Am I the only one who wants the Regina storyline resolved? I am tired of her and her cartoon-esque villainy. I know the series needs a storyline, but there must be others they could attempt.
The actress must be that great that she has made me despise the character enough to just want her gone. But I think it's dragged on enough personally.
I'm kind of agreeing. I think the actress looks absolutely perfect and fabulous for that role, but yeah.. it's a bit cartoon-esque..
shareShe does look fabulous. And she has done the job of making everyone despise her, which is a credit to her acting chops. I think I'm just tired of that storyline and need something more. I also feel like George had been less likeable this season. Still, the other characters keep me watching ?
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I tend to think Regina made a mistake having sex with the policeman in her hotel room in Sydney. She will think she has control of him but he will despise her now and turn against her.
Or she may become pregnant and George will know it is not his! Or she will continue to up her Morphine and do herself in!
shareRegina seems to have become dependant on morphine to stay on top of things emotionally. She is playing a big game now and has only a tenuous grip on reality. If she and George get to Canberra she might calm down because all the things that are upsetting her will remain at Ash Park.
They may play the pregnancy gambit by complicating's George's life--especially his public one, as he'll know it's not his.
But waiting a decent interval and divorcing the harridan later is one thing. Divorcing her while she's pregnant or right after with a new child that undoubtedly will be a boy (because the writers would make it so to complicate George's life further) will assure Regina top billing again as Mrs. Bligh in the public's eye.
George is in for a rough ride if she comes up preggers. He'd have a Hobson's choice. Disgrace himself by disowning her and the baby as not his in a divorce proceeding and then as a result have to resign his elected position out of scandal or keep schtum and let her have a baby that takes precedence over Sarah's "boy" his real child, because he has to keep quiet to keep his job in Canberra.
This could open a whole can of worms for the next couple of series. Then, what about the louche police officer? What if he suspects it's his? No reason he would given she's married, but he might. And I doubt he'd go quietly either.
I'm thinking this whole morphine thing has been a red herring. It might be a baby that tears open this whole thing.
Also this whole House of Lies theme this week being emphasized--maybe we are in for a whole new era of lies now. House of Lies Mark II.
It also might go completely pear shaped if Elizabeth's idea of getting that novel out about Regina the poisoner gets published just she is pregnant and it looks like she's having George's baby (in public eyes).
This revenge novel might backfire big time if R gets preggs and stays in the family as a result while being pegged as a murderer under the roof at Ash Park.
I am getting tired of Regina's machinations, but I'm even more tired of the glowering, one-note policeman. I do hope they don't go with the idea of Regina getting pregnant by him, which would be the most obvious result of the Sydney meeting.
shareAgreed! The actress is great but I like more complex characters. Villains should be gone fast!! I think that complex characters like the grandmother are more interesting. They create enough problems without being all bad. Plus, is George stupid? He should have realized who she was when she looked into Sarah's past even though he asked her not to do it.
shareWell, if George is elected to Parliament she'll go with him to Canberra, and politicking, the games and intrigue, should be right up her alley. She could get him in trouble, or help him a good deal, so there are plot options for the writers, that is if she doesn't go to prison first for poisoning Sarah.
shareI am also tired of the Regina storyline. I'm watching the second episode of series 4 and am wondering if this entire series is going to revolve around this cartoon-esque villainous character (good description, OP). It has become rather one-note and boring. I like watching the other characters, especially Elizabeth, but I'm not sure I can sit through series 4 if it's dominated by Regina. Nothing against the actress, because she's doing a great job making the character evil. I think it still doesn't make sense to me that George would marry this woman. He never seemed to be this stupid. I'm not enjoying the fallout.
shareIt does revolve around her a lot the rest of the season... though I liked the second to last episode where she started to come undone - I only have the finale to watch now... fingers crossed that will see the end of her!!
I agree with what you said about George too... they turned him into a stupid selfish man who only cares about his political career and getting it at all cost... that's not the George of earlier seasons! It was confounding to me!
If I were Brett Climo I would have gone on strike when they handed me the new script. (Sure.....)
The only good thing is that his hair is looking great these days. After what they did to him in the very first episode (Series 1) he deserves at least that.
So, now we've come full circle at the end of Series 4 and still....we are not shot of Regina!
