Here’s what I think happens to Delia and Patsy.
Patsy is torn apart by the life that she almost, but not quite, had.
The Delia in hospital isn’t her Delia.
She goes on living simply because her heart is still beating. It’s how she lived in the camps and it’s how she lives now.She toys with the idea of befriending Delia again, starting all over from scratch, trying to recapture what they had, but it hurts too much to know that all her happiest memories have been wiped from Delia’s consciousness- all their nights spent talking, their secret stolen kisses, their shared laughter and tears might as well have never happened.
Here’s what I think happens to Delia and Patsy.
Patsy is torn apart by the life that she almost, but not quite, had.
The Delia in hospital isn’t her Delia.
She goes on living simply because her heart is still beating. It’s how she lived in the camps and it’s how she lives now.She toys with the idea of befriending Delia again, starting all over from scratch, trying to recapture what they had, but it hurts too much to know that all her happiest memories have been wiped from Delia’s consciousness- all their nights spent talking, their secret stolen kisses, their shared laughter and tears might as well have never happened.
tastykake replied to your post: (Call the Midwife spoilers)[[MOR] I’m still so…
it’s definitely the lack of mourning thing that’s getting to me—bcs like, obviously it’s not like no other relationship on this show has ever ended in tragedy, but at least in other cases ppl’s pain got to be recognized and acknowledged? and like the fact that the narrative kept really aggressively hammering that home—patsy doesn’t get medical info bcs they’re only giving it out to her “nearest and dearest,” delia’s mom only knows of her as the lady from scouts, like, again and again with this really intense focus on Patsy Is Going To Suffer Alone and it just felt… very gratuitous and cruel.
Yeah, that’s what got to me too. When she’s going ahead and cleaning up the apartment (when I was rewatching, when she kneeled and then rolled up her sleeves and started to pick up the previous night’s mess, I just put my head in my hands and bawled…she’d have had such vivid memories of the day before, and so many hopes and promises for the future and now nothing) because, as Delia said, she’s good with facades. She’s hurting so much and she has no outlet at all.
trancer21 replied to your post: (Call the Midwife spoilers)[[MOR] I’m still so…
The weirdest thing is I’d expect this sort of crap from an American show but the friggin’ BBC!?!
Ah, but they gave us the death on Last Tango in Halifax too. And I did expect better from both these series, not because they were BBC but because they were ultimately heartwarming and positive dramas. For them to go the way they did in 2015 is pretty discouraging. All the advances and this is the absolute best we can get? And I dunno, I was sad but mostly really angry and in disbelief about LTiH. This, I’m just really sad about. It’s such a reminder of what we are, drama fodder and maybe a way to show how progressive they are, but just props in the end. People have been quick to say that there have been other tragic endings on the show, but how many happy, hopeful m/f relationships have there been? On the show and off, really. This is like one of so few ongoing we were looking to, and they made it as absolutely sad and hopeless as they could. Even if Delia comes back, I don’t really see the point in ending as they did.
chilly-flame replied to your post: post: (Call the Midwife spoilers)[[MOR] I’m still so…
I am so sorry. I have resisted this show, and I have to be honest, as
great as it probably is, I am even less interested in diving in now.
What’s it going to take to keep queer people alive on tv? PS writers,
it’s not the 60s. It’s okay to mix it up.
I would still recommend the series as a whole, I think. Especially going in knowing how this storyline will end, there won’t be such a sock to the stomach. But I can well understand wanting to stay away. (I should mention that both of them are still alive, just, one has completely forgotten about the other and is being taken away.) I suppose we can wait till next year and see how it goes.
(Call the Midwife spoilers)
I’m still so sad and upset and I’m not sure why, I’ve seen worse and been more invested. I think it comes down to me expecting to feel sad about the historical treatment of queer people ( don’t think any of us thought they’d move in and that’d be that) but instead, I’m sad about that AND the treatment today. This was so unnecessary, it was gratuitous and cruel and deliberately manipulative, and I feel betrayed. That they only got a main storyline to kill it off like this, in a way that hurt Patsy so much. Because, yeah, ‘60s lesbian, can’t tell anyone! But she can’t even mourn the relationship as she could have a close friend.
And it’s so trivial, what happened. It’s not a death (“at least” as my friend kept trying to tell me), it’s actually a really common trope BEGINNING, it could be solved literally in one instant of memory coming back, hell, it could have (not that it would have) come back before the episode-ending narration/montage, just a shot of Delia jerking upright with widened eyes. But we won’t get it, however simple a solution this time, we still won’t get it, because it’s just easier drama to keep the lesbians sad.