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Red in Tooth & Claw

posted 8 years ago by caviar1234
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I think this is a better episode from current series and an improvement from all previous relatively lame stories. Not only the mystery itself is interesting, but all the characters and their back stories are more colorful comparing to other episodes. There are also a lot of mysteries to solve in this episode aside from the murders, such as the stolen rabbit and the missing fur. The writer of the episode Lisa Holdsworth also delivered scripts like A Vintage Murder and Schooled in Murder before, and certainly is a better one amongst current writers for the show.

[–] By-TorX-1 8 years ago

I thought the same. Still not on a par with the John Nettles era, but the best of the 'new' Barnby episodes. Perhaps it was because there was no Kam!
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[–] caviar1234 8 years ago

I wonder why Kam is missing from this episode, but I'd rather like to see her replacement become a series regular. Nothing against the actress though, I'm just a bit fed up with the format of making the pathologist and the sergeant a pair. First Kate and Jones, then Kate and Nelson, followed by Nelson and Kam, and now Kam and Winter? Wow!

[–] louiseculmer 8 years ago

it was quite good. The rabbits were the best characters I thought.

[–] caviar1234 8 years ago

The rabbits did help improve it a lot, served much better purpose than the dog.

[–] Mattgomery-Scott 8 years ago

But why were many of them named for Greeks/Romans, that's what I want to know?

Hercules, Agamemnon, Socrates, Xena.

And it's not just the animals.

Delphi Hartley.
Cleo Langton

All the Best,

Mattgomery Scott.

[–] LaPook 8 years ago

Worth watching just for the line "she's anybody's for a cherry tomato!"