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[spastic-thoughts1991]

CTM Anticipation

I am both gleefully excited about the CTM finale and absolutely dreading it at the same time. Once it airs, that's it... We'll have to suffer an agonizingly long wait until we get a new episode. Tell me fellow CTM obsessees, how are you going to deal with the CTM absence after the roller coaster series six that we've received?

[the-original-rockbird]

I hate to be a party pooper but oh my goodness what a difference. When are they going to halt Shelagh's transformation into fussing PITA?

CtM Parallels | Turners on beaches

S06 E00 Christmas Special - South Africa

S09 E00 Christmas Special - Outer Hebrides

[iprocrastinatefartoomuch]

Thank you CTM costume designers!

I know this is slightly irrelevant, but thank you for dressing Shelagh as a lady in her 30′s (or early 40′s) instead as the matronly lady she is not. I really want her bathing suit now, she had on a lovely nightgown and had on a pretty blue and white dress when she went into town. Season 5 was just been a succession of ugly dresses. 

Now they just have to give her a storyline in the new season where she and Patrick work on a medical case or she solves a case herself. She is so experienced and yet she is always relegated to a supporting role (not that that is bad). 

[viitavirginia]

best response I could have hoped for. faith fully restored, bring on season six!

[toomuchsomethingsnotenoughothers]

CTM response

Ok so I really enjoyed tonight’s episode but there was definitely a few improvements to be made

• although Trixie’s AA meeting was good for furthering the plot I feel like her feminist view was needed in regards to the pill • Sister Mary Cynthia’s view on the pill would also have been interesting • There should have been a scene with Delia persuading Patsy to go to Gateways even if only a few minutes • There were too many fems in gateways, not a butch in sight and I’m pretty sure that wouldn’t be the case • An hour is too short to get in all the storylines as well as a baby of the week therefore Pupcake should get a spinoff 😃👍

• also I still hate Tom

[teampatsy]

To celebrate/mourn the fact that we are halfway through series 5, I just really really wanted to make a video. It’s a sort of recap/compressed version of their storyline this series so far....I know it's not the best, but I was just itching to make something!

[smileslikeareptile]

Wait, that was a happy ending.

I felt like I was being kicked in the gut, but that was a happy ending.

[spastic-thoughts1991]

Love it!

[viitavirginia]

The lesbians are alive, you say? ヽ( ͡͡ ° ͜ ʖ ͡ °)⊃━☆ﾟ. * ･ ｡ﾟ time to write some fanfiction

THEY’RE STILL ALIVE THEY’RE HAPPY THEY’RE GOING TO PARIS I’VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY

[viitavirginia]

LET US REJOICE, FOR THE LESBIANS ARE STILL ALIVE

[viitavirginia]

I TAKE IT ALL BACK I LOVE MRS BUSBY

[viitavirginia]

if you'll excuse me i'm off to drown in my own tears

[viitavirginia]

have they gone into qu**rbaiting with pupcake/gateways? Delia and Patsy are obviously in a romantic (and probably sexual relationship, so I'm unsure how that term applies, but I might just be missing something!

I’ve cooled off a bit since blurting out that rant, but the way I see it is in the comparison to Tom and Barbara. We have known there was a Gateways scene for a while now (I can’t remember when Kate’s interview* was released, but it was near the start of the season). Because of this and the promise of a kiss it’s been one of the most anticipated moments of the season, and we’re all very glad to have had it, but the fact that all we really got was a hand hold and twenty seconds just feels like a joke - perhaps I’m just being too pessimistic here, but we were led in to thinking it was going to be a huge, anticipated scene, when in reality it was placed briefly at the end after five or six kisses from the heterosexual couple. It’s a huge, huge let-down after what we all expected.

You’re certainly correct in saying that it isn’t queerbaiting in the sense of a relationship - they’re most definitely together, and we’ve had some wonderful moments - it’s just tonight’s episode that people are fed up with after such a build up, especially with the sheer amount of Tom and Barbara we’ve had (who have been together less than a season).

*Just wanted to add here that I in no way, shape, or form blame Kate for the potential of the kiss scene being cut, nor the shortness of the Gateways scene! She’s a wonderful woman who’s doing an excellent job, as is Emerald, and I very much hope people aren’t blaming them for things going off the expected course

[viitavirginia]

sorry for the amount of text posts im shoving in the tag tonight BUT I put up one earlier saying I was worried the woman in the cafe was someone who had caught on to Patsy and Delia and I've been informed there's like an 80% chance it's Ruby Cottingham from an earlier episode so I think we're in the clear don't listen to my speculation until I've had a good two hours to think about it

[viitavirginia]

please don't get me wrong over ranting im still very happy we got the scenes we did i just don't want to have to keep quiet and put up with that kind of imbalance when it's becoming fairly obvious that we're beginning to fall in to queer baiting, whether it's deliberate or not

[viitavirginia]

my white, middle class, conservative-voting mother who doesn’t like the idea of same sex marriage on the grounds of it being "traditionally incorrect" believes there’s something wrong with having so much of tom and barbara as oppose to the tiny amount of patsy and delia.

if that doesn’t say everything, i don’t know what will.