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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Julia&#039;s Spooky Nun" data-source="post: 353155" data-attributes="member: 987">Same here! I did too, except the Harty interview which I already saw a while back.I hadn't expected to be so moved by the QE2 scenes, but I've watched 3 discs worth from Sep-Nov 1981, and seeing it all in order brought home how sad and rather brutal it all was. I liked how they kept the cause of the fire ambiguous for a few episodes, with that painter chap disappering and his back story of losing his first wife and child in a mysterious fire a few years earlier. What a coincidence!It was kind of like a Who started it? rather than a Dallas Who Dunnit?, but when they did Noele's big reveal as Jill enters her cabin on the QE2, I was overjoyed, as all those millions of fans must have been when this episode first aired.On the timescale it didn't quite add up when they reveal how Meg survived and left the motel before the fire started. She seemed to hang around in the room and then take ages to leave, having time to go to the reception area with that letter, and then wait for her taxi without Adam seeing her - and she avoided those delinquent teenagers on the way out!  How did they manage to suddently start a huge fire within seconds of her leaving? That was slightly preposterous.So the burning set fire was actually filmed on a fake set outside, as we get a glimpse of it in the documentary. I always wondered how it must have been a huge fire hazard to have burned down the real set indoors. ATV studios were clearly not quite as hi-tec as MGM in LA, where the Southfork fire was later filmed, but they didn't do a bad job all the same. It was still dramatic enough for me!I just felt very, very sad for Noele, having watched all the docs about her now, the miniseries and then culminating in her departure last night. It tugs even more on the heart strings that if only Jill had told her about the fire, she wouldn't have gone, and I shed a tear as she leaves Meg alone in the cabin with them both in tears for the last time. I could have punched the real Jack Barton in that doucmentary as he smiles smugly to the camera saying 'Meg won't be coming back' - well axing her didn't improve the show, the ratings went down, and Crossroads was never the same again.</blockquote>

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