Poldark season 3: What are Ross and George fighting about now?

As Poldark season 3 continues, the show is teasing another confrontation between Ross and George. One that has mostly been simmering in the season so far.

Poldark is not necessarily at its best when it pits Ross Poldark and George Warleggan against each other. But, like it or not, their fates are effectively intertwined. Much as we love Demelza and Ross and their shared scenes, it’s hard to deny that when Aidan Turner and Jack Farthing share a screen, there’s generally some high-quality (melo)drama.

Fortunately, the show has not given up on pitting them against each other even with season 3 trying to keep them apart.

In fact, Masterpiece has already put out a trailer that hints directly at the two of them squaring off yet again, this time over Ross’ new favorite brother-in-law (though the competition wasn’t that strong, Drake going to France definitely helped):

What needs to be said, though, is that this conflict is pretty clearly one that the show’s been laying groundwork for all season — and indeed throughout the series. Remember the end of season 2, where there was nearly an, ahem, incident at Trenwith?

So do we, and so, we think, does George in particular. Now George has spent the entire season alternately cozying up to the upper classes and trying to make the “vulgars” like him despite being stupendously bad at both.

But do we detect a note of remembrance in Ross’ line there as well? After all, he says, “the people will rise up, and I will be powerless to stop them.” The “unlike last time” is left unsaid, at least in this trailer, but it hangs heavy over the scene nevertheless.

Ross does good things (sometimes), and they’ve earned him some sway with people. Unfortunately, Ross has also spent most of the season in France, traveling to France, or thinking about France (with the exception of the winter grain purchasing, which was mostly handled by Demelza and Caroline anyway). Meanwhile, Drake has filled some of that popularity gap as well.

And, well, it rather seems like George can’t stand any of this.

As a result, on one hand, we have Ross, finally focused on matters at home full-time and finding himself going to bat for a brother-in-law that got shot trying to rescue Dwight. On the other hand, we have George, who’s found himself stymied at almost every turn.

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We’re not saying there might be a problem for George even if Drake lives, but we’re definitely thinking it very hard.