Oh, this is going to be hard, picking favourites. I suppose for favourites it would be Mabel, Teddy and Rose (I love any scene with Teddy and Rose in).
I agree with PoloPonies about Myrtle - it's not that I don't like her, it's that she didn't have much of a part. You were never sure whether she was an old flame of Alf's or something more (I'm inclined to think they did have an affair, but maybe I'm wrong). She was just brought in as a means to break off the relationship with Mrs. Lipton.
But the ones I don't like are Poppy (she's so spoilt and spiteful, and I can't work out how it happened because Lord Meldrum isn't a very interactive father - he sort of sits back and looks on but does nothing), and also Lady Agatha. The reason I say her is because of the final episode. After all the years George has been having an affair with her, when he loses his money and is prepared to cast away all his social comforts to be with her (to be thrown out of his club and to know they'd never be able to go out and about respectably), she rejects him and says she wants to be with Ralph but you know she's only changed her mind about George because he's impoverished.
And I bet she then went off to find yet another man to have an affair with.
"If we go on like this, you're going to turn into an Alsatian again."
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retrogal83
17 years ago
Yes - when Lord Meldrum started to cry when Lady Agatha left him, it was a real moment of tenderness.
I felt so sorry for him - for all his faults, he really did love her.
***GET TO FECK!***
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smck_82uk
17 years ago
faves
Upstairs - Cissy (Just such a strong character, the first lesbian in a mainstream sitcom at the time I believe, Catherine plays her beautifully she is just so layered and multi dimensional)
Downstairs - Had to really think about this but it just has to be Mabel I mean where would the kitchen jokes be without Mabels "That'll be nice" the kitchen scenes without Mabel present were duller than the dishwater she constantly had her hands in (fave Mabel scene is when she begs James to give her her wages in advance so she wasn't evicted, she suddenly become more than just one liner cracking Mabel it really broke your heart)
Last faves
Upstairs - Poppy (I found this hard to do as I love her as a character and actress + think the show would be VERY dull without her bitchiness but just as a character she is so repulsive and the way she treats Ivy is pure nastiness at its height i.e the scene where she pours the red wine over her ballgown, again I love Poppy as a character for entertainment value but as a character in her own right she is just pure spoilt nastiness
Downstairs - Mrs Lipton (I just find everything about her character irritating and bullyish from the way she treats Mabel and Henry to her high and mighty attitude over "her" kitchen to the way she blindlessly adores freeloading Constable Wilson. Again I dont think the show woul dbe the same without her but Blanche Lipton just bugs the hell out of me as does her accent.
They think we're the demons now - Prue Halliwell ~ All Hell Breaks Loose ~ Charmed
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