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shallownessGhosts 4.1
Lovely to have it back, with added plague victim interaction now that it’s 2022.
The best bit about all of the first guests to Button House as a B&B was really Lady Fanny and Julian finding common cause as both voyeurs and stand-ins for the married couple who’d lost their spark.
I was a bit confused at first at the plague victims, because they were playing it like Thomas was being haunted and I couldn’t make out who they were in the first scene. It developed into a lovely skit of Thomas the celeb, Kitty as his PA and the plague victims as his adoring fans, with the Captain as carping critic. It was predictable that he’d be right when he said they were into Thomas for his looks (that’d be Thomas, still oblivious of what it’s like for Alison to be obsessed over by him even after all this) for his looks, not his ART. Has anyone written the crossover where Thomas’s poetry is compared with Vogon poetry? On second thoughts, I can see why you wouldn’t want to actually write that.
In fairness, Thomas having met Byron was rather slid over. They can’t have known how the gag about meeting Henry VIII would top trumps meeting the Queen (Queen Elizabeth II, but not in Scotland), or the queuing for an audience with Thomas, would land. (Or that the series would be held back a little because of You Know What.) But I welcome any show with some sense of historical context at the moment.
Kitty was rather touching in her enthusiasm for playing all this (and has clearly absorbed a lot of modern slang), but nothing was as endearing as Mary listening to Pat’s spot-on tales of holidays as experienced by a Northern Scoutmaster in the late twentieth century, and then her word picture of her own life of toil and love. <3
I don’t get how they’d be able to recreate the tattoo Robin’s peer had if they were just working from a skeleton. Did I miss something? Robin’s realisation that he’d been crowing about having one over on Hat in a way that led to his demise and all the other ghosts’ disapproval was a bit of a sting in the tail, even if it wasn’t the actual end of the ep.
I chuckled more than I usually do at this ep.
Lovely to have it back, with added plague victim interaction now that it’s 2022.
The best bit about all of the first guests to Button House as a B&B was really Lady Fanny and Julian finding common cause as both voyeurs and stand-ins for the married couple who’d lost their spark.
I was a bit confused at first at the plague victims, because they were playing it like Thomas was being haunted and I couldn’t make out who they were in the first scene. It developed into a lovely skit of Thomas the celeb, Kitty as his PA and the plague victims as his adoring fans, with the Captain as carping critic. It was predictable that he’d be right when he said they were into Thomas for his looks (that’d be Thomas, still oblivious of what it’s like for Alison to be obsessed over by him even after all this) for his looks, not his ART. Has anyone written the crossover where Thomas’s poetry is compared with Vogon poetry? On second thoughts, I can see why you wouldn’t want to actually write that.
In fairness, Thomas having met Byron was rather slid over. They can’t have known how the gag about meeting Henry VIII would top trumps meeting the Queen (Queen Elizabeth II, but not in Scotland), or the queuing for an audience with Thomas, would land. (Or that the series would be held back a little because of You Know What.) But I welcome any show with some sense of historical context at the moment.
Kitty was rather touching in her enthusiasm for playing all this (and has clearly absorbed a lot of modern slang), but nothing was as endearing as Mary listening to Pat’s spot-on tales of holidays as experienced by a Northern Scoutmaster in the late twentieth century, and then her word picture of her own life of toil and love. <3
I don’t get how they’d be able to recreate the tattoo Robin’s peer had if they were just working from a skeleton. Did I miss something? Robin’s realisation that he’d been crowing about having one over on Hat in a way that led to his demise and all the other ghosts’ disapproval was a bit of a sting in the tail, even if it wasn’t the actual end of the ep.
I chuckled more than I usually do at this ep.
