mrv3000 | (no subject)

Aww, Sybil. Your storyline turned to crap and so they killed you off. I can't say that I'm overly upset at her death, other than the fact that she was wasted from S2 on.
What did get me sniffling were the reactions. At the top of the list were Cora, Mary and Edith. The three of them knocked it out of the park acting-wise. At least those were the three that made me sniffly.
It would be unrealistic (LOL THIS SHOW) if Mary and Edith would suddenly be BFFs now, but I can see them at least trying with each other.
Oh Robert, you're such a douche. Yeah, Sybil would have had a slim chance anyway during this time period, but his pompousness during all this - expect Cora to be angry at you for a long time, dude. Between this and the estate, he really should go fishing for the rest of his life.
I can understand Mary's reaction to Matthew (that was incredibly stupid and insensitive to discuss business then), but Mary's got to let go of her inherited pompousness as well, otherwise the estate is going to go down the drain. And she'll really only have herself to blame if she keeps digging her heels in with Matthew.
BATES. WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?

IMO it went to crap in that they didn't do anything with her character. The whole Branson thing felt tacked on, and the nursing thing went nowhere. After the war she just sort of faded into obscurity.

ETA: To put it another way, I don't think they wrote her very well. The should have done 100x more with the character.

Edited 2012-10-15 01:02 (UTC)

Agree to disagree. :) I think Sybil was the glue of the family and had the kindest heart. I don't think she was done a disservice other then dying as I think there was more story for her. I will miss all three sisters being together.

That line about the last time the three of them being together in this life KILLED ME. It makes me tear up just thinking about it.

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*nods*

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.