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olde_fashionedI was bad and didn't write up a review for last week's RIDICULOUSLY SHORT installment of Cranford mainly because I couldn't come up with much to say about it. So I decided to lump it all together with episode three.
Warning: SPOILERS ABOUND as always!! ;-D (and I'm too tired so I'm probably rambling like a nitwit and mispelling words all over the place but oh well.)
Okay. Episode Two. Did anyone else find this horribly rushed and short? I was most extremely vexed to the point of Lady Catherine-ness to find myself so utterly and completely cheated by one whole hour!! It was cruel and unusual punishment. In general I think they stretched the plot a bit thin for this eppy for the sake of dragging the series on for another week. The only thing Big that happened was Mr. Holbrook's untimely demise. Poor Miss Matty. *sniffles*
I'm sure I'm forgetting something but it's been a week since I watched it. I should watch it again.
Okay. Now for Episode Three.
Most of this episode was not covered in the novel of Cranford that I read earlier this year, so I was clueless as to how it would end except that I was pretty sure Dr. Harrison was going to end up with Sophy. ;-) I mean, it was common sense -- there wasn't enough time left by the end of Ep. 2 and they can't invent a new love interest and have him get over the old one in that span of time. They just can't. Thankfully for us (the viewers) as well as poor Dr. Harrison and poor Sophy Hutton they ended up getting married after all. (I KNEW they would!!) *cue the gushing* AWWWWWWWWWWWWW are they a cute couple or what?? They're both so young and are so sweet when they look at each other. I loved the little picnic scene, when they sit on the log together, and he reaches out and touches her ribbon (what IS it with this actor and his girlfriend's ribbons, anyway???) and then Sophy's sisters start giggling. ;-D So cute. And also the doctor's rather disappointed and dismayed expression when he realizes he's not getting to ride with Sophy on the cart/wagon/whatever alone after he was staring at her teaching the girls how to dance!!!! ;-P
I knew about Peter Jenkyns, but it was sweetly done, anyway. :-) And the whole tea-shop thing, very funny. But the bank failure was sad and yet it wasn't -- I mean of course it's sad that Miss Matty became so poor, but when all her friends stood up and gave her money like that, and without her knowing, too. I cried. I did! I really did, and I cried even harder when Mrs. Forrester ran out and talked to Mary about how kind Miss Matty had been to her when they were young girls, when Matty had refused Mr. Holbrook and bumped into Mrs. Forrester just afterwards, and asked after her sick mother. I really cried at that. *dabs hanky at eyes*
Speaking of crying, I don't know what makes me cry more; sad scenes (deaths, especially) or scenes where people are being wonderful to each other. I don't mean romance, because that is a selfish kind of wonderful, but that selfless Christian charity, when people who might even have started out hating each other do something entirely good and utterly disinterested for the sake of doing what is right. Mr. Carter fills this role to a T in this series; he was a wonderful character. (I confess I had to overcome my remembrance of him as the nasty Nazi commander in Island at War, but he did a great job of being both stern and grumpy yet good and kind-hearted I think) His interactions with little Harry Gregson were heartwarming, to say the least. I can't believe they KILLED him!!!!! No!! And just when he was warming up to Miller!Lady (her name escapes me) and she was warming up to him and he brought her flowers!!! I wanted Lady Ludlow to hug poor Harry after Mr. Carter died. I think that was the least she could have done, but I suppose she was making a rather large concession by letting him sit on her furniture.
Harry was a good boy. I'd like to see how his story ends; I think he will turn out well, and become a famous teacher/doctor/reformer or something "big".
I love the medical scenes. Lovelovelove them. I know, I know, they're sad, and I don't like people getting hurt, but I do so love to see a glimpse of period medical practices. :-) And I've never seen anyone give an eye exam!!! That was fantastic!!
Ohhhh if I cried at Miss Matty's friends supporting her and poor Mr. Carter's death then I just about BAWLED when Jessie Brown started playing that song again. I knew, I knew! I knew what it meant, but that didn't start my eyes from getting blurry when he started singing and then walked in the door. *loud sigh* Those two went through an awful lot, and even though it was mainly Jessie's doing I somehow cannot blame her for doing what she thought was right. I think Major Gordon knew that, too.
