Prisoner Cell Block H: Bea's Hospital Return PART 3/3

[crevrath]

Bea only enlisted the help of Sandy here as she had been in Hospital with cancer she always handled all of the tough nuts one on one she wud have easily decked Marie here. Joan had to use what ever muscle she cud find to get to Bea as she knew she cud never beat her on her own great Bea/Marie Rivalry here

[maasplodge]

i love prisoner cell block h

[u2atomicbomb]

how stupid is joyce

[u2atomicbomb]

what bea did with the washing machine is hust typical of how great her lead was in comparison to connors who would never have had the intelligence to think of something like that.

[narcissusdark]

@u2atomicbomb u think rita didn't have intelligence, but yet she was smart enough to get rid of the freak, aswell as filling tennis balls with alcohol, making a key, and a bunch of other stuff... connors could beat smith in every way..

[u2atomicbomb]

@narcissusdark I think we can thank contrived writing for most of Rita's successes rather than the character's apparent ingenuity. Her entire characterisation wad flawed from the word go. But because the show was coming to an end the writers manipulated this very transparent, weak character to have the abilty to topple a masterfully crafted character like Joan.

[narcissusdark]

@u2atomicbomb well the same could be said for bea, couldn't it? conner's wasn't a weak character, she had values, and was a hot head, but over time she mellowed out, because prison changed her attitude, she had character development.

[u2atomicbomb]

@narcissusdark Bea was consistently written as a tough, principled woman whose failings a mother fuelled her toughness but inner insecurity in equal measure. Connors' was written as the rebel bikie which was an interesting change.

[u2atomicbomb]

@narcissusdark 2. Sadly instead of her following in the canon of principled topdogs, we get someone who was a bully, regularly teased Merle despite knowing better, allowed Lexie (while pregnant to snort coke!!) and met every situation not with careful consideration between shrewd thinking and violence but with transparent, very predictable reaction.

[u2atomicbomb]

@narcissusdark 3. TS eliot identided a term called objective corrlelative meaning when a character, situation or writing fails to have the necessary emotional gravitas to have the intended emotional effect. So when Rita finally did topple Joan, this is what I experienced. nothing in Connors' character permitted me to believe she could ever be able to defeat Joan (considering so many better characters had tried). She succeeded because of trite, contrived writing rushing to conclude the show.

[narcissusdark]

@u2atomicbomb well connors had joan beaten long before they decided to end the show, she almost threw her off a roof.... just because connors bullied people doesnt mean she was a bad character.. bea ALWAYS bullied people the only difference was conners didnt need any help to do it... bea always picked on weaker people that couldn't defend themselves...

[u2atomicbomb]

@narcissusdark Marie Winters, Frankie Doyle, Kay White, Nola Mckenzie??? - She did a good job defeating these tough characters all on her own. Bea bullied those who her guiding moral compass told her needed her to challenge. She knew the cose of failing to take on bullies all to well with Debbie. Also groups working together on a common enemy regularly happend in prisons, which both Bea and rita do. If you read my 3rd comment you'll see I don't call rita a bad character just for being a bully.