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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 215116" data-attributes="member: 23">Tonight I rounded off the series with the final two episodes of It Ain&#039;t Half Hot Mum.I love how the last few episodes had a sense of journey, following them from the camp back to England. The penultimate episode - with Lofty trying to reach the ship accompanied by the Char Wallah - had me invested. There was a sense of urgency and of jeopardy that really worked to keep the energy up. I unexpectedly got stinging behind the eyes when Muhammed the Char Wallah was standing at the dock calling to them, too late to give the presents he&#039;d bought for the lads.As they prepared for demob, I thought how it cried out for a reunion special some years later to catch up with them in civvy street, but by the time Parky was inviting Shut Up to stay with him and his Mum, I felt satisfied and ready to leave them.Seeing the main characters away from the institution in which we&#039;ve come to know them, and suddenly in street clothes put me in mind of the end of Only When I Laugh, when the patients met up for a drink at the pub and everything felt slightly off-kilter. It was almost like meeting them for the first time all over again. These last scenes made me reflect that despite spending all this time with them, I didn&#039;t really know them that well at all. Or at least there are sides to them which I never got to see. And I suppose that&#039;s how it is for people in those kinds of conditions.I wonder if there was any thought given to any kind of follow up. Like Sgt Major Williams hoping to become a prison warder. That idea had potential. But I suppose Porridge had already done that definitively.There was a scene in the penultimate episode where Lofty and the Char Wallah arrived at a garage to find a man with a handkerchief over his face. For a few seconds I couldn&#039;t shake the idea that Rangi was going to be under it, despite all better judgement reminding me that Michael Bates died some time before this series ended. He was missed the last couple of series, but I was pleasantly surprised that the expected huge drop in quality didn&#039;t come. Not to any degree that affected my enjoyment, anyway.I&#039;m really glad to have dived into this one beginning to end.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 215116, member: 23"] Tonight I rounded off the series with the final two episodes of [I]It Ain't Half Hot Mum[/I]. I love how the last few episodes had a sense of journey, following them from the camp back to England. The penultimate episode - with Lofty trying to reach the ship accompanied by the Char Wallah - had me invested. There was a sense of urgency and of jeopardy that really worked to keep the energy up. I unexpectedly got stinging behind the eyes when Muhammed the Char Wallah was standing at the dock calling to them, too late to give the presents he'd bought for the lads. As they prepared for demob, I thought how it cried out for a reunion special some years later to catch up with them in civvy street, but by the time Parky was inviting Shut Up to stay with him and his Mum, I felt satisfied and ready to leave them. Seeing the main characters away from the institution in which we've come to know them, and suddenly in street clothes put me in mind of the end of [I]Only When I Laugh,[/I] when the patients met up for a drink at the pub and everything felt slightly off-kilter. It was almost like meeting them for the first time all over again. These last scenes made me reflect that despite spending all this time with them, I didn't really know them that well at all. Or at least there are sides to them which I never got to see. And I suppose that's how it is for people in those kinds of conditions. I wonder if there was any thought given to any kind of follow up. Like Sgt Major Williams hoping to become a prison warder. That idea had potential. But I suppose [I]Porridge[/I] had already done that definitively. There was a scene in the penultimate episode where Lofty and the Char Wallah arrived at a garage to find a man with a handkerchief over his face. For a few seconds I couldn't shake the idea that Rangi was going to be under it, despite all better judgement reminding me that Michael Bates died some time before this series ended. He was missed the last couple of series, but I was pleasantly surprised that the expected huge drop in quality didn't come. Not to any degree that affected my enjoyment, anyway. I'm really glad to have dived into this one beginning to end. [/QUOTE]

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