tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post8134017358328341609..comments2024-02-28T17:50:10.303+00:00Comments on LUCID FRENZY JUNIOR: ICONS OF OUR TIME: THE LION OF WALMINGTON-ON-SEAGavin Burrowshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-61297772400260621882010-09-21T22:05:26.260+01:002010-09-21T22:05:26.260+01:00Indeed to much talking of MJ, his last 15 years we...Indeed to much talking of MJ, his last 15 years were about doing some dumb things, trying to became white.....that its the most stupid thing someone can do.Cialis Onlinehttp://www.softcialis.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-20808529415693903692009-06-29T17:21:04.556+01:002009-06-29T17:21:04.556+01:00Might that be Swisstone himself, disguised as Anon...Might that be Swisstone himself, disguised as Anonymous?<br /><br />Not quite so sure over the final comments about Wilson, but can find nothing to argue about with the rest of it. Isn't there an episode where they all have to turn up for some ceremony in their military (not Home Guard) uniforms and Frazer in particular crows that Mainwaring will have no medals to wear. (He outfoxes them by turning up in his bank manager's suit.)<br /><br />He also seems to bundle up all such real or imagined bars to him, and consider they will be burnt away with the heat of War. After the dust is settled all of Wilson's "public school nonsense" will be done away with and a man seen for what he is. That was probably quite a common sentiment during the War, despite the paradox that a natural conservative should be a virtual Attlee-ite.<br /><br />Anyway, point-of-posting was just the apparent paradox that giving the character some dignity makes his pratfalls funnier.Gavin Burrowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347163260510316959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202625234167413814.post-77936623494494968322009-06-29T16:52:19.094+01:002009-06-29T16:52:19.094+01:00I don't think his grabbing the captaincy of th...I don't think his grabbing the captaincy of the Walmington LDV is just about local status, though that's part of it. What defines Mainwaring, in my view, is that, for all his patriotism, he never saw active service in WWI. According to backstory written by Perry and Croft, he tried to join up in 1914, but was refused on medical grounds. He finally forced his way into the army, only to have the Armisitice end the war just before he got to France. This gives him a definite chip on his shoulder when dealing with some other members of the platoon. Wilson, Frazer and Jones all saw active service, and even Godfrey has decorations for service as an ambulance driver. It's why he is so contemptuous towards Walker, who he sees as squirming out of his duty when Mainwaring wasn't allowed to do his, and why he's initially disgusted at the conscientious objector Godfrey. And Wilson at least is quite happy to needle Mainwaring about this when it suits him. However, Wilson never reveals until the final episode that he too had reached the rank of Captain in WWI - it's perhaps a bit much to read anything into a bit of retconning that Perry and Croft probably hadn't thought of when they wrote the first episode, but I like to think Wilson did this not to spare Mainwaring's feelings, but because if Mainwaring knew, he'd feel compelled to step down from command of the platoon in favour of Wilson, giving Wilson the one thing he doesn't want, responsibility. (Arthur Wilson, equal parts public school snob and traitor to his class, is another fascinatingly complex character.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com