u/HallowedAndHarrowed

Mick Taylor is one of the most clever and believable (i’m aware he was based on Ivan Milat, but he is more charming than Milat was) villains in early 2000’s cinema.

There doesn’t have to be some sad backstory with him. He isn’t John Kramer dying of cancer, he doesn’t want to test his victims or pretend there is any morality underneath his faux Steve Irwin Crocodile Dundee exterior.

To have the male survive and the females both die in horrific ways was quite a dare at the time. And for Taylor to receive zero comeuppance as well makes it refreshing.

But it isn’t the gore that does it, it is how they present a vulnerable coming of age love triangle and the snatch it away like a Spider’s Web. Particularly as well the scene where it is show how long Taylor has been doing this for.

For me, it would be two. Number one will always be a nearly 30 year Buster Douglas who had just lost his mum and was ill with flu, kicking 23 year old Mike Tyson’s head in.

Nothing will ever compete with seeing the so called “baddest man on the planet” who had all the resources in the world lose to one of the most decent people boxing has ever had.

I don’t watch much football at all. Boxing is my sport, and my idol is British born but Canadian made Lennox Lewis (aka Mike Tyson smasher and one of only two boxers to beat Vitali Klitschko).

Have also had relatives who have lived and travelled in Canada and the country has always been very welcome to them.

Hope Canada do well. Good luck whatever happens. If England gets knocked out on Sunday, would love Canada to carry on into the tournament.

I like the gradual move of Boycie from antagonist in the earlier seasons to a supporting role in the later one’s.

One thing to note is that there are certain lines Boycie never crosses. For example, he hates Slater as much as the rest of his friends and although he does someone let Del down in To Hull and Back he doesn’t actually intend to shaft him.

The notes he pays to Van Cleef are fake but not to Del Boy. And it probably has as much to do with a sense of loyalty as much as not being “into plastic surgery”.

By the time of Chain Gang, he is really an ally more that anything else. Yes there is competition there but it is worth noting Boycie multiple times becomes concerned about Del Boy’s welfare checking on him after the Driscolls menace him.

I’d argue that UK born Lennox Lewis is easily the best living heavyweight boxer and arguably the most complete heavyweight boxer of all time.

He defeated everyone. Demolished Mike Tyson (Tyson had ducked Lewis for years, and Lewis would have beaten Tyson at any point) and more impressively is one of only two to defeat Vitali Klitschko.

He only lost twice and avenged both those defeats, beating Rahman into another dimension. Unlike Muhammad Ali, he had a decent uppercut and unlike Joe Louis, he could fight as well as box.

Best of all time really.

For me, it is Uncle Albert. While I think Grandad had his stand out moments in A Touch of Glass, I think Uncle Albert was a more interesting character on the whole and the fact that Buster Merryfield was a lot fitter and in better health, meant they could do more stuff outside the flat.

For me, the best seasons were mid through. Uncle Albert arriving and the run up to To Hull and Back was sublime and it gradually drifted off on the whole after Rodney and Cassandra’s engagement.

This doesn’t include specials as those can be outliers for example “A Royal Flush” is widely acknowledged as atrocious but the series was on the whole in its prime at the time, while “The Jolly Boys Outing” is arguably the best episode of the series, even though it also marked the beginning of the decline for the show on the whole (ushering in unneeded angst and regressing back to the stuck around the flat premise)

S Tier: Season 4.

A: Season 5 and Season 6.

B: Season 2 and Season 3

C: Season 1

D: Season 7