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My plans for the evening got cancelled on me, thank goodness, which meant I had time to eat dinner and wade through most of my inbox and, oh yeah, rewatch last week's Scott & Bailey ep. :P How is there only one left? I am not okay with this!

God, Janet, this week! Watching her and Chris banter and flirt was so delightful. I wouldn't've expected them to have such good chemistry at the beginning of the season, but by now they really do. Of course, whether that gets to go anywhere since Janet's clearly going to have to deal with repercussions from the crash, and may not want a perpetual reminder of it, well. But sassy Janet!

Adored her and Rach and their mutual comfort thing, too - Rachel is still a child, still childish, in so many ways, but she has grown up so much this season as well, and she's trying so hard into the bargain. Both waiting to tell Janet about her mom and knowing that she had to tell Janet at a particular point in time or else it would get weird were decisions Rachel couldn't have made in s1 - or even, maybe, in s3.

I absolutely adored Rach and Alison sitting in Giraffe and bonding over chips, too. I love, love, love that the show didn't force them to grieve 'properly,' whatever that's even meant to mean, and yet still gave us moments of surprising poignancy like Rach seeing her mom in her mobile contacts.

And Gill and Julie...! Ughhh, I'm sad that I called it, that Julie is coming in sort of wielding the power of her position - thus far it looks like she is negotiating it without making Gill too sad, but, uh, this week's ep looks a little more stressful on those terms! Gah! and I STILL DON'T WANT GILL TO RETIRE, ahem, I mean... actually I'm glad the show lampshaded that a bit, too, with Rach asking straight out what the hell Gill would actually do in retirement! God. Clearly retiring is one of those decisions Gill made after a drink or five or something.

Also: apparently 'slap' is a reciprocal nickname, used by Gill for Julie and by Julie for Gill? i have a lot of feelings about this and I am not entirely certain I know what they are. (Things I also have a lot of feelings about: Julie eating at her desk. No, you shut up.)

I'm actually kind of too tired to be nervous about Wednesday's ep. I'm sure I'll get there, though. And then I can start being nervous about whether they'll do a s5...

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I am so intrigued by that "slap" moment! Like, does that mean it's not actually quite a nickname in the way everyone was thinking? How does it work? It clearly means something to them, and I WANT TO KNOW WHAT, aahhh.

(Apart from eternal love, obviously. [/tinhat])

riiiiiiight? I find it so fascinating! It's clearly a personal language, like, it's not like 'slap' is a common thing, so there's obviously some kind of history there! But slap could come out of so many things, too, like - slap and tickle? Slapper? IDK IDK! I kind of like the idea that it's a shorthand for their friendship that goes both ways...

(so much eternal loooove)

On 28 October 2014 07:16, soupytwist - DW Comment dw_null@dreamwidth.org wrote:

There is! Like, I was wondering whether maybe it's USUALLY just a Gill-to-Julie thing, but then with the OMG FRIENDSHIP ISSUES raised this episode, Julie was using it reciprocally to mean "despite this work related thing and the issues, I want to let you know that I still value and respect you"? IDK either! OMG.

(I kinda don't want it to be a reference to "slapper", though? Like, the show is usually good about calling out that kind of casual sexual judgement and it's a word I personally dislike so I am biased, lol. But it's so random and adorable and I just love them omg.)

I kind of love that idea, that Julie's co-opting it as a signal, eeep. <3 <3

The thing with slapper -

sophiagratia suggested that maybe it's ironic, in a way, a response to the two of them having dealt with some sort of institutionalised misogyny early in their careers and stealing it as a way to remind themselves that they're awesome. I quite like that idea.

THERE ARE SO MANY OPTIONS AND THEY ALL MEAN LOVE, OMG.

Oh, I definitely don't think they'd be referring to "slapper", like, seriously: if it is that, it's definitely ironic/possibly even reclaiming. I just hate the word! And I actually don't think Gill or Julie would have been called it, unless one or both of them is SERIOUSLY putting work into hiding where she came from. It's a very, very class-filled word: it doesn't just mean hooker, it means CHEAP hooker. If anyone in the show has been called that, it's Rachel.

(Oh god two hours fifteen minutes to go...)

If anyone in the show has been called that, it's Rachel.

...

ILU.

KATIE I AM SO NERVOUS WHAT IF BAD THINGS HAPPEN AND THEN THEY DON'T ORDER A S5 WHAT WILL WE DO AAAA.

On 29 October 2014 12:42, soupytwist - DW Comment dw_null@dreamwidth.org wrote:

It seriously breaks my heart: it sums up everything in life that Rachel DOESN'T want to be, and I bet she has had that slung at her more than once. (I maybe want to hug her a lot, even though she'd hate it.)

K, WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF NO SEASON 5, IT WILL HAPPEN, IT MUST HAPPEN, OH GOD.

(...the ratings seem to be doing quite well? ITV seems to be considering it quite favourably? So I think chances are good. But oh god.)

I'm just imagining her response to the bloke who's got judgement bad enough to bust that out on her. I feel it would end Very Badly for him.

(aside: I have so much love for that scene at the beginning of last week's ep, where she and Gill are on the moor and Rach just owns coming up with all the immediate questions and Gill gives her that good girl! smile and UGH. melts)

I cannot about the idea of s5 like what if there is no more Gill and what if horrible things happen and what if everyone on the show needs hugs and we can't hug them because they're fictional characters and we're being frankly ridiculous, WHAT THEN

On 29 October 2014 13:11, soupytwist - DW Comment dwnull@dreamwidth.org wrote:

Ohhh yeah. That guy is going home with a bruised dick and a broken nose at the very least, yo.

(YES OH MY GOD RACHEL IS LEARNING AND GROWING AND GILL IS TOTALLY SECRETLY PROUD AND MY HEART)

THAT CANNOT HAPPEN K, IT JUST CANNOT. AND IF SOMEHOW IT DOES THEN I AM RETREATING INTO FANFIC AND NEVER LOOKING BACK AAAHHH.

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