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The Thorn Birds

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The Thorn Birds	label	The Thorn Birds
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The Thorn Birds	comment	Not just a successful book in its own right (published in 1977) but also adapted in 1983 into the second highest-rated American mini-series ever, Colleen McCullough's The Thorn Birds branches over 50 years of the 20th century and focuses on the Cleary family, their home — a fictional sheep station called Drogheda — and the forbidden love between the daughter of the family, Meggie, and Ralph de Bricassart, an ambitious Catholic priest.Has been described as the Australian Gone with the Wind, and with good reason. Not to be confused with the Korean drama of the same name.
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The Thorn Birds / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
The Thorn Birds / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Fee unfortunately realizes too late that she does love Paddy shortly after Paddy's death because she was too busy mourning for her old love.
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The Thorn Birds / int_17d55c6e	type	Nuns Are Spooky
The Thorn Birds / int_17d55c6e	comment	Nuns Are Spooky: In the book, Meggie has some horrible experiences at parochial school because of sadistic nuns.
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The Thorn Birds / int_19209d54	type	Sibling Rivalry
The Thorn Birds / int_19209d54	comment	Sibling Rivalry: Averted; Justine doesn't resent Dane for being their mother's favorite, they love each other dearly and he's the only person she lets herself be close to for a long time. Averted with Frank and Meggie; despite the fact that he is their mother's favorite child, and she seems for many years to be her least favorite, Meggie adores Frank and vice versa. In fact, Frank seems to be genuinely fond of all his younger siblings, with Meggie being his favorite. No mean feat, considering that he despises their father.
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The Thorn Birds / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
The Thorn Birds / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Paddy and Meggie, in that Paddy seems more protective of Meggie than the rest of his children.
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The Thorn Birds / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
The Thorn Birds / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Luke and his cane-cutting mate, Arnie. To the point where Meggie sarcastically states that Luke should have married Arnie instead of her, since he clearly prefers Arnie's company to hers. Keep in mind, this is someone completely ignorant that homosexuality even exists.
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The Thorn Birds / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Thorn Birds / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Mini-series Meggie is incredibly negligent of Justine, to the point where she even finally admits—to Justine herself—that she loved Dane more. In the book, while she has a better relationship with Dane given his easy-going, Ralph-like personality, in contrast to Justine's argumentative, abrasive one, she genuinely loves them equally. If anything, after getting pregnant with Dane, Meggie tries repeatedly to bond with Justine (no doubt to make up for neglecting her during her post-partum depression), only for Justine to be the one to rebuff her.
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The Thorn Birds / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Thorn Birds / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: Ralph is eighteen years older than Meggie. To a lesser extent, Rainer and Justine. He is ten years older. The caretaker of Matlock Island is roughly 20 years his wife's senior and believes that this is the ideal setting for a happy marriage, as theirs is.
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The Thorn Birds / int_23f1384a	type	Babies Make Everything Better
The Thorn Birds / int_23f1384a	comment	Babies Make Everything Better: Meggie assumes this when trying to become pregnant by Luke—she's wrong. She also assumes this after getting pregnant by Ralph, content to have his son if she can't have him.
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The Thorn Birds / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
The Thorn Birds / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: Done with a twist. When Dane decides to enter the priesthood, Meggie agrees only as long as he can study with Father Ralph. Ralph's superior decides that, to throw off any suspicions from people who wonder at Ralph's obvious fondness for the younger man, they will tell people that Dane is his nephew.
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The Thorn Birds / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
The Thorn Birds / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Meggie is determined never to play favorites with her children, yet she blatantly favors Dane just as her mother did Frank. She also loses her favorite child, just as Fee did. Aside from his hair color, Dane bears a strong resemblance to Ralph, has many of his characteristics, and becomes a priest—also adored by his female contemporaries—like he was.
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The Thorn Birds / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
The Thorn Birds / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Frank's real father. All that is revealed about him is that he is a well known, part Maori New Zealand politician. Luke to Justine and (technically) Dane, as well, once Meggie left him.
