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Poldark.... is back on sunday

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youngestisapsycho · 11/07/2019 09:59

Why is this on in the summer.... needs to be in the autumn, cosied up on the sofa on a dark evening!
Cant wait for it though.

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historysock · 22/07/2019 18:11

I really fancy George Wallegan. It's worrying.

itscallednickingbentcoppers · 22/07/2019 19:41

@historysock I fancy them all. Apparently in 18th-19th century Cornwall, everyone had model good looks! Sam is ridiculously modelesque, he looks like he's modelling Chanel's autumn/winter Cornish peasant collection in Vogue.

Icecreamsoda99 · 22/07/2019 20:12

@historysock I fancy George as well, so glad I'm not the only one. Always had a thing for the fictional posh gits! Grin

historysock · 22/07/2019 20:26

Thank god it's not only me.
Perhaps it's the breeches?

lachenalia · 22/07/2019 22:54

MissSue
Shall we play guess the next "issue" , I'm going for Brexit and LGBT storylines being shoehorned in somewhere . George is by far the most interesting character in this series although Sam is very pleasing on the eye - just a pity he can't act . And can someone please kill off the new maid , she is far too bloody annoying .

itscallednickingbentcoppers · 22/07/2019 23:05

@historysock he's just a really good actor isn't he and George the character treated Elizabeth like a goddess, Ross only thought he loved Elizabeth but George was so devoted he's gone mad with grief bless him. He's been very ill treated by the Poldarks over the years so can't really blame him for getting his own back.

historysock · 22/07/2019 23:10

True, true. He's so unpleasant for a reason. I know we're all meant to love Ross but he can be so annoying and arrogant at times. I've a lot of sympathy for George.

ElspethFlashman · 23/07/2019 00:02

Yeah me three. George is the only character I feel is really human. He's always looked like he was on the verge of a nervous breakdown so the storyline rather works for me.

And yeah, ironic that the baddie character was a much much better husband than Our Hero.

And more Uncle Carey would be good.

CaptainMyCaptain · 23/07/2019 08:16

George is pretty awful in his business practices, though, and a heartless employer with only contempt for the 'peasants'. This despite (and possibly because) his family had lowly origins themselves.

ballsdeep · 23/07/2019 15:49

I've been watching season 2 again and seeing how Ross treats demelza after francis' death gets on my nerves!! He is so horrible to her

IcedPurple · 28/07/2019 21:37

Anybody still watching? Not sure if I will be for much longer. Don't care about any of the storylines and most of the characters seem like completely different people, and not in a good way.

Arnoldthecat · 28/07/2019 21:55

I honestly think Poldark has had its day and we dont need another series. The storylines in the last series were weak. They should have left it.

IcedPurple · 28/07/2019 21:59

Plus, all the story lines were neatly tied up at the end of series 4. I could maybe see them jumping ahead 10 years as in the original books, but just what is the point of all these contrived plot lines? And it's all gotten a bit too 'woke' for me too.

Only plus point is little Valentine, who as well as looking like the perfect combination of Elizabeth and Ross, is the cutest kid on telly. Great little actor too.

StandingStillIsHard · 28/07/2019 22:29

I think this series would have been better if they'd focused on what we definitely know happened in the time gap. We know for example who has children, who marries who etc). This series seems to be drifting off into ned's storyline, a character we don't know or care about.

It's also very out of tune for George to be going mad. In the books it's often said that he is not an emotional, lustful or passionate man so this whole descent into madness just doesn't make sense.

Another thing they're changing is morwenna and her feelings for John. In the books John just reminded Morwenna of Ossie, and she had no real maternal love for him as a result, in fact he grows up to be very much like him. I suppose this would be shocking for the modern day viewer which is why they're changing this.

ElspethFlashman · 28/07/2019 23:39

Yeah I'm not keen on morewennas sudden maternal feeling knowing that as an adult she was almost repelled by how like his father he looked.

Unless next week is he going "Urgh, he looks just like Ossie!" but since the theme of this and the last few seasons is Saint Morwenna, I doubt it.

Anyway I found this week an improvement. The George stuff was really sad, and the Ned stuff advanced a bit, with now both Dwight and Demelza wary of him.

IcedPurple · 29/07/2019 08:00

It's also very out of tune for George to be going mad. In the books it's often said that he is not an emotional, lustful or passionate man so this whole descent into madness just doesn't make sense.

Yeah, there are no links to his previous character in the way he's gone bonkers. Which is why I think the characters are so different n this series. He was so much more interesting as an evil villain.

And Morwenna bores me. How many times do we need to see her flinch when Drake touches her? We get it. We do.

djsosn · 04/08/2019 22:26

Anyone still watching?

For me, tonight's episode cemented to me that this series has really lost its way. I don't care about Tess, Ned, Cecily and her father... basically all of the new characters. And WG would turn in his grave at what's been done to his characters.

It's a real shame

djsosn · 04/08/2019 22:30

Oh and Geoffrey Charles and Cecily is basically Caroline and Dwight all over again

Papergirl1968 · 05/08/2019 00:43

Boring episode tonight, such a contrast to last week’s.

Basketofkittens · 06/08/2019 15:40

Is the actress who plays Caroline pregnant again? Lots of carrying Horace the pug again! Grin

tessiegirl · 06/08/2019 23:02

Yes, the actress who plays caroline is expecting her third child Smile

drsleep1 · 11/08/2019 22:27

It looks like everyone's given up on this series Grin

It's lost its way for certain. I have to say I'm a bit annoyed at the way they've portrayed Morwenna this evening - in the books it's clear she has PTSD after being raped by her former husband. This is why she can't bear to be touched by drake, and thinks herself disgusting etc. It had nothing to do with her feeling love and guilt for John Conan, in the books she has no maternal feelings for the child.

I feel doing it the way they have, making it all about the 'guilt' of John Conan has trivialised the trauma a character in morwenna's position would have after her horrendous marriage. In the books we know she and drake did end up having normal marital relations (as they have a daughter), but the later books show she is still very damaged and disturbed by what Osbourne did to her and always will be.

Rhubarb01 · 12/08/2019 01:06

I agree about Morwenna, it feels as if the story has been twisted to suit modern sensibilities. Given her treatment at the hands of her Osborne, it's understandable that she might never wish to see John Conan again, however difficult that might seem to a modern audience.

As for the series in general, I held my head in my hands this week, as it seemed as if every male character (except lovely Doctor Enys) had signed a pact to behave in an utterly stupid manner - Ross blindly carrying on in his pursuit of Ned's cause, Ned drunkenly shouting the odds and badmouthing the King, Geoffrey Charles asking for the hand of his beloved (whose name escapes me) when she's already said they'll have to elope, and Drake thinking he can persuade Lady Whitworth into giving them John Conan, then 'borrowing' him - really?

woodhill · 12/08/2019 10:17

Yes, Ros's recklessness was ridiculous.The forgery of the notes was interesting.

Would have preferred the later books to be done and none of the characters have aged realistically

drsleep1 · 12/08/2019 11:53

I agree re aging, the only character who has aged at all is Geoffrey Charles, which is ridiculous considering he wasn't even born in the first episodes. But despite him being what, 18 now? Garrick and Horace are still alive - Garrick was a fully grown dog in the first episode so god knows how old he is now in Poldark world!