Is the fact that Margaret wasn't actually there when he died. After everything they had been through together, they weren't able to say goodbye.
I know it's a fact of life, but just feel they went through everything together.
I don't like watching the last episode, it brings me down. It's good that it was made and rounds the series off well, but I still don't enjoy watching it and usually skip it.
Pointing this out just gives me another reason to now lol
It was a shame that David Renwick decided to the end the show the way he did. Margaret should have been there when he died but in all honesty they both should have just moved away to Spain, leaving the door open for a return.
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TO: NOTHINGBUT...
FROM: TREMAS
You're right when you say that a nonviolent ending couldn't provide "the really good cliff-hanger at the end."
Writer David Renwick had to remain true to the spirit of the series, whose main thread was "if anything disastrous can happen to Victor, it will." Dying of old age or a common cold would have been totally out of character for him.
What I find remarkable is how Renwick tells us viewers from the start that Victor has died, describes his final day on earth and then creates the cliff-hanger at the end. In other words, he shifts our attention from Victor to Margaret, as if the next episode will feature her by herself. Of course, there is no next episode.
[UPDATED] Hearing Victor's comment after hanging up the phone at the train station in the final episode ("Things can only get better," he muttered) reminded me of something he said to Margaret as they drove in a taxi to the airport in the first season ("The Return of the Speckled Band"):
"When you actually get to it, things often aren't as bad as you expect, are they."
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I distinctly remember reading in the Observer in the summer of 2000, that victor was going to commit suicide by taking an overdose at the end of the series. A not uncommon thing for pensioners with nothing to live for, to do.
So did the Observer get the wrong imformation, or was this at the time David Renwick's intention?
I distinctly remember reading in the Observer in the summer of 2000, that victor was going to commit suicide by taking an overdose at the end of the series. A not uncommon thing for pensioners with nothing to live for, to do.
So did the Observer get the wrong imformation, or was this at the time David Renwick's intention?
I thought the saddest part was a "Sliding Doors" moment when just as Victor was leaving the reunion one of his old school friends was arriving. If they had bumped into each other no doubt they would've stayed together safely inside until Margaret arrived.
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