[Afamilyatwar-list] Don¹t Mine Me

[HelenaL]

Richard, that was certainly my reading of that scene. A clear suicide
pact.. A way out of an untenable situation.

On 22 Dec. 2017 2:04 pm, "Veit, Richard via Afamilyatwar-list" <
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> 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
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> On 12/21/17, 5:11 PM, "Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list"
> <Afamilyatwar-list at baylor.edu> wrote:
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> >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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