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The Thorn Birds / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Thorn Birds / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: "The Missing Years", referring to the roughly 15-20 years skipped over by the original series, only covers approximately one year of that time, if even that much. The sections of the book are ostensibly named after whoever will be the focus—"Meggie", "Ralph", "Paddy", "Luke", "Fee", "Dane", "Justine"—but that's rarely the case. Justine gets more focus in the "Dane" chapter than Dane does!
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The Thorn Birds / int_2a4e8051	type	Sexual Karma
The Thorn Birds / int_2a4e8051	comment	Sexual Karma: Meggie is floored by how wonderful making love with Ralph is, especially compared to how bad sex with Luke was. Justine has a similar reaction after sleeping with Rain, having found sex with her previous lovers to be "pleasant", but not particularly spectacular.
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The Thorn Birds / int_2cf282ea	type	She Is All Grown Up
The Thorn Birds / int_2cf282ea	comment	She Is All Grown Up: Ralph has this reaction to Meggie when she walks into Mary Carson's birthday party.
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The Thorn Birds / int_2f9a0236	type	Your Son All Along
The Thorn Birds / int_2f9a0236	comment	Your Son All Along: Although in this case, Ralph adored Dane the moment he saw him (only after Dane's death does he admit that deep down, he probably knew all along), and instead harbors some resentment towards his mother Meggie, assuming that despite their passionate interlude (when Dane was conceived), she returned to her neglectful husband Luke.
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The Thorn Birds / int_30eb40ec	type	Stern Nun
The Thorn Birds / int_30eb40ec	comment	Stern Nun: Sister Agatha, who is more sadistic than stern.
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The Thorn Birds / int_31362f50	type	Hollywood Fire
The Thorn Birds / int_31362f50	comment	Hollywood Fire: A massive fire destroys some of the Drogheda property, and kills Paddy; his son Stuart finds the body, only to be killed moments later by a wild boar.
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The Thorn Birds / int_322ab612	type	I Am Not Your Father
The Thorn Birds / int_322ab612	comment	I Am Not Your Father: Basically yelled by Paddy during a fight with Frank.
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The Thorn Birds / int_3311abfd	type	Unconventional Wedding Dress
The Thorn Birds / int_3311abfd	comment	Unconventional Wedding Dress: Meggie marries Luke in the "ashes-of-roses" dress that she wore at Mary Carson's birthday party rather than the typical white dress, presumably because it's her best and favorite.
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The Thorn Birds / int_3327071e	type	Horrible Honeymoon
The Thorn Birds / int_3327071e	comment	Horrible Honeymoon: Luke and Meggie have one of these, with her hating sex because of how painful it is, him taking her money and depositing it in the bank, her being too overdressed for the climate and the community, and him ditching her with her new employers after getting her a job as a maid—without telling her until the last minute, and going off to work in the fields.
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The Thorn Birds / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Thorn Birds / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Meggie tells Ralph she's pregnant during The Missing Years. Given that the original Mini Series only features Justine and Dane as her children, it's a safe bet that she's going to lose the baby, although it's not clear how until Luke slaps her, causing her to fall.
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The Thorn Birds / int_3f1a4583	type	Single Sex Offspring
The Thorn Birds / int_3f1a4583	comment	Single Sex Offspring: Meggie is the only daughter of the Cleary family, with three younger brothers and five older brothers. In conversation with the priest, her mother Fiona notes that both her husband's family and her own tend to produce sons more frequently than daughters. "Girls are unusual."
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The Thorn Birds / int_3ff156fa	type	Nay-Theist
The Thorn Birds / int_3ff156fa	comment	Nay-Theist: Meggie had shades of this especially when Dane dies.
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The Thorn Birds / int_3fff5717	type	Genius Cripple
The Thorn Birds / int_3fff5717	comment	Genius Cripple: Anne Mueller has a disability, and she is remarkably well-read.
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The Thorn Birds / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Thorn Birds / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Mary Carson, so incensed when Ralph rebuffs her and so jealous of his feelings for Meggie that she seeks to control his destiny from beyond the grave and prevent them from ever having a chance to be together—she wills her fortune to Ralph, thus improving his stance with the church, knowing full well that the prospect of advancing his career will outweigh his desire to be with Meggie—but also that he'll simultaneously be miserable without her.
