I should clarify that it's not what Sybil did, but how they portrayed it. We had no idea how she felt about giving stuff up for married life (other than "I LOVE BRANSON OMG"). Even when she was nursing we never really had any insight into her character, other than "she is a nurse which equals progressive." We're meant to fill in a huge amount of blanks with her, which I'm not really willing to do. And at the very least she should have bonded with Edith lately, but...Sybil was always just sitting off to the side.
The romance + "modern mindest" of that time period can be done very well. Just look at Dorothy Sayers, who actually lived and wrote during that time period. Her character Harriet Vane angsted out who she was as a person and a woman vs how she was deeply in love.
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I should clarify that it's not what Sybil did, but how they portrayed it. We had no idea how she felt about giving stuff up for married life (other than "I LOVE BRANSON OMG"). Even when she was nursing we never really had any insight into her character, other than "she is a nurse which equals progressive." We're meant to fill in a huge amount of blanks with her, which I'm not really willing to do. And at the very least she should have bonded with Edith lately, but...Sybil was always just sitting off to the side.
The romance + "modern mindest" of that time period can be done very well. Just look at Dorothy Sayers, who actually lived and wrote during that time period. Her character Harriet Vane angsted out who she was as a person and a woman vs how she was deeply in love.