Before we had the pic though we had onlookers saying the scene involved Nomi protecting a child…
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I’ve just scrolled back, and I can’t see you making any Instagram reference, so I apologise for that. I do feel like I’ve read it somewhere today, though.
I disagree with the idea - expressed in the press and interviews etc - that the character is some kind of talisman for our times. She’s part of this country’s elite and the idea that she’s troubled in any continuous, profound way rings rather hollow when you compare it to the issues that so many others are going through.
One newspaper make a similiar point here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/apr/20/fleabag-posh-girl-television
Regarding the humour, it seems to want to shock all the time - and she has said in interviews how much she loves to do that. Such tags as ‘sitcom’ suggest there will be laughs on a reasonably regular basis, but it’s nowhere near, for example, Only Fools and Horses. I would say Fleabag is drama, but there’s not much of that either. To me, at least, it’s just cold and empty.
Anyway, we’re obviously not going to agree or even get on here. So let’s just shake hands and walk away. After all, we’re both big Bond fans and, if we met, we’d probably have a whale of a time talking about that.
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Fleabag is undoubtably upper-middle class angst. But it has to be judged as that and there’s no point whatsoever in using criteria that it’s not trying to fulfil as a measure.
Only Fools and Horses is imo perhaps the finest ‘sitcom’ ever made (i use inverted commas because at times it’s incredibly moving and is far more than a ‘sitcom’). It’s creator and writer, the late John Sullivan was beyond genius. Should we say that OFAH is lacking because it only talks about the working classes?
We should no more do that than we should dismiss Fleabag because of it’s character’s class. Judge it on how well it does what it sets out to do – by my estimate it does that really bloody well.
Edit: I really should proof read before posting! Had to add the ‘not’ (in bold), or otherwise I’d be arguing with myself (and not for the first time).
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Interesting point, thank you for making it.
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Sorry Odd, I’m a Rising Damp man myself… 
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Blackadder all the way!
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Quite right. Accusing a sitcom of being poor because it doesn’t address everyone in society isn’t a valid complaint in my opinion, and is rather bizarre because you can literally apply that same complaint to every single piece of comedy and drama made. It’s meaningless.
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I love that show! Definitely my third favourite, after Only Fools and One Foot in the Grave.
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It failed as a documentary for me, too.
Only Fools and One Foot in the Grave.
Neither of these say anything about Rwandan genocide; utterly hopeless, frankly.
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Lethal Weapon 3.My 3rd favorite soundtrack after Goldfinger and Shaft
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‘Probably Me’ is a great track. Pity the movie didn’t live up to it. The second one had the perfect balance of grit and humour, but the 3rd was a comedy.
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No confirmation.
Confirmation or teasing? They seem like people who would do the latter with glee.
It just seems to prove they both have worked together. On a Bond song? Maybe.
Seems like the train of thought the team hope we’ll be having in the audience: “Oh my, Bond is dead! Look, Maddy’s really sad that Bond is dead… Oh good, Bond was alive all along…”
Maybe it’s the YOLT (novel) ending in which Bond is missing, presumed dead; the reader knows that he’s in fact an amnesiac fisherman on his way to Moscow.
Then again, why would the actress be so distressed off camera (one assumes from the pic) if she knows Bond is actually alive? I know, ‘Acting!’ But still…
It certainly throws the cat among the pigeons as an filmgoer going in blind: Will they really dare (be so foolish) to kill Bond?
But then again, unless you’re at the royal premiere the chances of going in blind are mighty slim these days, unless you go off the grid until you’re in the theatre’s pullman. Bond’s Dead will be plastered across the internet immediately embargo or not!
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A duet just screams to me that neither were considered good enough/popular enough to go it alone.
Given the director is on screen, its blatantly not for filming. She could even have been just frustrated after messing up a stunt a few times.
DWasn’t implying that pic was part of the film - I did say off camera; I’m dumb, but not that dumb 
Yes. That’s what it is. Sting and Jack White were considered not good enough for a job once held by Paul McCartney and The Wings followed by Lu Lu.