Post by rhort on Apr 13, 2012 3:09:07 GMT -5
I’m not really a big fan of this episode. It just doesn’t seem to go anywhere.
The episode begins with another ‘Who’s-got-the-upper-hand?’ spat between Yvonne and Gary. I quite like the character of Yvonne in many ways because I like fairly feisty women, but in scenes like this, she just comes off as annoying, which I find a little unfair because she’s often portrayed as such, and I don’t think that her and Gary would have got together at all if she were like that for the majority of the time. It also occurs to me that Yvonne already seems to have had enough of Gary’s WWII obsession, despite the fact that we’re only on the third episode, and that’s always made me wonder why it didn’t become even more of an issue as the series went on. The concern that she shows when Gary fails to turn up, however, is the one thing that demonstrates that they do have a working relationship.
This episode then uses a rather interesting counterpoint to Yvonne’s spirited aggressiveness by upping the stakes with Phoebe’s similar nature, particularly in the way she interacts with Gary, as well as Eric. I think this is a crucial element in the understanding of the appeal of both Yvonne and Phoebe to Gary, as they both often seem to be radically different people, however, it can be seen here that they share some traits that Gary clearly admires, and finds attractive.
I think the main thing that lets this episode down for me is the interrogation scene, which I always felt leaves many questions unanswered, particularly that Gary seems to get out of the situation simply by proving that he’s in possession of some highly classified information, which would probably make the authorities extremely curious as to how he came by it, and would surely only have made them check much more deeply into his background, which would then have lead to them finding nothing about him in any records anywhere in the UK, and further lead them to concluding that he must be an enemy operative, and yet, they just let him go.
Also, not enough Ron in this episode
I’d give this episode a 50% rating. Only really worth watching because it’s part of the story, however, if they left this episode out of a series run, it wouldn’t be missed (by me at least).
The episode begins with another ‘Who’s-got-the-upper-hand?’ spat between Yvonne and Gary. I quite like the character of Yvonne in many ways because I like fairly feisty women, but in scenes like this, she just comes off as annoying, which I find a little unfair because she’s often portrayed as such, and I don’t think that her and Gary would have got together at all if she were like that for the majority of the time. It also occurs to me that Yvonne already seems to have had enough of Gary’s WWII obsession, despite the fact that we’re only on the third episode, and that’s always made me wonder why it didn’t become even more of an issue as the series went on. The concern that she shows when Gary fails to turn up, however, is the one thing that demonstrates that they do have a working relationship.
This episode then uses a rather interesting counterpoint to Yvonne’s spirited aggressiveness by upping the stakes with Phoebe’s similar nature, particularly in the way she interacts with Gary, as well as Eric. I think this is a crucial element in the understanding of the appeal of both Yvonne and Phoebe to Gary, as they both often seem to be radically different people, however, it can be seen here that they share some traits that Gary clearly admires, and finds attractive.
I think the main thing that lets this episode down for me is the interrogation scene, which I always felt leaves many questions unanswered, particularly that Gary seems to get out of the situation simply by proving that he’s in possession of some highly classified information, which would probably make the authorities extremely curious as to how he came by it, and would surely only have made them check much more deeply into his background, which would then have lead to them finding nothing about him in any records anywhere in the UK, and further lead them to concluding that he must be an enemy operative, and yet, they just let him go.
Also, not enough Ron in this episode
I’d give this episode a 50% rating. Only really worth watching because it’s part of the story, however, if they left this episode out of a series run, it wouldn’t be missed (by me at least).
Although it would be interesting to see other replies on this 'Book club'