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The Thorn Birds / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
The Thorn Birds / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Likely owing to the rampant Fake Nationality. With the exceptions of Christopher Plummer (Cardinal Vittorio), Richard Kiley (Paddy), and Ken Howard (Rainier) none of the actors make any attempt at sounding the way their characters should, given where they're from.
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The Thorn Birds / int_46c1dc8e	type	Someone to Remember Him By
The Thorn Birds / int_46c1dc8e	comment	Someone to Remember Him By: A rare case where the "him" is alive. Fee and Meggie dote on sons Frank and Dane, respectively, as they and the boys respective fathers cannot be together.
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The Thorn Birds / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Thorn Birds / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Frank dies in the movie, but not in the book.
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The Thorn Birds / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Thorn Birds / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Mostly the Australian outback, but also Queensland and New Zealand.
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The Thorn Birds / int_4b1cb197	type	Spiteful Will
The Thorn Birds / int_4b1cb197	comment	Spiteful Will: An unusual version in which Mary Carson actually doesn't leave anyone impoverished. She leaves the bulk of her fortune to Ralph while still leaving a good amount to her Paddy and his family, all because of her bitterness that Ralph has rebuffed her and wanting to ensure that he'll be permanently separated from Meggie because she knows the desire to ascend in the Catholic Church—which he's certain to do with his newfound wealth—will be greater than the desire to abandon the priesthood and build a life with her.
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The Thorn Birds / int_516f986d	type	Loving a Shadow
The Thorn Birds / int_516f986d	comment	Loving a Shadow: Paddy and Fee. Ralph and Meggie also, to the point where Meggie marries Luke because of his resemblance to Ralph. After the marriage falls apart, she refuses to divorce him and move on with anyone else, having resigned herself to loving a man she knows she can never be with.
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The Thorn Birds / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The Thorn Birds / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Ralph is in Australia for reasons he initially refuses to reveal, before finally admitting that he was insubordinate to a senior official.
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The Thorn Birds / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
The Thorn Birds / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: The mini-series makes several minor adjustments concerning ages and the general time line of the book, as well as other alterations; probably the biggest changes are Jim and Patsy being left out altogether and Frank dying in prison. The series was a great success, so obviously they got it right...apart from the 19-year gap. See below.
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The Thorn Birds / int_5c24cfa1	type	Love Will Lead You Back
The Thorn Birds / int_5c24cfa1	comment	Love Will Lead You Back: At the end of the first episode of the Mini Series, as Ralph leaves Meggie to begin his ascent in the church, she declares, "Go on to that God of yours, but you'll come back to me, because I'm the one who loves you."
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The Thorn Birds / int_5d88876d	type	Chocolate Baby
The Thorn Birds / int_5d88876d	comment	Chocolate Baby: Frank. Ralph suspects (correctly) that he isn't Paddy's son the moment he meets him, as his eye color and overall appearance don't match his supposed parents, though Fee has Maori ancestry just like Frank's real father did and it could have been explained this way.
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The Thorn Birds / int_5dd191ec	type	Wife Husbandry
The Thorn Birds / int_5dd191ec	comment	Wife Husbandry: Ralph's known Meggie since she was ten and when they make love for the first time, he at last acknowledges he's molded and shaped her without intending to and that she's his creation. Ummm...yay? Also averted, since he didn't do it intentionally and he resists it for as long as possible, trying to think of Meggie as a child and not a woman.
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The Thorn Birds / int_64713b04	type	Pedophile Priest
The Thorn Birds / int_64713b04	comment	Pedophile Priest: Subverted with Ralph, who is implied to have feelings for Meggie from the moment they meet, when he's 28 and she's 10, but nothing happens between them until she grows up. But even then, she's still quite young.
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The Thorn Birds / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Thorn Birds / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Meggie and Justine are both based on Colleen McCullough herself—an Irish father and mother of part-Maori ancestry (Meggie), and a difficult relationship with her mother and whose brother drowned when young (Justine).
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The Thorn Birds / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
The Thorn Birds / int_6774150c	comment	If I Can't Have You…: For all that Ralph encourages Meggie to forget him and marry someone else, he gets pretty peeved when she actually goes and does it, and Fee has to call him out on his hypocrisy. Twice. Mary Carson is so incensed that Ralph doesn't return her affections that she engineers things to ensure that he and Meggie will be separated.
