What with Clara constantly welling up and a Harry Potter-style realisation that they couldn't all live, I nearly felt myself going a few times – and that despite not understanding about half of what happened.
Having roomed with Michael Carrick at West Ham – there are still email exchanges between the England midfielder, the Englishman abroad and their former team-mate and ex-Hull forward Richard Garcia – realisation dawned early that his own playing career would be limited.
The episode's tone word—"joyous"—was influenced by Davies' realisation that "every story since 'The Fires of Pompeii' [had] a bittersweet quality" and his subsequent desire to avoid the recurring theme.
Years later, in 1991, Gillian gave a bravura performance in Bill's realisation of Mikhail Bulgakov's Black Snow at the National Theatre.
The best bits are undoubtedly Burns learning his way around a supermarket and Lisa's realisation of what Burns has been up to".
Its transcriptions for the Moog synthesiser caught the ear of maverick pianist and music writer, Glenn Gould, who declared: "Carlos's realisation of the 'Fourth Brandenburg Concerto' is, to put it bluntly, the finest performance of any of the Brandenburgs... I've ever heard".
When Miss Kenton confesses to her lost hopes of a life with Stevens, his realisation of his own wasted past is as understated yet shocking as if he had smashed the best china.
The best comes at the end, with Yip's realisation of the monsoon as a sculptured space in which Khan can physically lose himself before climbing the rain to an imagined dimension in which the cycles of fate and the weather (which in Bangladesh are effectively the same thing) are revealed to him.
Produced after hours of studio multi-tracking and overdubbing, Warren considers the final score an "amazing achievement" and praises Scott's realisation of a soundtrack incorporating the "experimental" electronic brand of music.
Benjamin Britten's realisation, prepared in 1948, is one such attempt.
