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baubeautyandthegeek · 2 months
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Trains And Tenderness - Erica Campbell/Steph Farrow/Miriam Brindsley
A/N: Day 4 part 1 for @fluffbruary
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Erica Campbell hasn’t been a fan of trains, ever, but when necessity calls for it she can and does use them. This time she needs to see her daughter. So she makes her way to the train station, a small station in the middle of the fields that surround the small village she lives in. She’s surprised to see Miriam and Steph also waiting. Steph, she knows, prefers to stay alone on her farm and she hasn’t seen Miriam since the plane had crashed and killed both their husbands. Steph had been their bond, taking messages back and forth with food deliveries for shops or homes. Then she realises. Steph’s husband had been killed too, away at war. It was more than likely that Steph would need to see someone to get the payment owed to her husband. They are alone on the train carriage and Erica moves to join the other women slowly, smiling a little weakly when Steph greets her, settling into the space the two women make between them with clear meekness. They travel home later, of course. Steph has the money from her husband, Miriam has several books that they have all needed to pick up from the WI headquarters for a while and Erica, finally, has seen her daughters and told them exactly what happened to their father. It’s a quiet trip home but Erica finds she is soothed by Miriam and Steph’s closeness.
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crushermyheart · 3 years
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HOME FIRES X BALLOT
Unstoppable, Mrs Barden?
Unthinkable, Mrs Cameron.
series 1 / episode 2
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ocmerunaway · 3 years
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lynnieharper · 6 years
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ultimate otp challenge || 1/5 ‘old married couples’ » miriam & bryn brindsley
↳ “What was it about Bryn that made him certain he was the man for you?” 
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miriam-brindsley · 6 years
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ladyfeliciamontague · 7 years
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Miriam Brindsley in Every Episode 
Ep6 - Season1
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mirai-desu · 6 years
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Home Fires’ Miriam Brindsley » Series 1, Episode 4
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annavolovodov · 5 years
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so i recently binged all of home fires (i knew what i was getting in for and yet,,, still can't not watch a period drama w 12 women as the leads) but like can you give me a run down of what happens to the character's (esp Teresa's) plots in the books as i don't have the time to read them but i need to know what happens to everyone!
(anon abt home fires again) so i jsut found your rundown of everything that happens in the second part. I honestly cried reading the shit that happens w teresa. having her and annie together would've been so good and the way you ran down how they could've done it was exactly what i was thinking. god i'm pissed w shows doing things like this. what happens w Sarah? is she in the other part? have you read the other part(s?) yet?
Welcome to the fandom! 
Bear in mind it’s been over a year since I last read the books and I gave up after volume 3 because I literally couldn’t deal with the poor writing anymore but I’ll try to give a quick summary.
Spoilers under the cut!
It starts a little before the end of the finale but you don’t get any new or important information. The way the chapters are written means that some prominent characters from the show don’t get that much focus or development and Simon Block has a really irritating habit of retconning stuff from his own series. I also got the impression throughout that he doesn’t quite know his characters as there were some severely OOC moments (Alison leaves Boris behind during a bombing!!!!! wtf!!!!!!!!!!) so yeah, you haven’t missed much.
Everyone survives the plane crash, albeit with some injuries. We don’t spend much time with the Brindsleys but the baby was a girl (called Vivian) and while Miriam is certain that the worst is over for all of them, Bryn isn’t so sure.
We don’t hear much from Joyce, either, though she has anxiety issues from the accident. Pat and Bob have moved in with her temporarily due to the destruction of their house and Bob is enjoying having someone new to fuss over him. Pat receives no letters from Marek and worries about him, then starts writing anonymously to the Mass Observation service that’s recording life during the war. She details Bob’s abuse, how much she hates him and discusses her affair with Marek. At the very end she finds out that Marek has been trying to contact her after all but Bob has been intercepting the letters.
Erica and Will both survive but the accident has exacerbated Will’s condition to the point he has only mere weeks left. Erica has to deal with the knowledge that her husband will soon die and the family decides to bring him home to the village. These chapters were some of the best written imo. Also, a new doctor arrives and doesn’t quite fit in.
Frances decides to send Noah to boarding school but evidently misses him as she keeps calling the headmaster. She eventually comes to love him like a son but receives word that he’s ran away from school and went missing.
The very little content we get on Sarah is often from Frances’ storyline but she doesn’t get much focus on her own. Likewise for Steph and Laura: they get practically nothing.
