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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cobbles" data-source="post: 259495" data-attributes="member: 5138">I read an article which said one of the things cut due to the shorter run than intended was a storyline about sexual abuse in the Tozer household which might have went more of the way of explaining Valerie's blindness to Ritchie's sexuality. I think the comment about older men liking pretty boys might have been a nod to that. I think it might have been that she thought he might have been abused but didn't want to open those conversations as she didn't want to open up her own emotional baggage from her own abuse. I don't really have much to add, an excellent drama. Certainly RTD's best work (and I'm a big Doctor Who fan so the bars high). He has a knack of inventing good characters and making you care about what happens to them that seems rare these days.</blockquote>