New Detectorists special

[Twilkes]

Yes maybe loopy wasn't the right word, but it definitely feels (in retrospect, that may even have been the way it was discovered while S2 was being written) that Sheila is in some kind of post-breakdown state and Terry is being hugely supportive but still slightly wistful for the woman he originally married, just based on some of the looks he gives her directly and some of the looks he gives when she or others aren't watching.

[Malcy]

GOOD GOD! I didn't know that either.

Neither did I until a couple of years ago.

[Wayman C. McCreery]

Yes maybe loopy wasn't the right word, but it definitely feels (in retrospect, that may even have been the way it was discovered while S2 was being written) that Sheila is in some kind of post-breakdown state and Terry is being hugely supportive but still slightly wistful for the woman he originally married.

I'd never considered that until now. If your interpretation is right (and who's to say if it is or isn't?) then that makes Mackenzie's writing of those two even better.

[Wayman C. McCreery]

So many of the set ups would never happen in real life but it doesn't mean to say they can't be done for comedic dramatic effect. The series has been like that from the start. If it was aiming for searing social realism I don't think for a single second Andy would have got the job in Africa on the strength of his non interview at the end of series 2. You could pick plot holes and unrealistic set ups in it all day long if you really wanted to.

Yeah, I understood some of the criticism of the special (I personally thought it was superb) but I thought any comments about it being a bit far-fetched were off the mark given some of the show's form for unrealistic moments: Terry surviving a bomb exploding with minor injuries, the farmer being arrested for murder because some dog bones were found on his land, Lance hearing horses before he decides to go back to the spot where he then finds gold, THE CURSE OF THE GOLD, gold coins falling from a bird's nest as Andy and Lance are walking past...

People didn't like the perfect conclusion to the third series being undone by the special (which, again, I get - though I was fine with it myself), but if anything what ended up happening was realistic - it made much more sense for Simon and Garfunkel to have been awarded the money for the gold than for DMDC to have been given it. It certainly wasn't a Fools and Horses-style reset. It's just that it hadn't ended quite as perfectly as we thought it had.

[jobotic]

It's Sophie Thompson isn't it? Sister of Emma Thompson.

I didn't know that either. She's great but looking at her credits I've never seen her in anything other than playing a shite character in Eastenders.

[Twilkes]

I didn't know that either. She's great but looking at her credits I've never seen her in anything other than playing a shite character in Eastenders.

She's done a lot of stage work, nominated for an Olivier six times.

[jobotic]

Yes I see. I wasn't meaning to be disparaging about her, I just don't go to the theatre.

[spicedgold]

I think I would've preferred if this special didn't exist, all in all

[mjwilson]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/31/metal-detectorist-tudor-gold-pendant-henry-viii-katherine-of-aragon-warwickshire

[holyzombiejesus]

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/31/metal-detectorist-tudor-gold-pendant-henry-viii-katherine-of-aragon-warwickshire

Cunt's spending the money on a private education for his kid. Hope he's cursed.

[Ferris]

Lance's TR7 up for sale:

https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction/lot/236-1977-triumph-tr7/?lot=13117

[Ferris]

The cast signed it haha

[Noodle Lizard]

Not a bad price, even.

[idunnosomename]

M&S bag for life in the boot lol

[Ferris]

M&S bag for life in the boot lol

I had a chuckle at that and all. Lovely stuff, couldn't even be arsed to move it when taking the photos.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Location: PICKERING

that's great though, presumably it'll fetch a bit more than that estimate?

[Armed Traffic Warden]

You know how every once in a while you suddenly realise something blindingly obvious as a great revelation?

 Well, lord knows why, as I don't believe I was thinking about the detectorists but it suddenly occurred to me that all of Andy's temp/agency jobs involve him walking around with something in his hand, focusing on the ground. It's so obviously a gag and I'm no doubt alone in not noticing but I thought I'd share my birth from the vagina of ignorance.

[shiftwork2]

That was done so subtly.  I like the implication that even Andy hadn't realised it.

[gilbertharding]

...all of Andy's temp/agency jobs involve him walking around with something in his hand, focusing on the ground...

I wish there was a way of posting this without sounding like I'm calling you a massive dimbo...

No, sorry. I suppose it is done quite subtly (like most of the jokes in this, it's undersold). I was sure someone mentioned it on one of the other Detectorist threads, but I can't find it. Actually, those threads are well worth a read, as it seems that it seemed to take a while for the *average opinion* on here to warm up.

[Ferris]

I'll put my hand up as someone who never connected the "Andy's temp jobs are just like detecting" gag.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

yeah me neither that's great

[Better Midlands]

I was sure someone mentioned it on one of the other Detectorist threads, but I can't find it.

I seem to remember someone mentioned the similarity when he was spraying the weedkiller by the road (the episode where he discovers the cottage?)

Edit: tempted to rewatch the xmas '22 special now.

[Emotional Support Peacock]

but yes I was very annoyed Simon And Garfunkel became the bad guys again as it was a lovely ending in series 3 with them all getting on.

I agree with this, I was annoyed too and get like the special somewhat spoilt a perfect ending in a few ways.