Well that sucks since that means most of the people on DCUM and in the world aren’t charming. |
I agree with this. I think they had to add dialogue when the sisters are meeting her for the first time and gasp. I didn't understand their reaction until Penelope says Marina is pretty. I'd be happy to look like Marina, but she wasn't so breathtaking to override her lack of standing and get all those suitors. I didn't like Daphne at all. The Duke was incredible. |
Compared to the sisters and Daphne, she was much prettier. |
You are reply to two different people who think that you are being ridiculous. |
That's what I mean about inconsistency, though. They insisted on some Regency realism -- otherwise, the entire Daphne-Simon forced marriage plot makes no sense -- but then they just chuck that whenever they need for the plot to work. We are shown how one girl's suitor abandons her after learning that she has no dowry. We are shown that people care a lot about wealth and social standing and family lineage. And then suddenly it all goes out the window for Marina? And even in a fantasy world, why would a sullen, middle-class commoner have throngs of aristocratic suitors? |
Kind of like a very very dull version of GOT? The plot was so obvious ... |
That’s the point of an alternative reality. You can pick what you want to PLAY WITH and discard the rest. It’s why you can get Shakespeare set in 1930s Germany. |
I wonder with Marian if her lack of warmth foreshadows her future from the books. I loved the Queen and Lady Danbury. I can't wait until Lady D's involvement in the series portrayal of Book 4, so I'm hoping for renewal. I like the "unrealistic" alternative reality. |
Like I said, I enjoy alternative history and fantasy. I just expect some *internal* consistency. If you choose to depict a society with strict rules and conventions, in which those rules and conventions have serious consequences for the characters, and then just ignore the rules and conventions when you feel like it, I'm going to think you're lazy and sloppy. |
| I thought it was kind of boring, and nothing compared to Downton. Anyone agree? Just finished last night. |
I don't think it was rape per se, but this premise doesn't hold. She married him with the knowledge that he was unable to have children. Whether that ended up being true or not, she accepted it and chose him anyway. So she wasn't 'entitled' to children he was presumably unable to have. And accepted that by marrying him. |
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interestingly some of these actors are MUCH better looking in real life.
Phoebe Dynevor, Daphne Ruby Barker, Marina
Claudia Jessie, Eloise
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Then, even Shakespeare himself was lazy and sloppy. |
Marian isn't in the books |
Um, no. Whether that ended up being true or not?? That's otherwise known as a lie, and a significant one. He also took advantage of her ignorance and kept on with the lie. She may not have chosen him otherwise (though the "scandal" makes that more of a question. I find it interesting that you're more bothered by her taking advantage of him and not the other way. His offense is far greater, imo. |