Aperchristmas
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I loved the show but agree with you completely on the age gap. Taggie came across as a particularly young 20 year old too which didn't help.
I’ve just looked at who’s playing Rupert Campbell-Black in Rivals and…
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honetpot
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I grew up in this period, at twenty I was married and had my own home. The way she is portrayed she is so niave, how could she be with her parents and her parents friends around her. Even the girls I knew that went to boarding school were pretty clued up about life, even if they had a very sheltered lived compared to living in an inner city council tower block.
RCB just seems an offensive s!agging machine, I know its supposed to be retro, I watched it with OH and half the amusement is wincing as the compleatly bad behavoir that was seen as acceptable in the past, but he has no charm, whereas the Danny Dyer charecter has it spades, so you sort of forgive him for cheating on basically unoffensive wife. The sex scenes were as exciting as Mad Nads over the hill lettuce, but perhaps more like real life, bordering on slapstick funny.
To update it perhaps RCB should be gay or bi, and his crush CC, would explain all the tension?
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Orangehorse
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I know three people who married husbands 20 years older, two were 18 and one 21. At a Pony Club rally the instructor asked the 18 year old what she was going to do with her horse and the answer was "I'm not, I'm getting married." The latter didn't stay married but the other two have.
I left school at 15, I did go to college, but at 18 we were running our local Young Farmers Club. One girl at school was married as soon as she left at 16 to a 23 year old and they went on to have about 6 children.
I also worked for a while at a hotel in the Cotswolds and all the female staff had to fend off the owner's younger brothers, some were less interested in fending them off and more interested into going out with them. One girl, college leaver and one of the chefs, had a long affair with the owner.
Did we grow up quicker then? I think we probably did.
I left school at 15, I did go to college, but at 18 we were running our local Young Farmers Club. One girl at school was married as soon as she left at 16 to a 23 year old and they went on to have about 6 children.
I also worked for a while at a hotel in the Cotswolds and all the female staff had to fend off the owner's younger brothers, some were less interested in fending them off and more interested into going out with them. One girl, college leaver and one of the chefs, had a long affair with the owner.
Did we grow up quicker then? I think we probably did.