Post by Leanne on Aug 3, 2013 14:18:00 GMT 1
I figure we could have a thread for reference and discussion.
Mickey mentions his childhood a few times throughout the show. He tends to talk about things that imply it wasn't very good at all.
In "Two way burn" he starts off telling Kate he's an only child (something later contradicted after his mum dies although Tim Key said on twitter that Mickey is indeed an only child.) and that his parents own a caravan. To me it's implied his parents live together. Although later after one of the daughters has died as a result of arson and it comes out the parents were negligent and they were on the at-risk register, the following exchange takes place:
Mickey: My parents were exactly like the Meyers. Never had two pennies to rub together, always leaving me on me own. Absolutely anything could've happened. And then when they'd hit rock bottom, when they were properly in the gutter, there's always idiots around like Pattison, trying to give them an helping hand.
Kate: So use that experience, use that anger you have and channel it into positive energy. Make it work for you.
Mickey: What?
Kate: Look, what we go through in childhood, makes us what we are. So you have to be positive about it.
Regarding the caravan, I think Mickey didn't want to delve into the past, he doesn't appear to have much to do with his parents at this point and is obviously carrying a lot of anger with him in the earlier series. I think it stems from his upbringing and the things he experienced and witnessed. I think after this case and the things Kate tells him, he does take them aboard because in "Britianniamania" he shares a story about how his dad abused his mum. I haven't watched the episode in a while so I'm unsure if his dad abused Mickey too.
There's also one of the Christmas episodes where he again explodes in a fit of anger and talks about his childhood Christmases:
Mickey: Do me a favour yeah? Shut up about all this Christmas crap you're doing my head in! I'm sure you always had a lovely time with your family at Christmas but some of us used to dread that poxy tree going up every single year. Do you know alls it meant to me was me old man hitting me mother, me mother hitting me old man and poor little old me on all fours behind the sofa begging 'em to stop fighting. Happy bloody Christmas ey?
Mickey mentions his childhood a few times throughout the show. He tends to talk about things that imply it wasn't very good at all.
In "Two way burn" he starts off telling Kate he's an only child (something later contradicted after his mum dies although Tim Key said on twitter that Mickey is indeed an only child.) and that his parents own a caravan. To me it's implied his parents live together. Although later after one of the daughters has died as a result of arson and it comes out the parents were negligent and they were on the at-risk register, the following exchange takes place:
Mickey: My parents were exactly like the Meyers. Never had two pennies to rub together, always leaving me on me own. Absolutely anything could've happened. And then when they'd hit rock bottom, when they were properly in the gutter, there's always idiots around like Pattison, trying to give them an helping hand.
Kate: So use that experience, use that anger you have and channel it into positive energy. Make it work for you.
Mickey: What?
Kate: Look, what we go through in childhood, makes us what we are. So you have to be positive about it.
Regarding the caravan, I think Mickey didn't want to delve into the past, he doesn't appear to have much to do with his parents at this point and is obviously carrying a lot of anger with him in the earlier series. I think it stems from his upbringing and the things he experienced and witnessed. I think after this case and the things Kate tells him, he does take them aboard because in "Britianniamania" he shares a story about how his dad abused his mum. I haven't watched the episode in a while so I'm unsure if his dad abused Mickey too.
There's also one of the Christmas episodes where he again explodes in a fit of anger and talks about his childhood Christmases:
Mickey: Do me a favour yeah? Shut up about all this Christmas crap you're doing my head in! I'm sure you always had a lovely time with your family at Christmas but some of us used to dread that poxy tree going up every single year. Do you know alls it meant to me was me old man hitting me mother, me mother hitting me old man and poor little old me on all fours behind the sofa begging 'em to stop fighting. Happy bloody Christmas ey?
