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Arsenic · 15/02/2015 23:47

What do we think?

JW overacting as normal....

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Davros · 13/04/2015 21:11

I just don't understand the connection between Cynthia Coffin and Ralph, it seems weird

Clawdy · 13/04/2015 23:16

She seems to regard him as a son whom she'd do anything for, but not sure why. All explained next week! Maybe.....

hawthornknitter · 16/04/2015 18:59

I have to say this has picked up a bit in the last few episodes. There were a few there in the middle where it was dragging but it's quite good now again.

Not sure what the relationship between Cynthia and Ralph is supposed to be - she's a bit all over him really. Bit cringey.

Jacana · 17/04/2015 00:23

Why does Alice look so typically English Rose and Ralph so, well, not. Are they full brother and sister, do you know? Seems strange casting to choose them.

Davros · 17/04/2015 09:15

Yes, they couldn't look more different.

Jacana · 17/04/2015 09:36

I'd wondered if perhaps their dad had been in India and Ralph was the product of a liaison with a local girl but we've not been told anything about their parents have we? Or have I missed something? Confused

diddl · 18/04/2015 23:48

Do they have the same writers each ep??

I also thought that the police were there when Sita tried to deliver the letter!!

But she was afraid of his family???

What a load of bollocks!

Hoping to see the demise of Cynthia next week.

WillRalph really let Ramu hang or spend his life in prison??

So who killed Jaya?

Ralph??

The chap who gave his girlfrind the bangle???

Or Cynthia????

chocolatelife · 19/04/2015 08:13

another series has been commissioned

Jacana · 19/04/2015 09:33

My expectations of this, after Jewel in the Crown, were set high. I seem to have been limbo-ing under the bar on this one pretty well since the offSad

Another series, like, more of the same? Shock I'll pass, I think.

chocolatelife · 19/04/2015 10:03

i never saw Jewel in the Crown but the media really made a big deal out of it, as did Channel 4,
I have missed Poldark for this.
I really hope ends are tied up satisfactorily tonight, or I might throw something at the TV

Clawdy · 19/04/2015 23:02

That's it,then. Have to say I have really enjoyed it and will watch the next series. So sad to see Ramu's fate though. And I was beginning to think Ralph might secretly be one of the good guys!

LaVolcan · 19/04/2015 23:13

Too much to ask I think, that Ralph could be one of the good guys.

Hmm, how will it play out in the next series? Alice with a little Indian toddler in tow, Ralph and Madeleine constantly bickering, Cynthia slipping totally into alcoholism as the Indians take over the club in Simla.......

chocolatelife · 20/04/2015 07:20

Why did Ramu have one shoe on at the end?

Yes surely Alice will fall pregnant and her baby will be brought up by the missionary

at least Aarifit's dad was happy

chocolatelife · 20/04/2015 07:21

oh and glad that Ian was lauded by the indians

Clawdy · 20/04/2015 09:04

Think next series will be increasing unrest and rebellion and Aafrin torn between Alice and the revolution.....

Sansarya · 20/04/2015 09:50

I still have no idea what the weird relationship between Cynthia and Donovan Ralph is. It's like she's suddenly going to turn around and reveal she's his mother.

Clayhead · 20/04/2015 10:11

Enjoyed it. Thought the actor that played Ian was fantastic.

chocolatelife · 20/04/2015 10:19

Yes I love Ian

diddl · 20/04/2015 11:31

I think it was all a bit too much.

Ralph with his son, Aafrin with an unsuitable girlfriend & then takes up with an Englishwoman, the guy running the school & Lena(?)

Ramu set up for the murder of an untouchable, Cynthia's scheming & hatred of the Indians.

Not to mention Ralph & Madeleine!

2rebecca · 20/04/2015 12:42

I'm disappointed there will be another series so this one didn't get a proper ending. It seems to be increasingly happening with TV series. I'd rather they did one 8 part series with a proper ending and then commissioned something different for the following year instead of the lazy option of series 2, 3 etc where nothing ever has a proper ending and each series is less interesting and more far fetched than the last.
Agree the Ralph Cynthia thing is weird and unlikely. As he went to boarding school and only sees her in the summer and she's just a family friend it's unlikely they would be that close even if his parents are dead. How come his sister isn't close to her if she's a family friend? They don't look very different in age and I see there is only 1 year between the actors playing them so surely she would have played a similar role to both siblings?

damepeanutbutter · 20/04/2015 16:49

Just found this thread and am at least two episodes behind. But I did rewatch Episode 1 3 weeks ago as I found it very complicated first time round (not knowing all the characters). Watched it after i knew all of them and it all made much more sense. Anyway, there is a scene in Episode 1 where Madeleine (American woman) is getting to know Alice and asks her about her childhood and she says something along the lines of being sent away to boarding school very very young (poss 8?) and never seeing her family again as they came out to India and left her in England. So Ralph is hardly a familiar brother to her. Ralph is technically supposed to be five years older than her (he refers to her being 8 and him 13 when they parted). I thought there was something strangely incestuous about the way Ralph is with Alice. But I'm so behind so don't know if that has developed Grin. Guessing then that Alice doesn't know Cynthia that well.

2rebecca · 20/04/2015 18:25

Ralph went to boarding school from a young age as well though so apart from Ralph going in to the civil service and coming to India as an adult where as Alice stayed in England and got married there doesn't seem that much difference between them. Maybe we're expected to believe the age gap is bigger than it looks or is. He does go on about his little sister a lot which is odd for a 1 year difference.

diddl · 20/04/2015 22:10

"Think next series will be increasing unrest and rebellion and Aafrin torn between Alice and the revolution....."

I'm not sure how torn he will be.

I think his contempt for Ralph will get him through!

Fiderer · 21/04/2015 09:08

I thought Alice was 8 & Ralph 13 when they were both sent to school in England. They spent their holidays together at an aunt's house in Something On Sea but their parents never came to visit. From Alice's comment about it being more of a 'cold shower' than the 'warm bath' her mother had described being in England would be, I think she and Ralph were very close during the holidays in those school years.

Still think Alice & Aafrin have no chemistry at all and Ralph is getting weirder. The scene where Bupi (?) goes to sleep on the sofa and Ralph says something about going on quietly or it'll be hard for him (Ralph) Hmm

Glad Sarah went off, the farewell scene was v well done I thought.

Only character I felt for was Aafrin's dad at the club. With his ill-fitting suit and medals.

JW was v good. Why was Kaiser spoon-feeding her? She didn't strike me as the "poor me" type and when she was feeling sorry for herself she went and got drunk - that seemed more in character. As was her saying about going to the hanging and thinking it would do her good, bloody hell.

And poor Sood.Think he and Ian would have been a good storyline.

diddl · 21/04/2015 09:37

But Aafrin's dad was soon accepted, wasn't he? When he mentioned Gallipolli?

I found the whole thing ridiculous, especially the "barman" ignoring Aafrin.

I thought it was well known that Aafrin worked quite closely with Ralph & had been shot instead of Ralph!

The Sood storyline, just awful.

Ian fantastic character.

Ralph odd, the whole being angry at the JW character & then hugging her & saying that she's all he's got?

Real remorse or realising what she's capable of?

Were Indians ever admitted to such a club or was it just a plot device to get Aafrin in??

The sign was offensive, could just have said Members Only, but if it was "necessary" that Indians went in, they could have done so as guests of members.

If it ever comes out that Ralph has an Indian son..!