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'There's that tick.'

posted 12 years ago by underthenet
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Can someone please explain?

[–] spiral_static 12 years ago

Watch episode 1 again ..

Or if you don't want to then...

Randall talks to Bel about The Hour missing "that tick" (or something to this effect) in the first episode - something it initially used to have and which it lost in those months following where series 1 ended.

[–] underthenet 12 years ago

This use of the word 'tick' must be part of the British vernacular. So it means like edge or sharpness or something?

[–] newwavenewcraze 12 years ago

I might've misheard it, but I heard the word as 'tic' (e.g. 'nervous tic', that kind of thing - an automatic habit or knee-jerk reaction, in other words). In that sense to me it works, especially if they're referring to it in the sense of nervous tic - a subconscious sense of needing to right and fight wrongs that they know are out there but unseen.

[–] sooznthro 12 years ago

I think they intend "tick", as in the tick of the clock, as in a suspenseful kind of way, that you can't turn away from. Compelling information being delivered.

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[–] decroissance 11 years ago

Quite right I think. Time's always running out and they have to jump on it all the time.

[–] dbre 11 years ago

Maybe short for tickle? In other words a jab that forces a person to react.