The end sets her up in a trial with Evil Rapist Who Has a Knife Stab Wound In His Hand using Regina with his lawyers to get revenge on the Blighs.
So, not goodbye Regina. Just hello next phase with the trial coming up for next year in which she will become a pawn in destroying all the Blighs, especially Georgie, aka "Dopey."
I get why they are using that plot line to tease for next year. But some of us are so very tired of everything Regina.
But apparently she will not be going away. More's the pity.
Instead of beginning fresh next year with some new stories and even perhaps some new people, we are goig to just be seeing essentially "episode 13" of this series in a continuation--all Regina all the time.
Now not looking forward to series 5 the way I have the other series.
At the end we saw a great deal of closure with everything--but with Regina coming back to haunt the Blighs with the trial: Elizabeth's the new bride, free and singleton Olivia and Anna looking forward and launching on their new lives, Olivia has organized Henry and James into a workable relationship, and the baby's here and Dopey and Sarah are loved up with Georgie Junior in tow, etc.
So then, the only thing we really have left as a storyline to provide the tension next year is...REGINA.
Blech. Ugh. Blech. :-))
Season 5 will continue in 1958. There is a 4-year time-jump for the next season. So, not sure about the trial and all the other stories. I am very curious (nervous?) about that time jump. Will we only hear about how things were settled and not see any of it? I guess, there will be very new stories and new people for sure.
Also, the 'happy ending' for most characters is due to the fact that at the time of writing the final episode of season 4, they had no idea that there would be a season 5. But in this case they should have done what they did for season 2 (when it was supposed to be cancelled) and have two endings. Though again, the 4-year time jump to season 5, would have made major cliff-hangers for the final, an odd decision. Bevan Lee said somewhere (I've read), exactly that and this is why there are no major cliff-hangers and the stories are (sort of) 'wrapped'.
I loved the first 3 seasons, but I just don't think I can watch it anymore. All of the drama has gotten cartoonish. I agree, though that Regina is the worst.
shareThe show did change quite a bit in tone (to me anyway) over time.
Looking back for the first series, when I found it, it seemed very warm and very much about the storytelling and trials of the characters, but not so strident.
Then they just seemed to turn up the "volume" and intensity of the conflicts until as you said with Regina, it became cartoonish in nature.
I didn't mind Elizabeth the domineering mum--she was a big soap operish in her creation as a character. But the more we learned about her, the more we saw her background, and she was a woman of her time--the turn of the 20th century. So, we were allowed to watch her grow and change when faced with the dilemmas.
But somewhere around series 3, it just felt really forced and going through the motions somewhat for characters and plot.
Cannot put my finger on it, but something of the original charm and warmth was lost by series 3.
Not sure why, but Sarah's character at the first was assertive and strong, but kind and vulnerable in her own way. Latterly, perhaps with the introduction of Grumpy Cat (loved that given by a poster!) Rene, she just became to more and more annoying and confrontational and simply not very likeable.
In Series 4, I found her just an empty suit. Oh the baby, yeah. And I found I'd really lost interest in investing in the love affair between Georgie and grumpy Sarah.
Dunno...
I'm going to shock your sensibilities, more than likely, with what I have to say next.
Regina rocks! The essence of drama is conflict. Which means: a clash of goals. Which in turn means: a clash of values, and between and among people with different standards of value, hence different standards of right and wrong. Regina belongs to that rare class of villains who has a completely different standard from the rest of us.
Now that makes her the one you love to hate. In which case, when she dies or goes away, the writers have to invent someone like her.
Or she is the archetypical rebel against light and good.
I see her springing out of the lunatic asylum and falling in with a National Socialist Australian White People's Party. Perhaps even meeting George Lincoln Rockwell, before his assassination in 1965 here in the States. And before then, falling in with the Organisation der Ehemaligen SchutzStaffel Angehoerigen and getting mixed up with their plan to supply missiles to Jamal abd al-Nasr of Egypt, years before the Six-day War.
Eh? Why not? Now we're talking years--a decade and a half, even--of events....
Actually, I'm watching season 1 and after two episodes with her in it, I'm tired of her. I looked at IMDB and it appears she's a permanent cast member, so I'm done with the show.
Just unoroginal and dumb. Countless shows have done this and they all are crap.
Thats too bad, because this show had promise.