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Poor Hewlett....Poor poor Hewlett


That was just sad.

"Did you every love me???"

I'm sorry but I wanted her to tell one more lie just so he didn't feel so friggin dejected.

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Gorman is such a great actor. He killed it in that scene.

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I agree completely. I've been missing Burn Goreman this season, but everytime he shows his face on camera his heart gets crushed again. Doggone it Anna!!

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He's been one of the best characters on the show. Technically, he's the "enemy," but there's a lot more to him than merely being a bad guy.



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This show needs a GOOD ENDING for him.....like they reunite at the end of the war (and series).

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I guess I'm like Anna....Abe is married. He's being a twat. He's got a kid. You have a good man who you share common interest. Who you find interesting. Sound like he has a little money to take care of you. Seems like your way more into him then your husband...LOL

Alas when you have everyone from Simcoe to Abe chasing after you I guess she knows something better will come her way at some point. Makes me think of Good guy finish last. I still want her to end up with him.

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Me too, but I think he's gone for good. ๎€•

It seemed like they might be setting up Ben and Anna in the long run, what with their parallel experiences, but now I don't know. They seem to relate to each other as compatriots and friends, but I didn't see a romantic spark in their last scene. It would be a marriage of respect and compatibility, but not more IMO. At least as of now.

But as a Caleb lover, I would kind of like to see them together. Caleb is the jolly roustabout and cut-up of the group, the comic relief, a rebel at heart more than the others. He doesn't really seem like the marrying kind (and he hasn't gotten any loving either, has he?). But you never know. In some ways they seem well-suited.

Anna, I presume, is of a higher class than he is. Caleb doesn't come from the same kind of privilege or education as Ben and Abe, certainly. His father might have been a farmer or fisherman, right? Maybe he always thought of her as out of his league in that way, IDK. At any rate she and Abe seem to have always been a couple.

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You have a good man who you share common interest.

Except that they don't really share common interests. They have some of the same character traits, but those character traits are precisely the things that make a relationship between them (at the present time, anyway) completely unworkable. Hewlett's still an officer in the royal army; he's still loyal to king and country. Anna is loyal to her own country and cause. They're on different sides and, given their commitment to duty and understanding of loyalty, their differing views can't be reconciled.

I love this relationship, but I was happy with the way it played out. I didn't see how it could play out any other way and still keep true to the characters. I loved that Anna risked everything to be honest with Hewlett. And I loved that Hewlett didn't abandon his own principles and that he demanded answers. I also thought it was interesting that Anna refused to answer Hewlett's question about whether or not she ever loved him. That she didn't answer--because she refuses to lie to him again--indicates to me that she does love him. We've seen that played out onscreen and Anna's confession to Abigail later only seems to support it.

The only thing I didn't really care for in that scene was the implication that Anna still loves Abe. I never got that relationship, tbh. Abe has never shown that he respects Anna or values her opinions. That Anna would still love someone who has treated her with so much contempt shows an incredible lack of self-respect. That doesn't seem true to the character, imo. I don't understand why Anna would love Abe; we've seen nothing onscreen to demonstrate it.

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Abe has turned into such a jerk, honestly. Anna is way too good for him.

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So did I, but he asked her for the truth and I think he wanted it. She respected him too much to lie to him anymore. And if she lied, it might give him false hope. Like he said, he needed to "quit her". She really ripped off the bandaid there, which might make it easier for him to quit her in the long run.

But it was heart-wrenching.

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I know! Did they really have to trample his heart all over again?

And Anna who says "you look well!" Er... NO he doesn't, he looks like a corpse ^^

I also wanted her to say "yes" to the question. I thought she actually loved him. And he would have liked to hear it.

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Anna clearly does love the major; we were supposed to think nothing else. He had her at the telescope scene. That was an expensive side scene if it had no purpose, which I think it did.

But she's a spy during war time. I am impressed that she told him that, too. More evidence she loves him -- and trusts him. He could still turn her in; she's in enemy territory.

Yes, they do love each other. All I could think was that she didn't want to get his hopes up again. She's proved she can be cruel to save him. Surely she can't really mean she still loves Abe. Abe is falling in love with his wife. ("What kind of wife did you marry, there?" "I'm beginning to wonder!" hahaha!)

If Edmund would disappear into the backwoods like I want him to, instead of journeying home to submit to cashiering, then they could reconnect after the war. That would be sweet.

Of course, that would have to be in some alternate reality, since Anna Strong and Selah live out their days together after his imprisonment terminates at the end of the war.

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I believe Hewlett would have known if Anna lied to spare his feelings.

She cared enough about him to be strictly honest: she didn't love him, but she would have gone with him to Scotland and made her life with him.

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I believe Hewlett would have known if Anna lied to spare his feelings.

But she didn't respond to his question at all. He assumed that he knew the answer (that she didn't love him), but much of what we've seen onscreen indicates that she does. At the very least, her feelings for him are powerful. If they weren't, she wouldn't have been so upset about lying to and betraying him. Her feelings have to go beyond respect.

It's interesting that, in telling him about Abe's plan to kill him and her own role as a spy, she did make the choice that Abe forced her to make. What would prevent Hewlett from telling Andre about Abe? If we're to think that Anna made a choice between Abe and Hewlett, in their last scene together, she sort of chose Hewlett.

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[quote][/At the very least, her feelings for him are powerful. If they weren't, she wouldn't have been so upset about lying to and betraying him. Her feelings have to go beyond respect.
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And yet, she was there, telling him another lie!
Anna told Hewlett she came to tell him the truth, despite orders to the contrary!

But that wasn't the case- Anna was there to meet with Abigail, per Ben's instructions. Hewlett even suspected that, but then he didn't pursue it.

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At the prospect of going to New York, Anna was horrified at having to dredge up more pain for Edmund; this isn't the sign of a woman who doesn't care. She tells him some truth, conceals some. For Anna, truth is not necessarily the acid test of her love. She'll lie to save someone pain -- or death.

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I wish at the end of the scene he would have arrested her for being a spy. He made the comment when they sat down that he was still an officer but only in formality. That would have been a great twist and sweet revenge for Hewitt.

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And out of character. Despite his obvious anger and feelings of betrayal, he still loves her. He's also someone whose previous moral certainties have been exploded over the last couple of seasons. I can't imagine that s1 Hewlett would have conspired with the rebels to kill Simcoe.

From a pragmatic standpoint, revealing Anna as a spy would have put Hewlett in a dicey situation as well. If it came out that he knew Abe was a spy and did nothing (and even conspired with him to kill Simcoe), Hewlett would also be tried for treason. Whilst he was willing to play along with Anna's story that he coerced her into marriage and encouraged her to commit bigamy (and is being cashiered for his troubles), I doubt that he'd risk being hanged to exact some sort of petty revenge.

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