<div dir="auto">Richard, that was certainly my reading of that scene. A clear suicide pact.. A way out of an untenable situation. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 Dec. 2017 2:04 pm, "Veit, Richard via Afamilyatwar-list" <<a href="mailto:afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu">afamilyatwar-list@baylor.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi, Scott and Others.<br>
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Just my opinion, but to me it seemed as if the naval commander and his<br>
lover had resolved to enter into a suicide pact, knowing full well that<br>
the minefield would almost certainly kill them both at the same time. This<br>
was an extramarital affair because the naval commander's wife later<br>
attended his funeral. Likewise, the woman was said to be the wife of the<br>
local squire. Perhaps they both saw theirs as a hopeless love and decided<br>
to end it all in an instant. Personally, I saw their deaths as 'realistic'<br>
rather than 'metaphorical' but only writer John Finch can tell us for sure.<br>
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Richard Veit<br>
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On 12/21/17, 5:11 PM, "Scott Filderman via Afamilyatwar-list"<br>
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>In Episode 38, in which the military man and civilian woman stroll down<br>
>the (signed) minefield and, in spite of Tony¹s agonized shouting to come<br>
>back, get themselves blown up, I wondered if this was a ³metaphorical²<br>
>death (relative to the many relationships in the series that blow up) or<br>
>a ³realistic² one (strange that a military man should ignore such a plain<br>
>warning and head toward a Wagnerian Liebestod)? Yes, people die all sorts<br>
>of unexpected ways in war, but this isn¹t a documentary, it¹s a planned<br>
>series, and so.... (And again, to say what a wonderful series Mr. Finch<br>
>created!)<br>
><br>
>Scott Filderman<br>
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