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shallownessPoldark 1.5
What do you mean, ‘To Be Continued’?
I want to see Great-Aunt Portents of the Week bring George down, as nobody else seems capable of it (I mean, Ross can floor him in a scrap, but that’s boys piffling.) Honestly, even if she couldn’t hear him – but she could – he must have realised she could lip-read.
Having said that, I didn’t read anything into the flashback of wee!Francis and Ross, except that I hadn’t realised that Ross was the elder, or maybe he wasn’t and he was just a taller child and it was another factor in Francis’s inferiority complex. And I had rather thought that as Francis has survived other near-death experiences, he was safe so I didn’t have a twinge as he let on how very far Demelza has come in his estimation – which happened just as Ross was finding out that, due to Francis “standing up to George”, George now owned his pay-day loan and would probably try to crush him. Or Francis having sex (after asking his wife’s consent instead of forcing himself on her just after she’d given birth to his son), although it was obvious that that wasn’t the norm, as he kissed his son goodbye.
I fail at genre savviness.
As Ross said, why didn’t the idiot learn to swim? The idiot going back into the mine alone because he was a Poldark obsessed with mining, on the hunt for copper and being able to prove himself to Ross, yes, well, that was understandable. Actually, Francis not thinking ‘hmm, I can’t swim around all this water, maybe I should rectify that’ totally makes sense. But even after the fake-out of the vision of Ross saving him (and all this is a callback to the time he nearly drowned in season 1 too, or rehash under different circumstances), I still thought Enis would save him. I didn’t expect the coffin.
But the weak man had made as many amends as he could, and left on all right terms with most of his people. (Verity couldn’t do much to save him, despite the Portent.)
I’m so with Demelza on the Ross going back to court, like, ever again, and the smuggling being bad ideas.
We got a name for their second child – but no scene of one of them with him. Don’t know if I should read them trying to protect themselves into that or that he won’t die in childhood, so there’s no need to build up the poignancy.
Mainly he was a plot device to let us know a year had passed (with Caroline, George and Unwin in London) and the dinner party was Ross and Demelza’s first night out since the baby was born.
I got fairly exasperated with Elizabeth at said party. Ross had the rights of it about how they barely knew each other as youngsters. And yes, Ross always outshines Francis (except in a courtroom?) but Elizabeth’s version of events? The Elizabeth who fell for George’s cajoling and still would? Well, you can kid yourself that you’d have been happier with Ross, but you’d be just as broke in a smaller house and you wouldn’t make him laugh so much, as far as I can tell.
I’m never going to be on Elizabeth’s side, because the path she’s tempting Ross down will break Demelza’s heart and You Don’t Do That as far as I’m concerned.
I thought Demelza knew her own worth, but she seemed to have lost sight of that and needed men to tell her what it was this episode.
In an episode where Demelza and Elizabeth shared wry expressions over their lack of new gowns, I thought the costume department let the side down by letting Heiress!Caroline wear the same red riding coat – again, however epic it was – a year later. Let’s pretend it’s her Cornwall coat – but she was dressed in a different outfit for her assignment with Dwight, and they were making heavyhanded points about her wealth and the gulf in status between them, so I did think it was a slip.
Anyway, I thought that after she managed to avoid the engagement that she didn’t want, that no sensible woman (except Charlotte Lucas?) would want, and everyone managed to torture Dwight by not gossiping about it, we finally started seeing the unvarnished Caroline – a really good job by the actress, and Caroline was suddenly likeable as a woman who’d never been expected to act like a reasonable human being before, and so had had to make do with caprice to get what she wanted in her gilded cage. Poor Dwight, spending a whole year pining (although I haven’t forgotten the whole ex-actress adultery oops a daisy). The detail of him not being touching her with anything but lips during the kiss was sweet.
What do you mean, ‘To Be Continued’?
I want to see Great-Aunt Portents of the Week bring George down, as nobody else seems capable of it (I mean, Ross can floor him in a scrap, but that’s boys piffling.) Honestly, even if she couldn’t hear him – but she could – he must have realised she could lip-read.
Having said that, I didn’t read anything into the flashback of wee!Francis and Ross, except that I hadn’t realised that Ross was the elder, or maybe he wasn’t and he was just a taller child and it was another factor in Francis’s inferiority complex. And I had rather thought that as Francis has survived other near-death experiences, he was safe so I didn’t have a twinge as he let on how very far Demelza has come in his estimation – which happened just as Ross was finding out that, due to Francis “standing up to George”, George now owned his pay-day loan and would probably try to crush him. Or Francis having sex (after asking his wife’s consent instead of forcing himself on her just after she’d given birth to his son), although it was obvious that that wasn’t the norm, as he kissed his son goodbye.
I fail at genre savviness.
As Ross said, why didn’t the idiot learn to swim? The idiot going back into the mine alone because he was a Poldark obsessed with mining, on the hunt for copper and being able to prove himself to Ross, yes, well, that was understandable. Actually, Francis not thinking ‘hmm, I can’t swim around all this water, maybe I should rectify that’ totally makes sense. But even after the fake-out of the vision of Ross saving him (and all this is a callback to the time he nearly drowned in season 1 too, or rehash under different circumstances), I still thought Enis would save him. I didn’t expect the coffin.
But the weak man had made as many amends as he could, and left on all right terms with most of his people. (Verity couldn’t do much to save him, despite the Portent.)
I’m so with Demelza on the Ross going back to court, like, ever again, and the smuggling being bad ideas.
We got a name for their second child – but no scene of one of them with him. Don’t know if I should read them trying to protect themselves into that or that he won’t die in childhood, so there’s no need to build up the poignancy.
Mainly he was a plot device to let us know a year had passed (with Caroline, George and Unwin in London) and the dinner party was Ross and Demelza’s first night out since the baby was born.
I got fairly exasperated with Elizabeth at said party. Ross had the rights of it about how they barely knew each other as youngsters. And yes, Ross always outshines Francis (except in a courtroom?) but Elizabeth’s version of events? The Elizabeth who fell for George’s cajoling and still would? Well, you can kid yourself that you’d have been happier with Ross, but you’d be just as broke in a smaller house and you wouldn’t make him laugh so much, as far as I can tell.
I’m never going to be on Elizabeth’s side, because the path she’s tempting Ross down will break Demelza’s heart and You Don’t Do That as far as I’m concerned.
I thought Demelza knew her own worth, but she seemed to have lost sight of that and needed men to tell her what it was this episode.
In an episode where Demelza and Elizabeth shared wry expressions over their lack of new gowns, I thought the costume department let the side down by letting Heiress!Caroline wear the same red riding coat – again, however epic it was – a year later. Let’s pretend it’s her Cornwall coat – but she was dressed in a different outfit for her assignment with Dwight, and they were making heavyhanded points about her wealth and the gulf in status between them, so I did think it was a slip.
Anyway, I thought that after she managed to avoid the engagement that she didn’t want, that no sensible woman (except Charlotte Lucas?) would want, and everyone managed to torture Dwight by not gossiping about it, we finally started seeing the unvarnished Caroline – a really good job by the actress, and Caroline was suddenly likeable as a woman who’d never been expected to act like a reasonable human being before, and so had had to make do with caprice to get what she wanted in her gilded cage. Poor Dwight, spending a whole year pining (although I haven’t forgotten the whole ex-actress adultery oops a daisy). The detail of him not being touching her with anything but lips during the kiss was sweet.
