[spoilers] Harry and Ruth

[JHyde]

It's more likely to be NW and PF and the directors, rather than Kudos, as PF has said in interviews that the writers were kind of ignoring the chemistry this season, and they just ploughed ahead.

I just finished reading Harry's Diary (which I highly recommend, go and buy it from the Forum Shop!) and I love that he gave her Ovid for that last birthday she was on the Grid. He didn't say which Ovid, but I'm willing to bet she had every Ovid in both Latin and English translations anyway. But it was an old edition, and obviously special because Harry gave it to her. Classic (pardon the pun) given the tongue in cheek nature of the poetry, and yet the skilfulness of the verse and form, and most especially the irony that Ovid himself was exiled not long after writing Ars Amatoria.

Just quietly, Ovid was the main reason I studied Latin as long as I did, and I can see him being a big part of the attraction for Ruth too.