Discuss - Ep #1119

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Robservations #1119

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Re: Discuss - Ep #1119

[alwaysdavid]

  . Ben leaves Rose Cottage and in the woods cries out. Meanwhile, Gerard and Samantha talk of Roxanne who is now home. He gives her a present for her forgotten birthday and then Gabe rolls in and the exchange ends with a slap to Gabe from Samantha. Gerard tells Gabe that she will die tomorrow with a new poison.
Samantha finds Edith in the playroom and Edith is very shrewish and shrill. she couldn't wait to send her son off to boarding school. Edith goes to Gabe and is flinging her arms about dramatically. Whoever told or let the actress do this was just wrong. Edith later flirts and drinks with Gerard. He rejects her thankfully. Gave rolls on into,the now empty playroom as Samantha is moving on. This makes no sense in the previous storyline.
Gerard finds Ben's dead body and his face is not shown. Later we learn that they think Ben committed suicide by decapitation.
Gerard will take Samantha to town to die in front of witnesses. Then Gerard returns to tell Gave all went as planned and it happened at the courthouse. Samantha walks in and they are now Mr and Mrs Stiles. In the credits the head gets it's own billing.

[Uncle Roger]

Ben's death a suicide? Jeez, even Sheriff Patterson wouldn't have said that.
We are introduced to Edith who is quite a nasty woman. She is openly hostile to Samantha, despises Gabriel and appears to be hot to trot for Gerard. Not a very nice person but not especially interesting either. Edith and Daniel present continuity problems. They were characters in other time periods, who should have been around in 1840. Daniel is handled somewhat better but Edith presents many continuity glitches.
I was surprised to see Terrayne Crawford back on the show after such a long absence. Beth was a very popular character. Edith obviously is not.
Notable for one of the few times we see the playroom.