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whathoMy parents have been watching Auf Wiedersehen, Pet again of an evening for the first time in a fair old while, which means I've been watching it too. I love Auf Wiedersehen, Pet quite a lot. I remember seeing it the first time when I was about three or four. It's about the only thing I remember from the early eighties that isn't in primary colours. I used to think you weren't allowed to be simultaneously fannish about Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Boys from the Blackstuff, which is odd because they both came out of the same end of the political spectrum and all, but somehow I got it into my head that you had be on either Alan Bleasdale's team or Clement and La Frenais' team, and I was on the latter. Actually I think it was a football thing. Newcastle vs Liverpool and 'Oz is harder than Yosser' etc. I hate football.
None of that was very to the point. The point was that when I was three I didn't really get slash quite as profoundly as I did when I was, say, nine, so over the past few years I've been trying extra-hard to slash everybody in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet with pretty much everybody else. But it's surprisingly tricky. Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is nearly the slashiest thing ever invented, and that was Clement and La Frenais, but Pet is somehow less so. That's not the point either. The point is Bomber/Wayne. This works for the following reasons:
- Bomber is enormous and powerful and Wayne is minute and spiky. It's a very pretty pairing.
- In series 1, Bomber sews a button onto Wayne's shirt and it might be the loveliest thing that the world ever did. Wayne found it incomprehensible that Bomber would know how to sew on a button and asked him how this magical talent came to settle on him and Bomber just said 'I know how to do lots of things', or words to that effect.
- Bomber hates that Wayne has quite a lot of sex with women. Mostly Bomber has no patience with Wayne at all and it's actually massively hypocritical because Bomber's nothing if not unfaithful. But it does lead to his picking Wayne up and carrying him bodily out of the pub, rather like he's a barbell, because Wayne's talking to their boss's wife. He doesn't mind when Oz does the same later on in the episode. Bomber doesn't really love Oz.
I can't think of anything else, but I think I've enough to be getting on with. I'm slightly sad that Bomber never calls Wayne 'Dear'. He calls other people dear sometimes, but not Wayne. Also he talks about himself in the third person quite a lot.
In series three you get to play with Bill Nighy.
None of that was very to the point. The point was that when I was three I didn't really get slash quite as profoundly as I did when I was, say, nine, so over the past few years I've been trying extra-hard to slash everybody in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet with pretty much everybody else. But it's surprisingly tricky. Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is nearly the slashiest thing ever invented, and that was Clement and La Frenais, but Pet is somehow less so. That's not the point either. The point is Bomber/Wayne. This works for the following reasons:
- Bomber is enormous and powerful and Wayne is minute and spiky. It's a very pretty pairing.
- In series 1, Bomber sews a button onto Wayne's shirt and it might be the loveliest thing that the world ever did. Wayne found it incomprehensible that Bomber would know how to sew on a button and asked him how this magical talent came to settle on him and Bomber just said 'I know how to do lots of things', or words to that effect.
- Bomber hates that Wayne has quite a lot of sex with women. Mostly Bomber has no patience with Wayne at all and it's actually massively hypocritical because Bomber's nothing if not unfaithful. But it does lead to his picking Wayne up and carrying him bodily out of the pub, rather like he's a barbell, because Wayne's talking to their boss's wife. He doesn't mind when Oz does the same later on in the episode. Bomber doesn't really love Oz.
I can't think of anything else, but I think I've enough to be getting on with. I'm slightly sad that Bomber never calls Wayne 'Dear'. He calls other people dear sometimes, but not Wayne. Also he talks about himself in the third person quite a lot.
In series three you get to play with Bill Nighy.