Mary Smith didn't get to get married!!!!!! *pounds on table* Although was it just my over-eager imagination or was that A Glance exchanged between her and Dr. Marshland??? ;-D Hehehe!! (he ought to have been tarred and feathered for what he did with the valentine pranks but at least he tried to make things right. I'll give him credit for that at least.) And did anyone else catch that he was Irish?? ^-^
Sophy's illness -- of course we have to have Romantic Heroine get ill so Romantic Hero who also just happens to be a doctor come and save her. ;-P Totally predictable, but great nonetheless. I was a little taken aback when he broke the windows because I had thought he was going to say "the catch sticks" and open it like before, but I suppose no holds barred when his Lady Love is lying ill!! I thought it was cute that his friend Dr. Marshland had enough tact to flee the room once she was on the mend. ;-P
What was with all those silly old ladies fancying that Dr. Harrison had designs on them????? Ugh!! I don't know which was worse -- the Horrible Caroline Tompkinson or the ancient Mrs. Rose. 8-/ Silly women, letting themselves be talked into imagining love. *scoffs* Someone please shoot me with a shotgun if I ever do that, pleeeeaase????? ;-P
Martha & Jem in the forest???? What the heck was THAT?!!? Please tell me that was not what I thought it was. *covers eyes*
Sometimes I really think Elizabeth Gaskell's secondary characters are her finest. Higgins from N&S, Lady Harriet from W&D, Mr. Carter, etc. That lady could write, and she knew people. I love how she incorporates those little things that make you shake your head and feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I can't wait to see the new spin-off of Cranford. *happy sigh*
I am sure that as soon as I go to bed I will think of something else to say, but at the moment, my mind is blank.
Edit: BOOK SPOILERS! I was surprised that Capt. Brown didn't die like he did in the book -- is this yet to come, I wonder? And I was really hoping for that funny bit with the hoopskirt/cage/crinoline like in the book, but I shall hold out for the new Christmas thing and hope it's in that. ;-)
Edit again to add the link for the aforementioned "Christmas Thing" because people seem to be asking. ;-P
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/03_march/31/cranford.shtml
Warning: SPOILERS ABOUND as always!! ;-D (and I'm too tired so I'm probably rambling like a nitwit and mispelling words all over the place but oh well.)
Okay. Episode Two. Did anyone else find this horribly rushed and short? I was most extremely vexed to the point of Lady Catherine-ness to find myself so utterly and completely cheated by one whole hour!! It was cruel and unusual punishment. In general I think they stretched the plot a bit thin for this eppy for the sake of dragging the series on for another week. The only thing Big that happened was Mr. Holbrook's untimely demise. Poor Miss Matty. *sniffles*
I'm sure I'm forgetting something but it's been a week since I watched it. I should watch it again.
Okay. Now for Episode Three.
Most of this episode was not covered in the novel of Cranford that I read earlier this year, so I was clueless as to how it would end except that I was pretty sure Dr. Harrison was going to end up with Sophy. ;-) I mean, it was common sense -- there wasn't enough time left by the end of Ep. 2 and they can't invent a new love interest and have him get over the old one in that span of time. They just can't. Thankfully for us (the viewers) as well as poor Dr. Harrison and poor Sophy Hutton they ended up getting married after all. (I KNEW they would!!) *cue the gushing* AWWWWWWWWWWWWW are they a cute couple or what?? They're both so young and are so sweet when they look at each other. I loved the little picnic scene, when they sit on the log together, and he reaches out and touches her ribbon (what IS it with this actor and his girlfriend's ribbons, anyway???) and then Sophy's sisters start giggling. ;-D So cute. And also the doctor's rather disappointed and dismayed expression when he realizes he's not getting to ride with Sophy on the cart/wagon/whatever alone after he was staring at her teaching the girls how to dance!!!! ;-P
I knew about Peter Jenkyns, but it was sweetly done, anyway. :-) And the whole tea-shop thing, very funny. But the bank failure was sad and yet it wasn't -- I mean of course it's sad that Miss Matty became so poor, but when all her friends stood up and gave her money like that, and without her knowing, too. I cried. I did! I really did, and I cried even harder when Mrs. Forrester ran out and talked to Mary about how kind Miss Matty had been to her when they were young girls, when Matty had refused Mr. Holbrook and bumped into Mrs. Forrester just afterwards, and asked after her sick mother. I really cried at that. *dabs hanky at eyes*
