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Milner's First Wife

posted 10 years ago by preppyliteratifashionist
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I had forgot how much I disliked her but the series is being rerun from the beginning and I can honestly say that she's quite dismissive and has no compassion for her husband at all. I now recall that I was not sorry when they brought her back after their estrangement & she was summarily dispatched and became the murder victim for two episodes. I still don't know if she was all sunshine and light before Milner was injured in combat or whether she always leaned toward nastiness. He had to have seen something wonderful about her, right?

[–] JaneBingley 9 years ago

I liked his first wife, and think she showed a human side that is not often shown on tv.
Sometimes spouses are having a hard time coping with their other half being harmed
and badly wounded, and I rhink she showed that very well.

His second wife, the teethy, clingy one, was awful.

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[–] lilactime2014 9 years ago

Just at the end of Series 4 and had to laugh at the "Teethy Clingy one" comment.

Both me and Mrs. Lilac said immediately upon seeing her that she would be trouble. (S4: Bad Blood). She kept saying things like "I am never letting you go". And this was only after re-meeting him a few weeks. I don't know how it works out, it seems they get married as you talk about a second wife but I genuinely took an instant dislike to her. "Flee, Flee for your life", Steward of Gondor style, was what I think I shouted at the screen....

'tler

[–] tehck 9 years ago

Oh no, he's going to marry the lying nurse? (I'm just saw the episode that introduced her). That will make him zero for two I bet.

[–] pfarnell 8 years ago

Sometimes spouses are having a hard time coping with their other half being harmed
and badly wounded, and I think she showed that very well.

yes, but as the war goes, his injury/disability was a relatively modest one compared to many others, people were coming home legs/arms off, horrifically burned and other gross disfigurements,faces completely gone, blinded... in wheel chairs paraplegic/quadraplegic.

Compared to that, he has got half of or all of a mere foot shot off, or something..can still walk, albeit a little proppy.

She's a bitch.

[–] rdavies-50208 8 years ago

It was interesting, the way her reaction to his war injury was portrayed. She could have been a one dimensional baddie but Mali Harries played her sympathetically. I ended up feeling sorry for "the situation" as much as for Milner.

[–] lilactime2014 8 years ago

In Sickness and in Health......

You can see in her the "I didn't sign up for this" feelings and let's face it, Milner is hardly disfigured or THAT badly injured such that it stops him being a copper. I think she just didn't love him any more and rather than admit to that she was using the leg as an excuse. The dancing with Sam bit didn't help but it was already done and dusted in her mind all that was needed was ammunition.

'tler

[–] whoanelly (1591) 3 years ago

Well said.

Plus she was horrible when she came back to Hastings and tried to get back with Milner. She told him she missed him, still loved him, etc. But when he told her he didn’t want to, the truth finally came out. Her sister had chucked her out and she didn’t have anywhere else to go. And she had done her research and knew that legally, she could still slide back in because it was still a few weeks shy of the three year legal time limit. So she tried to force her way back in by holding the law over Miller’s head. Ugh. She was awful.

[–] pfarnell 8 years ago

He had to have seen something wonderful about her, right?

not always...good men marry *beep* in a lot of cases, and vice-versa..I don't know exactly why.

Certainly she is a piece of work.