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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 444932" data-attributes="member: 23">Oh - that explains it. Sad as it is to lose an Upper, it's also quite nice to think that the participants have ended up driving the story behind the camera as well as in front. It still blows my mind that Nick died just three days after those interview scenes were filmed. And the fact that he contacted them with everything going on shows how important the series has become to the participants and what a significant part of their lives it remains. This was expressed by most of the Uppers in these last instalments, but this demonstrates it more clearly than anything.I think it changed the tone in a positive way, because it gave a kind of objectivity that wouldn't have been present if they were speaking to Michael Apted. When someone dies it gives people an opportunity to reflect on their relationships with a new understanding, and this was tangible here. I also thought it interesting that Apted himself became part of the story here in a way he hadn't been before. Rather than driving the narrative, he became another subject, and I thought it presented a fairly balanced picture of him and his relationship with the Uppers.</blockquote>

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