Alison is depressed after the events of last season. She misses Teresa and Frances still won’t forgive her for the factory drama. A bunch of people from Liverpool show up in the village taking shelter in the fields from the bombing. Some villagers are angry about this and others want to help them. This one guy shows up and starts hanging around Alison and I just know some forced het nonsense is on the horizon there.
Teresa’s stuff, well, you already know, but I want to reiterate how garbage it is. As you know, there are details we really did not need on her sex life with Nick and she eventually loses her job due to her marriage, too. Essentially she ends up completely isolated from the rest of the village and her whole life revolves around Nick 🙃
Annie still has hardly any development and is Just Kinda There. I’m sure there’s some sort of scene between her and Teresa that I think was supposed to be romantic but I found quite horrible, I can’t remember what it was though. I think there’s some sort of argument, Annie basically calls Teresa a coward for marrying Nick and then kisses her. Idk but I remember thinking “wow what a mess” followed by “we have to ban straight men from writing”.
Honestly if you want to know what happens next just read some fanfiction. Most works on the Home Fires AO3 are Teresa-centric and do a much better job of continuing the storyline than the actual books.
I hope this has answered some questions for you and if there’s anything else you want to ask (or if you want to discuss Home Fires in general) please just message me!
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kwebtv · 6 years
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Home Fires -  ITV  -  5/3/2015  -  5/8/2016
Period Drama (12 episodes)
Running Time:  60 minutes
Stars:
Francesca Annis as Joyce Cameron
Daisy Badger as Claire Wilson (née Hillman) 
Mark Bazeley as Bob Simms 
Leanne Best as Teresa Fenchurch
Samantha Bond as Frances Barden 
Clare Calbraith as Steph Farrow 
Chris Coghill as Stanley Farrow 
Ruth Gemmell as Sarah Collingborne 
Frances Grey as Erica Campbell 
Rachel Hurd-Wood as Kate Campbell 
Leila Mimmack as Laura Campbell 
Mike Noble as Spencer Wilson 
Claire Price as Miriam Brindsley 
Claire Rushbrook as Pat Simms 
Daniel Ryan as Bryn Brindsley 
Ed Stoppard as Will Campbell 
Fenella Woolgar as Alison Scotlock 
Jacqueline Pilton as Cookie 
Eileen Davies as Anne 
Anthony Calf as Peter Barden
Will Attenborough as David Brindsley
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markcampbells · 7 years
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where treetops glisten, and children listen (advent challenge, day one)
TITLE: where treetops glisten, and children listen AUTHOR: @markcampbells CHARACTER(s)/SHIP(s): Miriam Brindsley, David Brindsley RATING: G WORD COUNT: 864 PROMPT: Miriam + snow. SUMMARY: For Miriam, a snowstorm brings back memories of David’s childhood--particularly the day an asthma attack brought on by the cold nearly killed him. NOTES: I had intended to be quite a bit further along with this challenge by now, but, well, holidays, and also, having a lot of stuff in your head you don’t proceed to write down at a later date does not constitute working on a challenge, Trai. Anyway, here’s Day One, and I’m sorry it’s... quite depressing, really. Most of these fics will be based around bits from the press packs I’ve spent quite a bit of time reading over the past couple months of writing for this show. It’s mentioned in Mim’s summary there that David had a near fatal asthma attack when he was a baby, which my brain decided to warp into him being at least seven or eight, but oh well! :) This takes place in the only December we have in canon, between 1x03 and 1x04, before David has snuck off to enlist.
Snow, freshly fallen, had always made her feel like a child again. There had been something magical about it—no footprints, no tracks from the farm equipment or the sheep, no muck or grass in sight... It was cold sitting by the window, but she wouldn’t trade the view for a seat by the fire. The sight of the snow brought her peace, a hard thing to find in a world at war. After hours of her gaze darting between her knitting to the snow and back again, Mim found her eyes straying to the mantel, to her favorite picture. Every time a visitor grinned at it, asked when it was taken, David could never remember how old he’d been. She supposed it was a mother’s lot to remember the minutiae. She could remember being frustrated as a child by her mother’s insistence on knitting ridiculously bulky jumpers. When wet, they felt like they weighed a tonne, but really, she’d had to concede they were warm. She’d found herself smiling the first time she opened a package from her mother to find a jumper of exactly that ilk for David, just in time for the first snowstorm of the year to hit Great Paxford. David hadn’t shared her frustration with the bulky material—rather, he’d been thrilled Gran had remembered the royal blue he considered his favorite color, and if the jumper’s weight had constricted his movement at all, he hadn’t said a word about it. Indeed, he’d spent hours outside proudly building the snowman she'd photographed him with.
