Saturday, July 03, 2004

Wow... just watched a really wonderful, superb show!! It was so sad and touching and emotional... was really very moved by the show... such a sad ending...

The show was called "Run the Wild Fields"... did not expect to watch the show at first... it just kinda happened that I just woke up (slightly before 12noon) and switched on my TV... den realised that "Conan the detective" had just ended... so decided to continue to watch on for a while... den this show started... at first already wanted to switch the channel already, cause it was those kind of old shows and din look very interesting... but the music made me continue watching on... cause it sounded a little Irish... very catchy... so I continued... and I wasn't disappointed at all..

So I shall try to capture the gist of the whole story in a few paragraphs... people please take some time to read the synopsis... its really good!!

The story was set in 1942 in this American town... the men in the families of the town had all been sent for war in the Japanese Occupation...

The story revolves around this family in a farm... Ruby (mother) and Opal (daughter), Ruby's husband (which is Opal's father) was sent to fight in the war...

One day, whilst Opal was in the fields of the farm, she stumbled upon a wounded man and Ruby brought him back to her house... and nursed him back to health... after the man (whose name is Tom)has recovered, Ruby gave him some of her husband's clothes and Tom left...

After that Ruby went into town to get some groceries and saw Tom being led into the police station... Ruby den found out that the police thot that Tom had stolen Ruby's husband's clothes... so Ruby cleared the misconception and said that Tom was her worker.... so the police released her and Ruby took Tom back home, and gave him a job (to work in the fields) and provided him with meals...

So that's how the story progressed... as time goes, Tom got closer and closer to the family and Opal (Ruby's daughter) grew really close to Tom... slowly and slowly the three became really close and was almost like family...

Den one day, Opal received a letter... she read it and was really very sad after reading it, and hid the letter (up till then the show still din show wad the letter was)...

Finally, on one occasion, the men finally returned... the war was finally over... however Ruby's husband still din return... so Ruby was starting to accept the fact that Frank (her husband) was never going to come back...

On that particular night, the entire town had a celebration... and Ruby revealed to Tom that she liked him a lot.. and they kissed... but that was all lah... den Tom stumbled upon the letter that Opal kept... the letter was actually from Frank... saying that the war was over and that he was delayed and would be coming back soon...Tom was really sad... and think wanted to go find Ruby... den Ruby realised she was really in love and decided to go find Tom (Tom stays in the barn beside Ruby's house)... budden Ruby stopped at the door... and Tom stopped at the door inside the barn... both stopped at the door and was like holding the door knob... but none opened the door... and in the end, Ruby went bac to the house and Tom went back to bed...

On the next morning, Tom went to find Opal, who was still in bed. Tom woke up Opal and asked why din she show Frank's letter to Ruby. Opal started crying and said that she din want her father to come back, cause she really liked Tom and wanted Tom to be her father... but Tom said it was impossible and that he had to leave already...

And so, Tom left quietly without bidding goodbye... following that Frank came home and the family was reunited... leaving Tom heartbroken...

So that was the end of the story... really sad lor... think Tom was really ill fated... he could not even be together with his only "family"... and he couldn't be with the one that he liked... and Opal din get to see Tom ever again... and they really had such a good time together... and Ruby also loved him too... so all of Tom's hopes and dreams were shattered... even the town grew to accept Tom in their lifes... at first the entire town thot he was an ex-convict who robbed a bank or something... budden in a twist of event, they realised that he was actually a war hero of America...

Still feel very sad for Tom... the last scene showed that he was going home, but he had lost most of his family in the war, and he gave his beloved ring to Opal... haiz... really a very sad story...people if you have the time, must really go watch it!! Great show!!