Be careful what you wish for.

Francis is a man who has spent his entire life being compared unfavourably to his cousin, who also happens to be his hero. He is not bad, just broken.

She is strikingly beautiful and an excellent actress.

The love triangle does have implications, but far more important is the relationship between Poldark and Warleggan and the latter's desperate longing to be everything that Poldark is and annoyance that Poldark himself does not value any of it. Warleggan's obsessive hatred of Ross drives much of the story. Ross's…

There is no coercion involved.

He did not mean to kill her and bear in mind that we still had the death penalty then. No good person is going to see a man go to the gallows if he can prevent it.

His attitudes are entirely in keeping with the late 18th century. Also, his reaction to Mark Daniel's plight is not that the murder doesn't matter, but that he doesn't want a man to be hanged.

It's not an anachronism. The Enlightenment had made a lot of people think differently about class etc and in any case a local landowner was, to his tenants, often a good friend. They really did attend tenants' weddings, drink with them and work with them.

You're wrong. You just don't understand the English class system. You can't base assumptions about an entire era on one novel and the reaction to it by some people.