Adrian Knights (aknights@enternet.com.au)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 20:59:17 +1100
i've noticed that aboriginal flag, too, and remember thinking it was weird.
i don't see why it would have a broader british meaning as wasn't it
invented by the aborigines with red for the earth, black for their skin and
a yellow sun??? Maybe our british viewers can help us?
also another inconsistency: in the episode where sarah quits to do the
writing course at the college and lynda is begging her to stay, lynda
points out how much the gazette has taught sarah. "it even taught you how
to pass your school exams" says lynda, "remember when you used to fail
every one?" but in the episode where colin was selling his exam kits, he
tries to sell one to sarah and the conversation goes something like this :
colin: tell me something sarah...
sarah: I know what you're going to say. you're about to ask how can i be
coming top of nearly all my classes and still go to pieces every time the
exams come around???
i thought a major point about this episode was that we see this side of
sarah- she's really bright and works really hard and does really well but
gets really stressed out, lacks confidence and tends to underestimate her
abilities.....this is, to me, not a minor inconsistency, but quite
important because it's part of sarah's characterisation and then it gets
totally contradicted by lynda later on, when she is referring to that very
episode.
zoe
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> From: Murray Head <muzza@omen.net.au>
> To: Press Gang Mailing List <pressgang@lists.yoyo.org>
> Subject: Re: [pressgang] Nitpicky Little PG Facts
> Date: Wednesday, November 19, 1997 12:56 AM
>
> At 13:47 17/11/97 +1100, Jonathan wrote:
> >One thing I like to look for when watching TV programs is nitpicky
little
> >things like script references, what's going on in the background, things
> >you have to use the slow motion on your VCR for etc.
> Always fun :)
>
> >1. In "The Big Finish?" Tiddler tells Lynda she only has 1 week to tell
> >Spike she loves him, and that she owes it to everyone in the newsroom.
She
> >says something like: "We've all been following this dopey little romance
> >since page one". Page One, of course, is the name of the first PG
episode.
> Yeah, I was struck by that one (Maybe I posted about it at some stage???)
>
> >Does anyone else have any more of these sort of tidbits of information?
> I have a bit of an enquiry along the "things in the background" line.
> I remember seeing what I thought was the Aboriginal flag (top half black,
> bottom half red, big yellow circle bang in the middle) stuck up in the
> newsroom back in the high school days - just above the window of the
> graphics room.
> Does anyone know if that's what it was? Or is there a broader/different
> meaning of the symbol in Britain?
>
> Murray
>
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