[Afamilyatwar-list] Don¹t Mine Me

[Veit, Richard]

Hi, Scott and Others.

Just my opinion, but to me it seemed as if the naval commander and his
lover had resolved to enter into a suicide pact, knowing full well that
the minefield would almost certainly kill them both at the same time. This
was an extramarital affair because the naval commander's wife later
attended his funeral. Likewise, the woman was said to be the wife of the
local squire. Perhaps they both saw theirs as a hopeless love and decided
to end it all in an instant. Personally, I saw their deaths as 'realistic'
rather than 'metaphorical' but only writer John Finch can tell us for sure.

Richard Veit


On 12/21/17, 5:11 PM, "Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list"
<Afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu> wrote:

>In Episode 38, in which the military man and civilian woman stroll down
>the (signed) minefield and, in spite of Tony¹s agonized shouting to come
>back, get themselves blown up, I wondered if this was a ³metaphorical²
>death (relative to the many relationships in the series that blow up) or
>a ³realistic² one (strange that a military man should ignore such a plain
>warning and head toward a Wagnerian Liebestod)? Yes, people die all sorts
>of unexpected ways in war, but this isn¹t a documentary, it¹s a planned
>series, and so.... (And again, to say what a wonderful series Mr. Finch
>created!)
>
>Scott Filderman 
>
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