Even thought the show is said to only be on hiatus, I think that this episode would have made a fine final episode of the series. We see all the characters go through some kind of major growth.
The first thing one has to acknowledge is the shift in the format of the show this season. In the past it had been about a group of friends held together by Steve and Susan's relationship. However in this season the show became about three sets of couples.
First up there is Steve and Susan who have been together the longest and are having a baby together. They are still the backbone of the show because they are the old hats at relationships now and often the ones giving advice to the other characters. Next there is Patrick and Sally, the couple who has been dating for a while now, but still trying to work their way through the minefield of their relationship. And finally we have Jane and Oliver two people who are just beginning to date.
Now in this we see each of these relationships moving through to the next level. With Patrick and Sally we see them get through their petty fighting and get engaged. Jane and Oliver consummate their relationship on a physical level, but more we see that perhaps Jane is finally over Steve and ready to open her heart again to Oliver. But it's Steve who really gives this episode a feeling closure. For with the birth of his child we see a maturity in Steve that was never there before, we see that perhaps Steve really is ready for this. We even get closure on Jeff, in a weird and disturbing kind of way.
So while I would love to see more of this show, I think I would be okay with how they ended it here.moreless
Episode Summary
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Steve panics as Susan goes into labour, Patrick panics as Sally goes Incredible-Hulk-style mad after finding out he's slept with Jane, who is oblivious to all the tension and is having a blissful afternoon with Oliver.
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Samantha SpiroJeffina
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Sophie StantonMidwife
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Vaughan SivellAnaesthetist
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Kate Isitt
Sally Harper
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Gina Bellman
Jane Christie
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Jack Davenport
Steve Taylor
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Ben Miles
Patrick Maitland
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Sarah Alexander
Susan Walker
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Richard Mylan
Oliver Morris
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QUOTES (6)
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Oliver: Sex is Cancelled. Sorry, sex is off the menu. Sorry everyone, we were expecting a delivery about now, but we were let down. Sorry madam, can't fix your sex life today, don't have the parts... okay, forget that last one.
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Patrick: Sometimes a man is faced with the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do. And he only misses by one.
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(Steve gets pushed through the door. A man tries to help him up. The nurse comes out after him) Nurse: (To the other man) No, don't call security, he just asked his girlfriend a little question. Steve: Yeah, and I also asked if I could ask it two more times. Nurse: She said you can't. Steve: Yeah, trust me, the word wasn't can't!
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Patrick: I never make more than one sex tape of a woman. I'm not a pervert.
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Jane (about the clitoris): How difficult is front and centre?
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Susan: (screaming) Get me a f***ing epidural!!!
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Jack Davenport (Steve), Gina Bellman (Jane), Sarah Alexander (Susan), Kate Isitt (Sally) and Ben Miles (Patrick) appeared on every episode.
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This is the only episode of the series not to start out with any time of opening title sequence, but begin simply with the episode title.
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The characters of Susan and Steve are based on Steve and Sue.
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Susan and Steve's baby boy is named Joshua just like Steven Moffatt and Sue Verture's son.
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In the bedroom scene with Oliver and Jane you can clearly see a tattoo on Richard Mylan's left arm. It is Japanese, (Katakana, used to sound out foreign words) and says "Richi" - Richie. Apparantly, Richard Mylan's nickname.
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This episode was taped on March 31, 2004.
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ALLUSIONS (1)
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Jane: We were rubbish together, weren't we? Steve: Fatal Attraction meets Predator. Steve is referring to the two movies Fatal Attraction (1987), where a woman stalks a married man and stops at nothing to have him for herself, and Predator (also 1987), which is about a vicious alien hunting men on earth for sport.
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