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Post by beverley61 on Sept 17, 2024 12:04:33 GMT
Is anyone watching this. I won't discuss Ep1 or 2 today if people are still catching up.
Initial thoughts are who are the technical advisors? Done a pants job so far.
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Post by vicky on Sept 17, 2024 12:34:50 GMT
I'm watching it and, so far, have been able to suspend disbelief enough to quite like it. It's enjoyable in the same bonkers way that Red Eye was. (If I've got that title wrong, I'm talking about the series with Richard Armitage, set on a plane flying to Beijing, where the body count got bigger and bigger). This is in the same vein. Like that series I'm not quite sure how the story can be maintained over 6 episodes, especially after seeing the trailer for the next one!
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Post by pearl06 on Sept 17, 2024 13:46:42 GMT
I am enjoying it. I reminds me a little of the first scenes in Bodyguard. I too wonder how it lasts over six episodes. The one thing I find jarring is that Abby looks so young!
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 17, 2024 14:10:34 GMT
She is supposed to have been recruited as a teenage hacker, similar to the boy in the show and then gone up the ranks. I read that in an interview with her. I am not sure that is clear in the books.
I am guessing that the Transport Minister has more to hide and that is why she's desperate for her PA to destroy everything! The guy with the satellite phone is suss. Then again so is the girl with headphones. Well everyone is aren't they but mostly they just have facial expressions going from shocked to shocked!!!
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Post by Miranda on Sept 17, 2024 15:39:13 GMT
It's getting trashed on Threads for the same reason. You'd think the writers have never heard of physics.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Sept 17, 2024 16:45:14 GMT
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Post by beatxt on Sept 17, 2024 17:15:56 GMT
It's a very poor attempt to come up with something like the stupendous Slow Horses. The BBC must be kicking themselves for not getting a piece of that pie.
The main entertainment value (fun?!) is taking in just how ridiculous the next plot element will be and wondering how they'll spin it out for 6 parts.
One positive is that it has brought an end to the unremitting misery of most BBC1 weekend drama over the summer.
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Post by marion on Sept 17, 2024 17:55:32 GMT
I'm watching it and, so far, have been able to suspend disbelief enough to quite like it. It's enjoyable in the same bonkers way that Red Eye was. (If I've got that title wrong, I'm talking about the series with Richard Armitage, set on a plane flying to Beijing, where the body count got bigger and bigger). This is in the same vein. Like that series I'm not quite sure how the story can be maintained over 6 episodes, especially after seeing the trailer for the next one! I loved Red Eye for being so bonkers!! I’m recording this so will have to watch it in due course. Still mired in a backlog… but at least I finally finished The Great. |
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Post by technicolour on Sept 17, 2024 18:30:41 GMT
Saw the first two but no more. I can't take seriously the acting or the plot. {But....}I don't trust James Cosmo. He's on a suicide mission. i won't stay to find out though. |
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Post by kakewalk on Sept 17, 2024 18:44:34 GMT
I was reading an interview with the author who said the whole idea of the story came from a conversation with friends, each an expert in their own field, one being a hacker (legally, his job was to find weaknesses in new computer systems) one in the railway, another couple who’s jobs elude me right now. They realised that each step of the “hack” could theoretically happen. Said it was quite horrifying.
And yes, I’m watching too and a lot seems quite unbelievable. I’ll see if I can link to the interview.
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Post by kakewalk on Sept 17, 2024 18:48:02 GMT
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 17, 2024 19:09:29 GMT
Well they hadn't got out of Scotland by the end of episode 2, so a long way to London. Plenty of complicated junctions to go through.
Perhaps they'll all be too drunk to do anything by the time they get to Crewe!!
Cybersecurity will be phoning them and they'll be sozzled!
Nobody has suggested uncoupling the end carriage yet. That could be episode 6, when old fashioned engineering saves the day!
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Post by Malyndi on Sept 19, 2024 20:04:38 GMT
Watched Episode 1 last night and couldn't leave it alone... would be interested to know what some other viewers on this thread find hard to believe in it, because that's obviously passed me by!
I thought the Guardian review was somewhat harsh - 'woeful script'? - but there was one point that stood out because I'd thought it too: why didn't the police check the compartment (where Joe was still hiding) after the young lad hesitated at the question 'was there anyone else in there'? Now that was unrealistic!
Will certainly be devouring the rest of it with relish, hokum or not...
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Post by beverley61 on Sept 20, 2024 10:33:17 GMT
I think there were holes in it, but it is a drama and not a documentary. I didn't think the script was that good but then again they were trying to get a lot of characters a few lines so that we got to know them. Possibly a case of too many characters but maybe they are essential moving forward.
I don't think it's brilliant but will watch the rest.
It has this amazing saving grace - it's not full of rapists and brutality and we can all do with a break from that.
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Post by vicky on Sept 24, 2024 9:59:00 GMT
I am weirdly hooked on this in spite of a terrible script and some dire acting. I haven't really got a clue what is going on (not helped by so many scenes in near total darkness) but still want to know what happens next. I hope there will be some explanation by the end. It may never end of course. The Driver might just keep the train going round and round the UK rail network for ever! 🤣
When Abby was having a panic attack I was reminded of something a counsellor told me to visualise when I was going through a bad time and having panic attacks. He told me to see the rush of adrenaline as a train passing through a station without stopping and going on until it's out of sight. It did help me but probably wouldn't have been the best analogy for Abby in the circumstances!
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Anymore to come?
