I'd produce more post-episode codas, mainly driven by a need for more making out between Lisbon and Jane. Well, that didn’t exactly happen, but I have been writing fic (in other fandoms) more over the past week.
Most of my time is not my own this Easter, though. I don’t expect to catch any of my shows live.
But what did I do last night? I succumbed and rewatched Poldark episode 4, which means I’ve watched some scenes three times. THREE TIMES.
I did skip over the watching for pilchards and mining, though.
Things that I picked up this time was that the conversation as Demelza was preparing to go downstairs for dinner was about the build up to the French Revolution.
I was also amused that Ross’s tactic is to chuck his new wife in at the deep end, assuming she had enough buoyancy to swim rather than sink, only he was expecting her to doggy-paddle and then he learned she can pull off a higher degree of difficulty. For example, ‘I have a complaint’ – making her come to the mine; making her hire Ginny (?); leaving her and Verity to it (this was as much about Verity as Demelza, though); writing to accept Francis’s Christmas invitation; and the singing.
Also, life will never be dull with her: ‘I was born to pull turnips’ etc. <3
Rewatching the whole episode, some things were less well constructed than I thought (all the lacing defies science), and I have now decided that the only way to understand Francis’s ramble to Ross is that it was about Ross, envying Francis/Elizabeth only to find that the marriage wasn’t as strong as all that, while Ross has Demelza and so much more in his marriage now. (I find it odd that Francis should be able to see all that and yet behave as he does. I found his words puzzling, because it would be more IC for Francis to be talking about himself.)
I presume it was intentional, but there were three threes that pleased me as a Celt and that I wanted to talk about. From the first, I loved Ross’s conversation with Margaret (the prostitute) as a Ross/Demelza shipper. Perhaps one shouldn’t refine too much on him giving up the ‘whoring’ (which seemed to be less of a habit than it has been for George and Francis) as He Respects His Wife, although it was partly that, but sex was a big driver for the nuptials. It was more the intriguing/promising answers to her three questions about Demelza:
Is she rich? Not at all.
Is she beautiful? In a way.
Do you love her? We get on.
(I forget if this was before the endearing sticking a fork in her left eye comment.)
Then we had two trios in the final scene. Ross finally explained why he’d married Demelza – source of much wonderment for her and all of society and speculation from Verity and society. To satisfy an appetite, to save himself from loneliness and because it was the right thing to do - sex, companionship and conscience. I suppose that there had to be a trio of things about what was now true to complement that. Like I said before, I thought ‘you redeemed me’ was a bit much. ‘I am your servant’ was an attractive idea, but still unconvincing, while the simple ‘I love you’ was more than enough if you ignore the, er, power of three. And, actually, of questions posed – whenever – and answered).
Finally, let's hope that doctor isn't called upon to attend the Poldarklet's birth.
Most of my time is not my own this Easter, though. I don’t expect to catch any of my shows live.
But what did I do last night? I succumbed and rewatched Poldark episode 4, which means I’ve watched some scenes three times. THREE TIMES.
I did skip over the watching for pilchards and mining, though.
Things that I picked up this time was that the conversation as Demelza was preparing to go downstairs for dinner was about the build up to the French Revolution.
I was also amused that Ross’s tactic is to chuck his new wife in at the deep end, assuming she had enough buoyancy to swim rather than sink, only he was expecting her to doggy-paddle and then he learned she can pull off a higher degree of difficulty. For example, ‘I have a complaint’ – making her come to the mine; making her hire Ginny (?); leaving her and Verity to it (this was as much about Verity as Demelza, though); writing to accept Francis’s Christmas invitation; and the singing.
Also, life will never be dull with her: ‘I was born to pull turnips’ etc. <3
Rewatching the whole episode, some things were less well constructed than I thought (all the lacing defies science), and I have now decided that the only way to understand Francis’s ramble to Ross is that it was about Ross, envying Francis/Elizabeth only to find that the marriage wasn’t as strong as all that, while Ross has Demelza and so much more in his marriage now. (I find it odd that Francis should be able to see all that and yet behave as he does. I found his words puzzling, because it would be more IC for Francis to be talking about himself.)
I presume it was intentional, but there were three threes that pleased me as a Celt and that I wanted to talk about. From the first, I loved Ross’s conversation with Margaret (the prostitute) as a Ross/Demelza shipper. Perhaps one shouldn’t refine too much on him giving up the ‘whoring’ (which seemed to be less of a habit than it has been for George and Francis) as He Respects His Wife, although it was partly that, but sex was a big driver for the nuptials. It was more the intriguing/promising answers to her three questions about Demelza:
Is she rich? Not at all.
Is she beautiful? In a way.
Do you love her? We get on.
(I forget if this was before the endearing sticking a fork in her left eye comment.)
Then we had two trios in the final scene. Ross finally explained why he’d married Demelza – source of much wonderment for her and all of society and speculation from Verity and society. To satisfy an appetite, to save himself from loneliness and because it was the right thing to do - sex, companionship and conscience. I suppose that there had to be a trio of things about what was now true to complement that. Like I said before, I thought ‘you redeemed me’ was a bit much. ‘I am your servant’ was an attractive idea, but still unconvincing, while the simple ‘I love you’ was more than enough if you ignore the, er, power of three. And, actually, of questions posed – whenever – and answered).
Finally, let's hope that doctor isn't called upon to attend the Poldarklet's birth.