could on one level be seen as the show endorsing "the reason you can't allow same sex marriage in church is that gay people and their friends can't be relied upon to behave themselves in church" which I don't think was what the writers were going for but which came over nonetheless
Hm. That hadn't occurred to me at all, which is interesting, because I think it possibly says something about the perspective of the show, which is very clergy-centric. From my point of view - as someone who does Adam's job - it obviously completely Adam's fault. I can see how it happened, but he messed it up and he was to blame: he was so busy panicking about how to extricate himself without either breaking the rules or appearing to be rejecting that he stopped actually listening to what they were saying - he encouraged them to 'bring lots of people', and the casual response to 'can we bring flowers' shows he wasn't actually thinking things through. The fact that he did the prayers off the back on an envelope is also significant here (note the Archdeacon's incredulity at that point). It was Adam's failure across the board - he wasn't clear about what he was going to do, he didn't stop to think about whether they'd understood what he was offering, and he didn't actually take enough time to think about how he was going to handle the service.
However: this does raise the question of whether, at times, the perspective of the writers is too close to that of the clergy for it to come over as they intend to a wider audience.
the Adoha scene with the bed was definitely getting into "too creepy to be funny" territory for my taste
Yes, I agree there.
(It was definitely Nigel, and I don't know why Adam hasn't worked this out - other than the fact that he was panicking, and isn't terribly sharp at the best of times).
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Date: 2014-04-04 10:48 am (UTC)Hm. That hadn't occurred to me at all, which is interesting, because I think it possibly says something about the perspective of the show, which is very clergy-centric. From my point of view - as someone who does Adam's job - it obviously completely Adam's fault. I can see how it happened, but he messed it up and he was to blame: he was so busy panicking about how to extricate himself without either breaking the rules or appearing to be rejecting that he stopped actually listening to what they were saying - he encouraged them to 'bring lots of people', and the casual response to 'can we bring flowers' shows he wasn't actually thinking things through. The fact that he did the prayers off the back on an envelope is also significant here (note the Archdeacon's incredulity at that point). It was Adam's failure across the board - he wasn't clear about what he was going to do, he didn't stop to think about whether they'd understood what he was offering, and he didn't actually take enough time to think about how he was going to handle the service.
However: this does raise the question of whether, at times, the perspective of the writers is too close to that of the clergy for it to come over as they intend to a wider audience.
the Adoha scene with the bed was definitely getting into "too creepy to be funny" territory for my taste
Yes, I agree there.
(It was definitely Nigel, and I don't know why Adam hasn't worked this out - other than the fact that he was panicking, and isn't terribly sharp at the best of times).