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I liked the way Louisa reacted when Martin joins her walking down the street--appropriately concerned about him, but not pushing on him for anything more (like a display of affection--even taking his arm) that invaded his space.
He is intensely private, and it seems affection in his world is best left to the home and other very private venues. That's why his taking her hand as they walked back from the concert was such a big deal, as it actually was out in public with other people around who could see it. (What a big step that was for him, and one of my all time favorite scenes.) Wow! I just realized that is why her breaking up with him a bit later really bothered me. He had just taken a giant step for him, additionally embracing and kissing in public under the trees without protest, and she still couldn't see past his words!
I know! He was such a guy in that scene! His I got this one expression as her took her hand, his responding in kind to LG’s passion, and then Martin’s version of wow! with “your very emotional Louisa”. If only he had stopped there we might have had another long kiss. No, he had to show off with his knowledge of hormones, which LG has an aversion to discussing, and ruin it! Although his eyes and voice were still very much in the moment. (Is LG ever going to get over her aversion of references to her period? He’s a doctor, he talks about female issues all the time with his female patients.)
Yes, certainly my most watched scene with the castle scene coming in second.
Now if I may leap ahead to S5, ep8, I just realized that at the end when Louisa is asking for him to say it again (she wants more words), he's already said it twice, and in that moment, he kisses her (action, not words) but then starts to give her the words, too, when rudely interrupted (as usual) by PC Penhale. Could that be a starting point of relationship resolution for S6? That Doc figures out he may need to use his words more, and Louisa figures out to take heed of his actions more?
Good thoughts, I hope so.
LG’s said “say it again” quick and light, no angst, but she needed to hear it again. For Doc - the look, the kiss, the words - a trifecta for Martin. Man, she was looking into his eyes so intently before Penhale’s stupid interruption, feeling the love.
From a more practical standpoint, I've walked that same street as Doc and Louisa did, and it is bloody awkward to be walking it holding on to someone as it is quite steep in its grade. On watching the scene again, I notice even the Doc's stiff-legged gait seems forced into a bit of spring in the knees due to the downhill slope. And while they are walking almost in sync, they really are still out of step with each other. (metaphorical to their situation?)
That heros walk was awkward on that tiny path with her supposedly holding a baby. I wish they had done a little better with that last bit. CC said she had a hard time in those shoes.
Okay, I'm getting way to serious and analytical this morning. On to tax preparation.:( [/QUOTE]
The newborn that we saw in S4E8 -- it really did look like a newborn to me. So my question is -- how did they do this? I can't believe anyone would allow their newborn to be filmed in this way. Did they take a really small baby -- two or three weeks old and make him look like a newborn? Still hard to believe anyone would allow this. And actually, if so,they must have had at last one double because there are clear limits to how long an infant can be under bright lights, I think.
So was this a bit of clever splicing from some other film? or a very, very realistic doll?
Are we rewatching s4e8 this week? It is the episode I watched Thurs nite on our public broadcasting channel. One of my favorites. You guys are training me to notice stuff - when DM visited LG at the school and the kids were making a mess with the glue and white stuff on their faces - L asked M to help with the kids and the 3 kids turned around with white beards and there was a shining star on the wall. Was that an echo back to EM joke /speech "the last time that happened there were 3 wise men and a shinning star"? Then Penhales strange comment "Who's the daddy?" Are we to doubt baby Glassons paternity?
- EM certainly did.
Are we rewatching s4e8 this week? It is the episode I watched Thurs nite on our public broadcasting channel. One of my favorites. You guys are training me to notice stuff - when DM visited LG at the school and the kids were making a mess with the glue and white stuff on their faces - L asked M to help with the kids and the 3 kids turned around with white beards and there was a shining star on the wall. Was that an echo back to EM joke /speech "the last time that happened there were 3 wise men and a shinning star"? Then Penhales strange comment "Who's the daddy?" Are we to doubt baby Glassons paternity?
- EM certainly did.
We're actually just finishing S5E1 but anything is fair game! I entirely missed the echo of EM's speech..... I agree that EM might have doubted the paternity, but I think Penhale was just making a bad joke, in his usual inept way.
