Her swallowing of a London-bought potion hastened the pregnancy, did something disastrous to her arteries, and caused her to die soon after giving George his daughter, Ursula Warleggan. That cataclysmic plot event closed the series four finale and cast a dark shadow over Cornwall. The look of shattered, furious grief etched on George's face suggests that he will not be giving up a thirst for vengeance on Ross, whom he may well soon blame for the disaster. In some ways too, Elizabeth's son Geoffrey Charles' little joke about young Valentine looking like Uncle Ross was another seed, though probably not the one Dr Enys had in mind. It convinced George of the paternity question and set things in motion. So it was folly, yes, but looked at another way, Elizabeth died for her children. She wanted to secure Valentine a future, a place in society. And that could never have happened with George huffing about and treating the poor child like dirt as he had earlier in the episode. Heida Reed's character will be much missed and her death was supremely moving, ending with George and Elizabeth's two children watching in wracked silence at the dead woman's bed.
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Series four ended with tragedy, a wedding, and some stunning moments of drama – but where could series five go next? (SPOILERS)
Elizabeth is dead. Ross Poldark 's former love killed by… what exactly? Her own folly? Her own ambition? Or… Ross himself? As Doctor Enys ruefully observed, with her dead body still warm in the Trenwith master bedroom: "What killed her was seeded long ago". Ross certainly is the seed, quite literally if you think about it. His night of passion with Elizabeth back in series two resulted in the birth of young Valentine, the floppy-haired elephant in the drawing room, a Ross mini-me if every there was one, with his flowing dark locks and skill on a (rocking) horse. Poldark series 4 episode 5 recap: Ossie dies in a horse riding accident
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And it was Elizabeth's desperation to prove to husband George that eight-month pregnancies were the norm for her that seeded her death.
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Elizabeth's place in the Poldark firmament was skilfully established by scriptwriter Debbie Horsfield in the opening scene – a flashback to 1780 which saw Ross, set to enlist in the army, wooing the young lady. Elizabeth's eventual two husbands – Francis and George – looked on enviously, not knowing what fate had in store for them both. "It's always been Ross, it will always be Ross, " said 1780 Francis. Ironic enough. An even darker joke followed that would only be fully understood in hindsight. 1780 Aunt Agatha's Tarot cards foretold that Elizabeth would break hearts and bear beautiful children. "Not ours at any rate, " said Francis with a dark laugh – but we of course know that Elizabeth was destined to bear the children of all three men. Now there's a thing for series five to get its teeth into…
Elsewhere, there was still good news for Drake and Morwenna, who were finally married – but not before the former governess was put through the wringer once again. After agreeing to marry the love of her life, she was lured back to Trenwith by Elizabeth, only to be viciously sent packing by George.
Less a character than a laboratory-grown mould, Adderley is from a genus that deserves to have died out by now because women should rightfully refuse to go anywhere near them. Baffingly, thanks to Lord Byron and pals., his type persists to this day (often spotted descending in the Take Me Out love lift or kissing their biceps in the mirror of the loo in an episode of Channel 4's First Dates). Captain Monk Adderley is a bad boy. Bad boys like Adderley go about their lives with a permanent hard-on for themselves and the unshaken conviction that the feeling's mutual. They're like cats, treating the entire world as their scratching post. Every available hard surface and warm body is something for them to back up to and rub against. They speak only in cliché and double entendre, and permanently sport the self-satisfied look of a baby midway through filling its nappy. It wasn't really Adderley that ruined things of course, it was Ross. Instead of doing what any clear-headed person would do when faced with such a specimen—going home with his wife, laughing their heads off about what a prong they'd just met and doing impressions of him by licking the butterknife all sexy at breakfast the next day—Ross gave in to jealousy and hurt pride.
Elizabeth is taking a risk of her own with her 'secretly a month more pregnant than everyone thinks' scheme. That may all be for naught, as the Warleggan marriage went from the same high to the same low as the Poldarks' this week. Thanks to Geoffrey Charles unwittingly landing his mother in it by pointing out that Valentine is a 1:3 scale model of Uncle Ross, George is back to giving Elizabeth the silent treatment over the plum pudding. Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! Fit to burst with the fruit of George's actual loins, Elizabeth has run out of options. To whom did she write that letter? Next week's finale will tell. The finale will also tell "whether there's anything to be done" to save Ross and Demelza's relationship. Again. What we really want next week's finale to tell though, is the story of how Drake and Morwenna lived happily ever after. At the end of all the misery this series, we deserve a little brightness. Poor Morwenna might not think it possible, but recovery is real.
Kindness, patience and time is what she needs, and we know just the blacksmith to provide it.
| July 22, 2018 | |
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This review contains spoilers. London. Fin de Siecle. An endless bacchanalia belching forth sin. Exotically bewigged women carry parrots on sticks. Arabian conjurors breathe fire and juggle spoons. A petite monkey nibbles on a grape and thinks of its mother. Men drink. Women flirt. A python, tired of limitless pleasure, drapes itself louchely around a man's neck and longs for novelty. It's no wonder Mistress Demelza feels out of place. She be a friendly sort not used to scheming London ways. The only games Demelza likes are skittles and toss-a-pilchard, not hop-a-bed and finger-me-under-the-whist table, as seem to be the fashion in the capital. Judas, this trip to London was doomed from the start. Oh, it began well enough, with Demelza and Ross spending their days going at it full gallop all over Mrs Parkinson's guest linen, grinning arm in arm up at St Paul's and declaring London life "all pleasure". But then who had to slime along and ruin it? Walking penis Captain Monk Adderley.
He rued Hugh, and Adderley made him madderly. Adderley and Demelza were from two different worlds. His had trained him to interpret reluctance on a woman's part as coyness that was all part of the chase. Hers had trained her to be courteous to her social superiors and not to trust her good instincts. It's too late to be any use, but the answer, Demelza, is yes, you very much should have smacked his face and spit on his shoe, then kneed him in the crotch for good measure. At least Ross shot Adderley in the baby-maker, which was almost as satisfying a death as Ossie's, and twice as poetically just. Now nobody will ever admire his hairy buttons again. Good riddance. Demelza's distress aside, the entire duel plot was pure silliness, especially predicated as it was on a bum-to-gloves dissing and round of parliamentary pushy-pushy. Adderley was a Blackadder character and deserved to be treated as such. Ross should have taken Caroline and Dwight's advice and laughed the man out of town, but armoured by a series five renewal, deep down he knew he could afford to take the risk.