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The Thorn Birds / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
The Thorn Birds / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Mary Carson is a wretched person, but she picks up on Ralph's feelings for Meggie almost instantly, calls him out on the impropriety of them, and scoffs at his protestations of "I'm a priest", reminding him, "You're a man first." Her assessments may be motivated only out of jealousy, but they're still correct. In the interquel, upon finding out that Dane is Ralph's son and not his, Luke blasts Meggie as a "lying bitch" and Ralph as a "fornicating priest". It sounds harsh until you realize that Meggie did in fact cheat on him with Ralph and then allowed him and Dane to bond for months while knowing full well that Dane wasn't his. He's also rightly pissed off when Meggie tries to pull The Baby Trap on him, given that he made it clear that he wanted to wait until they were financially secure before having children, which she completely disregarded.
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The Thorn Birds / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Thorn Birds / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Ralph not realizing Dane was his son despite their strong resemblance and common talents and interests. It's subverted after Dane dies when he admits that deep down, he probably knew all along but was in denial.
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The Thorn Birds / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
The Thorn Birds / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: Meggie and Ralph do share a passionate embrace on the beach, but not in the manner depicted, nor dressed the way they are on the DVD cover (those are their outfits from Mary Carson's birthday party).
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The Thorn Birds / int_7349ce5a	type	Sex Comedy
The Thorn Birds / int_7349ce5a	comment	Sex Comedy: Justine's first time. She starts laughing uncontrollably when she sees a reflection of her partner's bouncing buttocks (whose hair tufts make her think of Dagwood). Her partner is less amused, however. Perhaps it's payback for when they got started, His reaction upon seeing her naked is to exclaim, "Good God! You really are a redhead!" To which she snaps, "What did you expect? Purple feathers?"
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The Thorn Birds / int_757bbdb8	type	Massive Numbered Siblings
The Thorn Birds / int_757bbdb8	comment	Massive Numbered Siblings: There are a total of nine children in the Cleary family, and Fee and Ralph are implied to have come from large families themselves.
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The Thorn Birds / int_7ab37e1	type	Miss Conception
The Thorn Birds / int_7ab37e1	comment	Miss Conception: Book Meggie is completely ignorant about where babies come from, believing, even in her mid-teens, that one "wishes for them and they grow". Fee, of course, never bothers to explain anything to her, leaving Meggie in for a very unpleasant wedding night (her husband being a lousy, selfish, and inconsiderate lover doesn't help much). In the movie, she knows, but is still unprepared for how painful the first time can be.
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The Thorn Birds / int_7df2b942	type	Moving the Goalposts
The Thorn Birds / int_7df2b942	comment	Moving the Goalposts: Luke keeps insisting that he needs to save more and more money before he and Meggie can buy their own place and settle down to start a family, but he drags it out so long—by which point he has sufficient funds—that Meggie finally realizes he has no interest in doing so.
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The Thorn Birds / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Thorn Birds / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: Paddy and Fee, basically. After spending some time working on her family's estate, her grandmother, who's taken a liking to him, asks if he would marry Fee because she knows the family will throw her out once she dies. Paddy confides to Ralph that not until their wedding day did he ever even speak to her and that it was several years before they had a "real" marriage because they were so timid, during which he had to teach her to how keep a house because she had no idea how.
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The Thorn Birds / int_812a2820	type	Pink Means Feminine
The Thorn Birds / int_812a2820	comment	Pink Means Feminine: Meggie wears a greyish pink ("ashes of roses") dress at Mary Carson's birthday party. Ralph associates Meggie with this color forever after.
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The Thorn Birds / int_813afa05	type	Defiled Forever
The Thorn Birds / int_813afa05	comment	Defiled Forever: Fee's family seemed to regard her as this, as her illegitimate child made her ineligible for marriage to any man of equal social standing.
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The Thorn Birds / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Thorn Birds / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: While you sometimes feel sorry for Mary Carson, you can't deny that she's a conniving bitch of the first order.
