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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 126868" data-attributes="member: 23">I&#039;ve now begun Series Nineteen of Summer Wine. Sadly this means I&#039;ve now watched every Foggy episode. Given the circumstances he was written out as well as possible, though I&#039;d be interested to know how it would have been done had Clarke known the departure was to be permanent.Frank Thornton is enjoyable to me wherever he appears, so Truly has softened the blow of losing Foggy. He gives good pomp, so it&#039;s easy to see why Brian Wilde suggested him to the powers that be. It&#039;s good to see that despite the similarities in personality between Foggy and Truly (and, by extension, Blamire and Seymour), Clarke has made some attempts to give Truly some distinct isms, as he has with all four third men. The somewhat fractious relationship with his ex-wife (wives?) is a joy. I think the moment where Truly clicked with me was during a telephone call to his ex where he commented down the receiver that she was looking better than ever. Even so, particularly during scenes featuring the main triad interacting, I have at times I&#039;ve found myself picturing Wilde delivering some of Truly&#039;s lines with a narrowing of his eyes or an emphatic nose wrinkle. He will be greatly missed.Over the last series or so it feels like Summer Wine has evolved further. There seem to be fewer scenes featuring the clique of women. While Edie still has her coffee mornings with her inevitable &quot;drink your coffee&quot;s and &quot;she&#039;s very young&quot;s, there hasn&#039;t been a jaunt in Edie&#039;s Triumph Herald for some time. I actually feel the return of Barry hasn&#039;t helped with this, since Glenda is in more scenes with him. And while the Barry scenes are fine, I thought he worked even better as an unseen almost mythical figure - someone for Glenda to swoon over and the older women to be suspicious of - than he does in person. With Series Nineteen, the show now has cold openings. I&#039;m on the fence with them as I liked being gently immersed into Holmfirth life by the theme music. Speaking of which, the music has been rearranged and sped-up slightly. Not a change for the better.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 126868, member: 23"] I've now begun Series Nineteen of [I]Summer Wine[/I]. Sadly this means I've now watched every Foggy episode. Given the circumstances he was written out as well as possible, though I'd be interested to know how it would have been done had Clarke known the departure was to be permanent. Frank Thornton is enjoyable to me wherever he appears, so Truly has softened the blow of losing Foggy. He gives good pomp, so it's easy to see why Brian Wilde suggested him to the powers that be. It's good to see that despite the similarities in personality between Foggy and Truly (and, by extension, Blamire and Seymour), Clarke has made some attempts to give Truly some distinct isms, as he has with all four third men. The somewhat fractious relationship with his ex-wife (wives?) is a joy. I think the moment where Truly clicked with me was during a telephone call to his ex where he commented down the receiver that she was looking better than ever. Even so, particularly during scenes featuring the main triad interacting, I have at times I've found myself picturing Wilde delivering some of Truly's lines with a narrowing of his eyes or an emphatic nose wrinkle. He will be greatly missed. Over the last series or so it feels like[I] Summer Wine [/I]has evolved further. There seem to be fewer scenes featuring the clique of women. While Edie still has her coffee mornings with her inevitable "drink your coffee"s and "she's very young"s, there hasn't been a jaunt in Edie's Triumph Herald for some time. I actually feel the return of Barry hasn't helped with this, since Glenda is in more scenes with him. And while the Barry scenes are fine, I thought he worked even better as an unseen almost mythical figure - someone for Glenda to swoon over and the older women to be suspicious of - than he does in person. With Series Nineteen, the show now has cold openings. I'm on the fence with them as I liked being gently immersed into Holmfirth life by the theme music. Speaking of which, the music has been rearranged and sped-up slightly. Not a change for the better. [/QUOTE]

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