Poldark

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Is anyone else looking forward to this? It is going to be shown on Sunday nights once the present series of 'Call the Midwife' has finished.

I loved the original series even though the story did stray from the books a bit. I wonder how this one will go. I understand Robin Ellis has a bit part in the new version as the Reverend Halse.

Was it not typhoid fever?

Scarlett fever does figure in the books but affects different characters, not going to give any spoilers

I've spent all weekend reading the first and second books and I'm just beginning the third. The relationship between Damelza and Ross in the second book is just lovely. After the ball they make up - it was very sweet/hot. They missed a trick in not including that scene. I wish they would show a bit more of their relationship.

Ross is just so gorgeous though... when he smiles and when he has those dark eyes.... DD's been telling everyone that mummy's got a new boyfriend that's on TV and he's even in a book!

Anyone know what card game they were playing?

An old version of Trumps?

Not top trumps obvs

Gaol fever, it was Typhus. A bacterial infection spread by the bites of lice and fleas. It was rampant in overcrowded prisons and ships.
I am not really a history expert but I have read all the Master and Commander series, twice.

Thanks! I told Dh it would be typhus!

I'm going to start reading the books I think.

Dh said the card game was trumps.

Typhoid is a salmonella like bacteria very contagious and spread by contaminated food or water. Also very nasty.

Ross should have burnt his trousers too surely and undies to ensure that all the germs were incinerated?

I was livid that they did not show this. DH now got the hump with me??

Yes I thought he would undress and have a swim in the sea. Salt water is a natural antiseptic.
Shame.
My daughter thinks I am crazy letching after AT.

Marvelous point on the sea water Travelled

So, I am now going to re-edit this episode in my mind and it shall be

1. Ross burning ALL his clothes
2. Ross slowly walking into the sea and letting the waves cleanse his body
3. Ross walking out of the sea and rubbing oil into his body for further protection

These three shots will last the whole hour of course

Rufus, in the books they are playing a card game called French Ruff. Apparently Ross became an expert at it when he was in America and spotted the cheating straight away ( unlike his cousinFrancis who just looses everything. Mind you in the book Ross also throws Sansome in the river - I'd like to have seen that!

Aesops ooooh.

Massive wasted opportunity there on the beach but I'm actually much more upset they didn't show Ross and Demelza making up. He was an absolute arse to her at the ball! And she never got to thank him for the necklace.

Plus he kept his shirt on in bed

awal

DH said that as well, it's obviously a trumps type game

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Thanks for that, I'll look it up. My family (except me) love card games so they might be able to have a go if I can find some rules

soft I said that about the shirt in bed!

DH said he didn't really care...I may LTB

i am very much enjoying this!

I loved the dress scene, the way he unlaced the dress, and breathed on the back of her neck and OF COURSE they both knew she had got the dress on and the issue of getting it off was an excuse!

I have not read the books for years, but really remember Elizabeth and her mother being terrible snobs/social climbers...wasn't her father dead and the mother had set her cap at a Good Marriage for Elizabeth as a "career move", so Ross was very much the fall back Poldark and him heaving off to war left the field open for her to set Elizabeth at Francis??

Was there not a good deal more fandango-ing with the Teagues? For Ross....almost being negotiated into a marriage there, and so he dtd with Demelza and married her to escape all the social engineering.

AND I do like Demelza, but feel that she has got a pretty raw deal so far in the show, again iirc from the books, she taught herself to read and write, to run a house, to read and play music, to become more of an equal in the relationship
She also had lots of country knowledge, medicine, animal husbandry, cookery skills....really barely touched upon so far

I do love the whole cliff top sunsets though.

AND I laughed out loud on the train watching the second one (I think) ....poor Demelza hosing herself down at the pump chuntering "tidn't enough for a body not to stink, she's to scrub herself RAW like a buttock of beef!"

hahahahahaha! :o :o

I don't think Ross was remotely interested in marrying Ruth Teague - I think in the books he stands her up at a tea party because he gets drawn into something else so missed it and he was meant to be the star guest or something. I don't remember her being as bitchy in the books either.

I'm not sure why they made Dwight Enys a friend in this series as I didn't think they knew each other before in the books - although they become close friends very quickly. For the person who asked, Dwight is in the books right until the end.

I think this series works very well. I still can't warm to Ruby Bentall as Verity though. I much preferred Norma Streater.

Demelza cures a couple of horses or maybe a cow and a horse?, but I think that's much later in the books and was more by luck than judgment.

Interesting stuff re the books, Cats.

The marriage between Ross and Demelza was definitely too hasty in the series however I think it still makes sense even if you haven't read the books - Ross was profoundly lonely and increasingly alienated and he needed someone loyal and hardworking at his side, plus someone to warm his bed , which he pretty much says to Demelza.

I am in love with her character btw and don't think she's getting a raw deal. Eleanor Tomlinson plays her beautifully and is totally conveying the journey Demelza is on - she is definitely growing in every sense. There is a wonderful tenderness between the two of them and I love that he is occasionally rough with her, because he knows she can take it and will stand up to him. I think in this sense at least it is a marriage of equals and they both know it.

If I have one complaint is that I want to see more bedroom scenes :)

Most definitely more bedroom scenes! The relationship between Ross and Demelza is the reason I watch. I too love Eleanor Tomlinson as Demelza. If he wasn't so good looking I'd ask how she puts up with those moods of his!

I reckon he's really, really, really good in the sack.

Oh and his innate sense of moral justice, obvs.

I had high hopes when he burnt his shirt (I repeat. He burnt his shirt)

I did say to Dh "I wonder if that was his last shirt?" and got a look

I told dh about the shirt this morning and exploded in a 5 minutes giggling fit. It really is ridiculous if you think about it :)

some fab behind-the-scenes images here from Robin Ellis's missus

www.facebook.com/meredith.wheeler/posts/10152869355267283

(I love the Teague women & Margaret in their dressing gowns )

So did Ross get the watch and necklace back?I saw him pick some money up but not the other two?

Im sure he did! Btw, while we're on that topic:

1. how many pocket watches does the man have? He sold one in episode 1 to buy a cow

2. I died a little when he spat out the value of the necklace and Demelza sighed "Ross...". It is touches like this that make me happy about the way they are handling their relationship in the show, subtle but effective - not much said and yet we know that despite being a moody bastard and spitting and raving against the idiocy of the ball, he still values his lovely Wife and wants everyone to know she is cherished. She probably wouldn't have been able to tell a cheap trinket from the real thing so I very much think this was not just a gift for her but a message to society. Still treated her like shit though!