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The Thorn Birds / int_86025d8f	type	Irish Priest
The Thorn Birds / int_86025d8f	comment	Irish Priest: Father Ralph is of Irish descent.
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The Thorn Birds / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
The Thorn Birds / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Justine knows all too well that Dane is the favorite. In the book, she's gotten over it (Meggie doesn't neglect her nearly as much as she does in the movie), while in the movie she resents her mother for it, although not Dane. Similarly, Meggie and the rest of the boys know that Fee favors Frank more than the rest of them, as well, but Meggie resents Fee, not Frank for this. It is also implied that Meggie is Paddy's favorite.
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The Thorn Birds / int_89cf0914	type	Parental Sexuality Squick
The Thorn Birds / int_89cf0914	comment	Parental Sexuality Squick: Frank is enraged and disgusted to see that Fee is pregnant again, ranting "Why can't he (Paddy) just leave you alone?!", and even more horrified when Fee irritatedly tells him, "I'm not the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is no different from how YOU came into the world.", thus revealing that Paddy did not force himself on her.
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The Thorn Birds / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
The Thorn Birds / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Justine, when she gets to this age. Though it's mostly because she's far too outspoken for her age, as she's always been. Ralph is the only one she's legitimately outright rude to.
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The Thorn Birds / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
The Thorn Birds / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Meggie comments at one time about how different Justine and Dane are, and yet they get along so wonderfully.
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The Thorn Birds / int_93b92ca4	type	Lousy Lovers Are Losers
The Thorn Birds / int_93b92ca4	comment	Lousy Lovers Are Losers: Maggie's boorish husband Luke is a lousy and inconsiderate lover who never satisfies her, and when she started refusing sex, he invoked Marital Rape License by forcing himself on her during their Awful Wedded Life. She eventually has enough and leaves him.
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The Thorn Birds / int_9588c44b	type	First Period Panic
The Thorn Birds / int_9588c44b	comment	First Period Panic: Meggie spends the first few months of her menstrual cycle thinking that she's dying from a tumor, thanks to her mother failing to explain anything to her.
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The Thorn Birds / int_9e1e14ea	type	Ambition Is Evil
The Thorn Birds / int_9e1e14ea	comment	Ambition Is Evil: Ralph befriends wealthy widow Mary Carson even though he dislikes her in the hopes that her wealth and influence can help him get back into the church's good graces and eventually advance his career. When she dies, she does make a huge donation on his behalf and even though by now he's fallen in love with Meggie Cleary, the prospect of advancement is too tempting for him and he leaves her—and continues to leave her in order to continue rising in the ranks of the church. By the end of the book, he admits that deep down, he always knew that he was the father of Meggie's son Dane, but taunts himself by referring to himself as "Cardinal deBricassart", because he is also forced to admit that advancing his career was more important to him than being with the woman he loved and building a life with her.
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The Thorn Birds / int_a0ce7213	type	My Girl Back Home
The Thorn Birds / int_a0ce7213	comment	My Girl Back Home: Ralph seems to think of Meggie this way while he is at the Vatican.
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The Thorn Birds / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
The Thorn Birds / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Ralph and Meggie's romantic beach interlude has been described as the most passionate such scene since From Here to Eternity.
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The Thorn Birds / int_a36fb848	type	Grand Staircase Entrance
The Thorn Birds / int_a36fb848	comment	Grand Staircase Entrance: How the mini-series presents Meggie's entry into Mary Carson's birthday party. Ralph certainly takes notice.
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The Thorn Birds / int_a5cc639b	type	Birthday Beginning
The Thorn Birds / int_a5cc639b	comment	Birthday Beginning: The book opens on the female protagonist, Meggie Cleary's, fifth birthday... which her mother just barely acknowledges by tossing her an unwrapped doll. She's the youngest child (at the time) and only daughter in a large family of boys. The brothers nearest her age destroy the toy before the day is out. These things set the stage for Meggie being ignored and/or taken advantage of by most of her family right on into adulthood.
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The Thorn Birds / int_a8adc5a0	type	Like a Son to Me
The Thorn Birds / int_a8adc5a0	comment	Like a Son to Me: Ralph says this about Dane after hearing that he's died, not two seconds before Meggie drops the bomb on him that Dane WAS his son.
