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Utter garbage
it took the 2 coppers less than 1 hour to find the bridge, look for a bomb, chat for a bit then get back to the office. Then when it was urgent, it took nearly an hour to get there.
Oh look, a truck heading towards the bridge! Shall we drive towards it and flash headlights / sound horn? No, park over here, I'll pop out behind a wall and say "yoo hoo"!
Utter drivel, arse gravy of the worst kind.
it took the 2 coppers less than 1 hour to find the bridge, look for a bomb, chat for a bit then get back to the office. Then when it was urgent, it took nearly an hour to get there.
Oh look, a truck heading towards the bridge! Shall we drive towards it and flash headlights / sound horn? No, park over here, I'll pop out behind a wall and say "yoo hoo"!
Utter drivel, arse gravy of the worst kind.
Edited by aclivity on Wednesday 25th November 09:25
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a beardy man in a darkened room, monitoring a big bank of screens.
Uh-uh-oh.
Turns out he’s a scientist.
Uh-uh-uh-oh. (Oh, let’s stop that now.)
There’s a bit of wobbly interference and suddenly he’s had an email from the future, with fragmented pictures of the aftermath of an unspecified calamity.
Get a load of this, he tells DI Flint, after ringing up the police and asking to speak to an intelligent detective (try that, next time you need the police, and see where it gets you).
In the blink of an eye, she’s discounted the probability that he’s been mucking around on Photoshop and launched an investigation into an explosion which hasn’t yet happened.
Happily, she’s not alone. Instead of ordering her to solve an outstanding burglary or two instead, her bosses on the Greater Manchester force assign her a team to help out.
Well, they’re used to unusual demands on their rota now.
In Life on Mars, they had a detective from the present, on secondment to the past.
Soon they’re piecing together the fragments of clues from photos and they’re searching for the spot where a lorry carrying flammable gas will hit a bridge with a train on top.
They get to the scene moments too late, after one of the team momentarily holds them up with an outbreak of cynicism.
Kaboom, goes the lorry, and the train. Actually, that bit was quite good, but the rest was utterly daft.
Uh-uh-oh.
Turns out he’s a scientist.
Uh-uh-uh-oh. (Oh, let’s stop that now.)
There’s a bit of wobbly interference and suddenly he’s had an email from the future, with fragmented pictures of the aftermath of an unspecified calamity.
Get a load of this, he tells DI Flint, after ringing up the police and asking to speak to an intelligent detective (try that, next time you need the police, and see where it gets you).
In the blink of an eye, she’s discounted the probability that he’s been mucking around on Photoshop and launched an investigation into an explosion which hasn’t yet happened.
Happily, she’s not alone. Instead of ordering her to solve an outstanding burglary or two instead, her bosses on the Greater Manchester force assign her a team to help out.
Well, they’re used to unusual demands on their rota now.
In Life on Mars, they had a detective from the present, on secondment to the past.
Soon they’re piecing together the fragments of clues from photos and they’re searching for the spot where a lorry carrying flammable gas will hit a bridge with a train on top.
They get to the scene moments too late, after one of the team momentarily holds them up with an outbreak of cynicism.
Kaboom, goes the lorry, and the train. Actually, that bit was quite good, but the rest was utterly daft.
I don't think I can watch this any more I've tried 2 episodes and so far disappointing, expect better from BBC drama.
1st week why didn't they get emergency services to the spot once they knew what was happening, a car flashing headlights then stopping to shout at a lorry!!! They could have worried about what to say afterwards.
This week, bearded detective gets stroppy with response given as to why this was happening after getting stroppy and demanding to know what the scientist thought.
The case this week that they were given insight into was pretty minor in the scheme of things, at least last weeks was a large crash involving major casualties.
I'm also finding that I cannot connect with any of the characters, they are very 1 dimensional, usually by the second episode one character starts to stand out
Still it is only TV at the end of the day!
1st week why didn't they get emergency services to the spot once they knew what was happening, a car flashing headlights then stopping to shout at a lorry!!! They could have worried about what to say afterwards.
This week, bearded detective gets stroppy with response given as to why this was happening after getting stroppy and demanding to know what the scientist thought.
The case this week that they were given insight into was pretty minor in the scheme of things, at least last weeks was a large crash involving major casualties.
I'm also finding that I cannot connect with any of the characters, they are very 1 dimensional, usually by the second episode one character starts to stand out
Still it is only TV at the end of the day!
becksW said:
I don't think I can watch this any more I've tried 2 episodes and so far disappointing, expect better from BBC drama.
1st week why didn't they get emergency services to the spot once they knew what was happening, a car flashing headlights then stopping to shout at a lorry!!! They could have worried about what to say afterwards.
This week, bearded detective gets stroppy with response given as to why this was happening after getting stroppy and demanding to know what the scientist thought.
The case this week that they were given insight into was pretty minor in the scheme of things, at least last weeks was a large crash involving major casualties.
I'm also finding that I cannot connect with any of the characters, they are very 1 dimensional, usually by the second episode one character starts to stand out
Still it is only TV at the end of the day!
Agree with this. I don't see why they have to keep their activities secret. Fine, don't tell anyone exactly where the info comes from but you can have "information received"...1st week why didn't they get emergency services to the spot once they knew what was happening, a car flashing headlights then stopping to shout at a lorry!!! They could have worried about what to say afterwards.
This week, bearded detective gets stroppy with response given as to why this was happening after getting stroppy and demanding to know what the scientist thought.
The case this week that they were given insight into was pretty minor in the scheme of things, at least last weeks was a large crash involving major casualties.
I'm also finding that I cannot connect with any of the characters, they are very 1 dimensional, usually by the second episode one character starts to stand out
Still it is only TV at the end of the day!
Also finding the acting very predicatble and hammy - the obsessive leader, the disillusioned (ex-lover) deputy, the religious, nervous junior. I'll give it another week, but was shouting at the TV with the stupidity of their actions yesterday.
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