Speaking of crying, I don't know what makes me cry more; sad scenes (deaths, especially) or scenes where people are being wonderful to each other. I don't mean romance, because that is a selfish kind of wonderful, but that selfless Christian charity, when people who might even have started out hating each other do something entirely good and utterly disinterested for the sake of doing what is right. Mr. Carter fills this role to a T in this series; he was a wonderful character. (I confess I had to overcome my remembrance of him as the nasty Nazi commander in Island at War, but he did a great job of being both stern and grumpy yet good and kind-hearted I think) His interactions with little Harry Gregson were heartwarming, to say the least. I can't believe they KILLED him!!!!! No!! And just when he was warming up to Miller!Lady (her name escapes me) and she was warming up to him and he brought her flowers!!! I wanted Lady Ludlow to hug poor Harry after Mr. Carter died. I think that was the least she could have done, but I suppose she was making a rather large concession by letting him sit on her furniture.
Harry was a good boy. I'd like to see how his story ends; I think he will turn out well, and become a famous teacher/doctor/reformer or something "big".
I love the medical scenes. Lovelovelove them. I know, I know, they're sad, and I don't like people getting hurt, but I do so love to see a glimpse of period medical practices. :-) And I've never seen anyone give an eye exam!!! That was fantastic!!
Ohhhh if I cried at Miss Matty's friends supporting her and poor Mr. Carter's death then I just about BAWLED when Jessie Brown started playing that song again. I knew, I knew! I knew what it meant, but that didn't start my eyes from getting blurry when he started singing and then walked in the door. *loud sigh* Those two went through an awful lot, and even though it was mainly Jessie's doing I somehow cannot blame her for doing what she thought was right. I think Major Gordon knew that, too.
Mary Smith didn't get to get married!!!!!! *pounds on table* Although was it just my over-eager imagination or was that A Glance exchanged between her and Dr. Marshland??? ;-D Hehehe!! (he ought to have been tarred and feathered for what he did with the valentine pranks but at least he tried to make things right. I'll give him credit for that at least.) And did anyone else catch that he was Irish?? ^-^
Sophy's illness -- of course we have to have Romantic Heroine get ill so Romantic Hero who also just happens to be a doctor come and save her. ;-P Totally predictable, but great nonetheless. I was a little taken aback when he broke the windows because I had thought he was going to say "the catch sticks" and open it like before, but I suppose no holds barred when his Lady Love is lying ill!! I thought it was cute that his friend Dr. Marshland had enough tact to flee the room once she was on the mend. ;-P
What was with all those silly old ladies fancying that Dr. Harrison had designs on them????? Ugh!! I don't know which was worse -- the Horrible Caroline Tompkinson or the ancient Mrs. Rose. 8-/ Silly women, letting themselves be talked into imagining love. *scoffs* Someone please shoot me with a shotgun if I ever do that, pleeeeaase????? ;-P
Martha & Jem in the forest???? What the heck was THAT?!!? Please tell me that was not what I thought it was. *covers eyes*
Sometimes I really think Elizabeth Gaskell's secondary characters are her finest. Higgins from N&S, Lady Harriet from W&D, Mr. Carter, etc. That lady could write, and she knew people. I love how she incorporates those little things that make you shake your head and feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I can't wait to see the new spin-off of Cranford. *happy sigh*
I am sure that as soon as I go to bed I will think of something else to say, but at the moment, my mind is blank.
Edit: BOOK SPOILERS! I was surprised that Capt. Brown didn't die like he did in the book -- is this yet to come, I wonder? And I was really hoping for that funny bit with the hoopskirt/cage/crinoline like in the book, but I shall hold out for the new Christmas thing and hope it's in that. ;-)
Edit again to add the link for the aforementioned "Christmas Thing" because people seem to be asking. ;-P
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/03_march/31/cranford.shtml
