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— MRJFanpage (@MRJFanpage) June 20, 2015
Well, hello there.
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This guy.
[adrotate group="5"]"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Too pretty not to share.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Ross Poldark. A bit of a brooding, Heathcliff type of figure—the story is more reminiscent of Bronte than it is of Austen (saw too many critics comparing Poldark to Darcy and didn’t think that was true). But as Wuthering Heights happens to be my favorite book, I’ll take it
I’ve always slightly preferred the Brontes to Austen. While Poldark does also remind me of Heathcliff, I think he’s a bit softer around the edges than he first lets on, much like Rochester. Being a red coat and a prisoner of war changed him (though he was always a bit of a scoundrel, even in his youth, hence why he became a solider). Finding out that his first love has become engaged to another, and to his cousin, no less, certainly makes Poldark into a darker, brooding sort.
Can’t get too much of a read on Demelza yet.
I like that she’s rougher around the edges than Elizabeth was. Not a lady, but an urchin.Demelza is my favorite character. She very much reminds me of Eliza Doolittle (but with a bit more depth). As for Elizabeth, I really don’t care for her aloofness too much or her cold treatment of Ross, though shes does have some admirable traits. Verity is certainly my second-favorite female after Demelza.
The costumes were really good. The dialogue could have been a bit snazzier, more snappy. Even though I haven’t read the books, there is a certain way Victorian English talk and it more often than not is replicated quite well on film, but it felt that this trait was lacking in the premiere. Not that the dialogue wasn’t good but it didn’t have that flair I associate with British period pieces. Oh, the sets/scenery were to die for….almost forgot that one. It is to Cornwall/British countryside as Outlander is to the Scottish highlands.
I hear you. I like the common folks’ talk. It feels more authentic. I think the servants like Jud Paynte and his wife are great characters. They remind me a bit of Dickens’ working-class characters. Demelza exudes this common woman appeal.
I will say this though, PBS Masterpiece Theater knows their audience. They know that the majority of their audience are young/middle age women who are perfectly okay with long shots of Aidan Turner brooding and looking contemplative against a lush British sky
I’m perfectly okay with Aidan Turner.
. It’s all well and good but if they rely on that as opposed to dialogue and character development then I might get a bit more frowny. Handsome men are great–I have no problem with letting my heterosexual female gaze have it just rewards–but it’s all about the story in the end. Still, it’s only one episode in so my criticism is just a passing thought moving forward.
Give it some time. It’s period drama after all. See, Poldark isn’t a huge magical fantasy time-travel story. It’s about a man who comes from the upper class but has a heart for the common man. He’s a rebel with a heart and a cause. Poldark is more akin to Dickens with class struggle, family rivalry, and an examination of love, along with other themes being at the heart of it, set in a real time in a real place. There is a lot of character development to be had, but all in good time.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Poldark!
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
I was going to say that with Zelena sticking around a bit longer (or forever?) that gives us a chance that Emma will actually confront her about Neal’s death and so will Rumpel.
Honestly? That isn’t going to happen ever again. Emma already “confronted” Zelena about killing Neal back in his apartment in the episode called Mother. We got one line. Emma: “Now he’s [Neal’s] gone, thanks to her.” Emma wasn’t able to lift a finger against Zelena because suddenly, she’s an expectant mother. There is not going to be another so-called confrontation, just like Emma never confronted Regina about murdering Graham. As RG suggested, Zelena is the new shiny toy of the show, like Regina was in the minds of the writers. There is no such thing as karma or cosmic justice on this show. Even Rumple, as the dark one, was rendered completely unable to avenge Neal’s death. He thought he had when he “murdered” Zelena in S3 only to discover, to his chagrin, that she was alive again, and that only she had the potion to extend his life. Now Rumple is a mere mortal again, stuck in some sort of comatose state for the foreseeable future.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Leaving this here, for reasons:
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Glad to see MRJ happy and being productive on new projects.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
because of the meaning of Baelfire name, i went back to The wheel of Time area.
On a show in which names have meaning, the name Baelfire is a tell-tale sign of what the writers’ original plan was for that character.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
Seriously, THAT!
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy
