Shetland...

[Skyedriver]

Last episode tonight TF.

[Skyedriver]

Keep singing that song by The Drifters and the one by Level 42





(Like Sister & Brother and Running in the family for those not music orientated)

Edited by Skyedriver on Thursday 7th December 12:39

[Mezzanine]

Storyline was definitely unrewarding for this series.

Whoever that boss character guy is needs to go, really frustrating character and completely unbelievable.

[jules_s]

Skyedriver said:

Keep singing that song by The Drifters and the one by Level 42

(Like Sister & Brother and Running in the family for those not music orientated)

Edited by Skyedriver on Thursday 7th December 12:39

Well I sort of expected that - pretty unpleasant subject matter after the viewing time involved

[boyse7en]

Well I really enjoyed it

Plenty of plots that sometimes went nowhere, which is probably far more realistic than the usual linear format many police shows follow.

One thing bugging me though....
What was the song Ruth played on the cassette at the very end. 1990s indie band

[anonymoususer]

boyse7en said:

Well I really enjoyed it

Plenty of plots that sometimes went nowhere, which is probably far more realistic than the usual linear format many police shows follow.

One thing bugging me though....
What was the song Ruth played on the cassette at the very end. 1990s indie band

Star Sign by Teenage Fanclub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLIE9NmviSQ&ab...

[boyse7en]

anonymoususer said:

boyse7en said:

Well I really enjoyed it

Plenty of plots that sometimes went nowhere, which is probably far more realistic than the usual linear format many police shows follow.

One thing bugging me though....
What was the song Ruth played on the cassette at the very end. 1990s indie band

Star Sign by Teenage Fanclub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLIE9NmviSQ&ab...

Oh thank you! I said the missus it sounded like teenage fanclub, but I haven't heard anything by them for 30-odd years! She'd never heard of them at all, so was no help.

[anonymoususer]

boyse7en said:

Oh thank you! I said the missus it sounded like teenage fanclub, but I haven't heard anything by them for 30-odd years! She'd never heard of them at all, so was no help.

I was pretty surprised to read they are still going and have a dozen albums behind them
Best wishes

[jinkster]

We enjoyed it too. Personally I thought Granny would have had more to do with it being a big star (Downton Abbey) and obviously having a bigger pay cheque!

[Deerfoot]

I enjoyed it overall, by no means a classic but watchable.

Realised eventually that the Bain cleaning lady was played by Lorraine McIntosh of Deacon Blue fame.

[matchmaker]

Mezzanine said:

Storyline was definitely unrewarding for this series.

Whoever that boss character guy is needs to go, really frustrating character and completely unbelievable.

The fiscal? Having worked in the Scottish courts*, I can say for certain that there is no way on earth that a fiscal would interfere in an active police investigation to that extent.

• Including Lerwick!

[Escort3500]

matchmaker said:

Mezzanine said:

Storyline was definitely unrewarding for this series.

Whoever that boss character guy is needs to go, really frustrating character and completely unbelievable.

The fiscal? Having worked in the Scottish courts*, I can say for certain that there is no way on earth that a fiscal would interfere in an active police investigation to that extent.

• Including Lerwick!

Don’t you mean Lerrick?

[matchmaker]

Escort3500 said:

matchmaker said:

Mezzanine said:

Storyline was definitely unrewarding for this series.

Whoever that boss character guy is needs to go, really frustrating character and completely unbelievable.

The fiscal? Having worked in the Scottish courts*, I can say for certain that there is no way on earth that a fiscal would interfere in an active police investigation to that extent.

• Including Lerwick!

Don’t you mean Lerrick?

Funnily enough, I've heard it pronounced both ways by Shetlanders! The name comes from Old Norse "Leir Vik" meaning "Muddy Bay".

[Escort3500]

matchmaker said:

Escort3500 said:

matchmaker said:

Mezzanine said:

Storyline was definitely unrewarding for this series.

Whoever that boss character guy is needs to go, really frustrating character and completely unbelievable.

The fiscal? Having worked in the Scottish courts*, I can say for certain that there is no way on earth that a fiscal would interfere in an active police investigation to that extent.

• Including Lerwick!

Don’t you mean Lerrick?

Funnily enough, I've heard it pronounced both ways by Shetlanders! The name comes from Old Norse "Leir Vik" meaning "Muddy Bay".

Yes, I also heard it pronounced both ways when I visited Shetland in the ‘70s. Didn’t know about the derivation though

[Halmyre]

matchmaker said:

Mezzanine said:

Storyline was definitely unrewarding for this series.

Whoever that boss character guy is needs to go, really frustrating character and completely unbelievable.

The fiscal? Having worked in the Scottish courts*, I can say for certain that there is no way on earth that a fiscal would interfere in an active police investigation to that extent.

The fiscal seems almost to be acting as a senior officer to Tosh - which raises the question, from what I've read, Shetland should have at least a Superintendent as area commander, but Tosh doesn't seem to answer to anybody (apart from the fiscal). Where are all the uniformed senior officers?

[lornemalvo]

I love that when Ashley Jensen was chasing her suspect she sent a message that she had no idea where he was going. She's on Shetland, how many options are there on that road?

[Jordie Barretts sock]

And she was a Shetlander.

[willy wombat]

I’m afraid I found it so riveting that I fell asleep for the last 30 minutes so if someone could explain briefly who killed the girl and why it would save me having to rewatch it and probably fall asleep again.

[matchmaker]

Halmyre said:

matchmaker said:

Mezzanine said:

Storyline was definitely unrewarding for this series.

Whoever that boss character guy is needs to go, really frustrating character and completely unbelievable.

The fiscal? Having worked in the Scottish courts*, I can say for certain that there is no way on earth that a fiscal would interfere in an active police investigation to that extent.

The fiscal seems almost to be acting as a senior officer to Tosh - which raises the question, from what I've read, Shetland should have at least a Superintendent as area commander, but Tosh doesn't seem to answer to anybody (apart from the fiscal). Where are all the uniformed senior officers?

Area commander is a uniformed Chief Inspector. There is then a uniformed Inspector and a DI (or that used to be the case). There was at one time in the late 70s and early 80s (when the Sullom Voe Terminal was being built) a Special Branch DS, as well as other detectives. The Sullom Voe Terminal was the site of the only Scottish IRA bombing during the Troubles.

[droopsnoot]

willy wombat said:

I’m afraid I found it so riveting that I fell asleep for the last 30 minutes so if someone could explain briefly who killed the girl and why it would save me having to rewatch it and probably fall asleep again.

The guy married to Dawn Steele killed her, because it turned out that he wasn't her father, her actual father was Dawn Steele's character's brother (the one who lived in the barn) after a one-off night together after their father had died. The girl told him during an argument and he got angry and throttled her. with apologies for already having forgotten most of the character names.