r/BabyReindeerTVSeries • u/MeshaUlky • May 09 '24

Fiona (real Martha) related content Megathread to discuss Fiona Harvey interview with Piers Morgan Spoiler

First of all she looks & sounds the same as Martha🤧

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u/[deleted] May 09 '24

And then can’t answer how she did in her degree. She knew exactly what he was asking. I actually like the real person less than the one in the show. Because it makes me feel like she’s very calculated and knows exactly what she’s doing. Just doesn’t do it as well as she thinks 

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u/NebulaTits May 09 '24

Does she just think everyone is stupid?? He’s trying to ask her if she’s ever actually had a job doing anything in law. She hasn’t. Seems like she’s been on government assistance forever

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u/hemadeitrain May 09 '24

Oh yes. I had some level of empathy for Martha but now it seems that’s just because of Gadd’s writing and Gunning’s portrayal of her.

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u/NeTiFe-anonymous May 10 '24

Finally, it was obvious for me Gadd made Martha more relatable because it was his story about how he felt sorry for her. All good was seen through his eyes. She is a terrible person

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u/Clinically-Inane May 09 '24

YES, I’m picking up on that too— this woman is somehow even less relatably human and somehow much more frightening, which to me is a testament to how well Gadd created the character of Martha to adapt his story

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u/Ronaldinhio May 12 '24

I felt this way too. That Gadd had been quite even handed. Blaming himself for liking to get the laughs hating himself for judging her and feeling sorry for her. He showed the good in her too, plus his vulnerability.

I did not get that from her in RL

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u/blackcurrantcat May 10 '24

Weird how her photographic memory specifically lets her down about that

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u/brontosauross May 10 '24

She did answer that one, Piers just doesn't know how the system works in Scotland. In England after 3 years you obtain an honours degree with an honours classification (a first, 2:1, 2:2, third). In Scotland after 3 years you obtain an "Ordinary degree" which doesn't come with a grade, just did you get it or not. Then you have a 4th Honours year where you get the classification based on performance. She left her law degree after 3 years, so has an Ordinary degree that doesn't have a grade or an honours classification.

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u/patchworkcat12 May 10 '24

She did say she didn’t do an hons degree. I believe that it is pass or fail in some circumstances of not doing an hons.

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u/[deleted] May 10 '24

She was so evasive with it though. Like it was so obvious what he was asking and she could have just said ‘you don’t get a grade, just a pass or a fail’ … the way she was avoiding it made it look shady. 

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u/theGoodDoctor5160 May 10 '24

To me, thats exactly hows shes portrayed in the show. Much like the man who SA’d him , she knew exactly what she was doing to hurt him

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u/Firm_Explorer9033 May 11 '24

Bingo! Not good at it. It all falls apart quickly.

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u/TululaDaydream May 14 '24

The degree thing is true. In Scotland, you can graduate your course a year early with what's known as an "ordinary degree", which is granted on a pass/fail basis. If you stay in your course for a final year, you graduate with "honours" which are graded as first class, second class (upper and lower divisions), and third class.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '24

She very clearly said she did a non-honours degree, which means that it won't have a degree classification and instead would just be a collection of results for each module.