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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 367104" data-attributes="member: 23">Spookily enough, last night I watched a scene between Gordon and his friend Mark which kind of addressed Gordon's lack of sexuality up to this point. Gordon had a crush on the woman at the recording studio and wanted to ask her out. Mark commented that he'd never seen Gordon take any interest in girls. As he started to tease Gordon, it felt as though it might just have gone the "poof" route, but Mark instead deduced that Gordon was too chicken.And another Jimmy McGovern scene I watched last night seemed to poke fun at soap cliches when Karen mentioned she'd been with her boyfriend Mike to see the priest. Sheila asked why, and Karen gravely announced that she was pregnant. She kept her poker face just long enough for her parents to choke on their tea before scoffing at the very idea.That makes sense. If Nigel Crowley hadn't gone on record, I'm sure the tabloids wouldn't have been slow to fill in the gaps.Reading some stuff about the series this week, it seems an awful lot was demanded of the actors on an extremely miserly budget. Which is fine when it's enjoyable for them, but probably makes it very tempting to just walk away when it's less enjoyable or there are differences of views.Even where the parting is amicable, politics seem to have been a factor.  Amanda Burton was said to have left on good terms with cast and crew but may well have stayed longer if there was agreement over the direction Heather took.And yet another thing I watched yesterday touched on the atmosphere behind the scenes. It's just after the 8 minute mark here:[MEDIA=youtube]x6db1qNozqw:486[/MEDIA]It's quite eye-opening how many long-term key characters left in 1990 in addition to Billy and Sheila: Karen and Claire Grant; the Collinses; Harry Cross; Doreen Corkhill; Jonathan Gordon-Davies... Looking at it from a late-1983 vantage point it feels there's very little reason to watch beyond that point.Very true - I know I certainly did, and I'm a bit younger than Damon. I suppose I just see Damon as someone who'd read a few paragraphs at the most before getting bored and deciding to go out and make his own entertainment. But then I suppose that's exactly what might have led to his Mickey Spillane homage, so if anything it makes more sense now.Oh - that's great.In the last few days I've watched them break up the fence for bonfire kindling and break Harry Cross's gnomes while running away with them. Marie's defiant response to the latter was wonderful. She all but told Harry to sod off. She's a current favourite for being so fiery and antagonistic.</blockquote>

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