Jessica

[Browndog]

Wow, talk about giving a snake a bad reputation. For anyone that didn't see this mini series last night. To cut a long story short it was based on book by the author Bryce Courtney and was about people living in the country back around 1914. A Father told his Daughter to beware of the many King Browns around the property as if you shoot one, it's mate will get you as they always hang together. Right at the end of the movie Jessica's dog died from a snake bite and she went and shot the Brown snake and then it's mate jumped out of a tree and got her on the neck. One dead Jessica and the end of the show. Does Bryce Courtney know his Herps or is he a naughty man ?


Cheers

Browndog

 

[NoOne]

The adds were bad enough, couldn't stand to watch it. Could they have plugged it anymore.

 

[dobermanmick]

IMO it sounds like she deserved it !

 

[Sdaji]

I know there's no truth to the 'their mate will come and kill you' myths, but sometimes I get tempted to start spreading them. Also the one where the snake somehow gets into your car when you run it over then kills you when you stop.

 

[africancichlidau]

Browns mates will always jump out of trees and get you real good if you step on an earthworm that happens to be a friend of theirs!! Frightening isn't it ?

 

[ether]

Yeh i happened to catch that exact part as a iwas doin a bit of channel surfing. She did deserve it. She shot one with like a 12 gauge shotgun then 1 bit her and she then managed to beat that into a pulp. Very visual indeed. Doesent exactly help snakes reputations.

Regards Ether

 

[Guest]

Yeah i was channel flicking too when she nailed the brown with the 12 gauge. was actually fairly funny to watch. kinda felt bad though.

 

[eddy]

YEAH my girlfriend was watching it I caught the end THAT WOMEN DESERVED IT 12 gauge shot gun point blank both barrels........ poor bugger didnt have a chance I would have bit her to........

 

[Nome]

I missed the last half of it due to a blackout, so missed all the 'snake action'. Can someone tell me what happened to the baby, and did she get married to Jack?

Sorry, just annoying to see half of it, and not knowing what happened in the end

~N

 

[moosenoose]

Am I wrong here...since when do Mulgas climb trees?

I watched the show. It started off well, & then -even though I was warned about the author- went into a downward spiral of crap! It was one misfortune after another.

I had predicted when she said good-bye to the solicitor that she was going to stumble and fall onto the rail track on front of the train! Oh, how stupid of me! It was always going to be the tree hugging, flying Mulga who's part was introduced into the film only 1/2 hr previously to her getting hammered on the neck! Oh well, more Hollywood than Australian IMO! :shock:

 

[moosenoose]

I missed the last half of it due to a blackout, so missed all the 'snake action'. Can someone tell me what happened to the baby, and did she get married to Jack?

Sorry, just annoying to see half of it, and not knowing what happened in the end

~N

Do you really want to know?

Okay! !
- Jack dies in the war!
- Jessica's mother kills one of the old gossipers - then helps give her old man a fatal heart attack!
- At the funeral of Jessicas father the mother announces the arrival of Jessicas older sisters baby. Which then puts her into a rage - tackling the mother.
- Strangley enough then, the mother approaches a magistrate and convinces him to have Jessica committed to a luney asylumn.
- Jessica then has the Barrister for the guy who got hung after killing the three women (you know, the same guy with the big equipment who got kicked in the head by the horse )
- The barrister gets her out of the mental asylumn on a technicality.
- she finally meets up with the sister & the mother and calls herself Aunty Jessica. They can't believe it - neither could I!
- Then she returns home to her shack and gets gobbled on the neck by mandrake the flying snake - THE END!

Da Daaaaaaaaaaaa....................................

 

[Nome]

Ooooh, what a depressing ending. It is a true story, I guess that's why the ending was so crap.

Thanks Moosey, for satisfying my shameful need to know

 

[moosenoose]

your welcome - ha, ha! I think my review is as woeful as the story itself, but you get the picture! :wink:

 

[Nome]

Thanks, lovely moosey :wink:

Oh, and also, did they find out the father of her baby? And did she end up getting Jack's letter?

Thanks, moose :wink:

 

[moosenoose]

Yes she did get Jacks letters - typically though, it was after he was killed during the war.

The father of the baby was Jack, even though the story lead you to believe it was (can't remember his name!) the big guy. LOL

 

[Nome]

Oh, thanks Moosey.

Yes, I thought it was Billy (let me show you what Jesus gave me) .

Thanks for that, my lovely moose :wink:

I'm sad that the evil sister was left with the baby in the end. I wish it wasn't a true story

:roll:

 

[Fuscus]

There is a minor grain of truth in the revenge bit in that if you kill a female that is putting out the attraction pheromones then males will be attracted to the body. So you can see how people could interporate the males turning up as seeking revenge.

Anyhow, sounds like a fantastic program and I am sorry I didn't watch it. :roll:

 

[Pinkie]

Billy Simple lol.

Then she returns home to her shack and gets gobbled on the neck by mandrake the flying snake

It was kinda funny seeing a king brown climb a tree and then propell itself through the air to land on her neck!
Terrible when she shot the "mate", a lot of meat flying around - really bad image!

But Nome, at the very end it showed the child Joey visiting Jessica's grave, the aboriginal girl Mary had passed on Jack's letters to him, so he knew that Jessica was his real mother.
Ta da!

 

[Bryony]

oh dear....
should we edu-ma-cate the writers and movie stars so their 'master pieces' actually seem feesable?

 

[Pinkie]

Yup old Bryce is certainly is need of some edu-ma-cation Bry!