Death Comes to Bleak House
Oct. 27th, 2014 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeAlas, Anna Maxwell Martin is acting a lot more like Esther Summerson than Elizabeth Bennett, isn’t she?
Anyway, I’m now 45 minutes into the three-hour mini-series. Having never read the P.D. James novel, I’m going to speculate as to the outcome.
First off, Col. Fitzwilliam, with his twilight horse ride and burned letter, is an obvious red herring. Let’s set him aside.
Here’s my guess as to what’s going on. Young Riley survived his hanging, and the reason his mother was haunting the woods after his “death” was that she was feeding him until they could get him away from the area. She is also still alive. Riley knows that Wickham somehow knows he is still alive, and thus decided to kill him, but in the dark, he got the wrong man (Denny).
Then, that pleasant young man who is courting Georgianna will turn out to either be Riley himself or someone acting on his behalf, and if not the murderer of Denny, will at least be highly culpable. Much concern will be expressed for Georgianna’s feelings, but it will turn out that the flirtation we’ve seen between them was not serious on her part, and her secret affection for someone unsuitable will actually be centered on poor ailing Will in the cottage.
I’ll probably watch the second quarter of the mini-series tonight, and then the rest of it will be on a week from now, so it’ll take me a while to find out whether I’ve guessed anything right – please don’t tell me!
Update: Okay, now I’m halfway through. Previously I’d thought Georgianna’s suitor was blond, but now I see he does have the same red hair as the Riley boy. But she does seem more partial to him than I had imagined, poor girl. Perhaps Will et alia are part of the Col. Fitzwilliam story instead.
Anyway, I’m now 45 minutes into the three-hour mini-series. Having never read the P.D. James novel, I’m going to speculate as to the outcome.
First off, Col. Fitzwilliam, with his twilight horse ride and burned letter, is an obvious red herring. Let’s set him aside.
Here’s my guess as to what’s going on. Young Riley survived his hanging, and the reason his mother was haunting the woods after his “death” was that she was feeding him until they could get him away from the area. She is also still alive. Riley knows that Wickham somehow knows he is still alive, and thus decided to kill him, but in the dark, he got the wrong man (Denny).
Then, that pleasant young man who is courting Georgianna will turn out to either be Riley himself or someone acting on his behalf, and if not the murderer of Denny, will at least be highly culpable. Much concern will be expressed for Georgianna’s feelings, but it will turn out that the flirtation we’ve seen between them was not serious on her part, and her secret affection for someone unsuitable will actually be centered on poor ailing Will in the cottage.
I’ll probably watch the second quarter of the mini-series tonight, and then the rest of it will be on a week from now, so it’ll take me a while to find out whether I’ve guessed anything right – please don’t tell me!
Update: Okay, now I’m halfway through. Previously I’d thought Georgianna’s suitor was blond, but now I see he does have the same red hair as the Riley boy. But she does seem more partial to him than I had imagined, poor girl. Perhaps Will et alia are part of the Col. Fitzwilliam story instead.