- Poop to Nigel!
- Harry’s hairdryer
- The kiss
- Freddie has a friend in Jill
Poop to Nigel!
I said it the other day – but you’re being a very rubbish dad at the moment, Nigel.
Lily and Freddie get home from school, but have to get back to working again rather than use the skating rink.
Goodness me – how to ruin an utterly wonderful time, and potentially scar his kids for life.
Harry’s hairdryer
Harry was annoyed that he’d found his hairdryer in Jazzer’s bedroom.
What was Harry doing in Jazzer’s bedroom? Surely one of the basic rules of flat sharing is never (eve) go into your flatmate’s room?
The hairdryer was in Jazzer’s room because his current lady friend Jackie had been using it. (so that’s okay then).
But Harry does use a hairdryer.
Blokes using hairdryers is obviously quite normal and fine – but it does suggest Harry has a flowing mane of hair.
Interesting. I imagined him with a fastidious crew cut.
The kiss
After sounding incredibly nervous while practising his kiss scene with Fallon, Harry was no more confident when it come to the moment itself.
Jazzer’s winding him up couldn’t have helped:
“Tell the truth, have you ever snogged anyone before?”
(though Jazzer’s offer to do a demonstration with Fallon was probably quite heartfelt)
At the rehearsal itself, the kiss scene is on – then off – then on again. Giving Harry even more time to get even more uptight.
And make no mistake that not having the kiss scene is even a remote option:
[Lynda] “The kiss is a key moment in the arc of the development of the dramatic tensions within the narrative”
(so there!)
Just when I was beginning to wonder if Harry had actually ever kissed anyone before, Fallon takes matters in hand, calms him down, and they kiss.
And kiss.
And keep kissing (actually, by this point, it sounded like tongues might be involved).
[Nigel] “Gosh!”
Once the steam had cleared, Nigel felt it proper to congratulate Harry. And have a good nosey into what that rather involved ‘acting’ was all about.
[Nigel] “I say, bravo! That was quite a kiss … very convincing … Fallon looked quite pink and breathless by the time you’d finished. So, just good friends?”
[Harry] “Get real! Fallon is … she’s way out of my league. I really like her, but anything else … forget it!”
My oh my!
Has Harry’s reluctance to notice Fallon’s signals just been due to a lack of confidence?
Is Harry actually just a really nice chap, who doesn’t realise that he is attractive?
Hmmm. I still think Harry is too good to be true, but it does seem like there’s real possibility he’s simply just a good ‘un.
Freddie has a friend in Jill
He doesn’t know it yet, but Jill is going to be a very important champion for wee Freddie.
Jill is quite perturbed when she hears that Lily and Freddie are working on extra homework, rather than enjoying Deck that Halls:
[Jill] “Surely you could give them a break over the Christmas holidays!”
What’s more, Jill also believes there’d be nothing wrong with Freddie going to a local state school. And, she also thinks Nigel and Elizabeth are actually going to do Freddie more harm than good by their efforts:
[Jill] “ … there’re nothing wrong with Borchester Green … he might even be happier there”
Quite right. And Jill was also right when she pointed out that it doesn’t bode well if Freddie has to be pushed so hard even to just get into the school. How on earth will be cope with work once he gets there?!?
Elizabeth explains that they don’t want Freddie and Lily to be split. As Lily has the brains, Freddie has to work even harder to reach her level.
[Jill] “So why not send them both to Borchester Green?”
Which makes sense.
But Nigel’s determination to get his kids to Public schools isn’t about sense – it’s about proprietary and pride.
Without causing too much of an argument, Jill agrees to differ with Nigel and Elizabeth.
But I’m sure Jill’s not going to leave it at that.
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