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Post by dem bones on Feb 19, 2013 19:03:47 GMT
I agree with you completely, especially the showdown. I was sadistically looking forward to Goodnight being pushed into a cell ahead of half a dozen local coppers out for revenge, which would have made more sense than everyone standing by like a load of ninnies while he fought a duel! Even for the 1890s that was a bit far fetched. Other than that an outstanding episode. There really is no way the Pinkerton fellow would have made it out of that police wagon in one piece. And JoJo has a point about the Detective Inspector's progressive approach to policing Dodge City Leman Street. Reid is all bitter and twisted that he's yet to nail Jack the Ripper but he blithely turns a blind eye to the mass murdering tendencies of his good-time pathologist? I think what's made it such compulsive viewing is that each successive episode has been both the best and worst of series. Am so looking forward to Sunday's finale, though it would be the end of the world if there were no season 2 to look forward to.
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Post by andydecker on Feb 19, 2013 21:54:56 GMT
I really can't wait to watch this Seems it hit a nerve. Today I got the last season of Lewis in the mail. This I will truly miss.
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Post by Dr Strange on Feb 20, 2013 13:33:57 GMT
I agree with you completely, especially the showdown. I was sadistically looking forward to Goodnight being pushed into a cell ahead of half a dozen local coppers out for revenge, which would have made more sense than everyone standing by like a load of ninnies while he fought a duel! Even for the 1890s that was a bit far fetched. Other than that an outstanding episode. There really is no way the Pinkerton fellow would have made it out of that police wagon in one piece. And JoJo has a point about the Detective Inspector's progressive approach to policing Dodge City Leman Street. Reid is all bitter and twisted that he's yet to nail Jack the Ripper but he blithely turning a blind eye to the mass murdering tendencies of his good-time pathologist? I think what's made it such compulsive viewing is that each successive episode has been both the best and worst of series. Am so looking forward to Sunday's finale, though it would be the end of the world if there were no season 2 to look forward to. Totally agree - I thought last week's episode was one of the best, despite stretching credibility even further than usual. It would have made so much more sense for the bad guy to have a nasty fall down the stairs in the nick, given the regular beatings in the cells in previous episodes anyway. The writers were laying on the 'Wild West' theme pretty thick though, so maybe they just decided to go all the way and have a showdown in the street to top it all off. The set-up for the final episode was brilliant though.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 25, 2013 10:29:52 GMT
Ripper Street, series finale, What Use Our Work. Capt. Jackson is in the cells at Leman Street, fitted up as the Ripper by the late Frank Goodnight. H Division know he's innocent, but Chief Inspector Fred Abberline doesn't care, just so long as he can swing somebody for the Whitechapel murders and win back public support. Sergeant Drake isn't much bothered either. The way he sees it, it's Jackson's fault the Pinkerton's turned up in London, so he's far from blameless in young Hobbs' murder. For once in his life, Drake walks out on Reid, takes the unpaid hours owed him and spends the afternoon in The Bear before taking a detour to the Bordello to share ... a tender moment with one of the girls.
Meanwhile Drake's unrequited love, Rose Erskine, who's turned her back on her profession, swapped the brothel fot Mrs. Reid's mission, is in above her head yet again. Her innocent ad in the lonely hearts column of The Star yields a lovey dovey response from Victor Silver, wealthy, dashingly handsome cattle-importer - and white slaver. A drop of rohypnol in her fruit juice, and Rose is spirited away to the plush home he shares with glam sister Clarissa and scary brother Barnaby, ready for export to Argentina in a coffin. Silver, Reid's number one Ripper suspect, was supposedly drowned when The Pride Of Wapping sank on the Thames, the same tragedy that may or may not have claimed his daughter. Strangely enough, the Silvers are grooming a little girl for a role in their organisation. It couldn't be, could it? With Long Susan's blessing, the bordello girls (they're all very nice) team up with H Division to flush Silver from his lair. A situation arises where Reid desperately needs his pathologist's expertise. He knows better than anyone that Jackson is slippery as a rattler: dare he risk removing his handcuffs?
Any more would amount to the most rotten spoiler, and I don't want to ruin it for Andy, who has a treat/ torment in store when the DVD hits the shops!
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Post by franklinmarsh on Feb 25, 2013 11:51:07 GMT
What with this and Utopia finishing I'm bereft of telly now. Good reason why the cowboy wasn't giving a good duffing last week, and some nice footage of Kew Gardens which made a green interlude from the oppressive Brown of Whitechapel.
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Post by David A. Riley on Feb 25, 2013 12:21:47 GMT
What with this and Utopia finishing I'm bereft of telly now. Good reason why the cowboy wasn't giving a good duffing last week, and some nice footage of Kew Gardens which made a green interlude from the oppressive Brown of Whitechapel. There's still Being Human. Not seen any before, but I have ordered the first 4 series of Fringe from Lovefilm. Watched the first two episodes, which are more than promising. Like a grittier X-Files.