Determined to get to grips with fatherhood he asks Louisa to move into his house so he can help to raise their child. He even suggests that Louisa and 'baby' could move to London with him. Louisa is none too sure about the move to London. Meanwhile, Aunt Joan's sister Ruth Ellingham turns up at Portwenn for Joan's funeral. Aunt Ruth is a doctor like Ellingham and his father Christopher "Chris", but is fully qualified, trained, and talented in medicines, psychology and phobias; she is a therapist and and psychiatrist. Aunt Ruth, Aunt Joan, and Ellingham's father Chris were all siblings. Ellingham turns Joan's funeral into a medical warning. Aunt Ruth has no intentions of staying until Martin reveals that Aunt Joan's farm is all Ruth's.
Then Penhales strange comment "Who's the daddy?" Are we to doubt baby Glassons paternity?
- EM certainly did.
That's one of those "jocular" things people say to people who've just had kids. Penhale's jokes don't get a good reception from DM cos he doesn't go in for social small talk or silliness.
Another example of JP's inept, or at least ponderous, sense of humour is his comment as LG & DM were going on their date to the concert: "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."
DM didn't understand & looked affronted. LG just responded: "We won't! With a laugh."
The newborn that we saw in S4E8 -- it really did look like a newborn to me. So my question is -- how did they do this? I can't believe anyone would allow their newborn to be filmed in this way. Did they take a really small baby -- two or three weeks old and make him look like a newborn? Still hard to believe anyone would allow this. And actually, if so,they must have had at last one double because there are clear limits to how long an infant can be under bright lights, I think.
So was this a bit of clever splicing from some other film? or a very, very realistic doll?
They only use the actual babies for a few seconds screen time, then they use a doll wrapped up if you don't see the face, in this ep I think.
They had heaps of people prepared to offer their babies for the show. I don't see how it could harm them and a bit of time out socialising for the mum. AND a chance to meet MC. I'd be in like a shot with my day old baby.
Hospital lighting is after all (at least here in Oz) blinding!!
They only use the actual babies for a few seconds screen time, then they use a doll wrapped up if you don't see the face, in this ep I think.
They had heaps of people prepared to offer their babies for the show. I don't see how it could harm them and a bit of time out socialising for the mum. AND a chance to meet MC. I'd be in like a shot with my day old baby.
Hospital lighting is after all (at least here in Oz) blinding!!
You must be right because the baby looks so real. But I still don't think I would bring a newborn onto a set. None of the other babies in S5 looked like newborns to me (in particular the one DM was carrying in E1).
So, the logistics of this are still a bit puzzling. Do you suppose they had a number of "heavily pregnant" women in reserve and arranged to shoot the last scene within a couple of days of one of them delivering?
Someone once suggested that Louisa was mouthing the words "don't drop him" when she handed off the baby to Martin. I don't see it myself, although her lips were definitely moving.
The newborn that we saw in S4E8 -- it really did look like a newborn to me. So my question is -- how did they do this? I can't believe anyone would allow their newborn to be filmed in this way. Did they take a really small baby -- two or three weeks old and make him look like a newborn? Still hard to believe anyone would allow this. And actually, if so,they must have had at last one double because there are clear limits to how long an infant can be under bright lights, I think.
So was this a bit of clever splicing from some other film? or a very, very realistic doll?
I'm sure the make-up people can quite handily simulate a newborn with a tiny young baby. Think "Call the Midwife" as another example.
On the subject of babies in the series, there was one that just looked so wrong and totally out of size with the others: S5 ep 6 the one in the carrier on the Doc's kitchen table as they discuss registering JH at St. Benedict's prep school.
I'm sure the make-up people can quite handily simulate a newborn with a tiny young baby. Think "Call the Midwife" as another example.
On the subject of babies in the series, there was one that just looked so wrong and totally out of size with the others: S5 ep 6 the one in the carrier on the Doc's kitchen table as they discuss registering JH at St. Benedict's prep school.
I've been noticing babies lately cos my neice just had one and it is very difficult to guess ages. Some look like new borns and they're 3 months old while others are HUGE and a few weeks old. They come in enough variations for PB to pick & choose I think, without getting real new borns.
I don't mind the variation on the show generally but the one DM was holding in the hospital was definitely too big!
Hello!! I am back after about 2 years and I think the Docmartinitis has hit again!!
Any news on the filming?
Hiya fable1. Happy to meet another afflicted one!
I think our S6 stuff starts on page 40 of this thread and there are links to the news articles we talked about at http://docmartinseries6.blogspot.com/ as well. So you can catch up with it either or both ways.
This has been discussed in bits and pieces already, but I'm going to pick Aunt Ruth to concentrate on. I liked Aunt Ruth from her very first line. She's a respectable, intelligent woman and her lines give a glimmer into a very witty woman.
