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shallownessI tried watching Top of the Lake: China Girl, but dropped out less than half an hour in, and I won’t be trying to go back. I was dubious about the change of location, because even as you were watching horrible things be implied and then happen, you had this astounding scenery. This continuation has…Sydney.
And lots of sexism and vileness for Robin to face. It seems that she and Johnno fell apart and everything that happened in TotL left its mark. Which is not entirely surprising.
After a brothel of probably trafficked girls, and rude police officers, there was the group of men rating prostitutes who were advertising online in a café, and I decided/realised I didn’t have to carry on watching. So, I’m out, before even seeing Nicole Kidman.
I am sticking with catching up on Fearless and I'll post about the whole caboodle when I'm done.
I caught up on Poldark 3.7
Got to start by talking about George, because I spend most of this episode laughing at him – once, at least, at a funny thing he said on purpose, but mainly at him and how things went awry and Ross was always on top by trying much less than George. Right up until the glorious ‘There. Will. Be. No. Party.’ And just as he’d gained a new title, of Partypooper, things got megadramatic. Even if the ill-advised (listen to Elizabeth on social things, it’s about the one thing she gets) visit to Bassett’s had gone well, the letters would still have been sent, and he’d be unkind and mean. And so George brought on Agatha’s death and unleashed The Truth Bomb about Valentine. In that moment, one almost felt sorry for him.
Elizabeth’s tears over Agatha left me a bit cold, because she hasn’t been all that kind to her in general, and although she was supportive of the party and wold probably have remained like that even if she’d found out about the date error, she’s been very sporadic about her.
Hey, even during Ross’s sincere grief, I didn’t forget that Agatha had chosen to stay at Trenwith even after George came to make things horrible, and wasn’t that great a lady. But she did deserve a funeral. And has anyone told Geoffrey Charles?
Obviously she didn’t see all this coming with her cards.
Ahem.
Starting off with content!Demelza (and Ross), you knew it wasn’t going to last the second they had that exchange. (Even if the trailer and magazine covers hadn’t given it away.) But Demelza’s discontent seemed to come from nowhere much except needing to have conflict. Okay, she likes the attention – and Ross really was blinkered not to see how upset she was after talking to Morwenna – but he was only mildly grumpy, which is…Ross. Not sure if the attempt to talk about Valentine and his Rickets was an attempt to stir or to try to get Ross to talk about that elephant. It did lead to a classic Ross stares out to see on the cliffside moment. (Has that been supplanted by shirtless-just been swimming pining from Drake, though?)
Demelza skated close to the wind in how she took Armitage’s attentions. His eyesight seems fine to me, all noticing her and stuff. The most powerful, rather brilliant, moment was his reference to Da Vinci, and Demelza, the ignorant miner’s daughter came out. Tomlinson played the vulnerability perfectly, and suddenly it wasn’t just vanity, which made everything more dangerous.
I’d expected Ross’s refusal to answer Bassett immediately (although it was obvious he wasn’t going to like being told how to vote – did they have whipping then?) to include taking time to discuss it with Demelza. But no. So, I did think that her complaint about him handing her another fait accompli to discuss, and thus, the job to George (Ross’s rationale, George’s argument and Bassett’s weaknesses played out well) was fairer than ‘pay me more attention.’ And so, with Ross very shaken by the news of Agatha’s death, she picked a fight.
As for the trailer and its threats to Ross/Demelza in the next episode, MEEP. Currently, I think they’re both at fault.
Turning to the most dismaying strand, Morwenna did her best to use the daughters and godliness to protect herself from all the ew! Sex with her ew! Husband. Given that she was clearly pregnant, I was worried about her health and the health of the baby, not to mention the domestic violence, and then ew! Whitworth insisted on inviting Morwenna’s younger sister as a companion, with the suggestion that she could help with the wifely duties. EWW! Rowella (sic) turned up and looked very young (and pretty), but it turned out she was feisty, which relieved me no end.
Sam – worst Methodist ever that he is – may have thought that Drake’s working of a mother and child was the Madonna and Baby (is that the Catholic branch of the Methodists you is in then?) but we all know that Ross’s kindly idea of a new occupation for the brother in law who saved his life didn’t really change the direction of Drake’s thoughts. I was also a bit !?!? about Drake’s reaction to the news that Morwenna was pregnant. Why would that make her any more gone than marriage? So, all the village lasses perving over Drake are probably going to get nothing beyond the view.
Anyway, self-righteous Sam is taken by feisty, irreligious Emma. Who knows if they’ll settle down?
I am bemused at everyone being taken in by Dwight and Caroline’s recent courtship, as he seemed pretty settled at the Pevennen’s place for the past few months (add Morwenna’s pregnancy to what we saw in the last episode.)
And lots of sexism and vileness for Robin to face. It seems that she and Johnno fell apart and everything that happened in TotL left its mark. Which is not entirely surprising.
After a brothel of probably trafficked girls, and rude police officers, there was the group of men rating prostitutes who were advertising online in a café, and I decided/realised I didn’t have to carry on watching. So, I’m out, before even seeing Nicole Kidman.
