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* NoAccountingForTaste: Having failed to get back in touch with Alan [[spoiler:and a subsequent boyfriend taking up with her sister]], Celia ended up being thoroughly miserable with her first husband Kenneth, with the two of them only ever speaking to each other if they had to. This had a knock-on effect on Caroline, who admitted that she grew up never knowing how to make a proper relationship happen. It seems that she and John were probably really good friends in the past, but when she tells her mum that she's "too old to pretend", this suggests that their relationship was always [[TheBeard a pretence]] for her on some level. While Caroline probably wasn't as unhappy as her mum was, it's interesting that they both ended up making what is essentially the same mistake.
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* NoAccountingForTaste: Having failed to get back in touch with Alan [[spoiler:and a subsequent boyfriend taking up with her sister]], Celia ended up being thoroughly miserable with her first husband Kenneth, with the two of them only ever speaking to each other if they had to. This had a knock-on effect on Caroline, who admitted that she grew up never knowing how to make a proper relationship happen. It seems that she and John were probably really good friends in the past, but when she tells her mum that she's "too old to pretend", this suggests that their relationship was always [[TheBeard a pretence]] pretence for her on some level. While Caroline probably wasn't as unhappy as her mum was, it's interesting that they both ended up making what is essentially the same mistake.
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Due to a failure in communication back in the 1950s, Alan Buttershaw (Creator/DerekJacobi) and Celia Dawson (Anne Reid) never got the chance to go on their first date. Over the decades, they meet and marry other people, have children, and are both widowed. They are reunited 50 years later when their respective grandsons add them on Facebook and they rekindle their relationship over email. The day they meet up again for the first time they decide to get married, much to the initial dismay of their daughters from their respective first marriages, Gillian (Creator/NicolaWalker) and Caroline (Sarah Lancashire).
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Due to a failure in communication back in the 1950s, Alan Buttershaw (Creator/DerekJacobi) and Celia Dawson (Anne Reid) never got the chance to go on their first date. Over the decades, they meet and marry other people, have children, and are both widowed. They are reunited 50 years later when their respective grandsons add them on Facebook and they [[DecemberDecemberRomance rekindle their relationship relationship]] over email. The day they meet up again for the first time they decide to get married, much to the initial dismay of their daughters from their respective first marriages, Gillian (Creator/NicolaWalker) and Caroline (Sarah Lancashire).
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* AllLesbiansWantKids: Kate wants a baby. At 42 and with four previous miscarriages, she doesn't want to waste any time. Caroline is more hesitant on the matter, thinking Kate will only end up being disappointed when it doesn't work out. The storyline does dabble some of this trope's hallmark cliches by having it at least partly focus on the sperm-quest and having Kate opt for insemination via sex, but it does try to rationalise it by having Kate say that that was what was most likely to work when compared with any artificial methods. However, once Kate gets pregnant with the help of her friend Greg, she doesn't feel any particular need to involve him any further. All of this ends in tragedy with Kate's death in Series 3, though the doctors are able to save her daughter, who Caroline names Flora.
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* AllLesbiansWantKids: Kate wants a baby. At 42 and with four previous miscarriages, she doesn't want to waste any time. Caroline is more hesitant on the matter, thinking Kate will only end up being disappointed when it doesn't work out. The storyline does dabble some of this trope's hallmark cliches clichés by having it at least partly focus on the sperm-quest and having Kate opt for insemination via sex, but it does try to rationalise it by having Kate say that that was what was most likely to work when compared with any artificial methods. However, once Kate gets pregnant with the help of her friend Greg, she doesn't feel any particular need to involve him any further. All of this ends in tragedy with Kate's death in Series 3, though the doctors are able to save her daughter, who Caroline names Flora.
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-->'''Caroline''': I'd like you, both of you, to meet... Kate.\\
'''Celia''': Is that her name?\\
'''Caroline''': No, she's called [[Literature/TheSneetchesAndOtherStories Zanzibar Buck Buck McFate]]. I just call her Kate for short, it's easier.
