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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 443222" data-attributes="member: 23"><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fm.media-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FM%2FMV5BOGU5MmI4M2QtZWIwZS00NjIzLWEyNGUtMmMyMGIxYzBhZjhmXkEyXkFqcGc%40._V1_.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=c19992d2291efccb1010b9b3a0aa7378bbeff742295440446cf3d0ad9fee61ee" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Boxed sets making up the entire series have been sitting in my DVD cupboard for over three years now. The thought of diving in has been simultaneously exciting and hugely daunting, with thirteen years’ worth of story adding up to 1088 hour long episodes: that’s significantly more than double Sons and Daughters’ screen hours!As far as my background with the series goes, I feel I’m in the sweet spot. Back in the day I watched just enough of the series for there to be an element of nostalgia to this deep dive. At the same time, my memory tells me I only watched regularly for a relatively short period for a run of would what have probably been mid-Eighties-ish episodes. This means many faces will be instantly familiar, and some names will come back to me but - almost certainly for the first seasons - the stories will be all new.ACP is very character-driven and far less heavily serialised than a traditional continuing drama. Each week’s key story takes place over two hour-long episodes, usually being introduced in the first and resolved by the end of the second (in that regard, it resembles 1966 Batman more than it does something like Sons and Daughters). There are some serialised elements to the relationships and arcs, but these generally bubble away to form this small town’s backdrop, occasionally being brought to the foreground in their own two-part story for any significant moments. I believe this is this format remains the template for the entire run.This comes with a benefit. Almost all of whatever I did watch, I have forgotten. It’s possibly doing the series a disservice to say that it’s forgettable, but I’d say there’s a different psychology to watching a series of stories set almost in isolation compared to investing in a serial with multiple overlapping arcs and stories demanding attention in each episode. With ACP, a new viewer can come in, watch one two-parter and be told everything they need to know, which perhaps demands less retention of details.There’s one important exception for me in terms of memory - one particular story I remember very clearly because it hit so hard… and I realise now it’s possibly THE best-remembered ACP story for many other viewers for the same reasons. Without giving away details of the plot, I’ll just say the story was called Molly. And if you know, you know.</blockquote>

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