By Slanted Light

I did, too! I think the characters and their relationhips in JJD are nearly all pretty unreal e.g. a judge facing a court which contained his lover, his ex-wife and his daughter?....pleeeease (Although I think the writing of the legal jousting and the development of the cases were very good).

But MS and Pickering....it was so real and intimate that at times I did actually feel like a voyeur watching them - jealous of them. Left out. And it's so refreshing to see Shaw in a part which, for a lot of the time, wasn't blustering, authoritative etc like so many of his other parts have been (not pros). It was his labour of love and to his credit it shows (again) how he doesn't shy away from playing characters with questionable sexualities.