How would you even edit that out? If I recall correctly it puts the whole character of Sophie in a different, much more naive, light. It's one of the first times we actually get anything longer than a small transactional interaction from her and it deconstructs some of the character that has been built up from Mark's (imagined, infatuated) head.
I might be misremembering the early series though, it's been a while since I've watched it.
This is a bit of a tangent but the scene as a whole also shows one of the key differentiations between UK and US tv is that UK tv doesn't have the apparently uncontrollable need to make the central couple seem desirable (and restrict them to "oh so human" flaws which aren't really flaws). This is also very obviously evident to anyone who has seen The Office then tries to watch The Office (US) where the Tim and Lucy characters are warped into star-crossed lovers who are destined to end up together. The US programme can't help but have an every-man character for the audience to root for rather than a more pathetic self-sabotaging character who kneecaps their own career progression for the sake of pursuing a romance that hasn't actually progressed further than the confines of his head.
xnorswap|3 years ago
The swastika post-it?
How would you even edit that out? If I recall correctly it puts the whole character of Sophie in a different, much more naive, light. It's one of the first times we actually get anything longer than a small transactional interaction from her and it deconstructs some of the character that has been built up from Mark's (imagined, infatuated) head.
I might be misremembering the early series though, it's been a while since I've watched it.
This is a bit of a tangent but the scene as a whole also shows one of the key differentiations between UK and US tv is that UK tv doesn't have the apparently uncontrollable need to make the central couple seem desirable (and restrict them to "oh so human" flaws which aren't really flaws). This is also very obviously evident to anyone who has seen The Office then tries to watch The Office (US) where the Tim and Lucy characters are warped into star-crossed lovers who are destined to end up together. The US programme can't help but have an every-man character for the audience to root for rather than a more pathetic self-sabotaging character who kneecaps their own career progression for the sake of pursuing a romance that hasn't actually progressed further than the confines of his head.
pixxel|3 years ago
unknown|3 years ago
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