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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 267033" data-attributes="member: 23">After just under two weeks I've hit the halfway mark of the entire series. The energy is certainly very different at this point compared with the beginning of the series and there's been a definite thaw in Simon and Oliver's relationship. To the point that Series Six has seen Oliver nursing a bedridden Simon (he had a cold) and preparing him a candlelit meal, and Oliver asking Simon to be his best man when he was twitterpated with a young woman.  With David and Lynn long gone it's probably necessary - after all, if they have nothing for contempt, there's no real reason for them to interact at all. But I suspect the softening would have happened anyway. It comes across that both actors are having a good time, and it's no doubt inevitable that the screen energy can't help but reflect this. In terms of supporting cast, Mrs Sadler just gets on my nerves. There's far too much airy fairy twirling and stammering and overreacting. I'm reminded of Pat Coombs in You're Only Young Twice, where it seems she's supposed to be adorably ingenuous and accident prone, but as time goes on she comes across as irritating and borderline malicious, and the character is consequently far less likeable than one feels the actor (or perhaps the character) must think. The clumsy-but-adorable assistant is already covered with Ringo - and even that pushes things a step too far on a semi-regular basis. Banks is fine, but the lines are now constantly blurred with Mrs Sadler, Banksy and even Ringo dashing between houses and businesses in order to confuse an already confused situation.</blockquote>

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