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Spike
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Nobody else has started a thread on the new series yet, so I thought I might as well. Read all about it
There are some new characters in this series including the Area Dean, Diocesan Secretary and a local Immam.
I'm usually out on Monday evenings, but I'll be setting up my electric television device to record the series. I'm hoping this series is as good as the first two.
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3 mins to Rev series 3 starting...
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As Java Chat is still unsafe to run - Twitter has hashtag #rev...
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On air - and Alex's waters have broken..
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Hmm, not very impressed by the first episode. Far too predictable.
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Spike
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What was the Diocesan Secretary all about? I'm really not sure where she's supposed to fit in. In my experience, Diocesn Secretaries have no input at all in the day to day running of parishes. They rarely even leave their office!
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Enoch
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Originally posted by Jante:
I didn't take to the two new characters! ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
I don't think we're meant to.
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A brilliant start to the series.
Though my prediction (made at the end of the last series) that we would chart Alex's pregnancy followed by the pathos of a miscarriage got blown out of the water in the first scene.
Top gag had to be the one about the anglican hierarchy:
"So, how does it work?"
"It doesn't."
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Spike
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The look of horror on the archdeacon's face as Alex gave birth in the back of the taxi was priceless!
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Baptist Trainfan
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Don't forget that Miles Jupp is a clergy son - in his case URC.
So are David Tennant (CofS Moderator of General Assembly) and Hugh Dennis (CofE - a Bishop no less!)
Sadly my own son works backstage, not on it.
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Loved Colin's fundraising technique
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Absolutely Matt Black . No one could accuse him of burying his Talent . ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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I thought it was good. The archdeacon being told to get the tube was excellent. Not to mention his delivery of the baby.
OK, it was stretching a little to include the diocesan secretary and area dean, but then it is stretching it that the archdeacon gets so involved. It is just about more characters, more people.
The problem is, it is so hyped, it is hard to live up to that. I am not sure it should - it should just surprise. I hope it does.
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The first few minutes were wonderful, sort of slapstick, as the archdeacon struggled with her dilation and the baby's head emerging - 'ghastly'!
It quietened down a bit then, but still very good; the imam was well played by the actor.
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Jengie jon
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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
Don't forget that Miles Jupp is a clergy son - in his case URC.
If he is the son of the minister I suspect then he is the son of our expert on Funeral rites! For some reason I suspect that might please people here.
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balaam
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I didn't take to the two new characters!
But they are so real. I'm sure I've met them both, but not both at the same time.
Like all good comedy caricatures they are exagerated, but not by much.
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Enoch
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Originally posted by balaam:
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Originally posted by Jante:
I didn't take to the two new characters!
But they are so real. I'm sure I've met them both, but not both at the same time.
Like all good comedy caricatures they are exagerated, but not by much.
Both actresses were in Getting On, which was a series I very much enjoyed. It had a horrible credibility.
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I also discovered that Vikki Pepperdine was a contemporary of mine at university. I may well have met her there.
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Wonderful as always, though I have a niggling worry that somebody may not realise that an Archdeacon outranks an Area Dean.
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I loved it. I was a bit worried about whether it would all go rather bleak with Alex either losing the baby or getting PND or other Very Bad Things, so I'm glad it hasn't gone there.
The hierarchy joke made me shout "Yes!" at the telly - to my shame despite decades in the CofE I had no idea about how you know the difference between a rector and a vicar.
And I loved Area Dean & Diocesan Sec. All the talk about "How are we going to BE church?" as a cover for cutting. ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif) I have a feeling the archdeacon is going to end up rescuing Adam at some point....
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Wonderful as always, though I have a niggling worry that somebody may not realise that an Archdeacon outranks an Area Dean.
But personality can override hierarchy, can't it? IIRC in All Gas and Gaiters everyone was terrified of the Dean.
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Spike
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Originally posted by Jemima the 9th:
And I loved Area Dean & Diocesan Sec. All the talk about "How are we going to BE church?" as a cover for cutting. I have a feeling the archdeacon is going to end up rescuing Adam at some point....
As often happens in real life.
Alex's reluctance to have the baby baptised didn't really ring true with me though.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Oh, I don't know ... my wife often resists pressure to do things that are expected of her "because she's the Minister's wife".
What did intrigue me was the potential (or even extant) relationship between the Diocesan Secretary and the Area Dean ..,. or am I clutching at straws?
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For me the best line was Yusuf's: "I love your churches. So much space!"
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Really really weird. I am just watching the episode - and I can smell baby poo.
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quetzalcoatl
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For me the best line was Yusuf's: "I love your churches. So much space!"
