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It’s back again boys and girls! I had already resubbed like 2 weeks ago but nonetheless! Say hi to Raffus on Asura if you come back! I may be able to help with things.
Never seen Poldark? Binge it with GIFs!
- Recap'd by Zack Waldman
A quick refresher of the first three magical, turbulent, heart-stopping seasons of Masterpiece’s Poldark … presented in GIFs. We re-watched every single episode start-to-finish – so you don’t have to!
Season 1
British soldier Ross Poldark returns home from the war to find that his father has passed, his first love Elizabeth is engaged to his cousin Francis, and his inheritance is nonexistent. Life comes at you fast.
Ross saves a young damsel in distress named Demelza during a dog fight – literally. She becomes a kitchen maid. Then his wife. Then a mother. The Poldark family is less than pleased (Ross is very off-brand) but as we’ll learn – time and again – Ross Poldark is not one for conforming to high society.
Cousin Francis beings to tailspin. He gambles away the family’s resurrected mining company on cards and frequents local prostitute Margaret despite the birth of his son Geoffrey Charles. Not to mention a nearly-fatal encounter dueling against his sister Verity’s suitor, Captain Blamey.
Ross isn’t a fan of local financial juggernaut George Warleggen. And George REALLY doesn’t like Ross. He buys up Francis’ debt, a stake in the mine, a fancy ship… everything under the sun to try to outmuscle Ross. Everything but a conscience. Ross leads his village comrades on a pillaging of said ship when its maiden voyage goes awry. Season 1 ends with Ross standing trial for wrecking, inciting a riot, and murder. Yikes.
Season 2
Ross is a free man – despite George’s best efforts to bribe the court into guillotining him. After suffering through the loss of her daughter to putrid throat, Demelza is already on edge. The emotional baggage of the trial doesn’t help. Good news, though… Baby Poldark No. 2 is on the way.
Dr. Dwight Enys, meet heiress Caroline Penvenen. Caroline Penvenen, meet Dr. Dwight Enys. A match made in heaven… sort of. Their engagement is on – then off – then ultimately back on. They tie the knot as Dr. Enys ties his fate to the Navy. Cue up: **DRAMATIC SMOOCH**.
Meanwhile, Francis continues to spiral into the depths of despair. He barely survives a suicide attempt during the trial, only to drown in the depths of the mine.
“Why the hell didn’t you learn to swim?” - Ross
Our thoughts exactly, Ross. With Francis out of the picture, George wastes no time trying to reel in Elizabeth.
News of George and Elizabeth’s pending nuptials travels fast. Ross throws himself at Elizabeth in a last-ditch effort to… we’re not really sure. Old habits die hard? No matter – Elizabeth sours on Ross when he fails to follow-up on their night of romance and she keeps her engagement promise to George.
George’s reax:
Demelza’s reax:
“It is not my pride that is wounded, Ross. It is my pride in you!” - Demelza
Despite narrowly escaping a smuggling bust, discovering a tin deposit that could resurrect the mine, and saying “no thanks” to enlisting back with the troops, Ross seems unable to impress Demelza as we tie a bow on Season 2.
Season 3
Indeed, it does. We welcome Baby Valentine into the fold. His biological father?
George? Ross? It’s anybody’s guess. The plot thickens.
She really won’t. Loose lips sink ships, right? Speaking of ships – Navy man Dr. Enys becomes a POW when he is captured by the French. Fear not - Ross to the rescue. He does, after all, have some free time after turning down the local magistrate position.
Ross’ rescue mission is a success. He saves Dr. Enys and his new Navy buddy/wingman Lt. Hugh Armitage. Bromance continued! Back in Cornwall, Demelza gives birth to Baby Clowance, but is growing weary of her absentee husband. More on that later.
Meanwhile, Demelza’s brother Drake has his sights set on Geoffrey Charles’ babysitter Morwenna.
George has had enough. He intervenes and has Drake falsely arrested for stealing - a capital offense for those keeping score at home.
Enter Rev. Whitworth.
Then there’s ‘ole Aunt Agatha. She wanted a 100th birthday party. Never one for cake and balloons, George blows out those candles when he finds out Agatha’s only 98. She has the last laugh, though. She tells George he’s not ACTUALLY Valentine’s father. Uh-Oh.
