As far as I'm concerned, that last episode did not happen.

I cannot f*cking believe the writers care that little about the fans and the characters.

Absolute rubbish - I reject all future Green Wing and shall NOT be watching any Christmas episode. They should be ashamed of themselves for doing that to us - two whole series down the pan with one episode

Hush now, it is only a comedy after all.

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Originally posted by Jim G:
Hush now, it is only a comedy after all.

take it back. now

I know it's silly to get so attached to a TV show but I just really object to writers/producers just not caring what the people who actually watch the show want.

And I know it's a comedy, that's the point - people shouldn't be getting married, having babies and certainly not dying in a show that was supposed to be all about being funny! I loved it when it was more like a sketch show with a bit of plot thrown in and now they've turned it into Eastenders! There were hardly any laughs at all in that whole episode!

Ah well, back to the real world I guess

I completely agree Kirche! i think the writers are complete g*ts for doing this to a really good tv series!

lol. just cause of the results doesn't mean they will kill mac. you just have to wait and see what they do.

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Originally posted by Izzubs:
I completely agree Kirche! i think the writers are complete g*ts for doing this to a really good tv series!

i strongly disagree with that. those very writers are the geniuses which have kept many of us hooked for nearly two years, and what they have done is called a cliffhanger. wait till christmas

HEAR HEAR, IG!

oo, that was a bit shouty.

It's not that they don't care! They're just continuing to be the writers that we love - slightly unpredictable & keeping us on our toes. Yay for GW!

Yes, lets write our own episode!

Mac: Caroline, will you marry me?
Car: Yes! Of course! And I won't stick my tongue down anyone elses throat
Mac: But you'll have to let me be a dad to Simba
Car: Of course, Sue and Simba can live with us like one big happy family

And they all lived happily ever after...

Yes, they have to leave us on tenterhooks to care about what happens at Christmas and to keep us guessing. Very clever, I think, to make us care so much.

I'm with Ickle Gem! It's exactly what has kept people watching. And it's sort of a big part of the series, the suspense and wondering what will happen next.

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I cannot f*cking believe the writers care that little about the fans and the characters.

I KNOW!!! it sucks!!

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Hush now, it is only a comedy after all.

if one more person says that i will scream!!

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And they all lived happily ever after...

LIVE being the most important part of that!!

There would be no GW without the writers. None of us would have had any of our favourite scenes, our favourite lines, our favourite characters. There would be no quote games, no mac-love, no shipping, no same-sex snogging, and Julian Rhind-Tutt would be just another jobbing actor.

Do please grow up.

Quite, Pash. Very well put. *And* they did the same 'cliffhanger' again, which made me insanely happy, for some reason.

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Originally posted by Hedgehog:
It's not that they don't care! They're just continuing to be the writers that we love - slightly unpredictable & keeping us on our toes. Yay for GW!

Yep indeedy. To have promoted this kind of reaction they are certainly not predictable. Bravo to them, if it had all been tied up neatly with a happy ending it would have been an anti-climax.

i found quite a lot of the scenes in that epiosode funny. When boyce was going in the kitchen! no in the kitchen. and the boxes and karen falling out the window and harriet wearing her whole wardrobe and loads more! Also sad wif mac dying, but i was quite happy wif car and guy

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Originally posted by Pashmina:
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Do please grow up.

This made me crack up.
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I feel like a scolded school kid & it wasn't even to me.

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Originally posted by roquentin:
Quite, Pash. Very well put. *And* they did the same 'cliffhanger' again, which made me insanely happy, for some reason.

not just the same cliffhanger, but they took the great care to get almost exactly the same shots, and even placed joanna in the same seat as mac to give the same overall visual appearance

and, should the writers be reading, and requiring inspiration for anymore potential scenes, we (i generalise in good faith) are not averse to more same-sex snogs

you haven't indulged the mac-guy relationship fully yet, for instance. that would make some women, naming no names, very happy indeed

I did hope that Martin might jump out and leave them to it. Shame.

I loved that they even had to swerve to avoid the sheep like last time!

Here, here.

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Originally posted by BiScUiTs:
I loved that they even had to swerve to avoid the sheep like last time!

and the way it had me (and i am sure many others!) shouting out "sheeeeep" before it actually happened

They do think of us after all..

I am not (completely) criticizing the writers as up to this episode Green Wing is brilliant, but for me it's not the fact that Caro ended up with Guy, it's the fact that they most likely killed off Mac. They want us to be pissed off. However, I think hope remains, even though Green wing is very surreal, tonight's episode was more then usually surreal, characters acting out of character, the whole scene with the same cliff hanger ending, Karen’s death etc, thus the idea of it all being a dream is for me quite believable. The fact that we are discussing it also proves that the writing is good. However, I still think it is a shit ending.