First off: Just as Aunt Ruth is climbing out of her "Merc" DM is looking at her then he abruptly turns away and has a look -- I can’t figure out what he’s thinking? Is he not happy to see her? Or just perturbed that he has to communicate with yet another human.
Here are my fav's from AR
1. Condolences that sort of thing. Well you’ll have to, he won’t.
2. Sorry I’m no good at small talk. My upbringing gifted me with a chronic case of social awkwardness. Middle child syndrome, distant mother overbearing father and a succession of quasi-sexual encounters at a very young age. I either alienate or overshare, just like now in fact. (This conversation set the tone for us accepting Ruth. It gave us a look at her wit and her analytical skills. How funny that she was introducing her self with her psychiatric evaluation. LG was probably thinking oh boy another strange Ellingham. (good facial expressions from LG)
3. Ruth Ellingham: Psychiatrist (to Bert)
4. That Bloody Woman: and I only gave her slippers for Christmas.
5. To Al: Well it doesn’t look very difficult, I’m sure I can throw food around Just as well as anyone
6. If they leapt up out of the ground and cleaned themselves I might be tempted to cook them
7. I get simply furious if I don’t have my dinner on the table by six
So, the logistics of this are still a bit puzzling. Do you suppose they had a number of "heavily pregnant" women in reserve and arranged to shoot the last scene within a couple of days of one of them delivering?
This year they've advertised for babies that will be 2 - 6 months old in march. Remember they had 12 on standby last series. I imagine they'll do that again. They say babies and animals are very difficult to work with.
"Babies from the Westcountry are needed for the next series of ITV drama Doc Martin when filming starts again in Port Isaac this spring.
Production company Buffalo Productions is looking for babies born between October last year and January to play the part of grumpy Doc Martin's baby in series six of the drama set in the fictional Cornish fishing village of Port Wenn."
Some of them are really really cute. Was it Thomas that DM was reading to and who appeared in the promo photos? He was really cute and had a great smile.
This has been discussed in bits and pieces already, but I'm going to pick Aunt Ruth to concentrate on. I liked Aunt Ruth from her very first line. She's a respectable, intelligent woman and her lines give a glimmer into a very witty woman.
First off: Just as Aunt Ruth is climbing out of her "Merc" DM is looking at her then he abruptly turns away and has a look -- I can’t figure out what he’s thinking? Is he not happy to see her? Or just perturbed that he has to communicate with yet another human.
Here are my fav's from AR
1. Condolences that sort of thing. Well you’ll have to, he won’t.
2. Sorry I’m no good at small talk. My upbringing gifted me with a chronic case of social awkwardness. Middle child syndrome, distant mother overbearing father and a succession of quasi-sexual encounters at a very young age. I either alienate or overshare, just like now in fact. (This conversation set the tone for us accepting Ruth. It gave us a look at her wit and her analytical skills. How funny that she was introducing her self with her psychiatric evaluation. LG was probably thinking oh boy another strange Ellingham. (good facial expressions from LG)
3. Ruth Ellingham: Psychiatrist (to Bert)
4. That Bloody Woman: and I only gave her slippers for Christmas.
5. To Al: Well it doesn’t look very difficult, I’m sure I can throw food around Just as well as anyone
6. If they leapt up out of the ground and cleaned themselves I might be tempted to cook them
7. I get simply furious if I don’t have my dinner on the table by six
Very funny lines and awesome delivery.
I noticed after posting that these are most of her lines in the episode that's how good I feel they are.
I've been noticing babies lately cos my neice just had one and it is very difficult to guess ages. Some look like new borns and they're 3 months old while others are HUGE and a few weeks old. They come in enough variations for PB to pick & choose I think, without getting real new borns.
I don't mind the variation on the show generally but the one DM was holding in the hospital was definitely too big!
I also agree with you re the variation in babies. The call went out for S5 through the local midwife(s) for newborns I remember from a video. Video is on Series 5 blogspot from Hod.
And I do remember that the call for babies for S6 asked for "...babies born between October last year and January to play the part of grumpy Doc Martin's baby in series six..." Considering the filming started late March, the babies would be anywhere from 2-6 months old.
You know, it's interesting, but when she grabbed his hand at the funeral, when the actuality of AJ's death was really sinking in, one would think that even DM might respond positively to her very gentle affection. But, that's when he seemed to not want it and not welcome it. I think that's because he was irritated at the Potes arriving late. DM seems very single-minded with his emotions. If he is irritated at the Potes, he cannot welcome LG's affection. He's sometimes very black and white with his emotions; all or none at times. Notice how he packs off LG to walk the fully capable of walking alone Aunt Ruth to the church.
