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Post by goodhelenstar on Sept 27, 2021 19:11:57 GMT
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Post by bethb63 on Sept 28, 2021 20:51:33 GMT
When Doward refused to give a reason for his actions, I just decided that the writer hadn’t thought of a plausible motivation, which I found really annoying and soured me on the whole series.
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Post by kabuki on Sept 30, 2021 8:46:42 GMT
Really enjoyed this despite some implausibilites.
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Post by Netz on Dec 1, 2023 15:43:34 GMT
Series 2 is coming to BBC1 and iPlayer on Sunday 10th December. I'm going to have to refresh my memory about what happened in the first series. 😆
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Post by goodhelenstar on Dec 1, 2023 20:01:43 GMT
Reading back, I see I watched and enjoyed this but I have no memory of it at all! I will reread the link I posted at the top of this screen which apparently explains it, though I don't remember reading that either!
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Post by geometryman on Dec 1, 2023 23:07:03 GMT
Maybe, since this is a different case, it doesn't matter so much if we can't remember what happened in S1. I could do with some refresher on Suranne Jones's and Rose Leslie's character backgrounds though and, since this also seems to involve the military, the difficulties of them working in that environment. Of course lack of memory has nothing to do with anyone's age! - it's entirely the Beeb's fault for leaving it well over 2 years before bringing us S2...
I hadn't realised episodes 1-3 will be broadcast Sun/Mon/Tue 10-12 Dec and eps 4-6 Sun/Mon/Tue 17-19 Dec. However eps 1-3 will all be available on iPlayer from 6.00 am on 10 Dec and eps 4-6 from 6.00 am on 17 Dec, which does allow some much needed viewing flexibility.
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Post by vicky on Dec 11, 2023 11:14:18 GMT
It's the same implausible type of plot as the previous series with a few more bits added (are police officers allowed to do frontline work when 7 months pregnant for instance?)...but I was gripped very early on. That hour went so quickly and I am so looking forward to ep.2 tonight.
Exactly what branch of the armed forces is this centred around because those uniforms and badges don't look like RAF ones to me?
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Post by geometryman on Dec 11, 2023 21:33:08 GMT
Yeah, the uniforms seem to have come in for some stick. I guess the show's defence would be that it's centred on the fictitious "British Air Force" not the RAF, so they're entitled to make up the uniforms.
I agree it's gripping though. I binged all the first 3 episodes on iPlayer.
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Post by kakewalk on Dec 12, 2023 2:50:10 GMT
We nearly didn’t bother with this. I watched the first one, all bar the last episode, and I was so confused, I never got round to watching the last one which I’d recorded, then later, I realised I’d never remember enough to make sense of it all. (To be fair, I was not long out of hospital and still recovering so perhaps not in the best frame of mind).
Anyway, mainly because there was nothing else on, we watched the first two eps of this new series tonight, and it’s totally gripping. Even MrC agreed with me. So we shall still with it. I think it’ll help not having to wait a week between each episode.
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Post by vicky on Dec 12, 2023 8:00:15 GMT
Just caught up with episode two as I knew I was too tired last night to give it the concentration needed. When Kirsten and Ramsey were looking for a way into the flat and she peered around the balcony I was thinking, no she won't do that, she's 7 months pregnant....and then she did, she climbed around three or four storeys above the ground!!! Somehow I don't think the writers have ever been 7 months pregnant. 😁
Having said that, it really is worth suspending disbelief for.
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Post by linseed on Dec 18, 2023 22:51:22 GMT
This is gripping but I am finding it too implausible. I’ve watched 5 out of 6 episodes, and read a spoiler for the end. Not sure I can be bothered (and I’m going out tomorrow).
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Post by vicky on Dec 19, 2023 8:37:20 GMT
This is gripping but I am finding it too implausible. I’ve watched 5 out of 6 episodes, and read a spoiler for the end. Not sure I can be bothered (and I’m going out tomorrow). I agree: it gets more and more ridiculous but it's so gripping that I have to keep watching, against my better judgement! I really do not like Amy Silva:she is such a know-it-all. I'm not at all surprised that things have gone wrong at that base: there doesn't seem to be any security at all, given the way Amy just goes wherever she likes. I had to laugh out loud last night when she told the guards "I have clearance" and they immediately let her into the armoury without any checks at all. |
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Post by marion on Dec 19, 2023 10:03:36 GMT
It did seem a rather silly little key to access the armoury, I’d have expected more digital security.
I’ve only watched the first four so far. Amy is indeed a bit of a pain isn’t she? But then there aren’t a lot of pleasant characters at all really, even Kirsten is a bit of a grump. I was also amazed yesterday to see Kirsten and Polly in the kitchen sharing a domestic scene as family life and childcare seem to run with no input from both parents! But I find it a very gripping series so am enjoying it.
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Post by Malyndi on Dec 19, 2023 20:59:24 GMT
Have also watched four episodes and I did find the fourth, where Amy and (what was her name again? Squadron Leader Ms Frosty-Knickers, I mean) got kidnapped - good bit of tension going on there throughout. Not really interested in the pregnancy sub-plot though; I find with more and more dramas these days, the writers just have to put a woman in there with a bun in the oven. A tad tedious, IMO...
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Post by geometryman on Dec 19, 2023 23:28:18 GMT
In this case the writer's hand was forced - Kirsten wasn't supposed to be pregnant, but it turned out Rose Leslie was in real life during the filming, so they had to do some re-writing to accommodate it. (Coincidentally Rose also was pregnant when they filmed Series 1. Suranne Jones in the Radio Times says she asked Rose, if there should be a Vigil series 3, would she be expecting her third child? - and got a firm "No!")
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Anymore to come?
