Quote: chipolata @ October 6 2009, 11:27 AM BSTAs happens so often my interest has haemoraged and I've drifted off, not really caring about the show. I suspect I won't be alone.
I still don't quite get it. She went away and came back seemingly unchanged, life in her home town is unchanged and none of her friends have grown up either.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 6 2009, 11:29 AM BSTI still don't quite get it. She went away and came back seemingly unchanged, life in her home town is unchanged and none of her friends have grown up either.
I suspect that's it. There's nothing else to get. Unless it's some sly commentary on how nothing ever changes. And shows like Spaced and Arrested Development have dealt with issues like refusing to grow up far more effectively.
Quote: chipolata @ October 6 2009, 11:34 AM BSTI suspect that's it. There's nothing else to get. Unless it's some sly commentary on how nothing ever changes. And shows like Spaced and Arrested Development have dealt with issues like refusing to grow up far more effectively.
Hmmmm. I'm not sure it's even a truism (speaking as someone still friends with the same group of girls since we were 11).
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 6 2009, 11:03 AM BSTI've only seen a bit of this series. I watched last might's episode (missed the first five minutes) and didn't understand a few things. In the earlier episode I saw Mel (the gingery one) had a small child. Is this not her child? In last night's there was a school girl in her house - where did she come from. In the next scene Mel and Gaynor were in a cafe with a group of people - where were they supposed to come from?
The small child was a reveal that her friends haven't even grown up as much as she has (very little); she was babysitting. I assume that the schoolgirl in lat night's episode was also being babysat by her. The people in the café we'd seen a few before. They were just meant to be a desperate attempt to restructure a group of friends.
It seems to me that the comedy in this series isn't intended to come from the situations themselves, but from these women who society would expect to be mature, essentially being 8 year olds in 29 year olds' bodies. Their interactions, bitching, squabbling and behaviour is in no way reflective of their actual ages.
Quote: chipolata @ October 6 2009, 11:27 AM BSTAs happens so often my interest has haemoraged and I've drifted off, not really caring about the show. I suspect I won't be alone.
You're not: as of next week it's moving to Thursdays. The last time I recall such a drastic time change, mid-series, for a show that wasn't already well-established, well-loved and on its n-th series, was Trevor's World Of Sport. And I can't see Home Time making a successful transfer to radio.
What might save this show is if there's a really weird conceit at the heart of it. Such as the central characters actually dead, and death just means returning home for all eternity.
I have to say...what she is experiencing is NOT uncommon. My husband is from South London, and we could be away for a few years, and he will still have the same mates around, same people who have known him since he was a baby...and he would get greeted the same way. Mind you, he's never been away for 12 years, but I dare say even if he WAS...a lot of the people would be exactly the same. Working at Asda, down the pub/club, etc.
The ONLY thing I find perplexing is how when she left, no one seemed to try and find her? London isn't that bloody far away, and if you called the police, they'd find her pretty quick. Unless she WASN'T in London (or always in London, maybe she went to Ibizia as a rep?), I think everyone just assumes it. And doesn't she have ANY clothes? Or an overdraft? Cash? Maybe she was trafficked? Weird.
I like the programme, even though there are a lot of holes...
Quote: Ninja @ October 7 2009, 4:39 PM BSTThe ONLY thing I find perplexing is how when she left, no one seemed to try and find her? London isn't that bloody far away, and if you called the police, they'd find her pretty quick. Unless she WASN'T in London (or always in London, maybe she went to Ibizia as a rep?), I think everyone just assumes it. And doesn't she have a mobile? or ANY clothes? Or an overdraft? Cash? Maybe she was trafficked?
Or she's been killed and is actually dead. I'm warming to this theory. 
Maybe. That's certainly a good theory, kind of like "Dead Like Me" (or whatever that show was?)...
I'm just watching ep 4 online now...
What if she's died and it's her hell? Living with mum again, mental friends, ssdd...?
Quote: Ninja @ October 7 2009, 5:00 PM BSTWhat if she's died and it's her hell? Living with mum again, mental friends, ssdd...?
Exactly!
I hope it's NOT that.
Because if it is, now you've ruined it.
Quote: zooo @ October 7 2009, 8:14 PM BSTI hope it's NOT that.
Because if it is, now you've ruined it.
It is what it is. Apparently, according to you, it will be ruined if anyone speculates ANYTHING.
Well I was kind of joking, should have added a smiley I suppose. Wasn't saying you shouldn't talk about it or anything.
It's just me, I can't enjoy a twist or whatever if I've already heard it as a possibility from someone innocently pontificating.
Maybe you're all wrong and she'll turn out to be an evil alien wearing her skin like a suit. The stupidly long almost eye-covering hair could be to conceal the great rips in her scalp from which the human Gaynor's innards were removed.
Just a thought.
Quote: Aaron @ October 8 2009, 2:51 AM BSTMaybe you're all wrong and she'll turn out to be an evil alien wearing her skin like a suit. The stupidly long almost eye-covering hair could be to conceal the great rips in her scalp from which the human Gaynor's innards were removed.
Where was the SPOILER alert, Aaron?! 
