Thoughts On Cully?
What are your thoughts on the character Cully?
shareI didn't find her a particularly interesting character, she was okay, but not outstanding. that episode where she has a reunion with her three old schoolfriends I found very strange - why hasn't she seen any of them for ten years? None of them seem to live fery far away, and she comes home frequently, so why hasn't she been in regular touch with them? It makes no sense,
shareI didn't like that episode simply due to Cully being so pushy about it all..but its not uncommon to not be in touch with friends that live close by. I have friends that live within 15 minutes of me I have not seen or talked to in years, and often think..one day I am going to catch up with them. I also recently got in touch with an old friend and found out he lives in the next suburb to me and has done so for 20 years, but not once have we run into each other. Things like that do happen.
shareWell, it doesn't seem very believable to me. if you really like someone, you keep in touch. At least by phone or email, even if you don't meet often.
shareIt's very believable. Adults tend to drift away from one another due to work and, if they are married a partner keeping one person from seeing his/her old friends. My ex made sure I never saw my friends, but insisted we socialize with hers. That is what happens when you have a controlling partner, but friends I considered dear once I have not seen over twice in 3 decades and we all still live in the same are. Life happens, and email is a fairly recent thing so we did not have it, and you play phone tag with people. People grow up and drift away
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but cully isn't marriedl, and these are supposed to have been her best friends at school. i don't find it at all believable that she would suddenly, after ten years, want a reunion wth three girls she'd never bothered to contact in the intervening time, when none of them live very far from her. emails have been around for a long time now, and the telephone even longer, and letter post even longer than that. for that matter, why couldn't she drop in on them? This is the very small county of Midsomer, not some vast American state. I just don't understand why anyone would bother to try and arrange a reunion with three girls she hadn't cared to see or speak to for ten years.
shareI have to agree with you. It seems strange that Cully would have absolutely no contact with her three best friends from school, and yet these three would be "as thick as thieves" with each other the entire time. That could explain the lukewarm response to the reunion. It would not have been a reunion for the other three, since they are in constant contact with each other. But here is another point. I would not do what Cully did even with people I see constantly. I would never make a reservation, and then tell my friends. Before I did that, I would contact them to pick a restaurant we all liked, and to make a date when we could all attend.
shareshe came across as someone who didn't really have any friends even in adult life. so clinging onto friends that she used to have even if they were once her tormentors could make sense that way
shareI thought the reunion episode was a little odd, in that Cully's ex-chums seemed closer to one another than any of them were to Cully. There was a passing reference to Cully having been bullied by at least one of them. Perhaps Cully had a rose-tinted view of her school days, while the others thought of her as the twerp they used to pick on, if they thought of her at all?
shareYeah I felt that too, I felt sorry for Cully in that episode. I kind of got the feeling they were all friends and Cully was the odd one out, even though she was the one pushing the reunion, it was like they couldn't be bothered with her.
I didn't get whey the fat girl was holding Cully under the water, I know they were having a laugh, but it seemed more sinister they way she was holding her under.
Joyce makes that very point when Cully mentions wanting to get together with her old friends. She said isn't that the girl (blonde one) who always mean to you? Then Cully goes on to say oh she was just playfully teasing me.
We really got to see the truth when the three almost drown Cully and after what the blonde said to her when she tried killing her. Cully was in lala land in that one.
cully was an idiot. they tried to drown her for fun and she still insisted they were friends and it was fine
shareI find it very believable to not see friends who live close by. People change and sometimes grow apart. I've been in a similar situation where I hadn't seen a friend in years. When I did finally get together with them, it wasn't the same, we had nothing in common, except our past.
shareBut Cully doesn't act like that, she acts like someone who's all enthusiasm for the reunion. If she felt that keen on them, you'd think she'd at least have phoned them, or emailed them or something over the years.
shareI thought that too as I've only just watched that ep for the first time. Also, is she a wannabe actress that constantly pops 'round her parents' house? Or is she just an annoying, ageless extra with speaking lines that just gets in the way? I veer towards the latter, her fat-tongue, non-lisp, and emotionless face make me miss dialogue sometimes as I'm stressing over what emotion she's supposed to be showing?
The angles that she is shot at don't help, but she and her mother should take a long cruise together, maybe 4 seasons worth?
I think a couple of things came out in this episode that help to explain why Cully's "reunion" went so sour. From things Joyce said when Cully was talking about planning the get-together, it seemed pretty obvious that Cully was NEVER really a friend to any of these people. They bullied her, Joyce indicated, but Cully has rose-tinted nostalgic glasses on and makes excuses. The fact that neither Joyce nor Tom had any really sharp memories of these friends of their daughter was another tip-off that Cully is trying to create a relationship where no real closeness ever existed beyond the way the three others sort of used her back in the day. (And the "playful" dunking scene at the picnic made it clear that not much had changed.) I have to say that I really wanted to shake some sense into Cully all through this episode - WHY did she persist in trying to be bosom buddies with these people who never had any real respect for her to begin with? For someone who attended Cambridge University, Cully can be awfully dense at times, and in this episode, she is like a piece of petrified wood!
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