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  1. The actor who plays Bash was in Degrassi - he is also, with a slightly more trimmed beard and sans accent Devon in in the new raccoon friendly series Crawford. I'm piecing it together from different sources since AWAE hasn't aired on the CBC yet, but I question whether it ended on a cliff-hanger. It did not get renewed as quickly as it did if the ending didn't get people younger than us craving Shirbert. Also, it ended with Bash and Mary's wedding - and Elijah having to move to some blackwater hamlet where he doesn't know anyone with his mother, this guy he hardly knows claiming to be his new father, and his new white uncle who isn't all that much older than he is. It is going to be quite the adjustment. And, if Bash is anything like Devon, expect a pregnancy. I am curious to find out how Elijah and Mary adjust to small town life. The other thing that I am curious about is that it has been two seasons and we still haven't learned what Billy's Crabbe and Goyle's names are yet. The other point is that of course Gilbert knows how to run a farm, he grew up on the farm and it was up and running before his father got sick. Liked how they didn't make Gilbert look too competent working the ship. And the fence seems to be a two person job. I think that season 2 is where Anne gets to be a kid for the first time in her life - she needed that - and where Gilbert gets to grow up a bit.
  2. Camera One, Anne's "flashbacks" seem to correspond to her fears as to what she is about to face - it is redundant to show them again when Prissy puts it into Anne's head that, because the Cuthberts are now "poor" they might send her back - you don't need to see them again to know what Anne is thinking, the look on her face says it all. Check Sanity - I think that Matthew took out the loan figuring that he could pay it off quickly when the ship arrived. If the ship had not sunk, their fortunes would have been better rather than worse. Marilla agreed to getting an orphan boy because she figured that if Matthew kept up the pace at his age he would die figuring that Matthew could now do half the work. Marilla was also angry because, if the ship had not sunk, Matthew's plans were to increase the work load because there was two of them working the farm rather than slow down. Matthew seems to have invested in a new potato seed. I think that Matthew was acting out of fear and guilt rather than true depression - he was trying to set things right and not be a burden since his identity was tied up with being the breadwinner. It would be normal for him to fear never being able to work again. Think there was a tendency to see anyone slagging the series as a threat to a season two for a while. Agree that Anne almost losing Matthew made her understand Gilbert's grief better, though Gilbert would not have been quite as forgiving if Anne's did not accidentlly get him thinking that the only thing worse than his father dying was never knowing him in the first place - grief is the price one pays for all the good times. Keener, the Cuthberts are as old as these womens' parents and tended to keep to themselves - people would know them to see them, but not really know them personally. Gilbert's working holiday will probably open his eyes, solidfy his plans to be a doctor and get him out of the way so things could develop differently than if he was present. Think the truce will be temporary. SeanC - agree, this board thing will be resolved in the season opening. You asked why they did not rob the Barrys (or by extension the Blythes). The thieves don't know that the Blythe house is empty or they would have - and the Barrys did not ask for boarders. Thieves like to steal and not get caught so an isolated farm outside of town suits them perfectly - and, if everything goes according to plan, they can slip out into the night and be long gone before the family realises that they have been robbed. The wrench in their plans is that the second one recognises Anne as being the girl with the boy they robbed so he will be watching her like a hawk. Anne also suspects something because of the look the second one gave her before he recovered his act. Forget who poster, I think that this season was about Anne slowly realising that being with the Cuthberts is permanent - the last hurdle being through good times and bad (when things went south, she usually got sent back to the orphanage). You know deep down that they don't lose the farm and the thieves were basically there in the cliff hanger to make losing the farm a real possibility - if they find the money Marilla plans to take to the bank after the holidays. Figure that I understand the characters better than other adaptations.
  3. I don't remember exactly where, I think one of the later episodes, Marilla explains that after their older brother died their mother was too broken to take care of anything anymore. They were both taken out of school when the older brother died. Marilla was "needed at home" - get the feeling that there is more to it than that. John Blythe married late in life, but eventually he stopped waiting for Marilla, that we know. And Marilla did not have the education or the training to be able to do anything other than clean, cook and sew. There is no mention of the father so I presume that he died before the older brother did and Matthew, who was the youngest, was needed to work the farm. Matthew seemed to have been about Jerry's age when he was called to be the "man" of the family and was a very shy kid. Being taken out of school likely made him even more shy. Jerry, being an employee, he needs to be able to communicate to get hired to do what is asked of him. Matthew had no need to talk to anyone outside of the family for years.
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