Posting this later than I meant to
Comments about last night's The Inspector Lynley Mysteries because I missed them. However what I really missed was the backstory about Havers' demotion which they must have "missed out " between the last series and this. I think. Or not. Whatever. Obviously the BBC have decided that a six-parter murder mystery recurring series can flaunt tightly plotted continuity. Let people who don't follow it avidly be as confused as those who've seen most episodes.
The whole return to UST between Lynley/Havers bugs me. It's there on his part, but HI! I'M STILL SULKNG after he married HorseFace (Helen the psychologist.) Which everyone bar "Tommy" knew was a stupid idea, but now they're showing it to us, as if to make up for all the mushy posh stuff we suffered last series. In the meantime there's lots of shots of him and Havers (her only fashion disaster was a grey anorak, and the way she wears her handbag, of course.) Lots of little asides that prove they think along the same lines, are loyal to each other, blah blah blah. But I'm still aggieved that I'm meant to go "adultery - yay!" Not that I care so much about pregnant but shunned Helen (dude, the night you tell him you're pregnant and he signally fails to be delighted and then forgets to call you to say he can't come back home for the night because the guy from his meeting was brutally killed was not the flag up that your relationship was doomed ACTUALLY .) But I think the relationship was misguided , contrived, it was blatantly to add tension without making it explicit up till now, but despite infuriating me as a Lynley/Havers shipper, it gives me issues with the hero. I got the motivation that Lynley want ed to prove he was all grown up and taking control of his life some more when he proposed to Helen, but only now be realising that she isn't what he wants? That in the conflict between his marriage and work, the sparrow and his duties beat the blue-blooded mare every time? Five or six episodes after this viewer . .yeah, it makes me invested.
I wonder if they'll throw in a miscarriage?
Oh yeah, the case. There was a character called Raphael. Of course I made teenage mutant hero jokes.
The whole return to UST between Lynley/Havers bugs me. It's there on his part, but HI! I'M STILL SULKNG after he married HorseFace (Helen the psychologist.) Which everyone bar "Tommy" knew was a stupid idea, but now they're showing it to us, as if to make up for all the mushy posh stuff we suffered last series. In the meantime there's lots of shots of him and Havers (her only fashion disaster was a grey anorak, and the way she wears her handbag, of course.) Lots of little asides that prove they think along the same lines, are loyal to each other, blah blah blah. But I'm still aggieved that I'm meant to go "adultery - yay!" Not that I care so much about pregnant but shunned Helen (dude, the night you tell him you're pregnant and he signally fails to be delighted and then forgets to call you to say he can't come back home for the night because the guy from his meeting was brutally killed was not the flag up that your relationship was doomed ACTUALLY .) But I think the relationship was misguided , contrived, it was blatantly to add tension without making it explicit up till now, but despite infuriating me as a Lynley/Havers shipper, it gives me issues with the hero. I got the motivation that Lynley want ed to prove he was all grown up and taking control of his life some more when he proposed to Helen, but only now be realising that she isn't what he wants? That in the conflict between his marriage and work, the sparrow and his duties beat the blue-blooded mare every time? Five or six episodes after this viewer . .yeah, it makes me invested.
I wonder if they'll throw in a miscarriage?
Oh yeah, the case. There was a character called Raphael. Of course I made teenage mutant hero jokes.