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If the actor had chosen to stay on for S2, I wonder how FREDDIE THORNE would've progressed as a character.

He was never a favourite of mine, but He's integral to S1 and I do think it would've been interesting to not only see his relationship with Ada develop, but also see how Tommy's best mate would've gone along or not have gone along with Tommy's schemes and future business.

Looking at how heavy the politics was in the later seasons, it's fair to say there were many interesting possibilities for that character.

I do think the actor stepping out was a blessing in disguise. SERIES 2 is nearly perfect. Ada's questioning of her own identity and her journey throughout the show is overall pretty great, and I think propelled by losing her husband so early.

For me, a film or more so TV Show shows its quality in world-building if I can imagine that somewhere, sometime, there are unknown people talking of the characters we know & follow. I can really believe in a setting or story or character if the mystique and the legacy feels embedded so much that, for example: you can imagine that there's a character in The Garrison who once remembers the day when Tommy Shelby walked in the bar & spoken with the local communist: Freddie Thorne. Or that they can remember when the Peaky Blinders used to drink in the snug. Or what the pub was like before it was revamped.

I think this is a key part of believing a world really exists, and that these characters really leave a mark. Its not the only way of thinking about it but I do think its an interesting one. If I can think like that & imagine that, I am immersed then.

Obviously Steven Knight writes a lot of legacy into the show, but I did felt it built organically as well.

The world-building and the technical execution of Birmingham in 1920s/1930s was always excellent to me, but when do you feel it was at its best? Did it just remain constant or get better? Did the earlier seasons capture that realism and that feeling of distant relatability more so? Its like there's a melancholic/nostalgic look at the setting & events of S1 & S2, for the audience and the world-building.

Obviously the big one is ARMY OF GHOSTS/DOOMSDAY, there a few other eps they share cameos or parts in, but if they ever did a real focused DALEK & CYBERMAN duo story again, what would you want the story or themes to be?

Either 90s/Early 00s or 2010s. Film is surely American. A young boy telepathically connected to some sort of forest creature with green tentacles.

Flashbacks to the boys' parents being murdered by local men, think friends of the father, mother has chain snapped from her neck in flashback.

Either mother or a new woman takes care of the boy. The men hunt him & the monster. Shot from outside a high up window down into the porch where one of the local men, both wielding guns, talk about killing the boy & the mother & 'finishing it off'. Other man objects.

End of the film is the kid in the passenger seat with the women/mother, see creatures eye in the forest/bushes.

Saw the actress for Meadow say she wishes the one thing they got to film/make was a whole settlement episode of Meadow's wedding, with Tony Soprano walking her down the aisle.

I'm wondering, are there any storylines or moments or scenes you wanted to see BEFORE the end of the show? I would've loved an episode of Meadow's wedding, even if it is too good to be true that her father would walk her down the aisle given Tony's life.

IMMORTAL MAN & DUKE'S PARENTAGE have a lot of issues / inconsistencies, but one that I've seen people reference a few times is the varying accounts of Tommy Pre-War.

Before we learn of Tommy & Zelda in the shade of a Hazel tree, we learn he indeed haad a girlfriend & love Before the war, when times were more innocent, and that he was by her bedside everyday until she died, then he went away to enlist. This is GRETA.

Most people point out that Tommy going off to war after both these incidents means they must've happened close together, and that 'that' doesn't really make sense. I beg to differ. Tommy having sex with people he doesn't truly love or using sex for expression and release is constant throughout the show. Him losing his first love & having sex with a girl at a fair just before his departure for the war can work & makes sense. Just because he was different before the war doesn't mean he didn't have flaws and that elements of him didn't exist before, like moving on quickly or using sex to cope.

Tommy's enrolment and volunteering is referenced inconsistently throughout the show anyway, but the whole idea that he wouldn't sleep with someone so quickly after Greta is a little to idealistic for me. He could've gone to a Gypsy Fair right before he went off. Jessie Eden is referencing second hand knowledge from Greta's sister about how he went off to war as soon as she died, it doesn't make it concrete. In the real world, timelines and memories become skewed all the time, especially when repeated by different people.

Did you ever want to learn more about Greta? I don't think we are supposed to, its another hint at how different Tommy was before the war.

Maybe him meeting the sister who knew Jessie Eden, Kitty Jurossi, with all that time passed, would've been a good scene in S4 or later down the line. Tommy's whole 'I promised someone I'd change the world' mantra that he lives by from S4 onwards is really enhanced by Jessie when she talks to him of Greta, its clear Knight wanted to really hit home the impact of Jurossi instead of just making her a fling that Jessie knew of. I would've loved further exploration with the sister, someone who isn't blood from Tommy's distant pass who at least knew the old version of him to some extent.

For me, first time watching, S3 felt like the first series were you properly see the layers and discrepancies of the side characters. Up until then of course you know they're killers, monsters even, ruthless characters, but we've mainly focused on Tony & his specific moral dilemmas.

Scenes like Sil slapping the stripper around, and Paulie sniffing Adriana's underwear both stuck out as kind of amplifying the weird & brutal nature's of these characters respectively. As Tony says 'Paulie's always been a little bit quirky'

Mainly felt like this series was the real fleshing out of the other characters beyond Tony's immediate family & Christopher. It is also where I felt the show became a little more serialised than episodic, by today's standards anyhow.

Is this how it felt airing?

Planning a journey at a start point: GAYTON MARINA

Looking to join River Nene in Northampton. And travel down to PETERBOROUGH YACHT CLUB.

Need a concrete MAP which shows ALL MARINAS along the way. We think we have most of them but we'd like to make sure with a clear pre-made MAP.

Anyone got any advice on what's to see going NORTHAMPTON towards PETERBOROUGH via RIVER NENE & what all the marinas are in that order?