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This show has hardly ever made me upset...

posted 13 years ago by furienna
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... except for this one episode, where Alfie's mother was taken to debtor's prison and the Pratt sisters were robbed by their own father.

Caroline Arless maybe deserved taking the consequences for her actions, but for the sake of her children, I wish she would have been allowed to stay free. Alfie was too young to be a father rather than a big brother to his younger siblings, even though he extraordinally enough really lived up to his responsibilities.

Pearl's and Ruby's father sure would have deserved to do some time though, after he stole both from his daughters and from Miss Lane, instead of being free to just walk around the country, probably causing new trouble wherever he ended up next . It was just awful to see poor Alfie running after the carriage, which brough his mother to prison, while this dispicable man just walked around.

I also felt relly sorry for Ruby. Not only was she proved wrong about her father, but Pearl was more angry than sad and was little to no comfort to her. Not just opening the letters, which their father had written to Ruby, but then also cutting them into pieces before she had even read them, was just a cruel thing to do, even though Pearl had been proven right about him.

For a TV show, where practically every other episode ended on a happy note, and if there was a lesson to be learned, it was that good will always conquer evil, this episode seemed to teach the very opposite.

Intelligence and purity.

[–] dathaler 12 years ago

Not sure if you'll see this response given that the show has been off the air for nearly 2 years, BUT.....

... having seen about half of the eps from Season 3, it pains me to tell you that it gets worse.

[–] furienna 12 years ago

I get an e-mail notification, when someone replies to one of my posts, so you didn't have to worry about me seeing your response. (I had almost forgotten about me starting this thread though, since no one has replied it before now.)

Anyway... I don't know why you assume, that I hadn't watched all four seasons of this show. I might have missed one episode here and there, but I've seen most of them. And I don't remember any other episode, that didn't end on a happy note, or where good didn't conquer evil. So I still stand by what I said.

Intelligence and purity.

[–] dathaler 12 years ago

The harvest episode in Season 3 didn't tear at your heart?

[–] furienna 12 years ago

You're right. Alfie's brother died, didn't he? I had forgotten about that. But even that was a different matter. There was an epidemic, and some children didn't survive it. No one could do anything about it. That boy's death was sad, of course. But still, seeing Alfie running after the carriage, that took his mother away, while the Pratt sisters's father was walking free after having stolen from his daughters, left a much worse taste in my mouth.

Intelligence and purity.

[–] dathaler 12 years ago

I agree with you about the injustice and personally, I was STOKED that folks in Lark Rise bludgeoned Caroline back to reality .

[–] Furienna (3375) 5 years ago

Now that I found this thread again, I have to mention a third sad episode:
the one where Robert basically forces Fisher to move on and leave town...
Even if you can argue that he did it to keep his daughter from getting her heart broken later, that was harsh.
I don't believe that he did the right thing, and I feel so sorry for Laura.