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So the final season is all 21st century British TV political correctness and virtue signaling...

posted 5 years ago by Coleburg83 (684)
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On race? Based on the first episode. How surprising.

Yeah thats the BBC for you!

I have to admit I had this feeling as well. Did the season stray far from the books?

The final season wasn’t an adaption of the Winston Graham novels but showrunner Debbie Horsfield on an ego trip diverging from the books to write her very own chapter of the saga, it's just fan fiction.

I loved the first four seasons but gave the final one a miss.

[–] PinbackWiggly (383) 3 years ago

Thanks, yeah, I felt the last season of Outlander was sort of the same. You can almost feel 21st century concepts, ideals, interactions, slipping into the dialogue.

[–] Lily Magnum (254) 3 years ago

The last season was not part of the books. The books skip ahead to Jeremy and Valentine being adults. The show wanted one more season so they wrote their own material to continue to focus on Ross and Demelza. I think they will bring the show back in a few years with the Poldark kids as adults and continue the adapting the books. Supposedly nothing that happened in the final season conflicts with the novels, but Ross and Demelza have two more babies in the time gap. I agree that the final season felt too "right now", instead of being something Graham would have actually written.

[–] leader (1774) 10 months ago

That would be so cool. May it be true. I need more Poldark in my aura.