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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 410917" data-attributes="member: 22">I remember Mark as one of Marie&#039;s friend Betty&#039;s sons who came up with the &#039;Free George Jackson&#039; song. Yeah, there&#039;s a very natural familiarity between him and Damon which made me assume they already knew each other off screen, or maybe that&#039;s me selling the actors short.&nbsp;&nbsp; Damon and Rod are very interesting together. At some points, they behave like two lads who live opposite each other with no particular bond between them, while at other points, they&#039;ve been more open with each other than two lads living opposite each other would be if they weren&#039;t living in a soap opera ... and yet it somehow all combines into a believable whole. I suppose it&#039;s an example of the Brookside paradox: these aren&#039;t &#039;soap opera characters&quot;, but they behave the way real people might if their lives were as eventful as if they were living in a soap opera. I&#039;d also forgotten about Kirsty until she first appeared this time around. She&#039;d be easy to dismiss as a needy girlfriend stereotype at this point, but she graudally evolves into a surprisingly three-dimensional character.Yes, I can see that.Interesting. Substitute the neighbours&#039; acceptance of Sheila for Jock Ewing&#039;s approval of his youngest son and I&#039;m reminded of this quote of Miss Ellie&#039;s: &quot;Bobby was given everything that JR had to fight for and Gary didn’t care about.&quot; Sheila&nbsp; didn&#039;t go looking for the neighbours&#039; acceptance but got it anyway, whereas Marie and Doreen want (ed) it too much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 410917, member: 22"] I remember Mark as one of Marie's friend Betty's sons who came up with the 'Free George Jackson' song. Yeah, there's a very natural familiarity between him and Damon which made me assume they already knew each other off screen, or maybe that's me selling the actors short. Damon and Rod are very interesting together. At some points, they behave like two lads who live opposite each other with no particular bond between them, while at other points, they've been more open with each other than two lads living opposite each other would be if they weren't living in a soap opera ... and yet it somehow all combines into a believable whole. I suppose it's an example of the [I]Brookside[/I] paradox: these aren't 'soap opera characters", but they behave the way real people might if their lives were as eventful as if they [I]were[/I] living in a soap opera. I'd also forgotten about Kirsty until she first appeared this time around. She'd be easy to dismiss as a needy girlfriend stereotype at this point, but she graudally evolves into a surprisingly three-dimensional character. Yes, I can see that. Interesting. Substitute the neighbours' acceptance of Sheila for Jock Ewing's approval of his youngest son and I'm reminded of this quote of Miss Ellie's: "Bobby was given everything that JR had to fight for and Gary didn’t care about." Sheila didn't go looking for the neighbours' acceptance but got it anyway, whereas Marie and Doreen want (ed) it too much. [/QUOTE]

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