Does anyone else want to stab Mariette?


Not because she gets to kiss Horatio (I'm an Archie girl ^__^) but because she's so....URGH!

I mean when she breaks/sprains her ankle...doesn't Horatio practically catch her when she leaps out of the window? What an idiot.

And urgh. She just infuriates me...am I the only one?

I love this show ^__^

Laura xxx

'Hearts are seldom broken in good residential areas'

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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
Yay, somebody else SANE!
The main thing I HATE is her accent, it's so annoying, so fake; "so ve are no morre dan de animols?"
I mean, how selfish. She expects Horatio to CATCH her then breaks her dammed ankle. To add to it, she goes and gets herself shot, and thus makes Archie run across the flaming bridge! He could've died ^-^...! So I exaggerate a little... :P
But, yes, I agree. Definatly stab her.

"But chopping off the heads of the nobility isn't going to fill their bellies, is it!"

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Exactly! The cow put our beloved Archie at risk! ¬_¬ She must die...which she did...but sssh...

Laura xxx

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The actress who played the part actually is French........

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Yes, she's a French model, no? Not an actress... and how could somebody who is French fake such a bad accent anyway >.<
Lol... not saying that she is a particually bad actress, because the character itself sucked... but c'mon. She's like a badly spoken twig :)

"But chopping off the heads of the nobility isn't going to fill their bellies, is it!"

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She is ridiculously annoying.

To the point that when the actress' character in From Hell died, I cheered.

Urgh so infuriating.

Laura xxx

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Too bad I'm playing her in a Horatio Hornblower RP...she wasn't too bad. She stood up to her employer to defend her station, which was something few women would have the guts to do in her days. Then again, Estelle Skornik needs to gain some weight fast.

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You know, she is so incredibly beautiful, she's the kind of girl you want to bring home to mom and dad. WOW!

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Wow kinda shocking to see everyone hating her. I thought the character was nice and adorable, and not talking about the person playing her, very very good looking.

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Ah, women! How quickly the tear each other to pieces in matters of jealousy. I trust you will note that none of the people who've complained in this thread are male. We men seem to find Marriete quite lovable. Ladies, do not let your envy overcome your common sense!

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I'm not jealous of her. If she had snogged the face off Archie, maybe then I would be jealous!

I just found her character really bland and the actress poor. Combine the two = infuriatingly dull character that Laura wants to stab.

Laura xxx

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Speaking strictly from a film-buff's point of view: it was one of the most wooden romances I've seen in a while. There was absolutely no chemistry between the two, making it all the harder to watch when the two were kissing.

What's more, it didn't make very much sense. Why are we to believe that Horatio, who had so far proven himself a very intelligent man, would fall so hard for a girl he's barely known two days? I can't bring myself to believe that he's so shallow as become emotionally attached to a woman simply for having a pretty face. His cry on the bridge after she died almost hurt it was so hard to watch!

Granted, Horatio isn't nearly so wise when it comes to women, but you'd think he would at least use some common sense.

That's my rant.



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I couldn't understand why he had to rescue her at all - what sort of danger was she in? She had nothing to fear from the Republicans, she should have been out there along with the rest of the villagers, cheering their arrival and hauling the Marquis off to the guillotine. So I couldn't figure out what all the drama was about when suddenly there were men pounding at the schoolhouse door. Was it because she was known to be friendly with an Englishman? That could have meant trouble in those days, but the whole "relationship" was so fast and so sketchy, I didn't realize that anyone even knew about it. She didn't seem to be ostracized in the village, or running any risks; of course, the English army officer knew about it, but I assumed that was because he was aware that Horatio hadn't returned to the camp that night. Maybe it was just that with soldiers around, there was a danger of rape, but none of the other women in town seemed worried. It confused me, and seemed like an arbitrary "damsel in distress" theme just dragged in out of nowhere to make Horatio's escape more perilous.

Flat, drab passion meanders across the screen!

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I think the producers threw the romance in to assure us that Horatio did indeed like women. They were probably worried that some of us (not me; I had read the books)were starting to wonder.

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^ What they said. When he did his Darth Vader scream of doom, I literally said, "Oh, come on. You knew her for two days!"

(I KNOW it was actually more than that, but seeing how long it takes Horatio to get close to anyone, I can't believe he'd fall that quickly for such a wooden character.)

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Watching her hopping across the bridge was completely laughable.

I'm Rick James, bitch!!!!

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"The main thing I HATE is her accent, it's so annoying, so fake; "so ve are no morre dan de animols?" - LadyDewhurst

Strange how many are complaining about her accent when she is French (albeit of Polish descent). Oh and she is actually an actress and not just a model.

