Episode eight went from joy to tragedy to elation and ultimately despair – we’re all going to need a lie down
Lawks a-lummy, ‘Darkers! ’Twas a corker! I may require a sedative from Dr Enys if Evil George doesn’t want it. Giddy aunt. Copious weeping. The little she-bear? Yes! Drake and Morwenna? Yes! Sindy Doll wanting to get back in the family way? Yes! But Elizabeth? No! No! No! Please God, no. They visited every emotion possible in this episode, sometimes all in the same scene. From joy to tragedy to elation to despair and back again. No wonder Prudie needed a lie down. “All the doings and to-ings and fro-ings! ‘E don’t know the half of it.”
Well, we didn’t know the half of it. And having not read the novels, I was taken completely by surprise by Elizabeth’s death and I’m really not very happy about it at all. Was there nothing Dr Enys could do when he is the greatest doctor (and greatest man) in the history of the world? And all this to prove a lie to Evil George by use of an evil tincture.
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