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“Gordon?”

The Happiness Patrol - season 25 - 1988

"Gordon Bennett" is an English-language idiomatic phrase used to express surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, or frustration. [Wikipedia]

Also: A mild expletive favoured by Ace.

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Ann: I just ended a three year relationship.

Ryan: Are you okay?

Ann: Yeah, it wasn't my relationship

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Ryan: It's funny how you can just eat and eat and nothing can fill up that big empty hole inside you.

Hsin: [mouth full] I'm trying

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Boyd: Listen, I’m gonna need you to calm down.

Ryan, banging his fists on the table: But how can it be birthday cake flavored if a birthday cake can be any flavor?

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I've just finished ICOS and I'm not even kidding when I tell you it broke me completely, sobbing at 3am and all that. Thank you so much for writing the series and breaking my heart. Buuut there's this one thing I've been wondering: How did Ryan survive the lung disease for so long? I also read Rainbow and the verdict was he had about 18 months left and well, Ryan's still very much alive by 2027. It's totally okay if you don't wanna answer. Happy an awesome day :D

I’m glad you liked it! ahaha sorry to make you cry lol

I’m trying to remember, honestly... originally, “Sonny” wanted to kill Ryan off sometime after Evenfall but I was like NOOOOOO T_T TOO SAD PLZ 2 NOT??? and since the main reason “he” wanted to do it was because “he” was kind of bored of Ryan’s character, it was easier to let him grow as a person/character than to kill him off. I was stoked! So then things were reworked a bit to let him live. I have vague memories of some sort of medication he used that ended up having better recovery rates than expected? Maybe we said that because he was at the Agency they had access to more experimental medication and it actually worked for him?

Sadly I genuinely don’t remember what the story was we went with. But honestly that’s one of those cases where it was sort of going to go one direction, then got shifted a different direction, and the reason for why things ended up being okay is probably not as hardcore strong a reason as it would’ve been if things had been planned that way from the start. I imagine his prognosis would’ve been less dire if planned from the beginning, but then again, I don’t think it was planned from the start he’d die, either. The ramping up of his illness being super duper awful was probably in part because “Sonny” was getting kind of tired of writing him, so in a way it’s fair that the dismal ending was rolled back and he remained sickly for some time but not as terminally ill.

You know, now I’m also mixing all these various plans together in my mind. Did Ryan ever go to Europe for a few months? That was a plan at one time, too. He was going to go to Euro Agency or maybe just Europe and kind of tool around, and he was going to find an older guy he’d get with. I think he was going to genuinely like that guy. He was going to do this because he thought he had limited time to live, and he was tired of feeling controlled and cooped up in his life, so I think he wanted a moment of spontaneity, of doing something super different and unexpected and just for him. But then whatever procedure or whatever worked better than expected and suddenly he had a new lease on life. And then he was going to come back at some point. Did we ever do that?? I don’t think we did. Or maybe that’s what Rainbow was? But I’m pretty sure Rainbow was set in US Agency. Maybe we did imply he did this a few months off screen? UGH now I’ve forgotten everything important. It doesn’t help that the series is so Boyd and Hsin focused. There was a lot that happened off page that the two MC’s didn’t really notice or care about because they were constantly in the middle of dramatic things, themselves, so it was understandable they were more internally focused but then now I forget what we did have happen in the background or what was just an idea at some point that never went to fruition.

Either way, the good news is you can imagine Ryan being around for years and years to come :) And you can imagine your favorite reasons for this - he got some experimental procedure, or some experimental drug, or he spent some short time off screen in Europe for some reason and found something super useful there that helped him out, or....

;)

Sorry the answer isn’t better! :( Good question though :)

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The skyline was broken by a cluster of high-rise buildings that served as a stark contrast to the crumbling skyscrapers that had been devastated by the war. The city had never quite recovered from the bombs that had destroyed the entire eastern and southeastern section of the city's suburbs and wiped out entire neighborhoods within the city boundaries. Although the economy had been decimated by the third world war and the companies and stores that hadn't been lost still struggled to survive, drug manufacturers continued to make a profit. With the diseases that followed the war like a plague, people became desperate for everything from prescription drugs that could make them forget, to miracle drugs that could cure the illnesses wasting away their loved ones. While most people could hardly afford a roof over their head, drug companies had enough money to spend on sprawling compounds and private security guards to protect their assets.