The Timelord and the Shopgirl

Ok I'm obbsessed but all I have to say is my favourite thing about it was:


The 'Look back at me' scene is right after Margaret comes to say good bye to Mrs. Thornton and Fanny before she leaves to go to London with her Aunt. She gives Mr. Thornton her father's Plato, then it cuts to her getting in the carriage in the snow, and he's in the doorway of the house watching her. After Margaret is in the carriage he says 'Look back. Look back at me', but she doesn't and the carriage drives off.

So heartbreaking! :*) ::wibbles::

Ah, yes. The 'look back at me' scene. It's one of my favourites along with the crash and burn marriage proposal (angst!) and the end of part three when he says he's over his foolish passion and is looking to the future (more angst!).

I think it's safe to say that I nearly exploded in angst-filled glory at the look back at me scene. I couldn't believe she didn't look back. That was so tortured and fantastic. I think it was probably Richard Armitage's finest acting moment in the mini. So much was expressed by his face as the camera lingered.

Oh, and I can't forget the train scene at the end, silly me. I hadn't ever read the novel so I had no idea if it was going to have a happy ending. So many characters had died that I feared Elizabeth Gaskell was one of those writers who never gave any of her characters happy endings. I don't I breathed from the moment Thornton and Margaret stepped off their trains until she approached him with her luggage and got on his train.

Other favourite bits that aren't angst-filled but so repressed and charged with UST are the scenes with what I like to call the hand porn: when Margaret passes Thornton the cup of tea in part one and their fingers touch, and at the Thornton dinner party when they shake hands and their fingers lingeringly brush as their hands separate. ::sighs:: Those add to the intenseness of the train station scene at the end when he reaches out and takes hold of her hand and then Margaret kisses his in response.

1. You don't need Henry to explain.
2. If he loves you, he will lie to his own police force to get you out of a sticky murder inquest.
3. He doesn't want to possess you.
4. Pop the collar, lose the cravat, and roll the sleeves whenever possible.
5. Always get off the train if it stops for a rest--even a short one.
6. Be patient with inlaws. They just love their sons/daughters very, very much.
7. Find out if she has a brother.
8. Don't smoke in the mill. Just don't do it.
9. You will find it in the hedgerow, but you have to look hard.