The Thorn Birds part 2

[TheObsession1000]

oh god, maggie is so sweet

[thinguyen03]

wonderful

[johnyzero2000]

Mary Carson is exactly like my late grandmother, cold, heartless, greedy and wealthy. Don't give a damn if I ever inherit any of that woman's money my father the sperm donor has made it clear he's taking everything with him.

[1960galBSAM]

@johnyzero2000 I'm sorry if your grandmother was like Mary Carson, but in my mind Mary Carson is played by Barbara Stanwyck, so I guess you're grandmother is Barbara Stanwyck, which should make you very lucky(;

[johnyzero2000]

@1960galBSAM LOL thanks pal that's nice of you. I love Stanwyck there isn't anything this chick couldn't do. I LOVE her movies from the 30's.

[1960galBSAM]

@johnyzero2000 You got that right(: She is one of my favorite actresses. She always had such poise and fire within!

[maaikeXdinkie]

The novel starts with the Cleary's living in New Zealand and how Paddy met

Fee before they had the family on their own land. Pity not to twine this in with

how the novel progresses. But I suppose it was necessary to gradually isolate Meggy

and Ralph as the main protagonists to highlight the love affair.

[Majoi07]

@maaikeXdinkie Yes exactly but the beginning of the novel isn't the matter of the story and for the series it would have been useless.It talks about Meggie when she was 4 years old.What it necessary for the story??i am not sure.The point of the story begins at the station of Gilly when the cleary are arriving from New zealand...and after.

[fisteberg]

Real Maggy in the book was blonde and red haired but SIdney penny is so pretty and talented that is it a detail!she's a perfect Maggy cleary.

[roxcharlie]

thats really gross having him meet his future love interest when shes a child

[fisteberg]

@roxcharlie No not especially.Sure Meggie was 10 when ralph was a young priest and he was 28 i guess but even as a child like Meggie you can decide that you 'll marry a man like Ralph,the same age as him actually.It sometimes happens in real life.Even if Ralph had only tenderness for Maggy as a kid and she didn't love him as a man first.It came later but i suppose she always loved him since the first seconds she saw him.

[UnitedKorean]

I am from Sydney Australia and I remember my parents watching this drama on TV some 20 years ago. Now I am watching it for the first time on my own and I am very surprised that they actually used American actors with American accents. Very funny. I guess Australian actors were hard to find back then. I think Mel Gibson would have played this role fine though. I am Catholic myself and believe it or not, these Priestly love scandals are very common at my church. Which is why I am watching this.

[misskittycat19]

Barbara...Legend..

[1960galBSAM]

@misskittycat19 That's the truth(:

[joydarling314]

Bob is cute

[sterkica]

I've got my name after Meggie! <3 :)

[mameshiba83]

@sterkica Same here! Born in 1983?

[pejeux]

Well Mary Carson's decision in her will about her fortune is very catholic-like.

I can say it because I am a catholic and we think in a different way than you Protestants. We catholic think money is useless and does not give happiness nor love. Mary hated her own money because she didn't allow her to buy Ralph's love. So she prefered giving it to the Church..I probably would have acted in the same way.

[westnar1]

@pejeux Mary's decision was not a religious one but one of cruelty and control...She used her money to control Ralph and Meggie from beyond the grave..She had two wills, one giving the estate to Paddy and his family and one benefiting the church...Mary knew that Ralph would jump at the chance to move up in the church and it would stop him from Marrying Meggy once and for all...

[Majoi07]

@westnar1 yes sure but Ralph also never could make up his mind.He could have torn Mary's wills but didn't tear it so despite Mary carson's cruelty he is responsible of his choices.Sorry to tell that.He wanted both the church and especially being Cardinal and Meggy.She didn't stop him or wrote his future.He was tormented and never able to take a decision...

[buddi1998]

Great! Hope you get the rest up soon As I really am enjoying. Thank you...

[1975saigon]

Awwww, little Sydney Penny is so adorable in this film. She was adorable in Pale Rider too, one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies. Sydney is now about 40 years old and is still adorable....a natural sweetheart ♥

[Redeagle52000]

@1975saigon Didn't Sydney Penny also star for a season or two on "All in the Family" prior to this and "Pale Rider"??? Did she ever do any other work?

[rbm6110]

@Redeagle52000 You may be thinking of Danielle Brisbois in "All in the Family." Don't know about Pale Rider but didn't that come out in the early 70's The Thorn Birds was made in the mid 80's.

Also Sidney Penny played the rold of Julia Santos on "All my Children" in the early 90's

[GATAMONAE]

Thank you for sharing! Lovely movie and wonderful book!

[ballettgirl09]

Ralph has a wonderful voice, I think.

5:20...it's just a little scene,a little moment....but its very amazing and signify for the whole film!!!!

[karenofbethany]

Barbara Stanwyck is so deliciously EVIL in this move. The book was fantastic, I could read it every year.

[TheSkylur44]

@fisteberg The Meggie in the book was blonde. Ralph had black hair.

[Redeagle52000]

@fisteberg But Barbara Stanwyck was a wonderful soul who was just a GREAT actress who could potray this role. And if u think about it...avarice perhaps...but had she remarried, she'd have been under the thumb of another man under the laws of that time? Under present law, she could have remarried, and not possibly have been left destitute and lost Drogheda had said new husband decided he wanted to dump her? So she made her choice of loneliness which didn't catch up with her until Ralph came along

[Redeagle52000]

@fisteberg Also, life made Mary Carson hard, reading the book makes this apparent, tho it is by no means sympathetic to her. And, there were really NO men in the 30 years of her widowhood that moved her heart and engaged her mind in the way Father Ralph did. Bad timing, forbidden love, and a tragedy. Meggie lived the SAME tragedy if you think about it, and was only able to "have" Ralph because she wasn't 75 years old!!! Andbeing of the same blood, the book makes clear, Fee & Meg became hard too!

[Redeagle52000]

@fisteberg You're right and you're thinking is similar to to mine. But my point is that Mary Carson had 30 years to remarry after the death of her husband Michael Carson, but (1) nobody really captured her interest in the slim pickings in the Outback, and (2) she was unwilling to surrender her freedom as the wealthiest woman in Australia...had she remarried due to the laws at the time...her fortune would have fallen out of her control. She thought she had it all until she was old and met Ralph.

[lindawva]

thank you for the download,I hope you continue to add the rest.I love it what i have seen so far

[MrsSherlcokHolmes]

thanks for taking the time and uploading!

[1960galBSAM]

@MrsSherlcokHolmes You are very welcome!! :)

[MrsSherlcokHolmes]

"Chalk?"

"3 box are missing 3!!!"

LOL