#poldark thoughts

[flipperbrain-awakes]

Demelza thinking thoughts: Wow, was last night a dream?? I'll just quietly roll over and see if he's still asleep... Good Lord! To heck with silently exiting the room, it should've been wake up buddy, time for round two. If only 'The Blue Dress: A tasteful porno' was a thing.

[stelly38]

Sometimes I think these two should have gotten married.

[bougainvillea-and-saltwater]

"God," thought Ross, "it does work and unfairly; but I want her, not any other, not the most beautiful eighteen-year-old damsel born out of a sea-shell, not the most seductive houri of any sultan's harem; I want her with her familiar gestures and her shining smile and her scarred knees, and I know she wants me in just the same way, and if there's any happiness more complete than this, I don't know it and am not sure I even want it."

— Winston Graham, The Black Moon

[crowleysqu33n]

Aidan Turner is most on my to do list he is soooo freaking gorgeous 🥰 also must watch Poldark/the hobbit movies this week again

[flipperbrain-awakes]

It's curious ain't it? Gray velvet is purple in the sunlight... but so is his waistcoat. Or was it purple all along and looks gray inside? It's a conundrum. I mean the yellow cast of the candlelight as the complement to purple tones could affect the color... I'm not a fabric aficionado, perhaps this is an inherent quality of velvet/velour.

Also adding as a bonus below, the purple pants at the Grambler mine closing that appear gray otherwise... the trousers of the day are a tough wear, even on this perfect specimen of manhood they look like sweatpants. Black is def the better choice, or even camel though they can have their issues as well.

[stelly38]

I didn’t like him either. Manipulative little shit. Agree with your assessment, OP. I always thought Demelza was bought pretty easily, too… a magnolia and some poetry? Meh.

You know... this may be an unpopular opinion... but I was rewatching Poldark, and I've come to the conclusion that Hugh Armitage was dick... he put Demelza in an impossible position (Demelza's choices were her own and I have a whole other book of thoughts on that). He literally says to her that if she doesn't leave her husband and children to be with him, he will lose the will to live and die and it will be her fault. And because he has big brown cow eyes and can rhyme words we're supposed to what? find him tragic and romantic? And then he does! He's like please stay with me while I die, because you won't throw your entire life away for me. I don't like him.

[stelly38]

[quotergirl19]

Give us Polin scenes like this💋💕

[dollsome-does-tumblr]

for the record, i've said "our flag means death is MY bridgerton!" a normal amount of times.

[stelly38]

I have to agree with @nervousladytraveler 's take above as to the reasons why Ross had trouble shaking Elizabeth completely off... better TV. After reading the series and watching the show a couple times, it was clear to me that conflict makes for exciting television, and this explains the recurring chance encounters with Elizabeth, as well as the reason behind Demelza's constant sniping at Ross. They are a much more even couple in the books, meaning, there's less conflict between them. I felt the series portrayed their relationship in a manic sort of way--it was either lovey-dovey perfection or fighting and bickering.

However, if I'd never read the books, I would never have had this impression. I adored the series the first time I watched it (including S5, which I refuse to ever watch again), but it was only after reading the saga that these choices (made by the show writers) began to stand out.

And I'm not sure what hat @nervousladytraveler refers to, but I found most of D's wardrobe to be cute. My favorite dresses of hers are above, with the exception of a navy blue one I could not find a picture of. Overall, I tended to like the less-fancy, "day" dresses she wore, far more than the over-done ball gowns, especially that gold thing she wore to the Warleggan ball. The dark green (or black?) dress above in center photo is about as "fancy" as I liked her dresses.

On Poldark tv show, why do you think Ross was so fixated with Eliz? Yes, her beauty was real, but he idealized, misjudged and fabricated who she really was. In the books, she is a pretty shallow vacuous character which the tv writer completely recreated. Yet on the show, he could never let her go, why? Next to Demelza's courage, strength, integrity, she pales in comparison.

Thanks @anonymous for the question! I think Debbie Horsfield et al felt that the love triangle made for good tv and didn't want to let that formula go, even when we viewers were getting a little tired of it. At a certain point in the novels, Winston Graham was also done with it and set aside for other plotlines. So it needed new fuel if it was going to continue past series 2, and DH provided this with loads of chance meetings and glances of Valentine, etc. The “does he or doesn’t he” dramatic tension around series Ross, wouldn't be believable or sellable if Elizabeth wasn’t at least a bit likable, thus her recreation as you called it. Perhaps also, the writing was also meant to update Elizabeth’s character, giving her more dimensions than book Elizabeth. But I think in doing this, DH lost sight of WG’s Demelza, who she also tried to update. Yes, her courage and strength is still there (and we are shown this time and again, speaking of formulas) but despite those admirable values, the scripts chip away at Demelza’s likeability. She harps and snips (and wears that horrible hat in S3…talk about character inconsistencies) and her Hugh storyline is about revenge and not the subtle and complicated web of human emotions and frailty that WG wrote about. 

I wonder if, in the end, DH’s changes to these essential characters in order to force the love triangle, resulted in us viewers liking them all--Ross, Elizabeth, Demelza--a little less? 

[wonder-worker]

I know it’s never going to happen, but I need a gothic period drama about Eleanor Cobham right now

[holdoncallfailed]

It means that bad authors churning out half baked garbage not only do it for the money but they also rate published fanfic as perfect novels

i see. goodreads' damage to the literary world cannot be overstated

[miasmultifandomdump]

Sometimes I wonder if the Poldark writers just realized that their antagonist was so much more interesting than their protagonist and felt like they had to ruin his character because of it.

[stelly38]

Does anyone know if this quote is from the books or the series?

What did he expect, exactly? For her to leave Ross and the kids and run away with his dumb ass?

If he was only expecting a fuck, was just the one time supposed to satisfy him forever? Didn’t he think about what might come after that?

Of course not. He didn’t think any further than the tip of his dick.

“Can I make it any plainer? I abandoned my squadron in the middle of a war…..to throw myself at your feet. Is there a more extravagant way I could declare my love?–Hugh

A longer poem would have sufficed.

"Not for me."–Hugh

[secretsmeagol]

So was anyone going to tell me that Jack Farthing played Charles in that Spencer movie or? And to be very clear here obviously I can't stand the real Charles and god knows I don't find him remotely attractive, but Jack Farthing? Oh Jack Farthing I find very attractive. And I Would Like To See Him playing a bad husband, bc that might be played in a sexy way. I'd certainly like to find out

[flipperbrain-awakes]

Poldark 1.07

On my 834th rewatch :D and I'm constantly irritated at this episode. In the book Ross is angry at Demelza over the Verity business but he lays the blame primarily on Francis BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE IT BELONGS! I can understand being pissed about Demelza getting involved considering what happened at Nampara, Francis and Blamey dueling etc., but the show portrays Demelza as the worst fuck up on earth. How is it her fault that Francis sucks? After that dressing down by Ross, girlfriend, pack your shit, grab your kid and go. And why tf didn't Verity say in her note hey, by the way, I sought out Captain Blamey and rekindled our relationship or SOMETHING to keep Demelza and Ross out of the line of fire? She must've known shit would hit the fan... ! I know, I know, water under the bridge. end rant.