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Sparkhouse

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Sparkhouse is a 2002 modern-day adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, in which the two main roles of Cathy and Heathcliff are Gender Flip to Andrew and Carol respectively. Carol lives on a farm in Yorkshire with her younger sister, Lisa, and abusive father, Richard. She and her best friend Andrew are desperately in love with each other. Unfortunately, Andrew's snobby parents, Kate and Paul, don't approve of Carol and her 'bloody awful family', and through their interference a terrible secret is revealed which drives the young lovers apart.Soon after parting ways with Andrew, Carol disappears, taking Lisa with her. Years pass, and Andrew marries a Nice Girl, Becky, and has a son of his own. But eventually Carol returns, and gains complete control of her father's farm while marrying John, a farmhand, for his money. But soon enough the obsessive love between Carol and Andrew is reignited, driving Andrew to the brink of madness and beyond.Although an adaptation of Wuthering Heights, Sparkhouse stands on its own merit as a hard-hitting, emotional drama in its own right.
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Rape as Drama
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Rape as Drama: Carol was raped as a child by her father. This provides the catalyst for the drama, as the discovery makes Andrew shrink away from marrying Carol.
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Heroic BSoD
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Heroic BSoD: Carol, when Lisa tells her she wishes she were dead, realizes that she's becoming just like her father.
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The Stoic
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The Stoic: John.
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Wild Child
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Wild Child: Carol. Apparently, she was always like that, getting Andrew to steal cars and shoplift when they were teenagers.
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Byronic Hero
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Carol is Heathcliff
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: John
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Parental Abandonment
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Parental Abandonment: Carol and Lisa's mother leaves them for a man she meets in the pub.
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Break the Haughty
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Break the Haughty: Paul and Kate.
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Tomboy and Girly Girl
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Carol and Becky, respectively.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: This conversation Kate has with Carol. Carol does this literally, when she hangs Kate's dog on Christmas Eve.
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Anguished Declaration of Love
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Anguished Declaration of Love
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Awful Truth
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Awful Truth: When Carol tells Andrew that she was raped when she was twelve, he asks who did it. She says 'I don't want you to feel sorry for me', and you can see it dawn on him that it was her own father.
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Adaptational Heroism
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Adaptational Heroism: While Carol does some questionable things she’s still at her core a much more decent human than Heathcliff.
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Woman Scorned
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Woman Scorned. Carol doesn't take being jilted by Andrew lightly. In fact, she climbs on top of his family's car and smashes in the windows and headlights with an axe.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Andrew kills himself, but Carol is still alive, and it's implied she will go on to find some happiness with John and Lisa.
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Love Hurts
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Love Hurts
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Little Miss Snarker
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Little Miss Snarker: Lisa, when she becomes a teenager.
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Crazy Jealous Guy
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Crazy Jealous Guy: Andrew, who (in a reference to the source material) beats his head against a wall when he believes Carol is going to sleep with John.
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Parental Incest
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Parental Incest: It's revealed that Carol was raped by her own father, and that Lisa is her child by him.
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BigDamnKiss
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Big Damn Kiss: The series opens with one between Carol and Andrew on the moors during a thunderstorm, setting the tone of their relationship.
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Dream Sequence
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Dream Sequence: Andrew has several dreams about Carol and starts sleepwalking. It's implied that he does this whenever he and Carol are separated.
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Dance of Romance
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Dance of Romance: Andrew dreams of having one with Carol in Sparkhouse farm, to 'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis' by Vaughan Williams.
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide: Andrew.
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Spared by the Adaptation
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Spared by the Adaptation: Unlike Heathcliff, Carol doesn’t die.
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Beware the Quiet Ones
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Beware the Quiet Ones: John, who remains quiet and stoic throughout, until his patience is pushed too far and he easily beats Andrew to a bloody pulp.
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The Alcoholic
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The Alcoholic: Richard. Lisa claims that their mother was also 'always pissed'.
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Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy
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Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Carol and Andrew.
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Destructive Romance
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Destructive Romance: As in the original
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: Richard
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Children Are Innocent
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Children Are Innocent: Carol doesn't want Lisa to know the full extent of their father's abuse, claiming 'she's too little, it's not fair.'
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Betty and Veronica
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Betty and Veronica: With Andrew as Archie, Becky is Betty, while Carol is Veronica.
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In the Blood
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In the Blood: Lisa worries about this. She constantly remembers a boy at school telling her that she comes from a 'dirty family'.
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Oop North
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Oop North: Almost everyone has a Yorkshire accent, seeing as it's set in Hebden Bridge, near Leeds.
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Sociopathic Hero
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Sociopathic Hero: Both Carol and Andrew skirt around this, but Carol at least has reasons for being the way she is.
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Dogged Nice Guy
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John is a mix between Isabella and Hareton
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And There Was Much Rejoicing
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And There Was Much Rejoicing: played with when Richard dies. Lisa is found crying, but she says, 'I'm not crying for him, I'm crying for me. Of all the crap dads we could have had... things could have been so much better.'
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Died in Your Arms Tonight
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Died in Your Arms Tonight: Andrew dies in Carol's arms.
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Odd Friendship
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Odd Friendship: Lisa, a sarcastic, wise-beyond-her-years teenager, becomes friends with Becky, a sweet, sheltered young mum.
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The Masochism Tango
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The Masochism Tango: Andrew's parents, Kate and Paul, actively despise one another.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Paul is a mixture of Hindley and Nelly
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Abusive Parents
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Richard is Hindley
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Operation: Jealousy
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Operation: Jealousy: Carol attempts this with John, and Andrew retaliates by taking home a female friend.
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Love Triangle
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Love Triangle: Two. Carol/Andrew/Becky, and Andrew/Carol/John.
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: Andrew. He only seems to care about how things affect him, even when he finds out Carol was pregnant at age twelve.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: Only one F-bomb in the series:
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: Carol gives one to Andrew when he stands her up at the altar.
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Action Girl
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Action Girl: Carol. From destroying Paul's car with an axe, punching Andrew out, standing up to her abusive father, breaking up a fight between John and Andrew with a shotgun, the girl can certainly look after herself.
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Mama Bear
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Mama Bear: Carol towards Lisa.
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Composite Character
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Composite Character: John seems to be a mixture of Isabella and Hareton from Wuthering Heights. The role he plays, in that he marries Carol, is that of Isabella, but his character (stoic, gruff, and quiet but with a good heart) is similar to Hareton, as is the fact that Carol likes and respects him.
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Expy
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Expy: The series is based on Wuthering Heights, so... Carol is Heathcliff Andrew is Cathy Becky is Edgar John is a mix between Isabella and Hareton Lisa is Hareton, but her role in the story is Linton's Richard is Hindley Kate is Hindley Paul is a mixture of Hindley and Nelly
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Jerkass
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Kate is Hindley
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Distressed Dude
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Distressed Dude: Andrew comes off the worst in a fight with John, and it is Carol who, with a shotgun, stops John from going any further.
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