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Post by andydecker on Feb 25, 2013 12:42:02 GMT
Any more would amount to the most rotten spoiler, and I don't want to ruin it for Andy, who has a treat/ torment in store when the DVD hits the shops! Thanks. I see this is avaiable in 4 weeks. Hm. I will see. Nowadays some series are so fast done internationally. The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones are broadcast a week after the original. Even Dr.Who managed to get up to the christmas special. I see " Copper" is being shown soon, which covers the same period, only in New York. And is a straight crime show. Let's see which bordello is nicer realised, as both feature ones. Fringe I never could get into. Just watched season 1. According to a lot of people it gets better with season 2, but I thought most of season 1 very unremarkable if not downright boring. Technically it is done better then the X-Files though, nothing of the "I have been aboard a UFO and still don't believe it" crap which made the latter episodes so cringingly dumb.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Feb 25, 2013 16:33:26 GMT
Fringe I never could get into. Just watched season 1. According to a lot of people it gets better with season 2, but I thought most of season 1 very unremarkable if not downright boring. Technically it is done better then the X-Files though, nothing of the "I have been aboard a UFO and still don't believe it" crap which made the latter episodes so cringingly dumb. I'm definitely in the " Fringe gets much better in the second season" camp. In fact, it's probably my favorite television program of the past five years. It took the producers a while to figure out what did and didn't work, but from Season 2 on it uses heavily serialized, and complicated, storytelling to great effect. If you make it to the end of Season 1 you'll get to the point where they realized what the show was really going to be about.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 25, 2013 20:03:47 GMT
The last episode of RIPPER STREET introduced me to Ruta Gedmintas, a rather striking actress. I cannot be alone in finding her so.
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Post by DemonSpawn on Feb 26, 2013 2:10:28 GMT
There really isn't much on now, which is a shame. When the BBC does horror or horror-related things, it very often does do them rather well.
(I choose to overlook the appalling mess that was "The Fades")
Did very much enjoy "Utopia", though. A really rather wonderful show.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 26, 2013 14:44:14 GMT
The last episode of RIPPER STREET introduced me to Ruta Gedmintas, a rather striking actress. I cannot be alone in finding her so. You're not. Might have to give The Borgias a once over. I was almost as taken with the episode title. It's too late in the day to change it now, but What Use Our Work? would make for a more appropriate name for this forum than stupid 'Vault Of Evil.' But then , so would anything. Was wondering about where exactly they shot Ripper Street, so thank you Neela Debnath of the The Independent who recently confirmed that "it is filmed in Ireland, most notably in Kilmainham Gaol with its Panopticon building and a car park outside Dublin Castle," which certainly explains how comes Leman Street looks so classy all of a sudden. Did very much enjoy "Utopia", though. A really rather wonderful show. Utopia looked like it was going to be great, but I missed the second episode, and it didn't seem the type of show you could keep up with if you'd skipped an hour. Maybe they'll repeat it.
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Post by DemonSpawn on Feb 26, 2013 16:34:35 GMT
Did very much enjoy "Utopia", though. A really rather wonderful show. Utopia looked like it was going to be great, but I missed the second episode, and it didn't seem the type of show you could keep up with if you'd skipped an hour. Maybe they'll repeat it. Yeah. As you forgot to watch/record the second episode I doubt it would have been very easy to follow the story. Worth catching up with at some point if you can, though.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 26, 2013 18:05:38 GMT
You're not. Might have to give The Borgias a once over. It seems she was in PROWL (2010), which, sadly, I have to admit I have seen, and in which, sadly, she made no particular impression on me. I think she needs to be dressed like a Victorian lady for the full effect. I want the background story arc of the entire second season of RIPPER STREET to be about her coming back to get her revenge. Please sign my petition.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 28, 2013 18:52:28 GMT
You're not. Might have to give The Borgias a once over. It seems she was in PROWL (2010), which, sadly, I have to admit I have seen, and in which, sadly, she made no particular impression on me. I think she needs to be dressed like a Victorian lady for the full effect. I want the background story arc of the entire second season of RIPPER STREET to be about her coming back to get her revenge. Please sign my petition. I'm in. Barnaby, her man mountain of a brother, didn't get much opportunity to shine before they both got nicked, so perhaps Clarissa could begin by springing him from prison/ the lunatic asylum. Now that we know the writers are prepared to kill off a cast regular when needs be, I don't hold out much hope of Emily Reid and Miss Goran at the Jewish Orphanage both surviving series 2. My attempted screen grabs all came out rubbish, so will have to settle for this promo photo of the lovely Ruta/ 'Clarissa Silver' with equally scary brothers.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Feb 28, 2013 19:41:02 GMT
Here is one I made. It shows her at her most mischievous, in the midst of detailing her crimes. Oh, she is diabolical!
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