Alex or Isobel?
I think we all know how it turns out, but who were you all rooting for? I really don't like either of them. Isobel seems really bitchy all the time! Then again I'm only halfway through season 2.
shareIn the review I read, it describes Isobel as plain. Sorry but IMO she's far more attractive than Alex, Plus she's though and intelligent.
No contest.
I wouldn't say she's more attractive than Alex, but she's far from plain. Alex is more cosmopolitan in her manner and bearing, and she's a classic beauty. Isobel is definitely classic highland scot, and her's is a more natural, earthy beauty. The thing is that Hamish has always been captivated by Alex's charm and beauty, but she's never loved him enough to sacrifice for him, she wants him on her terms and only when it suits her. Isobel, on the other hand, has always loved Hamish, and always been jealous of Alex's hold over him. She's the one who's constantly willing to sacrifice for a chance at love with him, and his blindness to that fact is what makes her so bitchy. Personally, I liked Isobel more from the first time I saw her - and after the series 1 finale I thought he was a pig headed moron for not staying with her.
SPOILER ALERT
I loved the somewhat surreal ending to the show in Series 3, when Hamish and Isobel finally do get together in a cave up in the mountains, and they consumate their love while a blizard rages outside, it was rather symbolic of their relationship and (probably) their future lives together. Also, Hamish get's a great line off after they finish having sex, something to the effect of "...and to think we could have been doing that all this time."
I totally agree with you, modean. And you hit the nail on the head about why Isobel is so bitchy! LOL And who can blame her? Hamish (dear man that he is!) was too chicken to tell Alex how he really felt and it ended badly for both of them....Alex dead because she came back to Lochdubh and Hamish miserable, guilt-ridden and suicidal. :( God, I love this program!
Morse's Law: There's always time for one more pint.
Why on earth would Alex have left in the first place? She can write her novels anywhere. As a HUGE bonus she'd have Hamish MacBeth in her bed every night!!!
If she'd had her priorities straight, she'd never had left Hamish in the first place.
still her death was very sad and I felt for her.
Is it a bad thing if I say neither? Alex was a total flake and Isobel just never really appealed to me. I wanted her and Macbeth to get together just because that is obviously where they were going with it but if I am to be totally honest, I couldn't have cared less. I find that I was not invested in the women he chose. I love Hamish though and I wish they had chosen a more dynamic woman to play his love interest.
sharei hated Alex, i thought she was a total cow who left the area to find indemendence, though it was funded by her daddy! treated Hamish like crap and still expected him to wait for her. Isobel was loverly, and though occasioanly stuck up still treated hamish with respect.
Thunderbirds Aren't Slow
I wanted Hamish to be with Isobel and was very happy when it finally happened that way. I especially liked the part on the very final episode where TV John's daddy came back from the dead (as The newly deceased TV John was too "new" of an angel to come back himself) and revealed that Hamish and Isobel would need thousands of Pampers as they would presumably be having a large family. Based on that assumption, it was eay to go one step furthur and imagine them living "happily ever after" (with TV John no doubt a frequent otherwordly visitor!)
What a show!