Also wanting to stab someone is slightly disturbing.

"Nothings gonna change my world!"

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It's an old thread but who cares... I hated Marie as well. For the same reasons mentioned before. I also hated her in From Hell. I must remind myself to look up any movies with her in it and avoid them. For me she ranks closely to Kirsten Stewart. Another wet blanket. I'm astonished to learn she's actually French. Que? How can French talk with such a bad BAD French accent? I think I even liked Greg Wise's accent better!
I'm a romantic person and I would really like to see Hornblower fall in love. Which won't happen, not in this series because by now I've lost hope they will ever continue. But, if they would ever come to lady Barbara, I hope they will cast a talented actress who actually has some chemistry with Ioan!

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I've never watched nor read any of the Hornblower series before, so please excuse the errors, but on the topic of Mariette...

I liked her as a character, but there were some very... odd points about her. The accent, despite the actress being French, sounded... horrible! Like she kept forgetting what a French accent should sound like ^___^
The romance was cute, but I didn't really understand why Horatio 'needed' to save her. And him crying when she died - I cringed, but that's a personal thing. :D

I thought it was rather funny how isolated her house seemed to be, despite being in the middle of the village. It was like a safe house - riots and killing going on outside, and yet she and Horatio are perfectly safe in her house? And I especially loved the bit where she says something to the effect of "Did you see what they are doing in the square?" - uhm, how could he miss it? Your house appears to form part of the square, poppet.

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I don't know about stabbing her, but when she got shot, I said, "Good. Now drop that woman and run, run!" Not because I actually wanted to see her die, but because I saw no point to her being there, or with Horatio, for that matter. She just didn't work well with him or within the story - what was her function or personality, exactly? She just did or became whatever was needed for the story to progress.

And I don't say that because I'm jealous. I'm a Bush girl, myself. Maybe she would've been better off with Bush. (I actually might have liked that - Bush getting himself some pretty French girl.)

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"Bush getting himself some pretty French girl" Bush would have thought he was betraying his king by sleeping with the enemy! So it probably wouldn't happen. You're right though, Bush does deserve a pretty girl, but there are lots of pretty British women and I think he would prefer one of them.

I prefer Bush myself and hope he wouldn't have a problem with an American, pre War of 1812 of course!

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Mhn, you're right. *Ponders* Yes, an American might be just the ticket!
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Wow, there sure is a lot of jealousy on this board about her. Personally, I think she was the star of the episode.

I.S. Oxford

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sorry but I can't stand Mariette not because she 's kissing horatio(don't care) but she's a boring character and her accent is awful.she has a monotone voice and every time she says Horatio's name she makes me laugh.and how a french young girl in 1795? , in the french revolution can read and speak english.

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She can't act and she's all like: "PLEASE, somebody cast me as Fantine!" And no chemistry between her and Horatio. Damn, Pellew has more chemistry with his little dear in this epidsode. And in others too.

All the women in this series are just there as proofs Horatio's straight. But we all know he isn't. I watch this mostly for the slashiness.



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Laura = fat cow.

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Yay for Archie girls!

Mariette HAD potential but they blew it behind writing and acting.

She doesn't need to be this bigger than life butt kicking woman but some personality would've been nice. The character is far too one-dimensional and monotonous.

True, the character probably acted how women did back then but she can still be a strong woman. Just give her some character or personality. She's too much of an ornament to be shown off rather than an actual person in the episode.

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She looks lovely but sounds horrible. I guess they took part of her character from Marie, a character in the books - a French whom Hornblower loves. She has a tragic ending. They knew that they wouldn't film an episode with Marie so they squeezed in an equivalent. I have no problem with the way they wrote the character - who wants to see only spunky young ladies, it's this post modern cliche. There are shy girls, too. The character is probably traumatized by revolution and war. The character is written okay - not brilliant but okay.

But I have a problem with the actress - she is obviously not very experienced, and she speaks her lines without inner conviction. In a series with such a high level of acting, this really jars. She is actually the only weak point of the whole series, I think.

I like the other female characters - the duchess is wonderful, so are Maria and her mother, and Betty Bonaparte has good chemistry with Hornblower.

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Fan girls scare me.

Why, exactly, do you all hate all the girls in the series?

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I don't hate all the female characters.

I really liked the duchess and Betty. They both had character and presence on screen.

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Coincidentally, neither had any romantic connection with Hornblower.

I wonder how fan girls will react to Lady Barbara, assuming Ioan Grufford manages to get around to adapting those books.

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I'm open. I'd take a wait and see approach to how she was written and how well the person playing her acted.

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