Originally posted by: LizzieBennet
S1 E7
I'm watching half-heartedly at this point.
I do not understand the point of the opening scene, D playing the piano and S shooting and both of them looking defiant.
Ya me too I don't get any point of that scene. He is shooting and she is playing piano it clearly doesn't show their displeasure regarding each other's behaviour.
She's moving her things out of his room. But they're not talking, and when they do they spit at each other. π€’
- "I will be kept informed of the success of your conjugal endeavours," he says plainly, and Daph jibes back that she wouldn't hide such 'important matters' from him implying that he did. Arrrghhh so passive-aggressive this whole convo!
- Daph is returning home to support her family with Colin's scandal.
- Marina's plight only looks more severe and Lady W's revelations only look malicious given what she will have to endure going forward. Colin just lost a little bit of face in contrast.
Lol, I don't like Marina's character tbh maybe I don't like her when she played as Ginny in Ginny & Georgia showπ€£
First she justified that she truly loves George and can't love anyone like him. And then believes the fake letter sent by Pen's mom see who loves dearly will understand their partner whole heartedly and next if she is wishing to save pen's fam from debt atleast she could have said Colin that she is pregnant. I found her character on and off as well as bleh π€’
- Colin wants to visit Marina to show his support (he is a good guy!) and A warns him not to - his reasons being that Lady W's word has saved Colin from the mess for now but he were to consort with Marina people might think him responsible for her situation. π€’
Colin I can't understand his love seems to infatuation and attraction not true lob π€ͺ2 minutes noodles nibba nibbi lob π
- Daph arrives and Vi thinks it's great and D lets out another jibe- Pretending nothing is amiss is the perfect way to lure the ignorant into submission, she says. And she's not wrong. But then keeping things status quo and letting wounds fester is not the proper way either.
- Daph and Colin scene: Colin is mad they're not letting him see Marina. He still loves her. Oh how is this all going to play out when C learns Pen is Lady W. Would it be so easy for him to forgive her? π€’ D agrees to let Colin see Marina with her as chaperone.
Let's see whether he accepts or else Penp will write something else as lady W π€£for badla π€£
- S and Will boxing scene followed by Daph and S scene at Hastings' House. She's now accusing him of being unfaithful.
"You wound me" he says.
Yeah I don't understand the point of this scene when things are unresolved between them. It seems so unnecessary.
And coming to D and S. Simon could have atleast discussed his trauma to D. She will understand and here D not understanding him wants only her desires to fulfil. If he is not willing to have a baby. D must speak to S understanding his problem and help to recover from his trauma later on they can have baby. At least they could show some more mature talking between D and S after that rain ball scene. Directly they began to have s** and then baby π
He pleasures her but does not want to go further. They will stay married in name only, he says. And if she's pregnant he'll support them.
- Colin meets Marina with Daph in the room.
He says, if Marina had only told him and not deceived him, he'd have married her. Yet, he's ready to abandon her to her fate - woman he professed to love without a second thought. That lie, that deception mattered more to him, his pride was wounded and hence Marina had to be punished.
Isn't it the same with Simon? He may have lied to Daphne, told her a half-truth, but didn't she punish him- push him into something he did not want?
@B I agree with you. Both being hypo π
If Colin was truly gallant, he would have stayed with Marina now, when she needed him more than at any other time. Even though what she did was not right. Ugh, what a messy storyline.
In short their story is 2 minutes nibba nibbi lobeπ€£
- Queen's luncheon. Vi is getting on my nerves with her false pretending that everything is hunky - dory. And now the Queen wants to hear news of a Hastings heir soon.
I definitely feel the show has lost something in these two episodes. I cannot feel for the characters at all.
It seems to be bit rushed as it gets completed on 8th episode
- Lord and Lady G corner Ben and he's so uncomfortable. He does not want to be introduced to Lord Wetherby. Is he coming across as a tad homophobic, or is he just worried Lord G will discover his adventure with Lady G?
- Okay, a question I've been wanting to ask for a while- why does the Queen wear such hideous wigs?
Haha π€£π€£that too of different colors
- She wants El to find out who Lady W is and is increasing the pressure, she all but threatens El which I did not like. Then the Featheringtons arrive and they are shamed into leaving. Mama F tries to lie and tell Vi that she did not know the truth about Marina, but Vi walks away haughtily. Does no one care about Marina's fate in all this? All of them are busy protecting their own reputations when she's the one with everything to lose!π€’
F family are toooo much selfish and when that papa F got money they allowed their daughter to get along with her beau (I forgot his name) π
- Now they're making it look like Pen cared so much for Colin that she accepted tarnishing her own name along with her family's to save his. Idk what to feel about this. The more they try to whitewash Lady W and Pen, the more I feel angry at her actions. Writing about something or someone is a responsibility that she should have used wisely especially given the times they lived in and the extreme repercussions for women. Didn't El herself say - Colin would be well, gentlemen always are? However much of a scandal they're embroiled in, it's easy enough for them to wrangle out of it as it was proved. It's the women left behind bearing the long-term consequences.