Yes, I hadn' t noticed but I see your point. Even Aunt Ruth got just a gIance when she arrived. Two birds, one stone so focus back on the road.
I also agree with you re the variation in babies. The call went out for S5 through the local midwife(s) for newborns I remember from a video. Video is on Series 5 blogspot from Hod.
And I do remember that the call for babies for S6 asked for "...babies born between October last year and January to play the part of grumpy Doc Martin's baby in series six..." Considering the filming started late March, the babies would be anywhere from 2-6 months old.
they probably did something similar then for the baby in the birth scene.
I wondered when I saw the 2-6 months old whether they were going to try to use the older looking babies for scenes that were supposed to be later in time in S6. And they're going to be filming for almost 4 months, and there is quite a difference between a 3 month old and a six month old and a 10 month old, so they can't be perfectly interchangeable The 6 months old be crawling in a couple of months, and there is a stage around 4-5 months old when many infants get quite leery of strangers. It will be quite a juggling act, perhaps even more complicated than S5, especially given that the scenes are not shot in consecutive order but sometimes, scenes from more than one episode are shot when they have access to the location.
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But, judging from the variation in S5, they really didn't pay too much attention to how old they looked -- except that the baby in the cot in the first night looked pretty young.
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Not sure. I'll ask her but in the past she's gone in May or June when the weather's likely to be better.
How's things, Hod?
I was there at about this time 2 years ago and although it was chilly it was nowhere near as cold as this. Brrr!
Yes, certainly my most watched scene with the castle scene coming in second.
Good thoughts, I hope so.
LG’s said “say it again” quick and light, no angst, but she needed to hear it again. For Doc - the look, the kiss, the words - a trifecta for Martin. Man, she was looking into his eyes so intently before Penhale’s stupid interruption, feeling the love.
That heros walk was awkward on that tiny path with her supposedly holding a baby. I wish they had done a little better with that last bit. CC said she had a hard time in those shoes.
Okay, I'm getting way to serious and analytical this morning. On to tax preparation.:(
Well, if you are afraid, then I'm terrified!!!!;)
I could go for a shower scene as in Dirty Tricks.
She: "I'll scream", he: "I hope so"
Any news on the filming?
So was this a bit of clever splicing from some other film? or a very, very realistic doll?
- EM certainly did.
We're actually just finishing S5E1 but anything is fair game! I entirely missed the echo of EM's speech..... I agree that EM might have doubted the paternity, but I think Penhale was just making a bad joke, in his usual inept way.
S5 e2: Dry your tears
Writer: Richard Stoneman
Director: Ben Bolt
Determined to get to grips with fatherhood he asks Louisa to move into his house so he can help to raise their child. He even suggests that Louisa and 'baby' could move to London with him. Louisa is none too sure about the move to London. Meanwhile, Aunt Joan's sister Ruth Ellingham turns up at Portwenn for Joan's funeral. Aunt Ruth is a doctor like Ellingham and his father Christopher "Chris", but is fully qualified, trained, and talented in medicines, psychology and phobias; she is a therapist and and psychiatrist. Aunt Ruth, Aunt Joan, and Ellingham's father Chris were all siblings. Ellingham turns Joan's funeral into a medical warning. Aunt Ruth has no intentions of staying until Martin reveals that Aunt Joan's farm is all Ruth's.
That's one of those "jocular" things people say to people who've just had kids. Penhale's jokes don't get a good reception from DM cos he doesn't go in for social small talk or silliness.
Another example of JP's inept, or at least ponderous, sense of humour is his comment as LG & DM were going on their date to the concert: "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."
DM didn't understand & looked affronted. LG just responded: "We won't! With a laugh."
They only use the actual babies for a few seconds screen time, then they use a doll wrapped up if you don't see the face, in this ep I think.
They had heaps of people prepared to offer their babies for the show. I don't see how it could harm them and a bit of time out socialising for the mum. AND a chance to meet MC. I'd be in like a shot with my day old baby.
Hospital lighting is after all (at least here in Oz) blinding!!
You must be right because the baby looks so real. But I still don't think I would bring a newborn onto a set. None of the other babies in S5 looked like newborns to me (in particular the one DM was carrying in E1).