I am sticking with catching up on Fearless and I'll post about the whole caboodle when I'm done.
I caught up on Poldark 3.7
Got to start by talking about George, because I spend most of this episode laughing at him – once, at least, at a funny thing he said on purpose, but mainly at him and how things went awry and Ross was always on top by trying much less than George. Right up until the glorious ‘There. Will. Be. No. Party.’ And just as he’d gained a new title, of Partypooper, things got megadramatic. Even if the ill-advised (listen to Elizabeth on social things, it’s about the one thing she gets) visit to Bassett’s had gone well, the letters would still have been sent, and he’d be unkind and mean. And so George brought on Agatha’s death and unleashed The Truth Bomb about Valentine. In that moment, one almost felt sorry for him.
Elizabeth’s tears over Agatha left me a bit cold, because she hasn’t been all that kind to her in general, and although she was supportive of the party and wold probably have remained like that even if she’d found out about the date error, she’s been very sporadic about her.
Hey, even during Ross’s sincere grief, I didn’t forget that Agatha had chosen to stay at Trenwith even after George came to make things horrible, and wasn’t that great a lady. But she did deserve a funeral. And has anyone told Geoffrey Charles?
Obviously she didn’t see all this coming with her cards.
Ahem.
Starting off with content!Demelza (and Ross), you knew it wasn’t going to last the second they had that exchange. (Even if the trailer and magazine covers hadn’t given it away.) But Demelza’s discontent seemed to come from nowhere much except needing to have conflict. Okay, she likes the attention – and Ross really was blinkered not to see how upset she was after talking to Morwenna – but he was only mildly grumpy, which is…Ross. Not sure if the attempt to talk about Valentine and his Rickets was an attempt to stir or to try to get Ross to talk about that elephant. It did lead to a classic Ross stares out to see on the cliffside moment. (Has that been supplanted by shirtless-just been swimming pining from Drake, though?)
Demelza skated close to the wind in how she took Armitage’s attentions. His eyesight seems fine to me, all noticing her and stuff. The most powerful, rather brilliant, moment was his reference to Da Vinci, and Demelza, the ignorant miner’s daughter came out. Tomlinson played the vulnerability perfectly, and suddenly it wasn’t just vanity, which made everything more dangerous.
I’d expected Ross’s refusal to answer Bassett immediately (although it was obvious he wasn’t going to like being told how to vote – did they have whipping then?) to include taking time to discuss it with Demelza. But no. So, I did think that her complaint about him handing her another fait accompli to discuss, and thus, the job to George (Ross’s rationale, George’s argument and Bassett’s weaknesses played out well) was fairer than ‘pay me more attention.’ And so, with Ross very shaken by the news of Agatha’s death, she picked a fight.
As for the trailer and its threats to Ross/Demelza in the next episode, MEEP. Currently, I think they’re both at fault.
Turning to the most dismaying strand, Morwenna did her best to use the daughters and godliness to protect herself from all the ew! Sex with her ew! Husband. Given that she was clearly pregnant, I was worried about her health and the health of the baby, not to mention the domestic violence, and then ew! Whitworth insisted on inviting Morwenna’s younger sister as a companion, with the suggestion that she could help with the wifely duties. EWW! Rowella (sic) turned up and looked very young (and pretty), but it turned out she was feisty, which relieved me no end.
Sam – worst Methodist ever that he is – may have thought that Drake’s working of a mother and child was the Madonna and Baby (is that the Catholic branch of the Methodists you is in then?) but we all know that Ross’s kindly idea of a new occupation for the brother in law who saved his life didn’t really change the direction of Drake’s thoughts. I was also a bit !?!? about Drake’s reaction to the news that Morwenna was pregnant. Why would that make her any more gone than marriage? So, all the village lasses perving over Drake are probably going to get nothing beyond the view.
Anyway, self-righteous Sam is taken by feisty, irreligious Emma. Who knows if they’ll settle down?
I am bemused at everyone being taken in by Dwight and Caroline’s recent courtship, as he seemed pretty settled at the Pevennen’s place for the past few months (add Morwenna’s pregnancy to what we saw in the last episode.)
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Date: 2017-08-01 02:20 am (UTC)There's a flashback in episode two about what happened between Robin and Johnno, and why they broke up. Can't really blame her for the cause of the split. :-)
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Date: 2017-08-02 06:26 am (UTC)Without knowing what happened between Robin and Johnno - I might look it up, but probably not watch it - although there was a sliver of hope for them at the end of the first series, there was so much baggage there.
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Date: 2017-08-02 01:38 pm (UTC)As for Robin and Johnno -- it's implied that he slept with another woman the night before their wedding; he gets arrested on their wedding day and Robin dumps him at the altar (or at the jail, in this case).
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Date: 2017-08-03 07:05 am (UTC)As for Robin and Johnno -- it's implied that he slept with another woman the night before their wedding; he gets arrested on their wedding day and Robin dumps him at the altar (or at the jail, in this case).
Well, who can blame her? Yikes.