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Post by bitca on Sept 3, 2018 22:41:47 GMT -4
I have a few questions that a book reader could answer: - About how old is Camille? At the beginning of the series, she doesn't recognize Amma when she first runs into her, which makes it seem like she has been gone for all of Amma's life, which would be around 14 years, right? Did she have zero contact with her family?
- When was the mental hospital incident with the toilet screw following the roommate's suicide? Stylistically, it seemed like it was happening in the present, but I realize it had to have been in the past. But if it took place in Wind Gap, wouldn't it been during Amma's lifetime? I was confused by this.
At one point someone, maybe even Camille, said late 30s. (Which, OK... She's, let's say, 38. So she's 24 years older than Amma, which makes their mom 55 - in the book I believe she got pregnant with Camille at 17? Believable.) Yes. The screw incident was after Alice's suicide. I didn't buy that her boss and his wife would have been THAT close. Jeeze. She's a grown ass woman. |
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Post by Babycakes on Sept 4, 2018 3:15:20 GMT -4
From what I remember:
Camille is around 34-36?
Amma was born when she was out of the house and in college.
The roommate's suicide happened less than a year before Camille returns to Wind Gap.
The boss and his wife took Camille under their wings because they were childless, and she was floundering. They saw Camille as a surrogate child. I think the boss was a recovering addict as well, and identified with Camille's struggles.
Adora's endgame for poisoning the girls? To keep them weak, and under her control. If another one died, that's more pity, and attention for her.
Why did the town turn a blind eye? Habit. Small towns are notorious for keeping secrets, and protecting their own. Adora was a fine, upstanding lady. She had wealth and impeccable manners. She employed most of the people in town. Who would dare suggest that she was anything other than a saint.
Jackie saw through her bullshit. She was either new money/from the wrong side of the tracks/a known lush and or pill popper. People would have viewed anything she said against Adora as jealousy.
Sheriff Vickery (at least in the show) was having an emotional affair if not occasional sexual one with her. Or at the very least was infatuated with her. There was no one in authority to stop her.
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Post by scarlet on Sept 4, 2018 9:11:29 GMT -4
In the book Camille is 30-31 and Amma is 13, so they aged them both up for the show a bit.
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Post by kostgard on Sept 4, 2018 12:07:39 GMT -4
It makes sense that Amma was born after Camille already left the house (and that she would only know Amma from photos, and once Adora stopped sending those, she would have no idea what she looked like).
But the show screwed that up when they did the flashback to Camille watching Adora bite baby Amma. Camille was wearing her cheerleader uniform in the flashback, indicating that she was still in high school.
I guess she could have been a senior in HS, making her around 33 in the show, and maybe she's a hard 33 due to addictions.
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Post by Babycakes on Sept 4, 2018 21:55:55 GMT -4
It makes sense that Amma was born after Camille already left the house (and that she would only know Amma from photos, and once Adora stopped sending those, she would have no idea what she looked like). But the show screwed that up when they did the flashback to Camille watching Adora bite baby Amma. Camille was wearing her cheerleader uniform in the flashback, indicating that she was still in high school. I guess she could have been a senior in HS, making her around 33 in the show, and maybe she's a hard 33 due to addictions. I'm not sure what the show was going for or implying, but in the book, the baby wasn't Amma but someone else's baby. Adora was cuddling a baby, and Camille witnessed her secret viciousness. |
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