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Make up your own ending...SPOILERS

posted 17 years ago by Sylvie17
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I guess we'll have to make up our own endings...We can feel free to play out the rest of it in our heads and post it here. The prize fighter returns and persuades (Matty is it?) to go to America to seek their fortunes, where they are very successful. The farm girl who was trained by the old nanny marries the butler and lives happily ever after. It's the other nanny's story that gives me problems...I hate it that her friend who cared for her baby was hung, or I would definitely change that...Hmmmm.

[–] megmarch2003 16 years ago

I think she stayed on as nanny to that house so that she could raise her own son.

"You can't tell me nothin' if you ain't had an 8-track." -Sinbad

[–] freefall79 16 years ago

that's what i always imagined as well

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[–] maytloo 16 years ago

I'm still watching this but I did skip to the last episode so I know how it ends. Here are my endings:

Ned Jones/McClusky returns from Somaliland and marries Matty.
Lydia, the farm girl, finds love with the butler, but stays on and becomes the nanny after the old one dies. Remember, in the mini, Lydia was still a nanny-in-training.
For Hannah, I hope there will be a happy ending. She made the best decision she could at the time although she couldn't have known it would lead to the hanging of her best friend Mrs. B. The worst part is she can never acknowledge William/Charlie as her own son, and he will never be able to claim his birth father's inheritance. I didn't see any male character who could have played her future love interest-maybe Ned will come with a soldier friend and introduce him to Hannah.
I see a possibility of a sequel with the re-appearance of Nanny Simmons who is the only person, besides Hannah and young Bertie, who knows the real Charlie died. And Hannah knows Simmons is the one who poisoned Charlie. And what about that wastrel Hugh? Would he come back to make amends with his father after his behavior towards Lydia?

[–] megmarch2003 16 years ago

Nanny Simmons wouldn't dare come back, the risk of being exposed as Charlie's killer would be too great.

Hannah did have a possible love interest, Mattie's brother. But I don't seeing her pursuing a life outside of the Hutchinson house as long as her Billy is a child.

In the parade scene at the end, when Nanny Simmons is in the crowd and she sees Hannah holding a baby and knows it's Billy, I swear I saw a hint of a smile, as if she is glad that Hannah is able to raise her own baby. Maybe she wasn't quite as vile as she seemed.

"You can't tell me nothin' if you ain't had an 8-track." -Sinbad

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[–] jane_bront 14 years ago

I wonder if there's some good Berkeley Square fanfiction somewhere. If I find any, I'll report back.

~"Chris, am I weird?"
~"Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird."

[–] croak-1 10 years ago

I took that smile to mean that she's in the clear. Because if Hannah opens her mouth about the original Charlie being dead, she has to explain the "new" Charlie. So Simmons has Hannah "over a barrel" (as it were). Simmons figures she's safe. And, BTW, with Billy being reported dead, his grandmother can't try to grab him again, so that takes care of that threat for Hannah, too. I don't think Hannah's too worried about Billy not being able to claim his birthright - he'll be reared in similar "wealthy" circumstances.

I seriously doubt that Hannah will/would get involved with another man. Normally, people in service didn't marry. Someone in a previous post mentioned the country girl marrying the butler. I suppose that has happened in real life, but I doubt it happened often, because usually the woman would have to leave service. Most homes didn't have rooms for married couples. The quarters for the staff were for single males and single females (and usually with a locked door in between). (Anna and Mr. Bates of Downton Abbey are VERY lucky that they're given a separate little house on the estate.)

Besides that, if you have a young servant girl who's married, she's more likely to become pregnant. Then what happens to them all? I think marriage was not only discouraged, it was frowned upon - especially for the younger servants (maybe not as much for the over-40 crowd).

As for my own ending... I'd love to see Simmons hang for the deaths of the two children. She was a *itch... and needed to pay for her wrongdoings. (No, I don't think she was so stupid that they could be called "accidents" - at least, not the second time around. Don't forget, she was also a thief - having stolen and hocked that silver baby cup.)

I'd like to see Mattie and Ned leave the country - bound for Australia or somewhere else.

[–] SaliceMcD 9 years ago

Thank you!! I didn't notice her in the crowd!!

[–] SaliceMcD 9 years ago

A chance encounter with a teen-aged "Charlie" convinces his true grandmother that he is the family heir. Softened in her last years, she is grateful to Hannah for her sacrifice in keeping him healthy and well-homed. Political/financial/legal pressure/bribes/threats ensue, and Hannah and the rightful young Viscount William live out their lives in grandeur.

Everybody who deserves to do so marries happily, Victoria is divorced and disgraced (same thing?) and the cunning young Bertie eventually becomes Prime Minister.