It was Bryn who’d noticed—Bryn, who hated cold and damp because it reminded him of the trenches, but who had decided to soldier on, so to speak, and play with his son. It was Bryn who noticed David seemed too out of breath from the mild exertions of assembling the snowman, when he’d been the one doing most of the rolling and heavy lifting. It was Bryn who’d seen men suffocate and die in the trenches, who’d yelled for her to come outside quickly, who’d run through the icy streets to the Campbells’ surgery with David in his arms, her following after in little more than a dressing gown over her nightdress.
She wished, quite often, that the happier memories of that day—the first sight of David in that too-big jumper, the sound of him and Bryn laughing as they built the snowman, David cajoling her for a scarf to put on the snowman and Bryn kissing her cheek to try and finally convince her to give one up—were as clear as what had come after. But when it came down to it, of course she remembered those dreadful minutes in the surgery more clearly—Erica’s arm around her shoulders as she’d sobbed, both to comfort her and to keep her out of the room so her panicking and fear wouldn’t distract Will from his ministrations. She remembered Will’s measured tone as he’d explained calmly enough that David had suffered a severe asthma attack, brought on and exacerbated by the cold air, though a single look at his slightly trembling hands had betrayed how unnerved he’d been to see a boy his own daughters’ age struggling so much to breathe.
She felt, sometimes, as though she were the only one to remember it all, to have that day haunt her dreams, or, rather, her nightmares. Wasn’t she, if she thought about it? Surely, if Bryn and David remembered it the way she did, they would neither of them be so eager for him to go off to the bloody front.
The silence made it easy enough to hear David’s bike coming up the icy street and into the front yard. She thought she saw him waving as he noticed her at the window. After he stowed his bike in the back shed, he made his way into the house, brushing snow from the shoulders of his coat as he pulled it off and hung it.
“I take it there was no show?” she asked, smiling softly, and he sighed and shook his head.
“After all that. Owner of the cinema couldn’t be bothered to show up in this weather, when all his patrons did.”
“I’m sure there’s some other place to run into Laura Campbell,” she said, teasing softly, and she thought the redness of David’s cheeks wasn’t from how close he’d come to the fire.
“Dad asleep?”
“Only for the last hour. Thought I’d wait up.” She held up her knitting—there wasn’t much she’d gotten from her mother but that.
“You didn’t have to, Mum; I’m—”
“—sixteen, I know, but it won’t stop me.” Didn’t he know, from their arguments the past few months?
“Fair enough. … Glad you did, though.”
He rose, and the shadow he cast on the floor reminded her how tall he’d gotten. He bent to kiss her forehead and retreat to his room, same as any growing boy, and for a moment as she stood her gaze drifted out the window again. The snow would melt, her memories wouldn’t fade, and she’d always look after David. There were few things truer than those.
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baubeautyandthegeek · 2 months
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Jam And Gentleness - Steph Farrow/Miriam Brindsley
A/N: Part 2/4 for @fluffbruary day 2.
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“That… more jam? Really?” Miriam sounds surprised enough that Steph laughs and shrugs. She’d been expecting someone to protest but she’s not sure she really expected it to be Miriam. The woman was, after all, her dearest friend and secret beloved, the two moving on together after losing their husbands during the war, nobody questioned it at all, even when Frances seemed determined to move on alone where they were almost always together. “Apparently people have been missing it.” “Is that even manageable? With the… with the farm and the shop? Not to mention the new Doctor due any day now…” “It will have to be.” Steph’s smile is quick, small and hopeful. “At least we’ll have each other this time.”
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crushermyheart · 3 years
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HOME FIRES X VOTE
And so to the vote for the next president...
series 1 / episode 2
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lynnieharper · 6 years
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miriam-brindsley · 6 years
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mirai-desu · 6 years
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Home Fires’ Bryn & Miriam Brindsley » Series 1, Episode 4
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annavolovodov · 7 years
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So I read Keep the Home Fires Burning Part Two and I have a few thoughts...
...and when I say a few I mean 2825 words worth. You can probably guess whose storyline most of them are on.