So, the logistics of this are still a bit puzzling. Do you suppose they had a number of "heavily pregnant" women in reserve and arranged to shoot the last scene within a couple of days of one of them delivering?
Someone once suggested that Louisa was mouthing the words "don't drop him" when she handed off the baby to Martin. I don't see it myself, although her lips were definitely moving.
I'm sure the make-up people can quite handily simulate a newborn with a tiny young baby. Think "Call the Midwife" as another example.
On the subject of babies in the series, there was one that just looked so wrong and totally out of size with the others: S5 ep 6 the one in the carrier on the Doc's kitchen table as they discuss registering JH at St. Benedict's prep school.
I've been noticing babies lately cos my neice just had one and it is very difficult to guess ages. Some look like new borns and they're 3 months old while others are HUGE and a few weeks old. They come in enough variations for PB to pick & choose I think, without getting real new borns.
I don't mind the variation on the show generally but the one DM was holding in the hospital was definitely too big!
Hiya fable1. Happy to meet another afflicted one!
I think our S6 stuff starts on page 40 of this thread and there are links to the news articles we talked about at http://docmartinseries6.blogspot.com/ as well. So you can catch up with it either or both ways.
This has been discussed in bits and pieces already, but I'm going to pick Aunt Ruth to concentrate on. I liked Aunt Ruth from her very first line. She's a respectable, intelligent woman and her lines give a glimmer into a very witty woman.
First off: Just as Aunt Ruth is climbing out of her "Merc" DM is looking at her then he abruptly turns away and has a look -- I can’t figure out what he’s thinking? Is he not happy to see her? Or just perturbed that he has to communicate with yet another human.
Here are my fav's from AR
1. Condolences that sort of thing. Well you’ll have to, he won’t.
2. Sorry I’m no good at small talk. My upbringing gifted me with a chronic case of social awkwardness. Middle child syndrome, distant mother overbearing father and a succession of quasi-sexual encounters at a very young age. I either alienate or overshare, just like now in fact. (This conversation set the tone for us accepting Ruth. It gave us a look at her wit and her analytical skills. How funny that she was introducing her self with her psychiatric evaluation. LG was probably thinking oh boy another strange Ellingham. (good facial expressions from LG)
3. Ruth Ellingham: Psychiatrist (to Bert)
4. That Bloody Woman: and I only gave her slippers for Christmas.
5. To Al: Well it doesn’t look very difficult, I’m sure I can throw food around Just as well as anyone
6. If they leapt up out of the ground and cleaned themselves I might be tempted to cook them
7. I get simply furious if I don’t have my dinner on the table by six
Very funny lines and awesome delivery.
This year they've advertised for babies that will be 2 - 6 months old in march. Remember they had 12 on standby last series. I imagine they'll do that again. They say babies and animals are very difficult to work with.
"Babies from the Westcountry are needed for the next series of ITV drama Doc Martin when filming starts again in Port Isaac this spring.
Production company Buffalo Productions is looking for babies born between October last year and January to play the part of grumpy Doc Martin's baby in series six of the drama set in the fictional Cornish fishing village of Port Wenn."
Some of them are really really cute. Was it Thomas that DM was reading to and who appeared in the promo photos? He was really cute and had a great smile.
I noticed after posting that these are most of her lines in the episode that's how good I feel they are.
I also agree with you re the variation in babies. The call went out for S5 through the local midwife(s) for newborns I remember from a video. Video is on Series 5 blogspot from Hod.
And I do remember that the call for babies for S6 asked for "...babies born between October last year and January to play the part of grumpy Doc Martin's baby in series six..." Considering the filming started late March, the babies would be anywhere from 2-6 months old.
Yes, I hadn' t noticed but I see your point. Even Aunt Ruth got just a gIance when she arrived. Two birds, one stone so focus back on the road.
they probably did something similar then for the baby in the birth scene.
I wondered when I saw the 2-6 months old whether they were going to try to use the older looking babies for scenes that were supposed to be later in time in S6. And they're going to be filming for almost 4 months, and there is quite a difference between a 3 month old and a six month old and a 10 month old, so they can't be perfectly interchangeable The 6 months old be crawling in a couple of months, and there is a stage around 4-5 months old when many infants get quite leery of strangers. It will be quite a juggling act, perhaps even more complicated than S5, especially given that the scenes are not shot in consecutive order but sometimes, scenes from more than one episode are shot when they have access to the location.
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But, judging from the variation in S5, they really didn't pay too much attention to how old they looked -- except that the baby in the cot in the first night looked pretty young.