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Confusing bits about +10....any ideas?

posted 18 years ago by Helium_Filled_Dinghy
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I'm a massive fan of This Life, and like everyone else watched the +10 episode, however I found a few bits confusing. Maybe I missed explanations within the show, but some stuff left me wondering.....

1 - Why did Miles suddenly end up broke? I thought he owned a chain of hotels?

2 - I take it Oscar was not Egg's kid....

3 - Warren mentioned something along the lines of his motorbike courier boyfriend of five years who left his wife for Warren. Presumably he means Ferdy. Remembering Series 2, Ferdy had left his wife, who never was his wife after all, after Warren left the series, and then ended up with Lenny.

4 - Why, oh why did Miles once again screw and then leave Anna all alone? Does he just get off on messing with her or what?

And as an added thought, does anyone know what Mai Ling shouted at Egg in her own language before she stormed out?

Ta xx

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[–] bettyboodoingthedo 18 years ago

can you tell me how ferdy died,no one has replied to my post and I really want to know ta

[–] MikeDUK 18 years ago

1) This confused me too. I thought this bit of the 'plot' was just rubbish and totally unrealistic. It all happened ludicrously quickly.
2) I think Oscar IS Egg's kid, but I agree it wasn't particularly clear as Egg seemed to be having little to do with the sprog. As I said in another thread, the relationship between Milly and Egg left far too many questions. They didn't really seem 'together' at all, even with Egg's odd antics in the boat later on, there hadn't been any affection between them whatsoever.
3) I think Warren mentioned at one point he and Ferdy had got together and remained with each other for five years. I can only assume this happened after Warren's return from travelling at the end of series two, and therefore they'd stopped going out together five years before Ferdy's death.
4) I think it was more Anna rejecting Miles this time! Her love for Miles was over-ridden by her want for a baby. She understood that if she got together with Miles they'd want to kill each other, and she wasn't really after a relationship anyway. Using Warren's sperm was a more practical solution.

I'm afraid I cannot enlighten you about Mai Ling's outburst! I thought the early plot line involving her was distracting and plain bizarre.

[–] melj 18 years ago

Why would you think that Oscar was not Egg's son?

Actually, I got the impression that Warren and Ferdy were together at the time of Ferdy's death -- hence the question of Warren's grief -- so they probably got together a long time after the end of the second series. I was also annoyed that nobody said how Ferdy died and I would have liked some mention of Kira and Joe -- I like to imagine that they ended up together.

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[–] maxrael 18 years ago

1) Miles' business endeavours in the hotel business hadn't been as successful as he'd made out. The only explanation given was that when you are successful other people don't like it, implying he'd maybe been somehow taken advantage of by possibly criminal activity.

2) Oscar was Egg's kid. Not much is mentioned about what happened after the final episode of Series Two, but it would appear they worked out their problems and were even happy (shock!) for a while. However things between them had become bad again since the success of Egg's book.

3) Ferdy and Warren eventually got it together. They lived happily together for five years before Ferdy was killed. We don't know how he was killed... in fact the only other information we get about Ferdy was that he was working in dentistry!!

4) This time Miles wanted Anna and said it directly to her. However Anna knows she's a nightmare to live with, and didn't want them to end up hating each other. She wisely knew it'd be best to leave it as always a very powerful 'what might have been'...

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[–] NazT 18 years ago

1) I got the impression that Miles was saddled with debt in order to finance his chain of hotels, and thats why the baliffs came round

few others things tho, i had a quick call durin the end so i missed one thing, Is Anna using Warrens sperm to have a kid? or did she n miles sleep together so he could get her pregnant? i got a bit confused durin that bit,

Also i thought Milly's scene of falling of the horse was terrible, i get what they were tryin to put across, but i just didnt like it

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[–] fatsharvis 18 years ago

The episode did hint at several unexplained back-stories, and contained many implausible incidents and downright silly plot twists. Lazy scripting, perhaps - but all the more scope for a new series to clear these up...

[–] JaxxAttack 18 years ago

Yep, NazT, Anna did ask Warren for his boys and he agreed. They ended up joyously chucking his many pills down the pan. Her and Miles got together for that one night kinda for old time's sake.

Hmm, not too sure about the whole thing - was certainly great seeing what became of them all, but overall it just seemed simultaneously rushed whilst a bit "blaaah"... And I'd spent the previous three days doing nothing but *finally* watching the whole of series one and two in one go, after saying for the last ten years I'd get around to seeing This Life at some point... So perhaps I was just a bit dazzled by the original show.

[–] pepsiicola 18 years ago

The only thing that really pissed me off was the fact that there was no mention of Keria & Joe, even as a passing off hand comment.
I actually rather enjoyed it, took a while to get interesting, but it picked up rather well.

[–] JuanCalot 18 years ago

I've got a question: Why did the bailiffs turn up in the middle of the night??

[–] Helium_Filled_Dinghy 18 years ago

Ta folks, that clears a few things up.

I didn't think Oscar was Egg's kid because he shows very little affection for the boy, and while he constantly refers to Milly as 'Mummy' I don't think I once heard him say Daddy. It left me a-wonderin....

As to midnight baliffs....who knows? The whole weekend at Miles' seemed to last about five days, so maybe time has no meaning there...

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[–] trip2themoon 18 years ago

"I've got a question: Why did the bailiffs turn up in the middle of the night??"

I watched a documentary a few years back about 2 bailiffs (strangely enough they were married to each other) and they will stop at nothing to get at the debtor, so I think they showed up at night because there was a better chance that Miles would be at home.

The 2 bailiffs in the documentary 1 male and 1 female really were a pair of scumbags, i think they married each other because no other decent human being would want to know them.

Something that confused me when the bailiffs were loading up the van with Miles' stuff: Lets take this tatty old furniture but we'll leave the Bose sound system.