Did anybody else watch this mini-series? Despite it being a ‘chick flick’ (all men are brutes and bastards; all women heroic and stoic), it was very well acted and produced.
I thought it was good.
I thought Midge’s decision a bit sudden and concise under the circumstances. [spoiler]
It’s uncharacteristic for such an anxious girl to just “Oh, well, I’ll leave everything I know then, shall I?” and go.
I would have liked a bit of insight into her thinking; she had to have had some dislike for the old man given his treatment of her parents?
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I appreciated the closure regarding Carne, but
Surely the huge break in the cliff would have been obvious?
I would have thought so, too. In fact, I thought the entire ending was rushed unnecessarily. There was probably another half-hour of material that hit the cutting room floor to make this fit within an hour.
I had this feeling as if someone said “Well look, it’s obviously going to be either Downton Abbey or Upstairs, Downstairs that gets the funding, so I reckon we’d better just wrap this up quickly.”
I would disagree with that- several men were shown somewhat sympathetically-Lydia’s father, Joe Astell, even Robert Carne is shown as a complex man with good and bad characteristics.
You mean except for that whole rape thingy with his wife, right?.
Complex ≠ perfect. That incident was clearly one of his bad qualities (& he did suffer for it). Also at the time his actions were perfectly legal & even somewhat socially acceptable (thought admitedly foolish since he didn’t let her “put her thing in”).
Well, I didn’t particularly want this thread to turn into a debate about rape, but I have to say that legal != moral, and doesn’t make him any less brutal, domineering and violent. Rape may have been socially acceptable, but only to the male half of the population. Rape is also not a “quality” in any sense of the word.