Hello??? What on earth were the script-writers thinking? This last episode is full of cliff-hangers and enormous disappointments. Yet it's a rich episode with so much dramatic twisting of plot, tension, alarm, uncertainty, another fabulous dancing scene, yet more brilliant music by Rachel Barrett, a sweet balcony scene, and a lovely resolution of the Babbington-Esther relationship (at least there is one wedding in the series **sniff**). The driving trope of the story of course is the union of souls between hero/heroine-Charlotte/Sidney and following the revealing path that brings them together. Though Andrew Davies, the script writer, packed this fragmented Austen-derived story with so many new and racy plot elements, a range of new characters, sexy bits, and the like, he keeps the relationship-driven plot central...in Austen, as the morally deficient characters are exposed eventually for what they are, they dissolve and disappear, while the heroes and heroines emerge and come together in deep attachment. But in Episode 8, Sidney proves to remain the conundrum he was pronounced to be by Charlotte in an earlier episode. He's a bit "improved" and more worthy of Charlotte (or is he?), but the ending leaves the couple tragically torn apart, despite zillions of hints about how they may be brought back together. It is absolutely heartbreaking, infuriating! It screams out for a SEASON 2! There are way too many loose threads, too many unresolved plot lines. Austen would not do this to us! Intensely frustrating, simply unacceptable, so please PBS, relieve our suffering and consent to do something about a Season 2!