Poldark related.
Jul. 24th, 2018 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessOn Saturday, I posted The Girls with Bright Futures. Universal. Poldark. Julia Poldark, Caroline Enys, Dwight Enys, Sarah Enys. 415 words. (Modern Day/Canon Divergence AU. Spoilers for 4.4.) Summary: Julia Poldark is looking forward to babysitting Sarah Enys for the first time.
I was affected by the echoes between Sarah and Julia in 4.4, which I watched around the time the UK was celebrating the NHS’s 70th birthday. This is more about modern medicine than the NHS, per se, but anyway, the knowledge that these dead girls might have survived today and thinking about that led to this fic. It was entitled ‘For All The Living Children’ until the last minute, ‘The Girls with Bright Futures’ is, after all, how Julia thinks of them.
Poldark 4.5
It began with Ross and Demelza corresponding about in-work poverty. (Romantic!)
He got to see the contrast between Caroline’s high life to forget about Sarah and the poorhouse. I think Ross only managed to be self-righteous around Caroline (and it was mainly because he was provoked by Adderley) the once. Demelza doesn’t take too kindly to his bossiness, so can you imagine Caroline putting up with it? That would be my answer to the ‘partner swapping?’ conundrum Demelza and Dwight raised when they weren’t battling starvation and scurvy. I admit I was as uneasy as I was meant to be at the end of the previous episode with the two couples riven by geography, and it did feel that Dwight and Demelza were flirting with ‘what ifs’ and a bit too much honesty, as their other halves were in That London, while they were on the front line.
But Ross talking to Caroline about Julia was gorgeous, and did get through her terrible coping mechanisms a little.
On the other hand, he was very blasé about his underage nephew getting drunk whilst gambling. Elizabeth had a legit concern that Geoffrey Charles might follow his father. And there was not a whiff of it occurring to Ross that GC had as much of a problem with privilege as the Members Ross railed against. So, hypocrisy duly noted, Ross.
If Dwight got to vote at their impromptu landowner gettogether, why doesn’t he have a vote for Parliament? Anyway, Falmouth just had to sweep in for the dramatic last-minute vote. Ross’s idea of compromise is funny.
Arthur seemed to have got over last week’s suspicions and decided to be stupid and buy his wife’s lies, as she happily prostituted herself for Chekhov’s candlestick. She would have made Ossie such a good wife. But as she was an expensive mistress, Ossie decided to use Mama and Morwenna’s one weapon against her (surely Morwenna could have come up with another, even within her limited options. Elizabeth blatantly pressed George into overlooking Ross’s secret visit to the grounds and then used all her credit to stop George persecuting Drake again to reignite the feud.) Thus he got to rape her some more. There was also overlap with the sisters, which allowed the inevitable Arthur finding out and responding violently to being cuckolded. I did admire Rowella, despite her terror as she realised what Arthur had done and that he might turn against her, calming him down.
Got to admit Ossie’s death was appropriately OTT also.
MEANWHILE, Drake had to decide if he really was courting Rosina, and with a little bit of encouragement from Demelza (I wanted to argue that the case of Drake and Ross were more dissimilar than they were. Thing is, although Rosina has a spine, she’s not A Heroine) decided to propose. The fact that he was honest about having loved someone else made me think the marriage would have a chance, although I’ve been quite anti him moving on.
Sam continues to be the worst Methodist ever as he got all judgy with Demelza for telling Drake the truth. It was the right thing to do, dude, Drake needed to have all the information and make the choice for himself, especially as Demelaz’s been such a pushy matchmaker.
After a brief reappearance when she told off George and Elizabeth for forcing her to marry Ossie, Morwenna’s spine shrivelled up and died. Probably the raping and the continued Whitworth bullying and the mental distress caused did not help. John Conan deserves better than the upbringing that led to Ossie. I don’t know if it was fighting for him, trying to protect Drake or a genuine belief she’s tainted by her marriage (and her relief her husband is dead?) that made her claim it was over. The costumes helped, but the actress transformed into a different Morwenna.
Drake’s forge got burned AGAIN and he got broken AGAIN, mainly by heartache, but it was rage-inducing to see this good man treated as a vagabond because Mrs Whitworth and the Warleggans had money and power.
I don’t mind melodrama per se (HELLO, I lap up this show) but partnered with wetness and it’s no fun. So, I rolled my eyes at the sad shell bracelet sinking down into the seabed. If Drake or anyone finds it while swimming shirtless, I will roll my eyes some more.
Ross’s return when Demelza was at a low ebb, and the fact that they were all right the episode, because he trusted in her excellence, and she mostly lived up to it, was nice.
