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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 439146" data-attributes="member: 23">I know you mentioned you were going to watch at an unhurried pace, so I&#039;ve been braced for a few little gaps between posts. While I could read your reviews all day long, I am finding the delayed gratification is adding a depth to things. I&#039;m enjoying the anticipation of wondering what you&#039;ll make of each new episode. You&#039;re right. And truthfully it&#039;s something I had probably taken for granted - or at least not given a great deal of thought to.Also, Kurt wasn&#039;t particularly stereotypical: being neither mincing and flamboyant à la Mr Humphries nor a leather bear.Now I think about it, perhaps an analogous scenario would have been found in drama of the late-Seventies, when JR Ewing seemed similarly disinterested in the sexuality of niece Lucy&#039;s gay fiance. Basil&#039;s throwaway &quot;all you had to do was give him a little kiss&quot; comment wasn&#039;t dissimilar to JR&#039;s &quot;women marry homosexuals all the time&quot;. In each case, there was something in it for the character in question - the de facto lead and anti-hero of their show - and they were more irritated that someone refused to overlook the gay person&#039;s sexuality which in turn was inconvenient for their own plans. So glad you enjoyed those. Generally, it&#039;s the &quot;damned good thrashing&quot; scene that shows up in clips whenever the series is mentioned anywhere. It&#039;s funny enough, but for me it only truly works in context. My favourite scenes of the episode take place in the bar area when the guests begin arriving and Basil is introducing his guests to one another, trying to avoid putting his foot in it further over Mrs Hall&#039;s diminutive height (&quot;Didn&#039;t see you down there. Don&#039;t get up&quot;) or Colonel Hall&#039;s tic.&nbsp; The exchange that makes me laugh even thinking about it is when the Halls are giving their drinks orders: Basil looks at Mrs HallIncidentally, I&#039;ve watched quite a number of reactions to this scene, and surprisingly few seem to realise that much of the angst is created from Basil trying to avoid saying Mr Twitchen&#039;s name (which he believes is pronounced &quot;twitching&quot;) to Colonel Hall, which culminates in Basil&#039;s fake fainting spell. So many seem to think he has simply forgotten the name. Oh, that&#039;s interesting. I do like a bit of salad cream sometimes. I just looked this up, and apparently Miracle Whip is the closest kind of thing on your side of the pond.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 439146, member: 23"] I know you mentioned you were going to watch at an unhurried pace, so I've been braced for a few little gaps between posts. While I could read your reviews all day long, I am finding the delayed gratification is adding a depth to things. I'm enjoying the anticipation of wondering what you'll make of each new episode. You're right. And truthfully it's something I had probably taken for granted - or at least not given a great deal of thought to. Also, Kurt wasn't particularly stereotypical: being neither mincing and flamboyant à la Mr Humphries nor a leather bear. Now I think about it, perhaps an analogous scenario would have been found in drama of the late-Seventies, when JR Ewing seemed similarly disinterested in the sexuality of niece Lucy's gay fiance. Basil's throwaway "all you had to do was give him a little kiss" comment wasn't dissimilar to JR's "women marry homosexuals all the time". In each case, there was something in it for the character in question - the de facto lead and anti-hero of their show - and they were more irritated that someone refused to overlook the gay person's sexuality which in turn was inconvenient for their own plans. So glad you enjoyed those. Generally, it's the "damned good thrashing" scene that shows up in clips whenever the series is mentioned anywhere. It's funny enough, but for me it only truly works in context. My favourite scenes of the episode take place in the bar area when the guests begin arriving and Basil is introducing his guests to one another, trying to avoid putting his foot in it further over Mrs Hall's diminutive height ("Didn't see you down there. Don't get up") or Colonel Hall's tic. The exchange that makes me laugh even thinking about it is when the Halls are giving their drinks orders: [U][I]Basil looks at Mrs Hall[/I][/U] Incidentally, I've watched quite a number of reactions to this scene, and surprisingly few seem to realise that much of the angst is created from Basil trying to avoid saying Mr Twitchen's name (which he believes is pronounced "twitching") to Colonel Hall, which culminates in Basil's fake fainting spell. So many seem to think he has simply forgotten the name. Oh, that's interesting. I do like a bit of salad cream sometimes. I just looked this up, and apparently Miracle Whip is the closest kind of thing on your side of the pond. [/QUOTE]

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