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  • in reply to: Captain Baines – Did the Scripwriter give him a Raw Deal? #529
    Its also the case that Onedin named the South American port – Port
    Baines – I think there was more of a bond than previous posters have
    suggested.

    It must be remembered that JO was a man who was totally driven by self
    interest, and had little time for emotional bonds – his sudden
    conversion to propose to Leonora is particularly jarring.

    He's an interesting character for a popular drama – an anti-hero who
    you totally root for, and he's not really "held back" by being
    surrounded by villainous rivals/enemies. The nearest you really get
    is Callan in season one. Certainly Fogerty mark I is a rival, but
    aside from compromising Elizabeth, he's not really an enemy.

    — In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, "stuart_fanning"
    <stuart.fanning@n…> wrote:

    >
    > — In shiponedingroup@yahoogroups.com, Ronald Pritchard
    > <australian4you@y…> wrote:
    > > Hi Stuart,
    > > Not really (though possibly puzzling). JO was
    > > basically an aristocrat from the beginning (?) and
    > > married Anne to gain the shipping line. WB was just a
    > > common sailor who worked his way up. Though it does
    > > seem confusing at times why JO would not consider WB
    > > his equal (when it was Capt. WB) it is sort of the
    > > caste system of the victorian era.
    > > Searching for WB in Labrador would have been the
    > > code of the sea (going to another's distress) and
    > > would
    > > not necessarily mean they were buddy-buddy.
    > > I have not seen all the eps but what happen to Anne
    > > Onedin? Did she die or get a divorce from James?
    > > Ron
    > > — stuart_fanning <stuart.fanning@n…>
    > > wrote:
    > >
    > > >
    > > > Does anyone else think it strange that, in the main,
    > > > the
    > > > Baines/James Onedin relationship didn't develop all
    > > > that much. If
    > > > you look at their relationship during the first
    > > > couple of seasons
    > > > and the last two seasons, it hadn't changed that
    > > > much. Surely over
    > > > the 20 or 30 years they were together Baines would
    > > > have grown in
    > > > self confidence so that there relationship would
    > > > have become more of
    > > > one of equals. Obviously it couldn't completely as
    > > > Baines was a
    > > > senior employee, but Onedin's growing reliance on
    > > > Baines over the
    > > > years should have pushed things in that direction. I
    > > > think Onedin
    > > > would have accepted a more equal relationship, but
    > > > the series
    > > > scriptwriters really didn't develop the Baines
    > > > character very much.
    > > > Onedin obviously cared for Baines as the long search
    > > > in icy Labrador
    > > > proved and the naming of Onedin's son William at the
    > > > endof the
    > > > series.
    >
    > ———————————————————————
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    > Anne died in Childbirth having
    > Charlotte.****************************
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