Good day to you all, I've just been watching one of my favourite episodes in season one, "A Night In". There's one small comment that is rather momentous, but goes unremarked: it has to do with Spike's dad. Throughout the five series of Press Gang, Spike's comments about his father are dominated by embarrassment at his manner - Lynda says in "Love and War" that from Spike's description, she expected Mr Thomson to be "big-stubbled and belching". However, in the same episode, I felt we got to see that maybe Spike's dad was misjudged by Spike - we see him in a photo (looking highly presentable) and we see that he is interested (and we assume, proud) of Spike's work on the Junior Gazette. Later, we are told that Spike's mother, Katherine Hill, left his dad in order to further her career - it is implied (by Katherine herself) that the "fault" was entirely her own. Yet, much earlier in the show's history, in "A Night In", Spike revealed that his dad "thinks that apologising is something your wife does if you hit her enough". This comment goes unremarked from that moment onwards, with the possible exception of an influence in Spike's understanding that Cindy Watkins probably still loved her father in "Something terrible". Does anyone have any ideas/comments about his area of Spikes life? Was the comment in "A Night In" forgotten/"removed from history" by Steven Moffat in later episodes, or does the whole plotstream still hold together? A revelation like domestic violence just seems an odd thing to never again be mentioned, when Spike's relationship with his dad was certainly a part of Press Gang's interplays. Murray ********************************************************************** * Murray Head - muzza@omen.net.au * *Also at: muzza@tartarus.uwa.edu.au(Uni of Western Australia) * * mhead@anhb.uwa.edu.au (Dept of Anatomy and Human Biology) * *>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://www.omen.net.au/~muzza/ <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< * *********************************************************************** -- T H E P R E S S G A N G M A I L I N G L I S T By default, pressing 'reply' will send mail back to the list, not to the author of the message you're replying to. To unsubscribe, mail "unsubscribe" to "pressgang-request@lists.yoyo.org" |