Her corset is tight enough to be smushing the poor kid without any outside help, in my opinion. The show rather hamfistedly communicates that Elizabeth may be deliberately trying to miscarry Probably Ross’s Baby - in addition to her dangerous ride, she’s also been hoisting heavy things and going on long walks. Our first glimpse at the state of Ross and Demelza’s union suggests that he is again cutting her out of his deeper thoughts and trying to expel his demons via getting up early and working hard. George pulls up a few minutes later, all “ we don’t need your help!” so things are definitely proceeding as one would expect.

We open on Elizabeth on a runaway horse heading toward a cliff, pregnant as balls, to be narrowly saved by Ross. Now, let’s get to it! CORNWALL, TAKE ME AWAY. They reconciled by the end, but it’s a pretty tentative détente, especially looking down the road to when Elizabeth is probably going to give birth to a “premature” black-haired baby and not some weaselly Warleggan spawn. Last season, as you may recall, he cheated on his beautiful and wonderful wife Demelza with the basically same-amount-as-beautiful Elizabeth, and possibly put a baby in the latter.

For the record, I am still hugely pissed at Ross Poldark.

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