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Feel free to list as many as you want! I'm always looking for something new - well, new to me. I rely on my local library for my entertainment because I don't have cable TV nor over-the-air TV because I live just a bit too far away to capture the signal. But I've learned to deal with it, I'm OK with it, and it's opened another world to me.
I think some of them saw the writing on the wall - they knew there was no hope. The payout for redundancy was better than nothing, which is what they'd have gotten if they'd voted otherwise.
I wasn't aware there was a stage version. I suppose it never struck me as something that would translate to the stage, but what do I know? I just know I loved the movie.
Agreed. Assumpta's death, coming when it did, was too much. There was no time to revel in the acknowledgement of their feelings for one another. Yes, it was a very dramatic event, but there was no culmination (not sure if that's the right word) of their relationship - instead, they were ripped apart and I, as a viewer, felt cheated. Although I wanted to move on, as we must in life, there just wasn't any other story line in the series that could fill the void. I tried with series four, but couldn't bring myself to watch the last two series. I can't help it - I like a happy ending - real life is filled with enough disappointment that I prefer hope and optimism in my escapism.
Babies who don't age. I know it's tricky with child labor laws and so on, but if the story line advances several months or multiple seasons, such as spring to Christmastime, the baby should age, too. It doesn't need to be precise but surely they can do better than using a baby who's five or six months old for one who should be nearly a year old or more by that point.
So it would seem. :-)
I didn't mean for people to post just for the sake of it, but I figured it doesn't hurt to encourage people to do more than just read. Maybe convert some lurkers into posters...
I tend to agree that there was a backstory we'll never know. Throughout the series we got very few peeks into Hathaway's private life. Too bad that we'll never know since the series has ended. I don't hold out much hope that there will be anything more. Yes, they left the door open a very small crack for a one-off movie, but I'm not holding my breath. I'm OK with the ending, though. At least they didn't kill off Lewis or Hathaway.
The first time I heard Lewis refer to him as Jim I wondered about it, but told myself it was a slip due to his informality.
Do you remember the Morse episode "The Way Through the Woods" where DCI Johnson kept calling Lewis "Bob?" It sounded weird, but also disrespectful - I wanted to slap the guy, but I suppose it was intended so as to show what an arrogant arse Johnson was.
I guess he did his homework, heh, heh. But really, keep in mind he had the help of his assistant - her name escapes me at the moment - to do it. I think he had some old grudge he hoped to appease so he went all out to do it, covered what he thought were all the bases. Yes, it seems like a stretch, but then again, this isn't real life so dramatic license takes over.
I've never seen it and now you've piqued my curiosity so I'll be heading to the library tomorrow. Thanks.
I think fans of the show are often more attuned to these kinds of details than the writers are - no offense to the writers. But I also think viewers worry too much about these kinds of details and forget to allow for dramatic license. I also think that when they first begin writing the series they have no idea where it's going or how successful it will be, so discrepancies here and there should be forgiven.
I liked the first season, but by the second one I thought it became too soap-opera-ish. Unfortunately, I think this happens to a lot of series.
When watching this episode for the first time I couldn't help but wonder how long that turkey would last just sitting in the evidence room. I mean, really? Wouldn't it go bad by the end of day one? Or do fresh turkeys last longer than thawed-frozen ones?
More episodes of "Last Tango in Halifax."
Yep, that was back in the olden days...
LOL. Was it your nickname (shortened version) that you hated or your actual name? I would have been satisfied being called a nickname of my real name. I tried more than once to get people to call me by a nickname but it never stuck. Three of my five siblings were called by common nicknames (the other two had names that were so short that there wasn't really a nickname) and I never understood why I got stuck with my real name. Argh. I've always appreciated employers who ask up front what you prefer to be called. I've seriously considered legally changing my name, but the older I get, the more I wonder if it's worth it. You make a valid point about the tombstone though...
And yes, it feels so much better here! :-) It's fun being in on the ground floor, too.
Because I've always hated, hated, hated my real name, I took my name from my hometown. I was a lurker at that 'other' site - just never got around to joining, which worked out after all, right? Did I say I hated my real name?
It worked like a magazine subscription - think trade magazine. If you were in the business you needed to have one. I don't know if a 'regular Joe' could get one and I don't know why he'd even want one. The distributor I worked for had five of its own stores; each store plus the warehouse where I worked had one. Most true record stores would have had one, but I doubt you'd find one in the music department of your local Target or Walmart since they mainly sold just the big sellers (Billboard magazine's Hot 100 was their guide).
This reminds me of the days when I worked for a music distributor in the 1970s. There was a similar book called a phonolog. It was an amazing resource. Packets of updated pages came in the mail every few days - sometimes just a few pages, sometimes as many as fifty - so it could take some time to remove old pages and insert the new ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonolog (There's a picture here.)