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shallownessPoldark 2.4
‘A few months later’ and Demelza had a ready-to-pop bump, while a couple of other things (mainly Caroline languishing for the lack of Dwight’s attention all those months) didn’t quite track. This episode grew to hearken back to the first series a lot.
So, Ross had a lot on his mind, what with being rude to excise officers (and smugglers), mining despite George’s fist closing around him, although he obviously bested George when it came to literal fisticuffs, paying off his debt some day, starving villagers and a cross pregnant wife. Oh, and going into partnership with Francis, who shared Ross’s mining fever (and talked to his son like he was a dog at one point) but had been way deeper in George’s pocket. I don’t remember, did he actually give George those names? I tried looking up from my posts about season 1, but it wasn’t clear because I was wittering on about other stuff.
Anyway, on that, we had a good scene where Ross showed off he was the stronger character and forced Francis to accept Verity’s Andrew. Speaking of, in his first scene, I’d thought they’d got a Harrington lookalike. Glad they didn’t. Andrew’s children looked like they were actually related (to each other, if not him), although Esther went beyond understandably wary to snotty to Verity, even if her involuntary ‘my dear’s were borderline irritating. Er, I presume he’s off at sea a lot, but they must have been married years now – will Verity’s assumption there’ll be babies come true?
Anyway, back to pregnant and raging Demelza. What Elizabeth didn’t get was that only a few months ago, they sold off almost everything and Ross was diverting the profits to his new venture, so Demelza’s fishing was necessary to keep them fed by her lights. Okay, later on, with her so heavily pregnant AND going off to do it in a huff was always going to be a bad combination. But her growing temper was understandable (loved Prudie and Ginny scrambling away from the big confrontation after witnessing all the previous exchanges). Like Demelza said, it wasn’t entirely fair that Ross (who may see himself as the responsible one/the protector, but also loves the adrenaline) put himself in danger because he thinks it’s an acceptable risk and she’s not allowed to. Except she was in the later stages of pregnancy.
It was pretty clear how bad the night of waiting was for her, and you got the feeling in the argument by the boat (my favourite scene) that both of them had been pushed to the edge, having lost Julia and faced losing each other – Demelza to sickness, Ross to the ‘justice’ system – hence the short tempers and the sense that they were giving as good as they were getting.
I am mildly panicking that we don’t know what their son’s name is, just because I don’t want to see them lose another child.
Elizabeth shouldn’t have listened to Auntie Portents. Saying Verity always knew what to do was rubbish, but going to visit George only brought certain things out into the open. It probably did Elizabeth good to finally see that he was pressuring her, which I don’t think she had to that extent before, but she was basically being asked to prostitute herself for her family (probably Mama didn’t tell her ladies might have to do that). Good for her for turning him down.
And Caroline is continuing to toy with Dr Dwight and fire. She doesn’t quite work as the character who says one thing but means another (and then at other times, she is totally blunt, which is when I liked her). Ross’s amusement was contagious. When she’s being expected to marry Unwin, she has all my sympathies, but the way she was talking about other human beings was offensive, and it didn’t feel like she was being outrageous for being outrageous’s sake. Apple trees might have been a better long term investment than Oranges, but she’s not Oxfam. I got the feeling that she was motivated by using her money to try to control Dwight, who wasn’t having it, because that’s how she’s supposed to deal with men, rather than being haunted by the starving folk. At some point, both of them are going to have to face what’s really going on and what they really want – they’re lucky that Unwin is a blockhead, George is distracted and her uncle probably couldn’t fathom her having a tendre for a doctor/wanting to escape the life that’s proscribed for her? And of course, she hasn’t admitted to herself what’s going on – witness every time Dwight is telling her she’s flirting with him and she denies him.
If she’s so loaded, why has she got only the one (admittedly excellent) riding coat?
‘A few months later’ and Demelza had a ready-to-pop bump, while a couple of other things (mainly Caroline languishing for the lack of Dwight’s attention all those months) didn’t quite track. This episode grew to hearken back to the first series a lot.
So, Ross had a lot on his mind, what with being rude to excise officers (and smugglers), mining despite George’s fist closing around him, although he obviously bested George when it came to literal fisticuffs, paying off his debt some day, starving villagers and a cross pregnant wife. Oh, and going into partnership with Francis, who shared Ross’s mining fever (and talked to his son like he was a dog at one point) but had been way deeper in George’s pocket. I don’t remember, did he actually give George those names? I tried looking up from my posts about season 1, but it wasn’t clear because I was wittering on about other stuff.
Anyway, on that, we had a good scene where Ross showed off he was the stronger character and forced Francis to accept Verity’s Andrew. Speaking of, in his first scene, I’d thought they’d got a Harrington lookalike. Glad they didn’t. Andrew’s children looked like they were actually related (to each other, if not him), although Esther went beyond understandably wary to snotty to Verity, even if her involuntary ‘my dear’s were borderline irritating. Er, I presume he’s off at sea a lot, but they must have been married years now – will Verity’s assumption there’ll be babies come true?
Anyway, back to pregnant and raging Demelza. What Elizabeth didn’t get was that only a few months ago, they sold off almost everything and Ross was diverting the profits to his new venture, so Demelza’s fishing was necessary to keep them fed by her lights. Okay, later on, with her so heavily pregnant AND going off to do it in a huff was always going to be a bad combination. But her growing temper was understandable (loved Prudie and Ginny scrambling away from the big confrontation after witnessing all the previous exchanges). Like Demelza said, it wasn’t entirely fair that Ross (who may see himself as the responsible one/the protector, but also loves the adrenaline) put himself in danger because he thinks it’s an acceptable risk and she’s not allowed to. Except she was in the later stages of pregnancy.
It was pretty clear how bad the night of waiting was for her, and you got the feeling in the argument by the boat (my favourite scene) that both of them had been pushed to the edge, having lost Julia and faced losing each other – Demelza to sickness, Ross to the ‘justice’ system – hence the short tempers and the sense that they were giving as good as they were getting.
I am mildly panicking that we don’t know what their son’s name is, just because I don’t want to see them lose another child.
Elizabeth shouldn’t have listened to Auntie Portents. Saying Verity always knew what to do was rubbish, but going to visit George only brought certain things out into the open. It probably did Elizabeth good to finally see that he was pressuring her, which I don’t think she had to that extent before, but she was basically being asked to prostitute herself for her family (probably Mama didn’t tell her ladies might have to do that). Good for her for turning him down.
And Caroline is continuing to toy with Dr Dwight and fire. She doesn’t quite work as the character who says one thing but means another (and then at other times, she is totally blunt, which is when I liked her). Ross’s amusement was contagious. When she’s being expected to marry Unwin, she has all my sympathies, but the way she was talking about other human beings was offensive, and it didn’t feel like she was being outrageous for being outrageous’s sake. Apple trees might have been a better long term investment than Oranges, but she’s not Oxfam. I got the feeling that she was motivated by using her money to try to control Dwight, who wasn’t having it, because that’s how she’s supposed to deal with men, rather than being haunted by the starving folk. At some point, both of them are going to have to face what’s really going on and what they really want – they’re lucky that Unwin is a blockhead, George is distracted and her uncle probably couldn’t fathom her having a tendre for a doctor/wanting to escape the life that’s proscribed for her? And of course, she hasn’t admitted to herself what’s going on – witness every time Dwight is telling her she’s flirting with him and she denies him.
If she’s so loaded, why has she got only the one (admittedly excellent) riding coat?
