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     Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 109.151.147.15 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7clIVVUQko This looks promising - | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
I saw quick trailer about that on TV and liked the sound of it.  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.242.3 |
Starting in a minute on BBC3. Let's see if it's as good as it looks. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.242.3 |
Now that were really quite well worth watchin' i thought. Very nicely done, good characters, creepy, dead birds dropping from the sky, ghosts, zombies, nicely written, well acted... I'm definitely tuning in next week. | ||
| Paul_finch (Paul_finch) Username: Paul_finch Registered: 11-2009 Posted From: 92.5.34.191 |
Certainly better than I thought it would be. At least we're not in Chavsville for once. Had a bit of a 'US high school horror' vibe about it. Will be watching next week. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.173.166.157 |
I've been swapping texts with Mark Lynch whilst this was on. Didn't see it myself but he wasn't taken with it (otherwise he'd not have been sending texts, I guess). | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Yeah, it has potential. The concept is a bit bland, but hopefully they'll expand on it and put some meat on its bones. It was certainly good enough for me to tune in again next week. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
Reading PLDT I can see why you say the concept of the fades is a bit bland... Maybe you should offer to write an episode for the second series if they commission one. Show them how far you can go with the ideas they're using | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
I'll take that as a compliment, mate.  | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
That's how it was intended. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
I could have done without the quite irritating catch up at the start of the show. It was unnecessary and done in an incredibly annoying way. Half the stuff it showed, Tealeaf shouldn't have known about in any case... If it had to be done, a quick voiceover saying "Previously on..." will normally suffice. I also have reservations about the way Paul (that's the lead's name isn't it) occasionally walks round like Napoleon Dynamite with his arms ramrod straight and unmoving at his sides giving him a very unconvincing bouncy type of walk. He did it in the first episode as well. To balance off against that though, on one of the facebook videos the beeb has been putting up, when the actor speaks with his native accent he's broad scottish. I have to give him kudos for not giving even the slightest sign of a northern heritage. I also wish they'd kill off his sister because she's so bloody annoying. I know she's deliberately annoying and therefore she's doing her job perfectly, but that still makes her the weak point in an otherwise really quite good show. Other than these few points, I'm really enjoying it and will be tuning in again tomorrow. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
Ta, mate. I haven't watched the second ep. I'll let you know what I make of it when I have, though. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.66.23.11 |
After a slightly dodgy third episode which almost morphed into a supernatural episode of Skins (albeit with a major shock ending - actually which they did do in an episode of skins now I think about it) episode 4 was my favourite of the series so far. There's a nice blurring of the moral lines between the two sides has crept in and right up until the final minute of the show I didn't know which way they were going to take the storyline. the closing scene was fabulous. I won't say more to avoid spoilers. Even the irritating twin sister is starting to develop a personality. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.148.242.164 |
Just watched the final part and ... wow. just wow. I've not felt that tense about the fates of characters on TV since... I'm not sure. Possibly that scene from season 2 of Being human where something was trying to drag Annie through the door in the hospital room (still IMHO the scariest moment they ever did in that show) This was a great piece of genre TV. Sod that, a great piece of TV full stop. Joe Dempsie made for an excellent villain although the lines between good and evil were so blurred by the end of it, it was difficult to tell if he or Neil was the real bad guy of the show... I highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't managed to watch it yet. | ||
| Matthew Fryer (Matthew_fryer) Username: Matthew_fryer Registered: 08-2009 Posted From: 90.206.208.85 |
Just watched the last one, and I agree. I loved that it wouldn't let us settle on Joe Dempsie or Neil: great piece of good/evil blurring, which could switch depending upon which angle you're looking at it. The cast were spot on. Quite a sweet camaraderie between the main characters, and the minor ones filled out nicely by the end. And some real shocks in that last episode. Good telly. |