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Poldark series 4 - SPOILERS

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carol1234568 · 21/05/2018 20:06

Is coming back very soon! I'm guessing in the next 2-3 weeks.

Who's excited?! I've read all the books and can't wait for the new series.

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BMW6 · 30/07/2018 09:41

Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but the timeline at the end is bugging me. Drake and Morwenna get their special licence to marry at the same time Elizabeth goes into labour and dies shortly after. Her baby was due in December but she has it at least a month early.
So how come the last scene of the wedding is in the following Spring or Summer? Trees in full green leaf, flowers in abundance and lovely warm sunshine ........

SadieHH · 30/07/2018 10:08

Oh yes you're right. How daft.

I haven't seen eps 6 and 7 yet. Did Ross and Caroline have the conversation where they admitted they fancied each other? In the books it was when they were sharing the coach back to Cornwall.

Ansumpasty · 30/07/2018 10:17

No, they didn’t have that conversation. What is it about these people, it’s all free living with other people’s spouses!

SadieHH · 30/07/2018 10:24

I know. They all should have shacked up together at Trenwith and chucked their saddles into the middle each night to see which bed they'd sleep in. Would be worth seeing just for George's face...

OK, gone slightly weird now! Grin

diddl · 30/07/2018 11:37

Why did/do Ross & Warleggan hate each other so much?

Clionba · 30/07/2018 11:46

Business and social rivalry. The Warleggans were blacksmiths made good, and felt looked down on. They also did not treat their workers as well as the Poldarks did.

diddl · 30/07/2018 11:49

I thought that I remembered something from the 1st or 2nd series when Ross said something about the Warleggens that made him sound an utter snob!

Mind you, Ross isn't a particularly nice character!

glamorousgrandmother · 30/07/2018 11:54

Mind you, Ross isn't a particularly nice character!

He's good looking alright but he's a sulky man-child and would get on my wick.

I've just bought the first book for my kindle. The whole set is £48 odd so I'll just see how I get on with this one for now.

ElspethFlashman · 30/07/2018 12:06

Ross did not come across well last night. It was as if he was looking for any excuse to go tearing into Trenwith bellowing at the top of his voice. Oooh Morwenna missing? I'll ride in and bellow! Oooh Elizabeth sick? I'll ride in and bellow!

I really didn't like that he kissed Elizabeth on the lips either, he should have kissed her on the forehead. It was so inappropriate. She had literally just died holding her husbands hand, it was so wrong.

SadieHH · 30/07/2018 12:12

He was staking his claim, as usual Hmm

George hated the fact that Ross had no money, was a rebel, fraternised with the poor and married his kitchenmaid, and despite all that he was held in high esteem and respected in the county. George's only crime (as he saw it) was to be born working class and even when the family made money they still weren't accepted. That was vastly unfair in his view. He tried to change that by ruling with fear. Had he tried kindness we would have seen a very different story.

InsulatedNotIsolated · 30/07/2018 13:00

George accused Ross of looking down on him when they were in school for being a blacksmith’s son in one of the episodes. Ross retorted it wasn’t because his father was a blacksmith that they all made fun of him, it was his poor attempts to deny his father and what he was that made him an object of fun.

InsulatedNotIsolated · 30/07/2018 13:04

I also felt Ross was way out of order galloping down to Trenwith when he heard Elizabeth was ill, especially after his last awful encounter with George. I just wanted to scream at him, ‘for God’s sake man, she is not your wife! She is with her husband, just leave it alone!’ Angry

runningkeenster · 30/07/2018 13:10

To be fair he kissed her on the lips in the book, too.

I didn't think they should have truncated the conversation between Ross and Caroline as much as they did. It was quite key to the story especially as she told him that he'd killed Adderley because he couldn't kill Hugh.

Starlings27 · 30/07/2018 16:57

Glamorousgrandmother, I managed to get the whole set in paperback from Amazon for less than £25 this month www.amazon.co.uk/Winston-Graham-Poldark-Collection-2015-11-09/dp/B01HC1P6L2/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&keywords=poldark&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1532966042&sr=1-3. I'm loving them - I've just started The Black Moon and I only started Ross Poldark three weeks ago! I do want to give Ross such a slap a lot of the time.

Starlings27 · 30/07/2018 17:00

I think I'm going to have to go back and watch the first couple of seasons in light of the books now - I don't remember Nicholas Warleggan at all but he's quite a lot more honest and straight-dealing than George in the books.

MissMarplesKnitting · 30/07/2018 17:11

I tried to find series 1 and 2 but it's not on iPlayer any more. Grr.

ElspethFlashman · 30/07/2018 17:33

Nicholas never made it to TV. Just Uncle Carey.

Starlings27 · 30/07/2018 18:43

I think season 1 is on Netflix, not sure about the rest. I stopped watching after THAT Elizabeth and Ross scene because I was so pissed off with him but started again a season later so I have missed a bit.

Polarbearflavour · 30/07/2018 20:33

Caroline is pregnant again despite a lack of maternal instinct and saying two episodes again that there would be no more children? Hmm

IcedPurple · 30/07/2018 20:43

Caroline is pregnant again despite a lack of maternal instinct and saying two episodes again that there would be no more children?

Well, contraception was pretty much non-existant in those days. If you and your partner were fertile, and if you had sex, a baby would follow sooner or later.

beguilingeyes · 30/07/2018 21:04

I didn't think she was pregnant, just saying that she was open to the idea.

Princess1066 · 30/07/2018 22:49

Very moving episode - Jack Farthing is a brilliant actor - even though George is vile he manages to convey his insecurites so well and it was very sad to see his grief over Elizabeth Sad

InsulatedNotIsolated · 31/07/2018 08:16

The strange thing about Jack Farthing is that his expressions are very much how he is in real life. I watched an interview of him and it was like he was I never character. The way he lifted his chin, the cocky head nod, the half smile half grimace, the little ‘hmm’, sound he makes when satisfied someone was going to get! All very unnerving.

Princess1066 · 31/07/2018 11:59

Oh I think he comes across as shy & nervous & very witty Smile

Fireinthegrate · 01/08/2018 09:34

Insulated.
I have to agree with you about Jack Farthing's mannerisms being the same as George. I was on a train a week ago and Jack was standing right by my seat. Watching him talk to his companion was just like watching George (but in a baseball cap!)