I’m two episodes behind. I might have waited to post this reaction post until I'd caught up if I hadn’t posted a Poldark ficlet.
I was affected by the echoes between Sarah and Julia in 4.4, which I watched around the time the UK was celebrating the NHS’s 70th birthday. This is more about modern medicine than the NHS, per se, but anyway, the knowledge that these dead girls might have survived today and thinking about that led to this fic. It was entitled ‘For All The Living Children’ until the last minute, ‘The Girls with Bright Futures’ is, after all, how Julia thinks of them.
Poldark 4.5
It began with Ross and Demelza corresponding about in-work poverty. (Romantic!)
He got to see the contrast between Caroline’s high life to forget about Sarah and the poorhouse. I think Ross only managed to be self-righteous around Caroline (and it was mainly because he was provoked by Adderley) the once. Demelza doesn’t take too kindly to his bossiness, so can you imagine Caroline putting up with it? That would be my answer to the ‘partner swapping?’ conundrum Demelza and Dwight raised when they weren’t battling starvation and scurvy. I admit I was as uneasy as I was meant to be at the end of the previous episode with the two couples riven by geography, and it did feel that Dwight and Demelza were flirting with ‘what ifs’ and a bit too much honesty, as their other halves were in That London, while they were on the front line.
But Ross talking to Caroline about Julia was gorgeous, and did get through her terrible coping mechanisms a little.
On the other hand, he was very blasé about his underage nephew getting drunk whilst gambling. Elizabeth had a legit concern that Geoffrey Charles might follow his father. And there was not a whiff of it occurring to Ross that GC had as much of a problem with privilege as the Members Ross railed against. So, hypocrisy duly noted, Ross.
If Dwight got to vote at their impromptu landowner gettogether, why doesn’t he have a vote for Parliament? Anyway, Falmouth just had to sweep in for the dramatic last-minute vote. Ross’s idea of compromise is funny.
Arthur seemed to have got over last week’s suspicions and decided to be stupid and buy his wife’s lies, as she happily prostituted herself for Chekhov’s candlestick. She would have made Ossie such a good wife. But as she was an expensive mistress, Ossie decided to use Mama and Morwenna’s one weapon against her (surely Morwenna could have come up with another, even within her limited options. Elizabeth blatantly pressed George into overlooking Ross’s secret visit to the grounds and then used all her credit to stop George persecuting Drake again to reignite the feud.) Thus he got to rape her some more. There was also overlap with the sisters, which allowed the inevitable Arthur finding out and responding violently to being cuckolded. I did admire Rowella, despite her terror as she realised what Arthur had done and that he might turn against her, calming him down.
Got to admit Ossie’s death was appropriately OTT also.
MEANWHILE, Drake had to decide if he really was courting Rosina, and with a little bit of encouragement from Demelza (I wanted to argue that the case of Drake and Ross were more dissimilar than they were. Thing is, although Rosina has a spine, she’s not A Heroine) decided to propose. The fact that he was honest about having loved someone else made me think the marriage would have a chance, although I’ve been quite anti him moving on.
Sam continues to be the worst Methodist ever as he got all judgy with Demelza for telling Drake the truth. It was the right thing to do, dude, Drake needed to have all the information and make the choice for himself, especially as Demelaz’s been such a pushy matchmaker.
After a brief reappearance when she told off George and Elizabeth for forcing her to marry Ossie, Morwenna’s spine shrivelled up and died. Probably the raping and the continued Whitworth bullying and the mental distress caused did not help. John Conan deserves better than the upbringing that led to Ossie. I don’t know if it was fighting for him, trying to protect Drake or a genuine belief she’s tainted by her marriage (and her relief her husband is dead?) that made her claim it was over. The costumes helped, but the actress transformed into a different Morwenna.
Drake’s forge got burned AGAIN and he got broken AGAIN, mainly by heartache, but it was rage-inducing to see this good man treated as a vagabond because Mrs Whitworth and the Warleggans had money and power.
I don’t mind melodrama per se (HELLO, I lap up this show) but partnered with wetness and it’s no fun. So, I rolled my eyes at the sad shell bracelet sinking down into the seabed. If Drake or anyone finds it while swimming shirtless, I will roll my eyes some more.
Ross’s return when Demelza was at a low ebb, and the fact that they were all right the episode, because he trusted in her excellence, and she mostly lived up to it, was nice.
I’m two episodes behind. I might have waited to post this reaction post until I'd caught up if I hadn’t posted a Poldark ficlet.
