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Facsimile of England?
Lol Norfolk anyway...
:)
Wasnt it because of Brexit?
The pregnant astronaut die. The other female astronaut dies.
The surviving pregnant astronaut is central to the film's entire "point"...
TBH if Nan goes first and is shot it still leaves Leamus in the same position. Leave her behind and get over the wall, or stay with her and get shot.
Es egal.... as they say in Germany.
Err... its fiction. Not real.
It's a movie based on a book.
Not a historical documentary.
My 2p...
Everyone that is "close" to her, and she to them... are broken. or at the very least struggling socially.
(by my perceptions anyway - YMMV!)
Schaibel and Beltik - social misfits generally (outside of chess certainly)
Birth mother - MH issues
Adopted mother - alcohol abuse, desperate
Both "fathers" - a***holes
Watts - so intense has no life outside chess - the only character he seems to know that is not a chess player is the French girl who herself appears an unfulfilled social butterfly
Townes - lost
Thanks for listening to my drivel!
Where indeed would a series 2 go - without it turning into some sort of Chess version of the "Rocky" films...
didds
TBH Im somewhat tired of 8-10 episode series that could really be told in 4-5 episodes, with meandering and limited benefit sub plots or episodes where nothing really happens for 30 minutes each episode - I found "Secrets she Keeps" like this for example.
I'd agree that Billie Piper's character is the most annoying one in the entire show, closely followed by the au pair whose raison d'etre (see what i did there) seemed to be to tell BP to wake up, and phone the MP, and do nothing else except listen to her phone/music.
I can give some credence (IMO) to BP and MP's relationship storyline as his change of direction in Ep 4 wrt their relationship goes hand in glove with his change of tack wrt political career at the same time. It illustrates he is making big changes in his life - which on the political scale may not be what his stall was set out to be in earlier episodes - has he just given up or will he settle for being a very noisy backbencher? Or head off into media land with his new life committment, andgiven up on "flings" ?
Vicar and girlfriend... agree... not really sure what that plotline brought to the story. The GF's initial use in the plotline is really redundant... it could be any witness to the murder for what that input was really worth. It does slightly entangle the MP - but that is so minimal as to be redundant really. The pizza manageress also had a very weak connection to this sub plot - but again nothing that the plotline overall really needed.
Overall really enjoyed it . I've just one query but I'll open a separate thread on that.
bounce
BRILLIANT!!!
I must have bloody slept through the episode - LOL!
cheers lennonforever.
>>> If someone sent Morse Code to you in Korean would you understand it?
No.
But I might wonder why my lights are flickering on and off and end up investigating it.
Ill go with the incarcerated for so loog he's lost all reason angle though :-)
... but students - the RSC version IS exellent but Duncan is woefully wet. yes I know he is supposed to be less than bloody for for the love of Pete he is so iuninspiring as a king!
My 2p. I'll shut up now :-)
does it use modern language? I'm rehearsing Macbeth at the moment so am watching various productions - and aside from them mangling the text timelone and mixing lines from different scenes up together it all sounds true to text to me.
Maybe THAT shows that when delivered well the elizabethan English is understandable to a modern English speaker's ear?
didds
yes.
but that doesnt remove the point (which is my OP) that had the Parks cottoned onto the fact something odd was going on, that would have possibly ended with him being found. The whole point of him being there was to hide after all, in secret.
Seems nonsensical, whatever language and to whosoever he was sending "respect and honou" messages to.
bounce.
" would send cryptic messages to him in Morse Code to thank or honor him"
That's what I thought. Hence my original question. The cellar guy is hiding, unknownst to Park. All celler guy can acheive with his "respect and honour" messages tis flag to Park that something very odd is going on - there is no positive outcome fro sending the messages if understood by Park.
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Thanks Keelai!
You'd have to ask George North (Welsh rugby player) about that maybe!!!
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he was sending messages before I thought? Stuff about "respect for Park" and so on?
That does make sense though. I probably got confused :-)
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I wonderd if "part 2" (virtual concept here :-) ) would be a sort of talented mr ripley scenario!
"The ending made me think that the poor young man was now on the path of becoming rich"
The follow up final scene of him sitting in the basement looking at the letter to his father though made _me_ woinder if in fact he would just be the embodiment of wehat his father whispered to him in the gym after the floods. That is if you have a plan, it is doomed to fail. ie he will not get rich, he will not buy the house, he will not be reunited with his father.