The thing is, the vast majority of this instalment was incredible with two character’s storylines in particular standing out as real highlights for me. Yet the fact that the quality of the rest of the book is so high makes those chapters so glaringly disappointing.
Spoilers under the cut!
Starting with the positives and one of my two favourite characters in the books so far - Pat. Her scenes have been utterly engrossing and I am so, so proud of the way she’s developed since 1x01. She may still be stuck with Bob but she sure as hell won’t let herself be trapped by him. She knows her worth and she’s biding her time.
As I predicted, Pat’s using the Mass Observation columns as an outlet to keep her sane. Since we know she has a literary background and has worked in publishing before, I am PRAYING that the observations she’s been detailing of her life will take off and the series will end with her as a hugely successful writer. Think about it: would it not be the ultimate vengeance against Bob, for her to achieve what he lacked the skill to? Of course I would love Bob to die but that  seems a tad contrived for Home Fires and forcing him to watch the woman he’s abused for years moving onto bigger and better things would be both a satisfying victory for Pat and would fit with the tone of the show.
Side note: I find Pat’s insistence to stick solely to the truth when writing to be an interesting contrast to her husband’s technique. Bob has a tendency to overdramatise aspects of his life and portray himself to be heroic and exciting when in reality, he’s the exact opposite. There’s probably a good meta in there for someone smarter than I am.
I can’t forego a mention of Pat’s quite frankly iconic dragging of Bob for almost a whole chapter. The revelation that she almost straight up murdered him a couple of years ago was unexpected but totally relatable. And some of the quotes from her writing?
“In my experience, men often like to sit around talking about doing great things, but it’s the women who get on and do them.”
“It makes me ashamed that we can be at war with fascist Germany yet exhibit the same base impulse to discriminate against people who simply don’t look like us.”
Pat is a great character.
AND THAT CLIFFHANGER. MAREK’S BEEN WRITING TO HER. HE’S ALIVE. THEY WILL BE TOGETHER AGAIN. FUCK YOU BOB.
As for my other favourite? Erica has been an unexpected highlight in the novels. Of those involved in the crash, I was pretty certain she’d make it. She never quite acquired her own storyline in the show, instead largely popping in and out of others plots as needed. I already had Will marked for death since he'd be killed off sooner or later with his illness so it was a nice surprise when he made it out (after saving Vivian!!! I still cry).
Or at least I thought it was a nice surprise right up till we found out his cancer had worsened and he had mere weeks left to live. When Dr Mitchell explained to Erica and Laura that he was nearing the end? When they went home and Erica decided she had to shoulder the burden and remain strong for the girls? Erica finally breaking down whilst the women of the WI held her? I full on sobbed at every single one of those scenes.
I think a lesser series would’ve killed Will instantly when the spitfire hit the house for the sake of drama and words can’t express how grateful I am that Home Fires didn’t, instead choosing to leave us with a poignant and painfully relatable exploration of terminal illness and grief.
I did appreciate the touches of humour in the Campbell’s storyline. Will literally pulled a “Surprise, bitch. I bet you thought you saw the last of me” on Erica like 70 years before the meme was invented. Incredible.
Dr Rosen is... intriguing, I guess. I don't dislike her. I think she has potential, even though I’m sceptical at the addition of yet another character when we have mains from S1 who have yet to make a significant impact in the book.
OH AND THE BATTLE OF WILLS BETWEEN HER AND MIRIAM??? The sort of content I paid 99p for. Poor Erica, getting caught in the middle of that. There were many great lines in this book, but I think this might just be my favourite:
“Erica felt a sudden rush of adrenaline, knowing Dr Rosen might get away with a comment like this with some patients, but not with Miriam Brindsley - a woman the rest of the village knew could single-handedly hold off a horde of invading Nazis with a gutting knife for a solid half-hour.”
If that doesn’t sum up Miriam as a character, I don’t know what does.
Speaking of the Brindsleys, do you know how satisfying it is to see them alive and flourishing after spending 15 months mentally preparing yourself to lose at least one of them?
I do.
I mean, they still have a huge target on their backs (Mim’s words in part one about how they’re blessed and are defo making it through the war? Yikes. An omen if ever I saw one) but considering their lack of page time I’m gonna gamble that we can quit worrying about that until Book 2 at the very least.