Season 3 ends with things heating up mightily between Demelza and Lt. Armitage.
Demelza, what about Ross?
So, what’s next? Poldark Season 4 starts Sunday night at 9pm on WGBH 2.
♫ LET'S GO
Vagabond - Misterwives
“It’s been three days,” Jared told her softly, his hand on her shoulder, pressure fair but firm, as she stared out, out of the cottage window. “He’s not coming back.”
“He is,” she had replied then, twisting and twisting her shawl in her hands. “He will. He has to. He will.”
He didn’t. Not that night, nor the next night, nor the one after that. There was not a sign of Evan, even when seven days had passed, and Alana still sat there, at the cottage window, watching, counting.
“We should look for him,” she said as he set the table. “And we should bring him home, and then we could move to the coast, where he’ll be happy and we’ll be away from people and -”
“He’s gone,” Jared replied, and he was looking away from her, at the bread. “It’s been a week, and he’s not back here. He’ll have returned to the sea by now. Where we found him.”
“But it’s not safe for him there,” Alana replied. “Don’t you remember? How we found him -”
“We found him with a broken arm but alive,” he replied. “Don’t you remember? How we took him to the city, because the fishing was poor at the coast, and how he fell deathly ill? Don’t you remember? How we moved here, because he was dying, and we were away from people, and how he seemed to improve? Do you remember that, Alana?”
She had lowered her head, and said nothing. Even when Jared had apologised, his voice low, and rough, and a little wrong, she did not look at him nor reply.
That night, as he slept, she left the cottage, leaving a note on the table apologising to Jared, food in her basket and shawl wrapped tight around her, and she began to walk, along the shore of the loch, listening to the waves lapping against each other, with no one but herself.
This loch was connected to the next one over. From there, it was a short journey to the sea.
She could find him. She would find him.
The journey to the next loch did not take as long as she thought, but she could not shake the feeling of being watched, even when she looked around to see no one else for miles.
It was a strange, isolating feeling, but one she was used to.
The other loch was large. Much larger than she had thought, stretching out and far beyond the horizon. A stone lodged in her chest as she looked over the water, clear and smooth and deep.
Splash.
Alana looked down, and there, in the water, was perhaps the most beautiful girl she had ever seen, her hair fanning out behind her in the water, eyes wide and unblinking, her lips soft, and smiling. For a moment, Alana wanted to fall into the water with her, beneath the waves, and kiss her until they both ran out of breath, as if they would die if they resurfaced.
But there was something off about her. Like that horse Evan had said was a kelpie.
“May I help you?” the girl in the loch asked.
“I’m looking for someone,” Alana replied. “I think they passed through here.”
The girl in lake raised an eyebrow. “And is that someone a selkie?”
Alana remained quiet.
“I thought as much,” the girl said. “My brother said you might follow him. He warned me about you.”
So. She was one of them, then.
“Is that so?” Alana asked, and they fell into silence.
She knelt down by the loch shore, and gazed out over the distance. The girl just watched her, eyes gleaming as she did, until at last, she spoke, a soft song underpinning her voice.
“My name is Zoe.”
“Alana.”
Zoe nodded.
“You’re lonely, aren’t you?” she asked her, her head cocked to one side, resting on her arms. “To say you’re going this far for one person. You are aware that he isn’t here, aren’t you?”
“But he will be, and I’ll wait for him until he is,” Alana said, as she stared out over the loch. There wasn’t even a cottage on the other shore. “He’ll come back. I know he will.”
“You’ll be waiting a long time,” Zoe told her.
“Well,” Alana said, smiling at Zoe, “isn’t it lucky I have you for company?”
Levi: I just started working out and I’m already out of breath.
“also a bummer? rafael’s life” LMAOOO HONESTLY THO Let Rafael Solano Rest 2k4ever
I think there’s a good chance the Midwife crew spent their entire budget for baby actors in this first episode, because we’re kicking off 19
No context spoilers for the Season 14 premiere:
THE CARDIGAN IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!
Hold up. The 100 is back in Jan?? Aw hell yes!
yessssssssssssss
finally
