Silent witness - new series

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ALawson

7,814 posts

250 months

Tuesday 20th January 2015
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The disturbing scenes are those of the social services and the family courts and the power they weild. (All made up I am sure).

Rick_1138

3,656 posts

177 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Well the GF and I watched this weeks episodes back to back after recoreding last night, and we both agreed that was the cheeriest 2 hours of television we had seen in a while.

It was as if every Daily wail Cliché on paedophiles, adoption and social services were rolled into one.

It just got worse and worse, and then after the social worker made an error, she tries to kill herself, then after its all been resolved, the father leans in and adds a final kick in the stones.

And why is every member of the police force inept, an arse, trying to start a fight, that police woman who was speaking with the wee schoolgirl on the phone a few times, at one point she almost got into a fist fight with the father of the abused girl, was the lawyer on the opposite side of the table asleep!!

See next week its Russian oligarchs and how they are the evil horror living in Belgravia....cant wait!

BoRED S2upid

19,641 posts

239 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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So who killed the mums boyfriend? The son right?

Rick_1138

3,656 posts

177 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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BoRED S2upid said:
So who killed the mums boyfriend? The son right?
No, it was the Grandfathers wife, the irish woman. though the grandfather was actually just 'the father' on 2 counts......

Halmyre

11,147 posts

138 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Rick_1138 said:
BoRED S2upid said:
So who killed the mums boyfriend? The son right?
No, it was the Grandfathers wife, the irish woman. though the grandfather was actually just 'the father' on 2 counts......
The grandfather killed the mum's boyfriend. The grandmother killed the grandfather - I guessed that one correctly!

I can't believe a six year old(?) girl could not only secrete a screwdriver about her person, but then have the strength to stab it through a man's back, even if it did miraculously miss all the bone and cartilage, and puncture the aorta.

droopsnoot

11,809 posts

241 months

Wednesday 21st January 2015
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Rick_1138 said:
See next week its Russian oligarchs and how they are the evil horror living in Belgravia....cant wait!
I thought the "Super Rich and Us" series was over, hadn't realised they'd linked this in to it as well.

And the window in the butchers shop seemed to fix itself between someone throwing a brick through it, and 'gramps' turning up to order a new window. I didn't rewind it to check, but the notices stuck to it looked strangely in-tact for a piece of glass that's just been broken. Almost as if they're throwing these in deliberately.

illmonkey

18,111 posts

197 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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How was someone who almost got a child taken away, even with a doctor telling her it may not have been abuse, still go back to work??!?!

droopsnoot

11,809 posts

241 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Like she said, though - if she hadn't acted when the more senior doctor had told her specifically that the bruises were definitely caused by abuse, she'd have been pilloried for that too. When the younger guy came to the court and told her he'd run tests and he was right, she should have gone back into the court and dealt with it there and then, though, not left it.

illmonkey

18,111 posts

197 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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droopsnoot said:
Like she said, though - if she hadn't acted when the more senior doctor had told her specifically that the bruises were definitely caused by abuse, she'd have been pilloried for that too. When the younger guy came to the court and told her he'd run tests and he was right, she should have gone back into the court and dealt with it there and then, though, not left it.
Inbetween the 2, the young doctor told her it could be caused by other things than abuse, yet, she didn't follow this up, but went to court to get the child taken away.

She should have queried at that point.

bexVN

14,682 posts

210 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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I never watch Silent Witness but for one reason and another I did this week. I felt so depressed after the first episode, what a mess, I didn't know whether to feel sorry for or hate the social worker for a start. Of course I watched the 2nd episode but that was just a much a mix of emotions.

Conclusion, I liked that it moved fast, that it got me drawn in so quickly etc but I did not like how down I felt at the end. That final line at the end!!

Halmyre

11,147 posts

138 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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I was sure the pregnant woman was going to miscarry due to the stress, but maybe the writers thought that would be over-egging it a bit.

JontyR

1,915 posts

166 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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bexVN said:
I never watch Silent Witness but for one reason and another I did this week. I felt so depressed after the first episode, what a mess, I didn't know whether to feel sorry for or hate the social worker for a start. Of course I watched the 2nd episode but that was just a much a mix of emotions.

Conclusion, I liked that it moved fast, that it got me drawn in so quickly etc but I did not like how down I felt at the end. That final line at the end!!
The final line at the end was very clever in my opinion.

It does make you wonder though as to whether this will have sown a seed into people's head and now will be too scared to take their child into hospital for fear of the possible repercussions.

BoRED S2upid

19,641 posts

239 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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That final line would have pushed that social worker over the edge big time. The fact is though most working parents are likely to miss the first steps if the happen in nursery or between 8-6 Monday to Friday.

markoc

1,084 posts

195 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Got to restore the "PH" balance... forget the plot, an hour of Emilia Fox should never be knocked.

Storylines have gone rapidly into cuckoo-land, and they do seem to be turning into a pair of superheroes that are stepping way out of the remit that they had in the last-but-one series (ie before the introduction of Jack and Clarissa). That said, for "take your brain out" TV it's better than what a lot of the other channels put out at this time.

Oh, and there's Emilia Fox - in case I didn't mention it before smile

silverthorn2151

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6,298 posts

178 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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Well. What a load of old ste that was.

I can identify no redeeming features whatsoever. Gone from something about dead bodies and forensics to a pretend police procedural where the police don't do anything and the baddies are so inept they keep giving themselves up.

They should have taken what's good about this production, given them some other vehicle for good stories and atrangled the rest at birth.

carreauchompeur

17,830 posts

203 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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I'm afraid I can't watch it anymore. Used to be very good but it's just so far removed from the truth now that I can't take any of it seriously.

BertyFish

615 posts

163 months

Monday 26th January 2015
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Very odd tonight, didn't keep me fixed on watching it for long....

Maybe I'm being stupid but it was all very confusing.

bingybongy

3,858 posts

145 months

Tuesday 27th January 2015
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That. Was. st.


Edited by bingybongy on Wednesday 28th January 11:10

Petrolhead95

7,043 posts

153 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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I liked it, but I like anything with Emilia Fox in it. Some serious eye candy in these two episodes lick

Antony Moxey

8,014 posts

218 months

Wednesday 28th January 2015
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Awful programme. Since when did the pathologists lead an investigation including interviewing suspects and directing the police on who to arrest and why? In every other crime drama the pathologists turns up eating a sandwich, has a look at the body, makes some pithy remark to the detective then sends a report in two days later.

It would appear that in this and the previous series, the witness is anything but silent and the forensic side of things no more than a trivial aside to the 'real' investigation.