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The Thorn Birds / int_a98aacd1	type	Posthumous Villain Victory
The Thorn Birds / int_a98aacd1	comment	Posthumous Villain Victory: Incensed by Ralph rebuffing her advances and over his love for her niece Meggie, Mary amends her will. Whereas she was originally going to leave everything to her brother Paddy (Meggie's father) and his family, she now leaves the bulk of it to Ralph, even though she still leaves a significant amount to Paddy. Had she left everything to Ralph and left her brother penniless, she knows Ralph would have been angry enough to refuse the new terms, but this way, he has no reason to do so. Furthermore, with her financial backing, Ralph can begin to advance in the Catholic Church, something else she knows he desperately wants, but simultaneously be separated from his beloved Meggie. Despite their love for each other and even a romantic interlude that results in a son, they're never able to be happy together.
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The Thorn Birds / int_ab48ea8	type	Preacher's Kid
The Thorn Birds / int_ab48ea8	comment	Preacher's Kid: Dane, in that he acts very angelic, but he is unaware of his true parentage.
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The Thorn Birds / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Thorn Birds / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: Ralph befriends Mary in the hopes that her wealth can influence his advance in the church. By the time it finally happens, he's fallen in love with Meggie and is now agonized at being separated from her.
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The Thorn Birds / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
The Thorn Birds / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: Meggie's boorish husband Luke forces himself on her on their wedding night because "it's time." All the more horrific for Meggie in that she is ignorant of the facts of life.
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The Thorn Birds / int_b6203862	type	Interquel
The Thorn Birds / int_b6203862	comment	Interquel: The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years, which unfortunately, was almost completely inconsistent with both the original miniseries as well as the book in terms of both characterization and plotline.
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The Thorn Birds / int_b6927d71	type	Hot for Preacher
The Thorn Birds / int_b6927d71	comment	Hot for Preacher: Mary and Meggie aren't the only ones who lust after Ralph. Dane has his admirers too—two girls almost drown because they're so enamored of him that they follow him out for a swim, only to get caught in the strong current.
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The Thorn Birds / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
The Thorn Birds / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Between Meggie, Ralph, and God. Ralph at one point admits to his superior that it's often only after hours of prayer that he finds the strength to not walk out of the church and go to her, and even after they finally consummate their relationship and he tells him that he found a peace with her that he's never found with God, he still can't find it in him to leave the priesthood and be with her.
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The Thorn Birds / int_b8bda98a	type	Men Are Better Than Women
The Thorn Birds / int_b8bda98a	comment	Men Are Better Than Women: Fee's attitude towards her children for much of the book. She dotes on her sons but barely acknowledges Meggie's existence. It has suggested that her own hard lot is why she had no enthusiasm about having a female child. She does come to respect and grow closer to Meggie in later life. Luke demonstrates this too. Already displeased when Meggie gets pregnant, he's even moreso when the child is a girl. Later, after Meggie leaves him, he still writes to her occasionally to ask if their last interlude resulted in a son. In the midquel too—Luke only resurfaces in Meggie's life when he hears about Dane, assuming the boy is his. He pays little attention to Justine during the following weeks, and when Meggie kicks him out for good after he slaps her, it's Dane he snatches and seeks custody of.
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The Thorn Birds / int_b9db28ab	type	Emotionless Girl
The Thorn Birds / int_b9db28ab	comment	Emotionless Girl: According to Paddy, since their marriage began Fee has not complained or cried or even laughed, and though he and their children all love her, she only shows obvious affection for Frank - the son of the man who seduced and abandoned her, hereby explaining her demeanor. She gets warmer later on, ironically because of her husband and sons dying.
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The Thorn Birds / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Thorn Birds / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: "The old bitch."
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The Thorn Birds / int_bdc94cd9	type	Compressed Adaptation
The Thorn Birds / int_bdc94cd9	comment	Compressed Adaptation: The TV producers skipped over 19 years, leaving out Justine's and Dane's childhoods entirely. CBS sought to remedy this error with The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years.
