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Current Talk '09 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0703
« on: March 01, 2009, 08:47:54 PM »Got to love Magda -- playing both sides against the middle so they're covered no matter how it plays out.
OH and did anyone else spot what looked like the Petofi box on the mantel under the portrait?
Loved those scenes, the early Beth with a backbone. She's one of the few people gets away with standing up to him. So much is made of her being the crying, put upon victim...
And a costuming glitch which I did notice was Quentin's suit. The greyor navy frockcoat and vest keep being worn with very light grey trousers during these eps. Wonder what the rationale was? Late Victorian males went for the dark and matching look for suits, not like the 1840s with the pastels.
You've made me take note of the fact that I've never understood the expression "playing both sides against the middle"-- the "against the middle" part, that is. What or who is "the middle"? Am I just overanalyzing?
I've been watching these episodes for the last couple of days, and yes, I did spot Petofi Box atop the mantle, and for once I was sure that it was Petofi Box and not The Box I Keep Mistaking For The Petofi Box (accept no substitutes). this predates my earlier earliest pre-Petofi 1897 Petofi Box sighting, in the carriage house later.
I always think of Beth having backbone, except that everyone with a backbone has those circumstances under which the backbone is compromised.
I'm not given to costuming talk (and so much of the board is now devoted to it that I'm finding it harder to participate), but I noticed that you said pastels were big in the 1840s-- in Collinsport apparently that was only true in PT.