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It's been far too long since I read the book! I have questions for those up to Ep 4, or who've read the book recently. But if the answer is that I should wait and all will be revealed later on, I'll accept that. ;) I often wonder if people think I'm lying because I say I've read a book but can't remember anything about it.
My coworker gave me a quizzical look when I said, "I just got to the point where Childermass got killed!" I have the worst memory in the world! And then he told me he heard a rumor Susanna Clark is coming out with another book which will be the later adventures of Vinculus and Childermass.
So, my questions and conjectures... Lady Pole is taken away in a carriage to 'somewhere.' Mrs. Strange is watching from across the street, in this scene in the movie. She's been pumping her maid for information because her maid is walking out with one of Norrell's servants, so I get that she's on top of things. I assume that when Lady Pole is taken out she's leaving from her own house. Stephen is with her, and doesn't Childermass see her off...? And then she arrives at Segundus and Honeyfoot's house.
Now, I have to assume that what has happened is this: Mrs. Strange arranged that the guy driving the carriage (who is that? Her maid's boyfriend?) would take Lady Pole to Segundus and Honeyfoot rather than to wherever she was supposed to have gone. Or is this something I would clearly remember if I had read the book? Or something I should easily have inferred from that scene? When I was watching it didn't seem as if there was any time there, for her to have done anything.
And then later Childermass shows up and Segundus and Honeyfoot defend Lady Pole and won't let him see her, and that seems to finally win her over to them. Childermass always seems sinister but in the movie he comes off much more decent than I recall him feeling in the book. He's the one trying to get Norrell to do things right! He complains about intercepting letters. So he seems forbidding when he arrives at Segundus and Honeyfoot's house, but was he actually just trying to follow up on the mystery of what the hell is wrong with Lady Pole? I mean, sure he'd be annoyed about being shot, but would he be looking for revenge or reasons, being as he seems to be quite in the dark and curious as to what Norrell has done to her? I feel like such an idiot that I can't remember these things from the book.
I'm tempted to start re-reading the book right now. I'd forgotten how much I liked it.
My coworker gave me a quizzical look when I said, "I just got to the point where Childermass got killed!" I have the worst memory in the world! And then he told me he heard a rumor Susanna Clark is coming out with another book which will be the later adventures of Vinculus and Childermass.
So, my questions and conjectures... Lady Pole is taken away in a carriage to 'somewhere.' Mrs. Strange is watching from across the street, in this scene in the movie. She's been pumping her maid for information because her maid is walking out with one of Norrell's servants, so I get that she's on top of things. I assume that when Lady Pole is taken out she's leaving from her own house. Stephen is with her, and doesn't Childermass see her off...? And then she arrives at Segundus and Honeyfoot's house.
Now, I have to assume that what has happened is this: Mrs. Strange arranged that the guy driving the carriage (who is that? Her maid's boyfriend?) would take Lady Pole to Segundus and Honeyfoot rather than to wherever she was supposed to have gone. Or is this something I would clearly remember if I had read the book? Or something I should easily have inferred from that scene? When I was watching it didn't seem as if there was any time there, for her to have done anything.
And then later Childermass shows up and Segundus and Honeyfoot defend Lady Pole and won't let him see her, and that seems to finally win her over to them. Childermass always seems sinister but in the movie he comes off much more decent than I recall him feeling in the book. He's the one trying to get Norrell to do things right! He complains about intercepting letters. So he seems forbidding when he arrives at Segundus and Honeyfoot's house, but was he actually just trying to follow up on the mystery of what the hell is wrong with Lady Pole? I mean, sure he'd be annoyed about being shot, but would he be looking for revenge or reasons, being as he seems to be quite in the dark and curious as to what Norrell has done to her? I feel like such an idiot that I can't remember these things from the book.
I'm tempted to start re-reading the book right now. I'd forgotten how much I liked it.