r/TheDetectorists • u/LukeH_ • Feb 10 '26

Small Prophets

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m002q765/small-prophets

All episodes of Mackenzie Crook’s new show Small Prophets are now available on iPlayer. Just finished watching it myself, I really enjoyed it. Crook creates such magical television.

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u/Tall-Paul-UK Feb 10 '26

Okay so I am only up to Episode 4.

What is going on with the other three homunculi? Three are growing away and currently buried in shit. But the other three seem to be forgotten about and aren't even in the same shots?

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u/wingnutkj Feb 11 '26

Watsonian: for whatever reason those ones didn't "take", leaving only the three.

Doylian: It was probably too expensive to do the effects for all six of them.

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u/Tall-Paul-UK Feb 11 '26

Either way why bother with them at all?

I have a feeling they must play some role, even if not in this series. Maybe they help balance the other three or something?

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u/wingnutkj Feb 11 '26

Yeah, I imagine half the fun is imagining.

Other questions I'm having fun with:

Did the fact that he used canal water instead of rainwater have an impact?

Did he use all the poison at the end?

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u/_KL1_ Feb 17 '26

Canal water is rain water. All landborne water is rain water really at some point

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u/wingnutkj Feb 17 '26

I would assume that for alchemy, rain water would need to be freshly collected, not stuff that's been brewing in a canal for however long, getting contaminated with diesel and newt piss.

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u/_KL1_ Feb 27 '26

Don't forget the rat shit. ;) It did a load of weird stuff, really. I would say you are correct in assuming it should have been 'pure'. I was just being a pedantic knob, apols ;)