Terrible Ending
No spoilers - just huge disappointment
From hells heart I stab at thee!
Great ending!
Martha was whisked off in a flash by Dr. Who in his Tardis, and will be announced as his next assistant.
What's not to like!?!
Well, the ending was a bit bizarre. But think it was meant to be.
After it was over, I was thinking back over the whole 6 episodes; and when you see them as an arc--a totality--it's apparent they were showing how Martha was coming a bit apart at this time of her life.
Remember the first episode? She lost a case and was drunk and dancing in the middle of the courthouse corridor, acting nuts. And a bit unbalanced at Reader's promotion party.
Then, unlike in previous series when the golden girl could pretty much do no wrong with a client--always pulling out a win on some tangential brilliant point--she was struggling with clients this series. And losing a lot of cases.
And even the case she won with the young man who pretended to be utterly innocent of terrorist involvement, it was clear at the end that she'd been taken in by him and fooled. He was guilty as sin.
Her emphatic assertion to Reader that "I ALWAYS know when a client is innocent. Always!!" failed her this series. She messed up repeatedly.
So all series, in one way or another, the infallible "nose" Martha always had for the guilty versus innocent client was failing her big time.
And then the last two eps, involving her teenage sweetheart was just the final straw. She realized she'd been manipulated by Sean when he told her about the kiss being so special earlier (and she was moved)--then the female witness/girlfriend repeated the same line he'd used on her! Ouch.
At every turn Martha was falling for all kinds of lies and dissembling.
She was NOT on top of her game....the writers apparently put her on a downward slope all series--to the inevitable finale when she just walked out and sort of lost the plot (thanks to the brilliance of Phil Davis's character forcing her to see some truths).
So the end fit. The whole series seemed to be a kind of build up to that meltdown for her. She was just deteriorating.
In the previous years she'd never NEVER missed the fact that the blood was on the wrong sleeve of Sean's jacket...that was the kind of thing she always was perfect act--seeing those flaws that saved her clients. And unlike with another client, she'd not need to know that in advance of the court appearance.
She and Sean were lifelong friends, she'd been his girlfriend--she'd already know he was left-handed and should have caught that immediately in court when it was said the blood was on the right cuff/sleeve. What an epic fail.
So guess she's jumped over the embankment wall and caught a slow boat to Greenwich!
Absolutely HORRID ending. I'm thinking maybe budgetary concerns at the BBC caused this howler
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On the contrary - I think the marvellous Phil Davies quite simply stole the show and elevated the final episode. Me? I would be more frightened of Micky Joy than the crims. I also think it was left open not quite so clear cut to me.
Don't be late, don't hesitate, this dream can pass just as fast as lightning.
Hi there,
I totally respect your comments but are you Peter Moffat's PR by any chance? You're basically saying that everything we got to know and trust about this character, that was built up over years of writing, creating and of many dedicated viewings, you're saying that it was just a build up for a very lazy, and unsatisfactory ending that seemed like a get out of jail free card to writers that honestly didn't know how to end this in a deservedly great way?
Silk was an immensely good, well crafted, well acted, well written series which focused unconventionally about a female at the top of her game as a defence QC. It's heart and soul was about Martha's stead fast conviction and true belief that what she was doing for her client was truly what she believed morally to be right and her determination to stay true to that and her morality was never questioned or compromised in the series at all.
The ending was completely out of sync with the themes of the whole series. I've just watched the last episode and and I'm baffled. If they had promised another series then I would be highly intrigued but when they say it is the last episode EVER! It shows a complete lack of respect and intelligence for followers of this programme that watched it for the exact reasons that told me, brain dead illogical endings like this would never happen!
Remember the first episode? She lost a case and was drunk and dancing in the middle of the courthouse corridor, acting nuts. And a bit unbalanced at Reader's promotion party.
Then, unlike in previous series when the golden girl could pretty much do no wrong with a client--always pulling out a win on some tangential brilliant point--she was struggling with clients this series. And losing a lot of cases.
Remind me to NEVER go to the movies with you again!
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@paradesent I like what you're saying here.
share1. She wasn't drunk, she was blowing off steam and it was natural because she was angry.
2. Did we watch the same series? Because besides two cases, one that we only saw the end of, Martha won all her cases and continually showed her usual great skill. With the last one being tough on her because of her history with her client. So no she did not lose a lot of cases.
3. The downward slope came out of no where and made no sense, especially since it was only really in the last two episodes it happened. It makes even less sense that she may have killed herself, Martha never ever appeared as someone who would do that when things got tough and thats what the ending of the series was trying to suggest with her "disappearing".
There is no real defending this ending, it was sloppy and lazy. People hate endings like this because they like to have answers and this ending left a lot unanswered. Not a good way to end a great show.