Have just re-watched this and loved it. So lovely. But I did feel a little fustrated as I am a total romantic and wanted a kiss at the end! I know that it was truer to that period without the kiss but I think a little modern licence doesn't go a miss.
shareI agree - the mini series adaptation of Gaskell's North & South gave us a kiss to end all kisses so I think Davies could have indulged us romantics out there!
I think Davies is really good, but I still haven't forgiven him for cutting out the "I was in the middle before I knew I'd begun" line from P & P - maybe he's just not that much of a romantic - not blatantly so...
i felt the same way--a kiss is a conclusion/resolution
shareI wanted a kiss too. What a shame. It would have ended so beautifly if only.....
I'm always this nervous, you're just closer, you can see better. ~ Jeff Murdock
Why in earth is a kiss a conclusion?
shareLucky for Keeley Hawes (Cynthia). She got to kiss both Anthony Howell (Roger) and Iain Glen (Preston). Too bad for Justine Waddell (Molly), she gets none. Guess it sucks to be the goody-two-shoes heroine, where there is no rewarding kiss for her good behavior.
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Just finished this mini series and felt a "longing" for a kiss
shareI wanted a kiss also....i waited an waited but noooooo..... :(
shareYes, a kiss would certainly have been great. Damn scarlet fever! Imagine FINALLY being proposed to by the one you've always loved & being unable to kiss him! (And I agree about the kiss in "North & South" - that gives me shivers down the spine! I only saw it for the first time last week, but I rewound that final scene many times because it was so lovely!)
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Me too. I really wanted a kiss. Besides who wouldn't want to kiss Roger. I was sad, too. I remember first watching it and being kinda disappointed, oh well.
shareI did too! That would have been so cute!
But it was still so good.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. Actually, what happened is Elizabeth Gaskell died before she could finish writing the novel. She didn't write anything beyond the part where Roger turns and walks away into the rain after saying goodbye to the Gibsons (of course we all know it was really Molly he was saying goodbye to, and Molly alone :) by lurking in the street outside their house and whatnot... if you know what part I'm talking about... Anyway, while it was known (from letters she wrote, etc.) that Gaskell planned on Molly and Roger getting married and going to Africa together, she never actually wrote in a kiss... so maybe there's no kiss in the movie as a sort of tribute to the fact that Gaskell never got to writing it, if you know what I mean. If she did get to finish writing the book, though, I think there'd probably be a kiss in there somewhere...
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