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Post by mllemass on Jun 10, 2018 2:26:09 GMT
I knew what was going to happen, and I cried anyway. I'm still sniffling!
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Post by cassandra on Jun 10, 2018 2:41:50 GMT
Last episode was everything it should have been. No disappointments, tough to sustain that level of excellence throughout, but they did. I’ve been reading the books along with the series, it’s going to take me a while to let this go.
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Post by roverpup on Jun 10, 2018 3:22:03 GMT
I knew what was going to happen, and I cried anyway. I'm still sniffling! We just got back from our walk where we discussed what we had seen in the 5th episode. Both of us really enjoyed it (in our own ways of course). I will talk more in the morning. :-))
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Post by mllemass on Jun 10, 2018 3:45:22 GMT
It just occurred to me that they left out one part of the story. In the novel, doesn't Patrick find out that he had inherited a lot of money?
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 10, 2018 11:56:42 GMT
I don’t remember that part in the book, mllemass. Maybe I’m wrong but I thought he was free in part thanks to he being very middle class at the end.
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Post by miriel68 on Jun 10, 2018 14:19:05 GMT
He learns that there is a "small" trust (about 2 millions, I would be very pleased to discover such a small legacy) left by his distant great-great-grandfather. His mother was sending the money from the trust to the Foundation, while he was paying for her nursing home. On her death, it will pass to him
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 10, 2018 14:29:08 GMT
I don’t remember that! LOL I guess I have to read the books again!
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 10, 2018 14:44:04 GMT
I have seen a few people asking on social media if the last scene of the kid stopping the abuse is real or if he is imagining it as adult. The Playlist guy, who clearly hasn’t read the books, thinks it’s a metaphor. IMO in the context of the series it works as something he wanted to do but it didn’t happen. After all he said to Marianne that’s what he would said to him if he had spoken about his feelings to him BUT it really happens in the book and, I think, real life. He just stoped him one day. The kid looks very vulnerable and small in the scene but by then he was stronger than the Physically stronger. The father was an old man so first he is stopped physically by her much younger wife when he tries to abuse her and later by the son. I don’t think they explain the scene in detail on the book but one day he stopped him. The you are very cruel with your old man is on the book, too but after a teenager Patrick becomes even more wittily cruel than his father. He becomes vulnerable when suddenly he is very old.
I loved Hugo Weaving performance in it. Full of shame and sadness. It’s the monster being slayed but also he understanding he isn’t cheating anyone with his crazy theories about education. He is exposed and his son knows his secret: he is a monster.
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Post by mllemass on Jun 10, 2018 14:50:07 GMT
I knew I hadn't hallucinated it! It's at the beginning of chapter 6 of At Last. I think it also says that the trust fund would provide an income of $80,000 a year. It's not like the house in France, but still pretty great! I remember being so happy for Patrick when I read that!
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Post by queenzod on Jun 10, 2018 15:24:20 GMT
I think that bit at the end with young Patrick works both ways. I thought it was clear in the series that it was a metaphor and that Patrick didn’t say that all those years ago. It’s the adult Patrick setting his demons to rest, at last, and reconciling with his experience. However, if you want to think he said that, then you can.
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