If Part 1 of the movie version was a terrible affront to the book, Part 2 was like taking an already vandalized work of immense beauty (the book), a work of art, and brutally maligning it with an intent to damage it beyond repair. Shame on you Warner Brothers! May your kind become extinct!! You can never apologize enough to Colleen McCullough, the creator of The Thorn Birds, even if you wanted to.