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One thing I’m surprised they didn’t make more of. When Mother Mildred is telling the Turners about the island and the problem is that the nurses fall for the doctor and then get married and leave. She says that at least that wouldn’t be a problem with nuns. And I was wondering did she even know who she was talking to? There didn’t seem to be any sort of exchanges between the Turners to indicate that they were thinking of their own circumstances. I suppose it’s possible that with Mother Mildred having been out of the country, she may not have been aware of their history.

This reminds me of Mrs Purchase in the Toast of London comedy, who sleeps around but only ever charges her husband for sex. Sadly this means that as she's not considered a prostitute, her team gets disqualified from the 'Celebrities and Prostitutes Blow Football Tournament'.

I think that Joseph Gordon Levitt did the voice on the drama being listened to on a laptop. IIRC, he never appeared on screen.

I think Jonathan did remark on it but by the time there was a significant change he was too far in Dracula’s thrall to really question it. Just finished ep 2 and am picking my jaw up off the floor. Damn!

Yaz and Ryan chatting happily away about their plans in the office of a man who built his fortune on computers and information, and not stopping to consider that he might have the place monitored. Worst spies ever! When Yaz showed up in Australia, I was waiting for them to find out that her DNA had been partly altered by the aliens.

I too was a bit disappointed with the lack of Jo and the Professor. I thought it a bit too convenient that he showed up once and everybody immediately pushed Jo to him. And then I realised that that was the whole point. Jo was going to leave her heroine single until her publisher insisted, so she quickly writes in a ‘happy ending’ no matter how unlikely it may be.

Just saw an ad for the new series, Wednesday 8th January on More 4 and will be streaming on All4.

I knew it wasn’t going to happen, but a part of me did wish that Philip could have pushed him over the balcony at that point.

Alex Horne tweeted that Channel four have picked them up.

George’s Uncle was in the books. It was probably to keep cast numbers at a manageable level that they left out both of George’s parents. In the books IIRC, George’s father - while by no means on the side of the angels - was still able to curb George and Cary’s malice on occasion.

(Books spoiler)

Aidan Turner is Irish, not British.

Currently working my way through the Dubh Linn series by Ruth Frances Long and I'm kicking myself for not reading it sooner. I'd bought all three books (A crack in everything, A hollow in the hills, A darkness at the end) when they were launched, but I was buying them as gifts for my sister who loves Ruth's work and i never thought to read them myself until I picked them up at a convention. They're a young adult series (protagonist is a 16 year old Irish girl) but they read well for adults too. Filled with faeries and demons and a Dubh Linn that's not quite the same as the Dublin the ordinary people see, it's an exciting read so far.

Just finished re-reading "Collision on Tenerife: The How and Why of the World's Worst Aviation Disaster" by John Ziomek and Caroline Hopkins. I'd seen a few documentaries about the Tenerife disaster but this goes into so much more detail. Caroline Hopkins survived along with her husband and as as result this book focuses a lot on the human side of the incident with stories from the survivors. But there's also a good bit of technical background too and a whole list of all the various little things that individually wouldn't have caused an issue but combined in a way to make the disaster inevitable. There's also chapters about the psychology of the incident and how many people may have died as a result of 'negative panic' i.e. they weren't injured in the initial impact but simply didn't react to the seriousness of the situation and never made it out of the plane. Worth the read.

True, but how many of them are going to be regular characters and how many are going to be just one episode appearances?

It's very lucky that these ghosts hold their original form and not their form at time of death. Imagine if poor Trevor had had to spend eternity without his, ahem, 'personality'. IMO the ghosts were a bit foolish when getting rid of Margaret. By all means do the whole dismemberment thing, but then why not just chuck the head over separately to make sure it was still breathing when it crossed the line. Am I the only one who initially thought there was no way they'd expect us to believe Finn was 20...and then realized that 1989 was 30 years ago, not 20?

Channel 4 have an app called All 4. It’s ad supported so I don’t think it’s region locked (which makes it legit)

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/great-british-bake-off-michael-panic-attack_uk_5dc293c6e4b0f5dcf8fd9664?ncid=tweetlnkukhpmg00000001&guccounter=1 Michael’s meltdown was a full blown panic attack.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/nov/06/bake-off-winner-david-atherton-i-enjoy-the-buns-innuendos?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Interview with David. Interesting that both he and Alice were reserves for the show and only got called up because somebody dropped out

When the husband was talking about the gift for Max, I thought his wife had had him pick up a bunch of stones so Max could go skimming them across the lake like she'd taught him. And I can't believe that with all the comments about lack of medical ethics/realism that nobody has called out Dr. Sharpe for telling Max about Luna's heart in the first place.

Sandi’s voiceover said that Alice had gotten some distressing news and we saw her on the phone to her parents. While I agree it’s possible that Alice was told by production and then they made sure to have cameras on her when she phoned her parents. I think that it’s much more likely that the parents phoned to wish her well and told her then. Personally I would have just lied and said they were heading to the airport and not mention there might be a delay. Better to have the disappointment after the competition is over.

I did a chocolate dessert once which called for it to be baked in a tin which was standing in cold water. But the intent in the recipe was to have a semi liquid core when the baking was finished.

Aww! Are they the first couple to get together through the show?

Trevor can’t be compelled to testify against her because of spousal privilege. But AFAIK, he has the option to waive that privilege and agree to testify. The thing is though, if he now went to the police with his story would he be considered an accessory after the fact? He’s had five years (less coma time) to come forward. I doubt he could claim to have been intimidated into silence by Margaret.

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