So let’s talk about the two most important moments of the episode. Because, really, the rest of the were just details, right?
Despite the fact that Demelza KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING and BEGGED HIM NOT TO, Ross went to Trenwith and spent the night with Elizabeth.
I was so uncomfortable watching that scene, guys. And I couldn’t decide what I was seeing. Did Ross rape Elizabeth? She was saying “no”–but obviously kissing him back.
So I went looking on the internet, to see whether the scene was clearer in the books, or if there was some consensus about that scene online that I couldn’t come up with on my own.
No one else seems to be able to come to an agreement about it, either.
So what do you think?
[polldaddy poll=9578952]Whichever of the three answers is the “right” one, Ross is no longer a romantic hero (a la Matthew Crawley or Edward Cullen) in my books. I don’t care how complicated the situation, I have a hard time swallowing any excuse for infidelity. (And of course, I think being a rapist is MUCH worse than cheating on your wife. But the best case scenario is that he’s cheating scum.)
The worst part was that Ross believed what he did was inevitable:
I was cheering for Demelza in that moment. It wasn’t going to make life going forward any better for her, but at least she left Ross with no doubt that he’s an idiot–and she isn’t going to stand by and let him think she’d put up with it.
Of course, there were a few more important moments in the episode:
Dwight got his second “Dear John” letter.
Elizabeth decided to marry George, because it would be best for Geoffrey Charles. I’m sure it had nothing to do with her own desire to hire a nurse to care for her stroke-addled mother.
And, as usual, Aunt Agatha had a lot of acerbic comments to make about all of it.
At the end of the episode, though, I was left hating Ross. Not the show, but most of the men in it. What did you think?
