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Post by profbooboo on Mar 17, 2017 0:03:54 GMT
I'm just watching tonight's episode now and I'm...3mins in. I'm finding Sam Reid's voice very distracting now, there's something about the way he speaks, did someone on here describe it like he had a mouth full of marbles. The whole 'previously on' had a lot of him talking and now hes just said "where were you between the hours of..." it's as if he doesn't open his mouth.
I know he's Australian but surely they asked him to do as British accent at the audition.
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Post by geometryman on Mar 17, 2017 0:30:19 GMT
He did sound to have even more marbles in the mouth tonight.
My bigger gripe though continues to be the music, which I still find mostly annoying and intrusive. It's as though they were looking for every possible opportunity to introduce a snatch of a 70s track, generally unnecessarily and sometimes even drowning out the dialogue. It's a good job I had the subtitles on - but even then at one point those were trying to deliver both the actors' lines and the song lyrics at the same time, causing just as much confusion to the eyes as to the ears.
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Post by gowergirl on Mar 17, 2017 9:44:00 GMT
I 've just finished watching my recordings of the original Prime Suspect from the Drama Channel.This series is so second rate in comparison.Aweful acting & I hate the music too.It's a shame as the books this is based on,are really good.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Mar 17, 2017 10:20:14 GMT
Me too.Great, aren't they? Though I agreed with Lynda La Plante's objections to making Tennison a full-blown alcoholic whose judgement was clearly impaired in the last one. Sadly, many people are functioning alcoholics who manage to disguise it and may not even recognise it in themselves. That would have been a better way to go I think. And I didn't like the implication that all she had to live for was being a detective and now that had been taken from her. Yes, that does happen but it was a very bleak way for the series to end. My favourites were PS2 with Colin Salmon, and PS3 with Peter Capaldi.
I wonder what it was that La Plante objected to in particular in the new series. Casting a leading actor with a mouthful of marbles as the DI perhaps. I think their mistake was to go right back to the beginning of Tennison's career, when as a probationer she hadn't really done anything and not much would be expected of her, certainly not chipping in as part of the investigative team.
I agree the music is intrusive. I was a teenager in the 70s and I do like some of the music, but not when it's inappropriate and interferes with the dialogue. At the beginning and end would be fine. This week's opener was The Animals 'We've got to get out of this place' which I'm sure speaks volumes to many people!
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Post by sootycat on Mar 17, 2017 12:37:10 GMT
I'm just watching tonight's episode now and I'm...3mins in. I'm finding Sam Reid's voice very distracting now, there's something about the way he speaks, did someone on here describe it like he had a mouth full of marbles. I am so glad I am not the only one who finds his voice distracting. (Didn't realise he was an Aussie) That said, I am really enjoying it. |
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Post by profbooboo on Mar 17, 2017 14:36:51 GMT
I'll stick with it too, I want to find out what's going to happen next, especially with the robbery and if Alun Armstrong's character is going to end up back in prison.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 22:37:54 GMT
Just watched the latest ep, I know some don't like the music but sorry I and the OH have enjoyed trying to remember who sang it and the titles.  The police in those days could be quite savage especially when one of their own was threatened, my first OH witnessed first hand a police officer ram the head of a young man (one of three) into a door. Admittedly the three had ganged up on a young police officer in our local pub because he was at their arrest and they recognised him. Just as in the prog, the officer turned to my ex OH and asked if he saw anything? Of course my OH who was a friend of the young officer threatened said NO.  |
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Post by rozk on Mar 25, 2017 20:32:25 GMT
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Post by profbooboo on Mar 25, 2017 21:37:55 GMT
I just read a 'what's happening on in the next episode' thingy and it makes out Thursdays episode it really exciting paving the way for an explosive finale.😮
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Post by sootycat on Mar 26, 2017 11:27:34 GMT
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Odd to see Spence on Ant and Dec! Didn't recognise him for a minute.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 23:06:38 GMT
Anyone else still watching?
I'm still enjoying it. I do find the actress who plays Jane a bit tedious at times - I keep wanting her to show some emotion. Apart from that it's quite a good story.
Bit of a shock ending though . . .
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Post by sootycat on Mar 31, 2017 11:19:42 GMT
That actors voice is still grating on me. Shame really, spoils a good programme.
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Post by geometryman on Mar 31, 2017 11:53:07 GMT
That actors voice is still grating on me. Shame really, spoils a good programme. Judging from the episode ending, that might not be a problem in next week's finale... The series has been just about OK for me, and not up to the standard of the Prime Suspect originals. This young Jane Tennison is rather too bland and nice to convince me she'd become the Helen Mirren DCI. My biggest annoyance continues to be the music. There's nothing wrong with the actual tracks themselves - I have many of them at home among my CDs - just that in this I find them irrelevant and intrusive. |
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Post by Geoffers on Mar 31, 2017 16:00:15 GMT
I have been watching this, as l recall the whole idea of Prime Suspect was nailing the elusive Prime Suspect.
And the acceptance of a lead female detective
This is just like any other police drama, nothing out the ordinary or unusual.
Not bad, but just nothing special and was her whole career about battling male prejudice?
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Post by Miranda on Mar 31, 2017 18:05:26 GMT
About 80% of it would have been, yeah. The person JT is based on had to fight really hard to get as high as she did. Way harder than any of the men. Expect the men who aren't white. She only had to fight a bit harder than them.
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