Soames.

Does any one else watch those massive drama miniseries? Like the BBC version of 'Pride and Prejudice.' That one is simple and pure minded compared to what is lurking out there in the guise of a simple olden-day drama. It isn't all fun and games, balls, dresses, corsets, bachelors, matchmaking, & marriage.
Its creepy, believe me. With psychos! Lots and lots of psychos.

'Pride and Prejudice' was cute. Jane Austen must not have been too fond of psychos. It had no real demented people involved. Unless you count the marriage obsessed mother. We often compare her to Mum, which is very ironic because its completely untrue. Its just a form of endearment.





Charles Dickens isn't much worse with 'Our Mutual Friend'. It includes excellent realistic characters and the story is more interesting. Also I love this one's resident psycho. He's my favourite by far.





'The Mayor of Casterbridge' I loved. By Thomas Hardy. I just seem to like character studies, even if it was in a mostly pessimistic theme. It did have its high points, but I bet the reason the main character never got anywhere was probably because he was a self obsessed...uh ..psycho.




Since we moved here and became re-acquainted with the libraries and their vast archives of dusty video tapes, its been morbid .. and very entrenching. If you begin a 5-7 hour mini series there's no getting out of it for either the whole day, or next week every evening. And you never know what you'll see. Oddly enough the earlier ones seem to be more shocking. I didn't expect to see a full fledged female nymphomaniac discussed in the 17oo's. I guess we just always existed.

'The Forsythe Saga' by John Gallsworthy was epic. It changed the way we view life, and the psychotic mind. Before we saw this we always thought of the psychos as unreasonable, but slightly understandable creatures worthy of pity. Not this time.
We met our very worst villain in film character history. 'Our Mutual friend's' psycho pales - amazingly because he was very pale - in comparison to the unimaginable evil 'Soames.'





'Daniel Deronda' was cool. By George Eliot. This one has my second favourite psycho. He's also pale now that I think of it.







Our latest time consumer was 'Tom Jones' by Henry Fielding. This is the one with the nympho. It was somewhat comical with the main character being a gigolo. But also stomach churning.







I just realized, all psychos are pale. The paler they are, the more psycho. If you're pale, don't get offended, you're normally pale. These characters are always ghastly.






I kinda love them, except for Soames. That name now embodies the unexplainable and creepy in human nature for us. We now know the meaning of disturbed. If we ever call you Soames, don't be offended either, its just a form of endearment.