'''Celia''': Is that her name?\\
'''Caroline''': No, she's called [[Literature/TheSneetchesAndOtherStories Zanzibar Buck Buck McFate]]. I just call her Kate for short, it's easier.
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-->'''Caroline''': She's called Kate [=McKenzie=]. She's nice, she's kind, she's thoughtful, she's-\\
'''Celia''': Is she Scottish?\\
'''Caroline''': No, she's Nigerian. (''{{Beat}}'') No, I mean she is Nigerian, that wasn't me being sarcastic.
'''Celia''': Is she Scottish?\\
'''Caroline''': No, she's Nigerian. (''{{Beat}}'') No, I mean she is Nigerian, that wasn't me being sarcastic.
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-->'''Gillian''': He is a very erudite man.\\
'''Paul''': So am I.\\
'''Gillian''': Yeah, you don't know what it means.\\
'''Paul''': Yeah, but if I did, I would be.\\
'''Gillian''': Yeah, good point, Paul. Can't argue with that.
'''Paul''': So am I.\\
'''Gillian''': Yeah, you don't know what it means.\\
'''Paul''': Yeah, but if I did, I would be.\\
'''Gillian''': Yeah, good point, Paul. Can't argue with that.
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Due to a failure in communication back in the 1950s, widowers Alan Buttershaw (Creator/DerekJacobi) and Celia Dawson (Anne Reid) never got the chance to go on their first date. They are reunited 50 years later when their respective grandsons add them on Facebook and they rekindle their relationship over email. The day they meet up again for the first time they decide to get married, much to the initial dismay of their daughters from their respective first marriages, Gillian (Creator/NicolaWalker) and Caroline (Sarah Lancashire).
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Due to a failure in communication back in the 1950s, widowers Alan Buttershaw (Creator/DerekJacobi) and Celia Dawson (Anne Reid) never got the chance to go on their first date.date. Over the decades, they meet and marry other people, have children, and are both widowed. They are reunited 50 years later when their respective grandsons add them on Facebook and they rekindle their relationship over email. The day they meet up again for the first time they decide to get married, much to the initial dismay of their daughters from their respective first marriages, Gillian (Creator/NicolaWalker) and Caroline (Sarah Lancashire).
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* NoBisexuals / AmbiguouslyBi: John is horrified when he finds out that Caroline has been seeing Kate because he thinks it means that Caroline must have been faking it every time she had sex with him. It doesn't cross his mind that wife might be bisexual and simply met someone new after he left her. To be honest though, the evidence does seem to suggest that Caroline is gay - her dig at John's manuscript may be indirect, but it's as close as she gets to attaching a label to herself. If either of them is bi, it's probably Kate, given that she has had previous relationships with men, such as Greg, her friend from university. She also never says exactly why her marriage to Richard fell apart. It could just as easily been from the strain of her pregnancy troubles as it could have been a consequence of her coming out as gay later in life.
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* NoBisexuals / AmbiguouslyBi: NoBisexuals:
** John is horrified when he finds out that Caroline has been seeing Kate because he thinks it means that Caroline must have been faking it every time she had sex with him. It doesn't cross his mind that wife might be bisexual and simply met someone new after he left her. To be honest though, the evidence does seem to suggest that Caroline is gay - her dig at John's manuscript may be indirect, but it's as close as she gets to attaching a label to herself.If either There are however indications of them is bi, it's probably Kate, Kate being AmbiguouslyBi, given that she has had previous relationships with men, such as Greg, her friend from university. She also never says exactly why her marriage to Richard fell apart. It could just as easily been from the strain of her pregnancy troubles as it could have been a consequence of her coming out as gay later in life.
** John is horrified when he finds out that Caroline has been seeing Kate because he thinks it means that Caroline must have been faking it every time she had sex with him. It doesn't cross his mind that wife might be bisexual and simply met someone new after he left her. To be honest though, the evidence does seem to suggest that Caroline is gay - her dig at John's manuscript may be indirect, but it's as close as she gets to attaching a label to herself.
