let's hear it for retreads!

[winterbadger]

I've been watching episodes of "This Life", a BBC ensemble drama from 1996 that BBC America has jjust started showing. It's simply wonderful, with all sorts of good actors in it (Jack Davenport of Coupling, Andrew Lincoln of Teachers, the beautiful and talented Amita Dhiri who's been in one or two one-off TV eps I've seen, and Daniela Nardini, Jason Hughes, and Luisa Bradshaw-White, who are also quite good). Good writing, good acting, engaging characters and stories... I hope we get all thirty-something episodes.

It, like some other 'young adult friends living in the city' shows, makes me wonder about how my life would have been different if I'd not got married basically right out of college, if I'd gone out and lived on my own, or with friends, for several years as I got used to being an adult. Would I be different? Would I see things differently? Would I have different attitudes on how to relate to people? I don't know.

Well, I should finish watching this ep; I promised to sort books with redactrice and shy_kat this afternoon.

Comments

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

Guess it all depends on your perspective; I'm still in school at 24 and will be until I'm nearly 28 and it makes me feel like a child, and all I want is to be able to live with Anthony. :/ I still can't seem to shake the idea that 9-5 job, car, marriage, 2.5 kids = adulthood.

[rethought.livejournal.com]

I have the whole corpus of the 'This Life' series. Unfortunately, they only did the two seasons and left us with a cliffhanger. Guess we'll never know what happens.

If worse comes to worst and you feel like torturing yourself with the endingless ending, let me know and I'll loan you my discs. (Region 2, though...bear in mind.)

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Hey, aitkendrum and I were trying to figure out how we 'met' you. (Perdita, of course, assumes you came to visit her.) Do you remember?

[aitkendrum.livejournal.com]

An exclellent series but cut so short in it' life. A third series would have probaby finished things off nicely. On your point of marriage, considering whats happens to some of the charcaters in these shows, marriage might have been the best option, but then hindsight is an amazing thing if somewhat useless.

[aitkendrum.livejournal.com]

and oh, drink Diet Irn Bru not the sugary stuff, it may cure hangovers but it does BAD things to your teeth. *hides teeth from view*

[winterbadger]

I think it must have been through brits_americans, but I'm not positive.

[winterbadger]

Oh, I confess it's presence in my icon library is due almost exclusively to its wonderful colour and its Scottishness. I rarely drink the stuff; I'm not big on soda in general.

[winterbadger]

Ack! 'its', not 'it's'. Sheesh!

[winterbadger]

LOL! Thanks! I figure one of the first things I'll get when I move is a cheap multi (or null) region player. Not goign to replace all my videos, but I'm sure I'll want to borrow/rent/buy new ones...

[winterbadger]

Well, one of the things that frequently strikes me about both television people (not real, I know) and some real people I know is how many friends they seem to have who they see regularly. One of the things I miss terribly about college is having all of one's friends in (more or less) the same place. Most of my post-college life has been like the three couples in the series 'Cold Feet'--having a small number of friends who one sees fairly often, and fairly exclusively, because they are close by. I have a good number of friends, but only a few of them are folks who live near enough that I see them regularly, and it seems as if it gets harder and harder to see even those people very often.

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

I do have a crew like that back home, and they still spend time together very frequently, just because they all seem to have gotten jobs in the area. It's nice to have everyone home when I come home, but at the same time I hate being the odd one out. I haven't really developed that social network over here yet, and it's kind of taking a toll on me, I think.

[winterbadger]

That was one of the things that made me like Warren: a little speech he has in one of the early episodes about knowing people that always had big groups of friends and wishing he could be part of the group but, somehow, not being quite popular enough.

[dativesingular.livejournal.com]

I do feel like I'm part of the group back home (we've known each other since the start of high school if not earlier, and we're all in our mid-twenties now) but what with living halfway across the globe and all, I'm bound to be left out of things. :(

[winterbadger]

Indeed! I'm going to miss my cast of characters here :-). On the other hand, many of them have been moving off: bidger to PA, azbound to AZ, Mike to Japan, Jarad to Florida, and redactrice and shy_kat will be gone soon too. :-(