Sanditon Season 2 Saves Sidney’s Brothers Tom & Arthur
Warning: SPOILERS forSanditon Season 2, Episode 5
With Sidney (Theo James) gone,Sanditon season 2 has made his brothers Tom (Kris Marshall) and Arthur Parker (Turlough Convery) into better characters. As Sanditon heads into its season 2 finale, the Parker brothers are contending with a massive problem in their seaside resort town: Colonel Francis Lennox (Tom Weston-Jones) and his British Army regiment. Initially welcomed to Sanditon as heroes, Lennox's men caused financial and personal chaos, with Tom especially bearing the brunt of the calamity in the town.
Tom Parker is the visionary behind Sanditon but his irrepressible spirit and wide-eyed optimism in season 1 have been hampered by harsh realities. Tom was already financially burdened and a supplicant to Lady Denham (Anne Reid) to pay for the expenses of building Sanditon. But Tom was still unable to pay the wages of the construction workers before Sidney rescued him at the end of Sanditon season 1. Meanwhile, Arthur was merely comic relief inSanditon season 1. A hypochondriac along with his sister Diana (Alexander Roach), no one took Arthur seriously in season 1. However, the death of Sidney at the start of Sanditon season 2 necessarily altered Tom and Arthur for their betterment.
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In Sanditon season 2, Tom is showing more depth than ever. On the surface, his character hasn't changed much from Sanditon season 1; Tom still has big dreams but little in the way of money to realize them. The eldest Parker brother felt that the British Army coming to Sanditon would be a boon to the town, and he planned to build barracks to get them to stay, but Tom realized too late that Colonel Lennox and his men
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