Moving on, I really did not go into this book expecting to care so deeply about Frances and Noah’s growing relationship yet here we are. Frances excessively calling to check on him every day was adorable. And this entire exchange with the head teacher was legendary:
"Frances didn't want to have an argument. She never wanted to have arguments with all sorts of people she eventually had arguments with; it was simply in her nature to be more challenging of other people's positions than they were used to. It put them on the defensive, and an argument would inevitably ensue. ‘I don’t wish to be confrontational –‘ There was a sudden snort at the other end of the line. Like the sound of someone choking on their tea, perhaps.”
I laughed.
However, despite the many, many positive aspects of this most recent instalment, there is one storyline in particular that singles itself out as Home Fires’ most glaring weak spot.
Of course, I’m referring to Teresa’s story and the awful place she’s currently occupying in the narrative.
Back when the whole Nick debacle began mid-S2, I figured I might as well give it a chance and see where it went. Simon Block was adamant on Twitter that Teresa’s endgame was not a man and what would be unfurling over the coming episodes was a historically accurate depiction of the trials lesbians faced during such time periods. It wasn’t ideal, nor was it what I expected for Teresa based around the promotional material released for S2, but the show hadn’t let me down yet.
And so I have waited, I have given it a chance, and based on the back half of S2 and the two instalments of KTHFB available so far, I am SO disappointed in what Simon Block has done with Teresa. Sure, things may improve in future novels, but right now I’m not sure I can adequately explain how much I hate this goddamn marriage.
Simply put, it is totally unnecessary. Every single aspect of it. Teresa’s chapters in Part Two were awful. I’m pretty sure we’ve established at this point that she is not into men. We do not need to read about her trying and failing to repress her attraction to women whilst having sex with Nick. Even if we absolutely unavoidably had to hear about Nick and Teresa’s sex life, we do not need aforementioned sex scene spread across the whole chapter.
I know this might be hard for Straight Guy Simon Block to understand, but I’m pretty sure exactly zero lesbians are going to want to read about a lesbian character who is struggling with compulsory heterosexuality having sex with a man. I’m bisexual and I found it sickening so God knows how that chapter is going to make lesbians feel. I strongly suspect that some are going to find it triggering, and if the storyline is triggering to the group it is supposed to represent you really have to ask yourself why you are even bothering to write the representation in the first place.
Teresa’s arc in the books so far has consisted of getting married, blaming herself for the crash because she feels like she isn’t taking the marriage seriously (seriously what the fuck was this???), Teresa having conflicting feelings about Annie, Teresa stuck at home worrying about her marriage, Teresa feeling awful whilst having sex with Nick, Teresa worrying about having children, Teresa having more conflicting feelings about Annie and Nick... Do we see a pattern here? Do we get any meaningful scenes of Teresa at school? Do we get any meaningful scenes of Teresa with her canonical close friends Alison and Steph, who she spent S1 and S2 building strong relationships with? Yeah, she occasionally gets a throwaway line in a group scene at a WI meeting, but what does Teresa really get to do outside of being emotionally tortured about her marriage? The change in format to the books has led to characters being isolated in their individual stories whereas the series could allow them to interact more freely, but it genuinely feels like Teresa is stuck in some sort of heterosexual hell and is allowed no reprieve.
And all of this feels completely divorced from S1 and the first half of S2??? S1!Teresa didn’t appear to have any sort of desire to marry a man in order to cover up her sexuality. From the limited screen time we had with them, the main reason the relationship between Teresa and Connie failed seemed to be due to interference from outsiders (aka the headteacher that blackmailed Teresa) and the simple fact that Connie and Teresa wanted different things. Nothing in the series suggested that Teresa was unsure or struggling with her sexuality. Nothing. When the synopsis for 2x04 came out and mentioned Teresa would be asked on a date, everyone immediately assumed it was Annie involved. The prospect of it being a man never crossed our minds because it just seemed so ridiculous.
Another aspect I’m struggling to comprehend is why Alison pushed Teresa towards Nick. There’s no logical explanation for this. Alison knew about Teresa’s sexuality. Alison was fine with it and explicitly wanted her to stay because - and I quote - she “enjoyed having her around”. So how on Earth did we get to this point, with Alison encouraging Teresa to marry a man she barely knows and can never love? The fuck did that come from? The reasoning was murky enough in the show but it’s even worse in the books. Chapter 17 is essentially Alison sitting alone in her house feeling depressed, missing Teresa, lowkey regretting telling her to go but consoling herself because “at least Teresa is in a happy marriage now” or whatever...