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The Thorn Birds / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Thorn Birds / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Meta version. In the story, Meggie marries Luke in an attempt to move on from her love for Ralph. In real life, Rachel Ward (Meggie) and Bryan Brown (Luke) were the ones who fell passionately in love on set; they've been happily married since 1983. Fee neglects her daughter Meggie, but becomes a surrogate mother to her granddaughter Justine because of Meggie neglecting her.
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The Thorn Birds / int_c4942576	type	Cunning Linguist
The Thorn Birds / int_c4942576	comment	Cunning Linguist: Ralph and Dane are both multilingual, though we don't get to see either of them use their skills much, making this also an Informed Ability on both their parts.
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The Thorn Birds / int_c5474384	type	Vow of Celibacy
The Thorn Birds / int_c5474384	comment	Vow of Celibacy: The illicit relationship between a Catholic priest and a younger woman is the main conflict.
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The Thorn Birds / int_c772e7c5	type	Rags to Riches
The Thorn Birds / int_c772e7c5	comment	Rags to Riches: The Cleary family does this; they go from living a very meager existence on New Zealand to living on a fantastic country estate in Australia, even if they do spend the first few years living in the servants quarters. Also to a lesser extent with Ralph, when Mary Carson leaves most of her estate to the Catholic Church and makes him the executor of her will. This sudden influx of wealth improves his standing with the church, and he commences a rise through the ranks which eventually leads to his being made a cardinal.
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The Thorn Birds / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
The Thorn Birds / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: Results from the plotline of The Missing Years. Among many examples is that in the original, Ralph meets Justine and Dane as young adults and the dialogue makes it quite clear that this is for the first time, whereas in the interquel, he meets them as children and spends considerable time with them. They are far too old to have simply forgotten this by the time they meet in the original and even if not, Ralph certainly wouldn't have.
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The Thorn Birds / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
The Thorn Birds / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	And yet not averted: the characters exist in a No Periods, Period culture, as made clear by the very fact that Meggie doesn't know what her menstruation is: and when she finally manages to tell Ralph, he is in an agony of embarrassment at the very mention of it (the women who tell him their sexual fantasies as fact in the confessional graphically describe every aspect of human sexuality they can imagine ... except that they menstruate).
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The Thorn Birds / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
The Thorn Birds / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Fee's grandmother who refused to let the rest of the family disown Fee when Fee got pregnant as a teenager. When she was dying she arranged for Fee to marry Paddy because she realized the family would throw Fee out once she passed on.
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The Thorn Birds / int_d358ed20	type	Unbalanced By Rival's Kid
The Thorn Birds / int_d358ed20	comment	Unbalanced By Rival's Kid: Though he gets over it and is more upset with Meggie about it, Ralph is initially rattled when he meets Dane, assuming him to be Luke's son, not realizing he's his.
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The Thorn Birds / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
The Thorn Birds / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Stuart, Meggie's brother who is closest to her in age. He lives in his own world, seldom speaks and takes whatever abuse or tragedy life offers him stoically. Shortly before he is gored to death by a boar he realizes that he never made any plans for himself because he somehow knew he was fated to die young.
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The Thorn Birds / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Thorn Birds / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Meggie. She spends years lusting after a priest, wanting him to forsake his vows to be with her. She also denounces the church constantly, blaming it for costing her both of the men she loves—Ralph and Dane. She also ultimately commits adultery with said priest and passes his child off as her husband's—and has the audacity to get angry at Luke when he correctly accuses her of sleeping with Ralph—and blasts her mother for neglecting her and her siblings and blatantly favoring her oldest son. But she won't divorce her husband even though she's left him because she's a "good Catholic" and she neglects her daughter in favor of her son just as her mother did to her. She also blasts Ralph for failing to realize that Dane was his son, overlooking the fact that she herself never told him. In one scene, Ralph is seen sternly chastising a priest who broke his vow of chastity, despite the fact that he's in the exact same situation.
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The Thorn Birds / int_da9131af	type	The Baby Trap
The Thorn Birds / int_da9131af	comment	He's also rightly pissed off when Meggie tries to pull The Baby Trap on him, given that he made it clear that he wanted to wait until they were financially secure before having children, which she completely disregarded.
