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Surprised Stuart was genuine!

posted 13 years ago by somalicats
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Was anyone else expecting to find out that Stuart was a fraud only after Money? I enjoyed this drama but was waiting for a twist which never came.

[–] ekmi 13 years ago

I felt the same way. Maybe it was supposed to be 6 episodes overall but they overran the budget or something else might have happened, so after filming the first 3 episodes they were forced to end the story in 1 episode instead of 3, so they cut out loads of things.

[–] somalicats 13 years ago

Yes that is exactly what it felt like, it was like they built the story up with loads of possibilities and then ended it really quickly :(

[–] NorthernGooner 13 years ago

I was expecting there to be something about him but made her chosing Dave over him even better when he was a normal nice guy

[–] eviltwit73 13 years ago

choosing Stuart over Dave(i.e. the man who raised her)in the first place - but, i think it's understandable - pretty real, altogether, i thought

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[–] yogibear-3 13 years ago

It was always intended to be four episodes, but it is interesting how it was written. The writer Mick Ford came up with the idea and started writing four years ago, and started working on the first episode and trying unsuccessfully to get it commissioned. Last year he started talking to the BBC and that's when he started working on episode 2. Then very suddenly early this year David Tennant read the script and said he wanted to play Dave, which got it instantly greenlit. But because of DT's schedule it had to start shooting in five weeks, and Ford only had those two scripts and hadn't even planned the whole series out. So he literally only had a few weeks to figure out how the storylines would develop and end and write the final two episodes, as well as them having to find a director, crew, cast, locations and everything. So ep1 is the result of four years of work and polishing, ep2 one year, and eps3 and 4 written within weeks.

[–] somalicats 13 years ago

Ah this does explain how the end felt, thank you yogibear. I still enjoyed it though! :)

[–] Damaduende 11 years ago

I thought it was a realistic ending. Most of the time people are just ordinary people, not gold diggers, or frauds. Seeing as this is a story of ordinary people, turning out Stuart as something like that would have give a twist to the story that wasnt suppose to have.
My two cents at least :)

Of course, bananas are far more interesting.

[–] lamont-hard 11 years ago

I did not understand his part at all, nor did I get how he and his wife never talked about him considering he may have been the teens father. How can this be.

[–] Chavera 10 years ago

I really really loved the suspiciousness of Dave when he and Stuart first met. When Stuart told him about meeting Rita frequently, and he suddently had to suspect that Rita was unfaithful all along, and maybe all his children might be from Stuart ... Dave's glaring eyes, his tension, trembling and swallowing - wow there is acting!

So I felt fine with having Stuart in the end be an innocent man.

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