I noticed it once, when the camera swooshed across the room from Mark's face to the front door (I think). Looked rubbish.
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Quote: zooo @ September 27 2009, 7:32 PM BSTI noticed it once, when the camera swooshed across the room from Mark's face to the front door
Me too. It sort, of . . . juddered, or something, in a speedy manner.
I noticed it on first viewing of the first episode but not on second viewing on 4OD.
I also noticed it last Friday in episode 2 I think it was when Mark was answering the door to Sophie. I kinda expect the Benny Hill music to start playing. 
One thing I really liked about the second half, was the way it all got condensed into that little flat. It all felt marvellously concentrated.
Quote: Bam! @ September 27 2009, 2:42 AM BSTSome one (any one?) may remember that I predicted the ending to last years series of Peep Show with Sophie being pregnant but I was a little surprised they revealed who the father was in the second episode. So I'm gonna make a prediction about the end of this year's series and if I'm right Dolly can give me the Russian dame's phone number.
I think Sophie could be lying about Mark being the father because she wants to get back with him and maybe when the baby is born it will be black therefore not Mark's but actually Johnson's.
It would be a little weird if I'm right again though.
I hope they don't do that, it would be so predictable and a cop out. The "baby turning out to be black" is a well trodden joke in various sitcoms/sketches, I'd like to think Peep Show is better than that. I actually love that they didn't decide to drag the whole "Whose the father?" storyline out all season and revealing it in episode two was brave and smart I feel.
On the topic of the speeding up thing, I didn't notice it in episode two, but it was definitely clear a couple of times during the first episode.
For those interested, the ratings for last Friday's episode were 1.3 million viewers, 7% of the audience, with another 356,000 watching on Channel 4+1. It was again beaten by QI in the ratings which has 1.7 million viewers, 9% of the audience.
There was an unexplained phone call from Jeff which Sophie took in the kitchen "hello Jeff, thanks for calling back". What might that phone call have been?
Quote: Nogget @ September 28 2009, 3:23 PM BSTThere was an unexplained phone call from Jeff which Sophie took in the kitchen "hello Jeff, thanks for calling back". What might that phone call have been?
Sophie must have tested all 3 of them, and rang all three of them to let them know the results.
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ September 28 2009, 3:33 PM BSTSophie must have tested all 3 of them, and rang all three of them to let them know the results.
Right, but we didn't need to see that phone call, so perhaps the writers deliberately gave it to us for a reason? Perhaps it will prove significant later on?
Bain and Armstrong often put in little bits like that though, which you think could go somewhere, but end up being nothing.
I think it was just to show that she had tested Jeff too and contacted him and he had taken the time to reply, unlike Mark who was trying to avoid Sophie.
Quote: Nogget @ September 28 2009, 3:41 PM BSTRight, but we didn't need to see that phone call, so perhaps the writers deliberately gave it to us for a reason? Perhaps it will prove significant later on?
Actually there was a reason, to get Sophie out of the kitchen so Jez and Elena could have their conversation alone.
Quote: Nogget @ September 28 2009, 3:41 PM BSTRight, but we didn't need to see that phone call, so perhaps the writers deliberately gave it to us for a reason? Perhaps it will prove significant later on?
Quote: Jesse Skeens @ September 29 2009, 5:37 PM BSTActually there was a reason, to get Sophie out of the kitchen so Jez and Elena could have their conversation alone.
Yep.
All this speculation about the baby and its parentage is getting like when Michelle Fowler got up the duff on 'Enders.
If you had the chance to write the plot, how would you pan out the baby theme?
God, there's so many ways you could go. What would be vaguely amusing is if Jeremy got all protective and father-like instead of Mark, who wants as little to do with it as his sense of duty will allow.
Mark gets a job as some sort of travelling involved which means Jez ends up looking after the kid most of the time whilst Mark and Sophie are working, and Jez finds he quite enjoys being a house-husband. He goes on loads of conquests with desperate but loaded women in the hope of becoming a kept man. Meanwhile Mark ends up getting jealous of Jeremy's natural affinity with children and ends up trying to build some awful scale model Napoleonic battleship or Nazi bunker for the child to play in but to no avail. Sophie dates lots of inappropriate men much to Jez's chagrin, whilst Mark is just keen for someone to take over the father duties which he is so rubbish at.
Maybe.
I do think it is deffo Mark's kid though. If Sophie is not hoodwinking them all for some reason. It might even be that she doesn't know who the father is - she said herself she was a bit wild for some time!
If we're speculating about future plot lines, I'll throw my grime encrusted two pennies in -
Sophie has massive post natal depression and dumps the kid on Mark and Jeremy - forcing them to adopt Mother and Father roles. Jeremy starts out hating having a baby and wants to put it up for adoption whereas Mark becomes ultra paranoid and makes everything baby friendly.
Woman from the Social Services drops by to check on them, Jeremy seduces her, it all goes horribly wrong. Sophie returns, wants her baby back, but Jeremy loves the baby and wants to fight her for custody...
...and then 7 years later, Peep Show becomes the UK version of Two and Half Men. 
Oh and the kids first words are 'F**k Bunker'.