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The Thorn Birds / int_de04068f	type	Don't Tell Mama
The Thorn Birds / int_de04068f	comment	Don't Tell Mama: Meggie's oldest brother Frank runs away from home when she's a girl, after having a fight with Paddy in which it's revealed that Frank isn't his. Years later, Fee happens to find a newspaper in which an article announces his conviction for a terrible crime. Frank's only comment to the press was "Don't tell my mother."
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The Thorn Birds / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
The Thorn Birds / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Luke and Meggie. He sends her off to work as a housekeeper while he works as a cane cutter, only visiting occasionally for a round of lousy sex and is such a skinflint that he insists on her wages being put in his account, leaving her nothing to spend on herself, and despite supposedly working so hard to earn money to buy them their own house, keeps putting it off because deep down, he has no interest in settling down with a family—when the fed-up Meggie finally leaves him, his only response is to shrug and go back to work.
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The Thorn Birds / int_e01bf9f9	type	Flashback with the Other Darrin
The Thorn Birds / int_e01bf9f9	comment	Flashback with the Other Darrin: Ralph has one of Meggie in The Missing Years, with Amanda Donohoe replacing Rachel Ward in the below-mentioned Grand Staircase Entrance.
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The Thorn Birds / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Thorn Birds / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: None of the Cleary brothers ever leave Drogheda, marry, or even date. It's implied that Fee's negligence has left them completely clueless about how to even approach a woman, but there could always be another reason...
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The Thorn Birds / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
The Thorn Birds / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Meggie warns Fee that if she tells anyone about Dane's parentage, "I'll be as miserable to you as you've always been to me!", finally blasting Fee for what a negligent mother she was. Later, when Meggie refuses to attend Dane's ordination, Justine sarcastically states, "I can understand if it were my ordination, but isn't Dane the one you love?", thus blasting Meggie for how much she's neglected her.
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The Thorn Birds / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
The Thorn Birds / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: Ralph and Meggie, Fee and Pakeha, Justine and Rainer. Though in Justine and Rainer's case, it's not so much circumstances as it is Justine herself—she pushes him away because she feels undeserving of love, fears ruining the relationship, feels responsible for Dane's death (irrationally thinking had she not been with Rainer, she could have prevented Dane's drowning) and should thus be punished by never finding happiness, etc.
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The Thorn Birds / int_e9c022ea	type	Secretly Wealthy
The Thorn Birds / int_e9c022ea	comment	Secretly Wealthy: Subverted with Mary Carson. People already knew she was rich, but she was much wealthier than anyone imagined.
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The Thorn Birds / int_e9e28bd7	type	Sexy Priest
The Thorn Birds / int_e9e28bd7	comment	Sexy Priest: Ralph in a nutshell. Mary also wonders why so many priests are beautiful, and whether they choose the priesthood as an escape from the consequences of their appearances—or perhaps they like somehow taunting women with the fact that such an attractive man is unavailable to them. All this while she's admiring a half naked Ralph in the rain, of course.
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The Thorn Birds / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
The Thorn Birds / int_eb5b71fe	comment	Clingy Jealous Girl: Mary Carson is so enamored with Ralph that she outright admits that she dislikes Meggie simply because Ralph is fond of her—Meggie is still a child at this point. Even in death, she invokes this, leaving her fortune to Ralph so that he'll advance in the Church—but be separated from his beloved Meggie. A familial version when Ralph realizes that Justine dislikes him because he and Dane have hit it off and she doesn't like him spending time with anyone but her. When Meggie goes to Matlock Island, the caretaker tells her that his wife is afraid that she'll seduce him. Upon meeting the woman, Maggie is surprised to see that she's much younger than him and very pretty, making her suspicions quite irrational.
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The Thorn Birds / int_f19b5fcf	type	Died on Their Birthday
The Thorn Birds / int_f19b5fcf	comment	Died on Their Birthday: Mary Carson flat-out declares that she's going to die the night of her 65th birthday, and indeed she does.
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The Thorn Birds / int_fbc54605	type	Riches to Rags
The Thorn Birds / int_fbc54605	comment	Riches to Rags: Fee who was disowned by her wealthy and powerful New Zealand family after being pregnant out of wedlock.
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