Poldark - series 2

[snozzlemaid]

One week to go. Anyone else can't wait?
I've just started to rewatch the first series. Not sure if I'll get to watch it all again before next Sunday though.

And the fucking is there/isn't there copper in the mine storyline is doing my head in !!

What's the point rooting for her Rosa she cannot leave him, she's lost all respect for him. She's a wronged woman now but there's nothing she can do and that's what frustrates me.
Love that character so much, so beautifully cast too.

I'm only 12 minutes in and his twatishness is getting right on my tits. This isn't the Ross I know and love. This bloke is a complete wanker.

What would D do if she legt him?how would she and J survive or if he left her? And surley he and E couldn't be together as a couple as hea married?

Too right Shelagh what kind of twat would choose that wet lettuce Elizabeth over spunky light up the room Demelza. She chops her own wood ffs! All Elizabeth can manage is lightly brushing her hair

It been better viewing the last two weeks at least. I nearly gave up after the interminable court drama that opened the series.

I still have a soft spot for Ross but have never really like demelza; that said, she has grown on me last week and this.

Ross hates George because the Warleggan family have all the mines over a barrel since everyone owes them money. They close down mines on a whim, leaving the miners out of work and one of the mine owners shot himself.

Then George concocted a load of shit about Ross leading a bounty ship ashore and killing George's cousin? captain of the ship, so Ross nearly hanged.

Then George persuaded Francis to not back Ross's smelting venture and then got silly Francis to tell him who backed that venture, and he called in the loans so bankruptcy and debtors prison for Ross's friends.

George is proper bad. So yes, his old love marrying him is going to send Poldarrrk into a spin

They missed out the bit of the conversation with Margaret Vosper where she tells Demelza she slept with Ross. Also, Aunt Agatha and her cards are really getting on my tuts now.

tits

But she sort of told him didn't she Beguiling?

I've read most of the saga but I think this telly version is better than the books .

told her, sorry.

In the book I don't think Demrlza ever actually KNEW Ross slept with Elizabeth. She suspected, but I don't remember Ross ever admitting it.

TabithaBethia go and wash your mouth out!

Anyone else think it was unwise of Elizabeth to delay her wedding by a month? When Ross's curly-mopped lovechild appears at "8 months" fully baked, there's going to be some explaining to do. Can anyone who has read the books confirm whether George Warleggan knows he's been cuckolded, because it looks like he had his suspicions at the party?

Demelza's running eyeliner /mascara was distracting.

I was waiting for her to say I've had dealings with all the Poldark men' and she didn't. Just that bit about beating about the bush.

Amazonian with the constitution of a concrete Bollard

Completely agree re the miscasting of Elizabeth.

heratnumber7 I believe in the books Ross later admits he slept with Margaret Foster but only before he marries demelza, never after.

beguilingeyes I think in the telly scene, Margeret drops heavy hints about sleeping with Ross and Demelza gets it?

Captain Henshaw's vile!

I'm getting my captains mixed up. Captain McNeil (or the third proclaimer as he's known in the Guardian reviews) is vile. Captain Henshawe is of course lovely!

Jed she throws herself down the stairs to 'bring on early labour' but various people including bitter aunt are

I disagree about the Margaret bit. In the books she just comes out and says it. There was nothing here. And the Tankard thing annoyed me too. George wasn't even supposed to be there. Ross and Demelza don't even seem to have any basic friendship in this version. In the books they were a team. There was a lot of banter and kindness between them. These two seem to have nothing in common.

beguilingeyes I have not read the books just heard parts of the audiobooks... So why do Ross and Demelza drift apart so much in this series? She fully supported him during and after the trial, she supports him in his mining adventures, why does he seem indifferent? Is it the death of Julia that drives them apart?

You're right, in the tv series they are like two strangers in the same house sometimes, but is the distance the same in the books?

Capt McNeil was totally fanciable in the original. In his kilt. Sigh. And he was proper Scottish. Must have had real Scottish actors back in the seventies 🙄😉

GruffaloZogTiddler, I don't understand their relationship in this version. In the books they get on much better, and talk more. They're funny together. There's virtually no humour in the new production. I don't actually recognise many of the characters, their personalities have been so distorted. The Tankard bit boiled my piss too.

I am a teeny bit in love with Ross. Not Aiden Turner's Ross though, the Ross from the books.
He's "down with the lads" - gets his hands dirty in the mines, and promotes fairness and good pay for all his workers, long before anyone else did. The commoners love him for not being a nob like the other gentle folk around and about.

Demelza and Ross go through a bad patch - probably 7 year itch or something. Lots of marriages do.

And all the sleeping with people other than your spouse was rife in those days, when people of that class married to further the interests of the family very often, and not for love. Don't judge Ross by the standards of today. Lots of men were never really sure whether their children were really their children, or those of another man.