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In what universe does any of this make sense?
Yet another person being screwed over by this whole shitshow is Annie. Marek was also introduced in S2 as a love interest for Pat yet he’s somehow obtained significantly more screen time and development than Annie. Despite appearing in four episodes and two instalments of the book I feel like we (and Teresa) barely know her, which is absolute bullshit if they’re seriously intending for her to be Teresa’s endgame. They’ve had three conversations! Any romantic relationship between two women should get equal, if not more focus than the hetero ones especially if they’re the only f/f romance on the show. One of the central themes of Home Fires is relationships between women so I cannot understand why the ball has been so spectacularly dropped here. It’s not fair on Teresa to get all this suffering and a half-baked romantic subplot, it’s not fair on Annie to be essentially non-existent as a character beyond her possible relationship with Teresa and it’s certainly not fair on any wlw reading/watching, desperate to see themselves represented and being given scraps.
Even if Teresa's marriage is over soon (which I'm not holding my breath about), I can't see how she'll get a happy ending with Annie in the village. I highly doubt Nick would be okay with her continuing to live with him whilst she was in a relationship with Annie. Getting a divorce and moving in together would arouse a ton of suspicion and defeat the purpose of Teresa’s marriage in the first place. The only way for them to be able to live as a couple would involve moving away and starting afresh... Exactly what Connie proposed in S1, only for Teresa to turn down because she’d feel much more comfortable living a quiet life in the village than going off to a strange place. Having her suddenly change her mind now after clearly explaining her decision to Connie would result in everything post-1x04 feeling utterly redundant.
I just... this whole plot was totally avoidable. It didn’t need to happen. In a more logical universe:
After the First Aid course, Steph notes Teresa’s discomfort at the casual homophobia, and when coupled with her Meaningful Look at Annie as she cycled away, Steph promptly puts two and two together (remember Steph noticing how quickly Teresa wanted to get away after that comment? Remember the close friendship Steph and Teresa have? Simon Block sure doesn’t).
Once she hears about the impending wedding, Steph gently asks Teresa if she’s sure she wants to do it. Teresa half-heartedly assures her that she loves Nick, so Steph - because she’s a good friend and this show is supposed to be about women helping each other - decides to go and speak to Annie.
Annie and Steph end up staging an intervention and in an important and touching scene, tell her she deserves better than having to hide herself in a marriage to a man.
Teresa, feeling supported and loved by her friends, calls off the wedding.
Nick fucks off and becomes irrelevant.
Steph and Annie’s intervention forces Alison to consider why she pushed Teresa away (spoiler alert: it only really makes sense if it was because she was trying to push away feelings of her own).
Teresa, Annie, Alison, Steph and later Joyce start a wlw group during which they talk about how gay they are and how straight people suck. Nothing bad happens to any of them ever.
See how easy that was? The evils of heteronormativity are depicted in a way that doesn’t cause a lesbian to suffer for months trapped in a horrible loveless marriage.
I really can’t express how disappointed I am in this storyline. Home Fires has handled numerous other sensitive topics well but this marriage plot is an absolute mess right now. I do apologise for going on such a rant about it and I hope my comments make sense. As a bisexual, I’m not as qualified to speak on this particular matter as others in the fandom may be and I hope I’ve not stepped out of turn, but I felt that something needed to be said about what’s happening with Teresa right now and I wasn’t sure if anyone else was going to say it.
Miscellaneous things I’m not going to elaborate on because this is far too long already:
I badly miss Sarah, the Farrows, the Brindsleys, Claire and Spencer, and everyone else who is currently out of rotation. Hope you’re all doing well, folks.
Also missing some of the best dynamics of S1/2. As mentioned earlier, everyone is kinda stuck in their own bubble interacting with the same people over and over again. I particularly want more Frances/Joyce, Teresa/Alison and Teresa/Steph interactions.
Of all the random secondary characters in the show, of course it’s Mrs Talbot who returns for the books. I groaned when I saw her name.
Maybe in some ways I’m glad the show got cancelled because at least I don’t have to witness the Teresa/Nick sex scenes with my own eyes. It was bad enough having to read it thank you very much.
If you’ve made it this far you deserve a medal for your stamina and, as ever, my inbox is always over if anyone else wants to discuss/theorise/rant with me.
See you all again on September 21st for what I’m sure will be another 2000+ word rant!
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