Spaced, series 3, Simon Pegg: an ending?
I was a Spaced virgin until last weekend. I sat amongst loyal Spaced fans at the NFT to watch both series 1 and 2 back to back. Only interrupted by quick loos breaks, snatched red wine, chip butty sandwiches; and a Q&A with most of the cast and director.
In the Q&A it was asked: OK, there’s no series 3 but where would the characters be now? Where would they have ended up…?
Don’t read further if you don’t want Simon Pegg’s view
Simon Pegg, co-writer and one of the lead characters (Tim) commented about where the characters may possibly have gone in the end. No series 3… but from his writer’s point of view he thought:
Mike Watt eventually moves out and joins Dexter somewhere in south London – just because his best mate Nick Frost has actually moved to south London is not necessarily a read through…
Brian Todd does one day end up back with Twist but his art is generally not a success during his lifetime. But when Brian dies he is recognised as a genius and his work sells for millions which it never did when he was alive.
One day… Daisy and Tim realise… and they have one of those moments… one of those fragments of time which makes your hair stand up on the back of your neck… a kiss… but a kiss that seems to end all screen kisses… bringing together a moment which should always have been… in the greatest kiss there ever was – a realisation that they were in love with each other. (I paraphrase, Simon said something like that though)
Simon said if the series had continued he would have liked to have given watchers a moment like that.
It reminds me of how William Goldman described the kiss between Buttercup and Wesley in the Princess Bride.
So for all you Spaced fans who might want to speculate on where the charcters end up this is one possibility…
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I'm a playwright and investment analyst. I have a broad range of interests: food, gardening, innovation & intellectual property, sustainability, architecture & design, writing and the arts. I sit on the board of Talawa Theatre Company and advise a CIS investment trust on socially responsible investments.
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Recent Work
Recent plays include, for theatre: Nakamitsu, Yellow Gentlemen, Lost in Peru, Lemon Love. For radio: Places in Between (R4), Patent Breaking Life Saving (WS).
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Nakamitsu
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Yellow Gentlemen
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