- Vi asks Daph to share her troubles but Daph is in no mood- she tells off her mother not mincing words, saying she would give her more vague metaphors. Daph is yelling at her now. Okay, I get you're angry and feeling let down but how is this everyone's fault but your own? If your mother did not tell you, couldn't you have found out from someone else? She calls out Vi for always pretending, and I daresay I have to agree.
Lady D overhears them arguing and Vi pretends it's the heat- again!
Vi was a character I really liked. Can't believe they made her into this. Which is why I said I can't relate to any of the characters anymore.
-Daph meets Marina and offers to help find George for her. She sympathizes with her plight and understands why she did what she had to do. "Why should he be the one to decide your future when he clearly cares not for the outcome?" she says, and I can sense some of her frustration about her own situation with Simon coming through here. It seems to me like Daph feels fixing Marina's life can help her fix her own, or at least feel like she has some control over things. M does looked overwhelmed here, this is the first time someone - other than Pen has shown her understanding and kindness.
- Papa F visits Will and asks him to 'throw' his next match (did they even use phrases like that in the 19th century?) and Will throws him out instead. π
- Daph at Lady D's soiree . Welcome to my den of iniquity! I like it, but it's an overused phrase in so many HR romances (In one book I read, the ML had crafted his own right there in his house. You can imagine that was about! π) And soon Daph is drinking and gambling and being boss at it!
- Meanwhile Anthony and Simon are sharing drinks at the gentlemen's club. I liked Jonny's expressions here: He thinks he saw Siena and his eyes light up and then he blinks when he realizes it's not her and calls for a 'large glass'.
The General's wife (Kitty) encourages Daph to write him - It's not as if he would refuse you an audience. You're not his wife. I like the actress who plays her.
- Back to A and S again. They trade some barbs and then A loses it when S refers to his father being ashamed of the way he 'handled' things as head of the family. My goodness, that is quite a drunken brawl. How did A manage to throw S on the table like that? S is much bigger!
@B Even I wonderedπ€£π€£
- Daph comes home to find S trying to fix his broken face that he attributes to 'training with Will'. I get he wants to spare her feelings about her brother, but why can't they be honest with each other, man?
"Why will you not unfold yourself to me? A child would be a blessing" says Daph and here's where S finally reveals the 'vow' he made his father. Come to think of it, it does seem immature and childish, but the childhood trauma he faced makes him behave this way. He has never gotten over it, tbh and I wish this was addressed more. Daph expects him to just forget about it and move on. But it's easier said than done.
- Marina does not think Daph writing to the general without Simon's endorsement will yield any result. Arggh, it grates on my nerves sometimes how women had little power and everyone, including women themselves, seemed to facilitate this state of affairs.
- A and C scene. Anthony apologizes and Colin is churlish about accepting it at first. Then A tries to soothe him saying - it will be as if you never loved her at all. It's clear he's trying to soothe himself- tell himself that he will get over Siena. And it's clear Colin does not believe him. 'And how did these precepts serve you?' he asks, doubtfully.
- El is getting ready for the concert and I did feel Claudia overacted a bit in this scene. She does the scenes where El has to be sassy and angry really well, but the emotional ones leave me wanting. Though I must say, Claudia and Ruth look like mother and daughter! Well done, casting department!
- Ben corners Sir Granville and asks him about his 'situation'. I don't understand- he was referred to as Lord Granville earlier, no? which meant he was titled, and now Sir means he's a knight. I don't get it.
Anyways, Sir or Lord G tells Ben his wife has her freedom and it's happier marriage than most in society. Then Ben questions him about his paramour, Lord Wetherby's courtships. 'Do they enjoy the same freedom?' he asks. It's clear Ben is judging Sir G. I really thought Julian played this scene well when he says - "I risk my life every day for love, you have no idea how it feels to be in the same room as someone you love and yet feel like you are oceans apart. It takes courage to live outside of the traditional expectations of society. You talk of doing the same, but it's just talk."
He throws an open challenge at Ben and I feel like this is foreshadowing for Ben's story. I would love for Sir G to be part of that one too.
- El has a theory that Lady W is a tradesperson and tells the Queen who is not impressed and dismisses her. And that's when El realizes the Queen intends to punish Lady W. "There is still good she must do." says El. Yeah, I confess I do not see what that is at this point.
El escapes the concert with Ben. I wish this one was of the Smythe-Smith musicales. I really miss them from the books, I hope S2 has one of them at least.
They ride the carriage together and stop to pick up Madame D, and something she says about the Featheringtons not being there gives El an idea...
A and his mother sharing a stand, A looks at Siena in the crowd and she glances back at him, and then grips the hand of her new lover even as A's face tightens.
- The concert begins, and Marina is cooking up a concoction to kill her child π, and in parallel, S reaches out to take Daph's hand when she feels something is wrong...
This entire interlude-the parallel between Daph and Marina set with the BG of Vivaldi's Four seasons was shown really well.
Marina collapsed on the floor and Pen finding her - trying to get rid of the baby she did not want, and Daph finding out that she's not having the baby she wanted, sobbing in her mother's arms.
The music stops and the scene freezes on Simon's face as he hears the sounds of Daphne's sobs...
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