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*POSSIBLE SPOILERS*** There are lots of stories in the 12 volumes of Poldark left to be told...

posted 5 years ago by angelosdaughter (158)
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I am going to miss this series.
The showrunners left the story at a lull; almost everyone has their heart's desire. George has moved and closed up Trenwith to return permanently to London, and Ross is off on another adventure with Demelza standing on a cliff, once again watching him depart.
I suppose the main actors want to use the attention they have garnered in this series to move on to bigger things.
The saddest scene is when the reprehensible George, in the carriage looking out the window imagines his Elizabeth, the one person in the world he honestly loved, walk back into Trenwith where for him, her spirit will remain. He has at last survived the worst of his grief.
I do wonder if they are planning a movie eventually a la Downton Abbey. The showrunners didn't end the story. In a way, they paused it.
I can't imagine anyone else besides Turner and Tomlinson, and Jack Farthng as the villainous George in the main roles along with Heida as Elizabeth. I also liked Beatie Edney as Prudie and loved Tristan Sturridge as the faithful Zachy Martin and Luke Norris as Dwight, another faithful friend to Ross
I never watched Oldark. Did that series cover all twelve books?

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Oldark series ended with the death of Elizabeth.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

Maybe they stopped short before they pulled a Game of Thrones and started making shit up? The story ended fine, it was BORING as it was, anyway.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 5 years ago

They did, season 5 wasnt based on the remaining books, but the showrunner making shit up.

[–] whoanelly (1587) 4 years ago

Much to the show's detriment, and demise

[–] TimMC (9143) 4 years ago

Woke.

[–] merryapril (1) 5 years ago

I so much agree with your synopsis and opinion of the finale, angelosdaughter! The most haunting scene was (literally) the reflection of Elizabeth in George's carriage window, entering the front door of Trenwith. Chilling and sad. And while there was some degree of closure to the various plot lines depicted, I also agree that the finale left open the possibility of a feature film (or 2) to follow up, as has been the case with some other very popular TV series. That Ross and Dwight were embarking on yet another dangerous mission, leaving Demelza and Caroline behind, hardly seemed "final".

I also felt the finale set up the next generation to come into sharper focus in the future, e.g., George decamping from Trenwith would be necessary in any case since Geoffrey Charles will inherit it before long; Demelza's pregnancy, etc. And throughout Season 5 we get glimpses of how unruly Valentine will likely become as an adult.

I hate to see it end!!!

[–] Meerschweinchen (8) 5 years ago

Yes there is but I've heard that season 5 is supposed to be the last and to perfectly honest I'm glad. I hated what Debbie Horsfield did with the Drake, Morwenna and Osborne Whitworth storyline. Yes, Osborne Whitworth is a despicable character in the books but Debbie Horsfield turning Morwenna into a basically a feminist she did the books a disservice. Morwenna did not bond with her son in the books and Osborne Whitworth is not the Mama's boy that Debbie Horsfield wrote. And I hated how she turned Drake into a stalker after Morwenna's marriage. The 1970s version was much more true to the books in regard to the Drake and Morwenna storyline and showed the traumatized Morwenna much better.

[–] Furienna (3348) 5 years ago

"Basically a feminist"? Sorry, but I don't see Morwenna that way at all.

Not only did she agree to marry Shitworth in the first place. But she did nothing to escape the marriage, no matter how he would treat her. Okay, so it would hardly have been easy to just become free again. But she didn't even try! Even after she har become a widow, she just allowed her bitchy mother-in-law to control her a long time.

Also, it is made clear that she was traumatized. So I guess that we watched two different shows.

[–] Meerschweinchen (8) 5 years ago

Have you read the books? Because the Morwenna in the books is nothing like Debbie Horsfield's Morwenna. She had no choice but to marry Osborne Whitworth because of 18th century mores in the series and the books but George in the books and the 70s adaptation coerces her to marry Whitworth to advance his place in Cornish society while the 2015 adaptation has George forcing her to marry Whitworth to punish her for seeing Drake Carne. I did see feminist attitudes in the 2015 Morwenna even if she couldn't divorce.

[–] Furienna (3348) 5 years ago

Right, it might be true that I haven't read the books. But what you just described has all happened in the new TV series. How did you miss that?
And where do you see any feminist attitudes in Morwenna? She is never anything but a helpless victim of other people's whims. Even though a sane person would just have declined that nightmare of a marriage.

[–] Meerschweinchen (8) 5 years ago

Better yet watch the second series of the 1970s adaptation with Jane Wymark as Morwenna because that adaptation is much closer to the books in depicting Drake and Morwenna's story.

***POSSIBLE SPOILERS***** There are lots of stories in the 12 volumes of Poldark left to be told...

*POSSIBLE SPOILERS*** There are lots of stories in the 12 volumes of Poldark left to be told...