We've just watched it all. Glorious. I don't really watch, I listen and look up for complicated bits. I missed Cornelia's rape, but sort of knew it anyway.
Thanks for that link, @WotsitsQuavers . Really interesting.
It's shocking how recent this was, that the tribes could have been fully documented and preserved/protected, but weren't considered interesting.
I hated her face blurred in the photo- she asked for the photo so her face could be preserved, despite her illness. It was one more bitter injustice that it wasn't.
When Eli kissed her hair- that was the most moving, intensely emotional hug I've ever seen on TV! Just sublime.
I loved how the characters were set up a bit duplicitously. That we were led to believe Trafford was the bad guy. That even the good men were forced to behave callously to survive.
That Cornelia is depicted as a clueless innocent abroad in the first scenes, but the story unfolds to prove her already a survivor.
That Cornelia (and Trafford, though we don't see it) is trying to preserve her decency, but every attempt she makes not to kill someone results in their brutal death anyway!
The complexity- that the man who commissions Mog's murder because she's a scourge on the area, is actually the one who contributed to her brutalisation.
I wasn't keen on the random bits- how Melmont knew she was coming and set up the hotel character to kill her; the random killing of the trespasser etc.
I wonder whether rewatching helped with any of that?
I was so taken aback by the voices. All beautiful, if slightly mushy (we always watch with subtitles). I didn't expect the indiginous Americans to have the same accents as the settlers. Silly, with hindsight. The couple adopting western clothes sort of hinted at their corruption, I feel.
Gosh. So much to mull upon.