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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 365279" data-attributes="member: 22">Oh yeah, it's definitely his party piece. I think he got it into The Royle Family as well.Lucy's probably as highly strung and wrong-headed and impulsive as any other soap teen, but there's a fierce intelligence behind everything she does that makes her totally credible -- a brilliant combination of writing and acting. Off the top of my head, Katrin Cartlidge probably had the most intriguing post-soap career of any actor in the UK I can think of: Mike Leigh's Naked and Career Girls, Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves, a bunch of European art house films and a random one-off episode of Enders as a copper during the Who Killed Eddie Royle? era, to name but a few.I love the first Gordon. Only 80s Brookside would bother to treat such a shy, quiet, non-dynamic freckly geeky kid as an equal to anyone else on the close. Any other soap would make him a caricature but the series never laughs at him, even if the other characters do (and I did occasionally, especially in his classic "Can I have a pint of bitter beer?" scene). I'm not sure whether you'll have reached it yet, Mel, but I love the fact that almost an entire half an episode is taken up by a sequence where Paul is driving Gordon home from school and gently asking him questions about ... well, nothing at all really in terms of plot, but everything in terms of character.</blockquote>

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