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Posted by SouthernScholar --Previous Message--
on 4/26/2007, 6:20 am, in reply to "Re: Ashton's just desert"
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To be honest all of that was adressed in the novels. And to be honest Ashton does get her just deserts in the novel more so than anything you could imagine. So poetic if you really read the book. The miniseries was a horrid adaptation of the books to be honest with many facts and too much changed from the book. though a excellent series its not up to par to compare to the books John Jakes wrote. To many of the inconsitancies like what you pointed out. A free tip though, rant about the mini all you want but read the books. they are a more enjoyable experiance and quite the story. And unlike the mini you can actualy READ what happened in between.
: I agree. I hate Book III and the whole
: thing makes no sense and goes
: against the established story. I
: ignore it!
:
: What about Stanley? When last seen,
: he was headed for jail, now he has a
: high ranking job in Washington?
: What?
:
: And Charles, why ditch his kid in
: Chicago when he had loving family in
: Charleston who didn't want to give
: him up?
:
: And speaking of kids, what's up with
: George and Constance's Hope suddenly
: a teenager, and where did that boy
: come from? And the house was not
: Leighigh station. Oh and where did
: Cooper Main suddenly come from? Book
: III must be denounced by all fans!
:
: --Previous Message--
: None of us seems to like Book III,
: and
: I am no exception. It was well
: below John Jake's ability and the
: plot really makes no sense. Ashton,
: after being expelled from the Main
: family by Orry and divorced by
: James, should have taken up with
: another man, then dumped by him, a
: long way from Mont Royal. After
: many years of no contact with her
: family and wandering from man to
: man, she should have wandered back
: to rebuilt Mont Royal in, say, 1873
: or something, with profuse apologies
: to the family and to the Hazzards.
: Remembering how she would scheme and
: scam, Orry as head of the family on
: Mont Royal accepts her apologies,
: but keeps a close watch on her, as
: would Brett where Billy was
: concerned. After a few years of
: good progress, she relapses to the
: old Ashton and takes up with another
: evil man like Bent. Orry
: immediately expells her from Mont
: Royal, her new beau soon leaves her
: and she just wanders from man to man
: till she dies of a bitter, broken
: heart at, say 57 in about 1891.
: Thanks to that abortion Maddlyn
: helped her get, she would never bear
: a child. She'd get buried in the
: Mont Royal family cemetary.
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