Yes, a nice dead-pan line. Also liked his face, when the church hierarchy was being explained to him; and Adam's face when he saw the throngs outside the mosque; also of course, the ten grand immediately forthcoming from them.
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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
The problem is, it is so hyped, it is hard to live up to that. I am not sure it should - it should just surprise. I hope it does.
Really hope I don't put the kiss of death on Rev by saying this , but I enjoyed the first episode of this new series so much that I think it might just have the makings of a quality long-distance sit-com.
We've watched the earlier series' several times over . Each time we appreciate the detail the creators have put those characters .
I don't know too much about reformed (?) characters like Colin in real life, but I reckon they've cast that guy just right . Him making a horror face and loud noise at Adam's young child in the park got me going straight away, -- classic Colin.
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Adam was interviewed on the radio the other week. He said that the first three episodes were funny, the last ones deeper - as the other series have done. I hope so, because the depth is so important.
I still think the finale from s1 was one of the best things I have ever seen. I hope they can get the same level of depth and intensity in this series, by the end. But I don't expect it early on - this intensity needs to build.
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Yawn. No wonder ratings are so low.
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From what I've read, the TV ratings are actually pretty good. Unless you mean church attendance ratings; then yes, they are low...
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From what I've read, the TV ratings are actually pretty good. Unless you mean church attendance ratings; then yes, they are low...
10pm on BBC2 on a Monday night is hardly a top rated spot. Sensible people will be in their beds.
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Thank God I'm not sensible
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Thank God I'm not sensible
Sorry, I meant exhausted and insensible!
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Originally posted by Tulfes:
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Thank God I'm not sensible
Sorry, I meant exhausted and insensible!
But, but, surely that is what Sky Plus (or any other brand-named equivelent is for?
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I so recognised the Area Dean and Diocesan Secretary that I was convinced they must be based on people I know, though it's hard to work out how that would be ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Diocesan Secs involving themselves in the outworking of policy isn't completely unheard of, depends on the personalities involved. I think Adam's improvisation of an impressive sounding catchphrase to cover up his failures rings a bell with a lot of clergy - many dioceses now seem to be pushing parishes to participate in various programmes for growth which consist mainly of lists of impressive sounding catchphrases!
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... - many dioceses now seem to be pushing parishes to participate in various programmes for growth which consist mainly of lists of impressive sounding catchphrases!
So different, so very different from the home life of so many other large institutional organisations.
Has anyone else been watching W1A?
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W1A - by being more explicitly and deliberately humorous - takes it even further. And it is brilliant. The fact that they are taking the mickey out of themselves is even better.
Any large organisation - or people who think like a large organisation - behave like that. I am working for a project manager who is a bit like that, but we are working on him.
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From what I've read, the TV ratings are actually pretty good. Unless you mean church attendance ratings; then yes, they are low...
10pm on BBC2 on a Monday night is hardly a top rated spot. Sensible people will be in their beds.
Who is sensible? Even when up for work at 7am i never went to bed much before 0030. Had just finished marking and prep. by 200 and about to relax.
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[QB]So different, so very different from the home life of so many other large institutional organisations.
Well, naively, before I saw the C of E quite so close up I would have hoped so.
However there are a number of people doing far better than that in the C of E, which I suppose is where the irritation with Rev arises in some quarters.
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Jemima the 9th
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The catchphrase thing. I have a theory (based on not much evidence) that a lot of the people who use most management-speak & catchphrasey nonsense used to be hired by big business, city type firms etc. Then when the big business got tired of them they moved onto the nhs, then universities. Basically they've worked their way through pretty much most fields of employment before coming to rest in the church, because we haven't noticed so much of it is nonsense yet.
Haven't watched any episodes W1A yet, but would love to. From the snippets I've seen it looks hilarious. In a watching from behind the sofa sort of way.
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... - many dioceses now seem to be pushing parishes to participate in various programmes for growth which consist mainly of lists of impressive sounding catchphrases!
So different, so very different from the home life of so many other large institutional organisations.
Oh Lordy! We have done Going for Growth, Funding the Vision and now Natural Church Development!
Load of corporate-speak bollocks the lot of it!
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The URC had "Catch the Vision" and now "Vision 20/20".
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Having to work around the regs...
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Alex Cockell
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WHat an unfortunate TLA is IED...
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Oh dear God... having to skirt ever so close like that...
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My wife (who is out at the moment) will be DELIGHTED at the reference to Hungarian palincka from Kecskemet - she loves the stuff.
If only they'd said "Unicum" instead - now THAT'S an acquired taste (which I haven't acquired). But it is a registered trade mark so I suppose they couldn't use it.
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