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WITB 3.4 "Synchronicity"
Within a few minutes of the episode, I was trying to come up with a running total of injuries, physical and emotional this show's wreaked on its characters (because it racks up the dark.) This week - a brain tumour! While there's a sniper running around Bradfield! Of course!
Where to begin? I sat through the show hunched up in response. Loved the contrast between Tony going through the exact stages of emotional response and physical deterioration and the ultimately random gambling of the killer. Given the usual method of killing depicted on this show (the warning for the episode was just for 'violence' - I wondered why there was no 'bloody, ritualistic' tagged to the word) the gun shots were particularly shocking. Especially because you don't see much gun crime in UK dramas.
Hermione Norris did an excellent job, but the make up person didn't with the eye shadow. Why so very much for Carole?
Oh, and did he refer to Paris again at the end, at the hang-gliding speech, because I missed it, and I so wanted to rewind the last minutes and listen to it again? Of course, wonderful as the plot-bunny for someone else to write was, the idea of his remembering things that never happened was amusing. Just as the line 'oh he's always like that' about the spinning grant theories out of little details.'/'Oh he's alwaus like that.' (May have paraphrased too much and smooshed some lines together there.' The line about not being able to hear himself when he talked to himself was heartbreaking. The visual of his body lying in the school yard (I suppose because the teacher was the one with whom he identified the most?) was chilling. Has a part of him been killed by the operation? Or was is, as I took it at the time, him stepping away from the suicidal thoughts he'd been entertaining towards the end (see the revolver roulette' which it's unlear whether Carole or the other coppers saw, and its unclear as to whether Tony told them where to go either. I tended to think not, because he never does, he just hares in there heroically as befits the hero of an ITV crime drama, but it seemed from the Tony/Carole bedside conversation (and how many of those has this show had, seriously, it loves the hurt) that he had let her in on it.
Tony ending up wearing a baseball cap to hide the scar was a nice nod to his identification with the killer. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it, because what else was he going to wear? A trilby?.
The tv schedule seems to have exploded a little this week - if it's not trying to negotiate every channel's desire to put everything on at Tuesday 9pm by finding out when the repeats are on, it's a new series of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (yay! Less gore! By pints and pints!) on Thursday.
Within a few minutes of the episode, I was trying to come up with a running total of injuries, physical and emotional this show's wreaked on its characters (because it racks up the dark.) This week - a brain tumour! While there's a sniper running around Bradfield! Of course!
Where to begin? I sat through the show hunched up in response. Loved the contrast between Tony going through the exact stages of emotional response and physical deterioration and the ultimately random gambling of the killer. Given the usual method of killing depicted on this show (the warning for the episode was just for 'violence' - I wondered why there was no 'bloody, ritualistic' tagged to the word) the gun shots were particularly shocking. Especially because you don't see much gun crime in UK dramas.
Hermione Norris did an excellent job, but the make up person didn't with the eye shadow. Why so very much for Carole?
Oh, and did he refer to Paris again at the end, at the hang-gliding speech, because I missed it, and I so wanted to rewind the last minutes and listen to it again? Of course, wonderful as the plot-bunny for someone else to write was, the idea of his remembering things that never happened was amusing. Just as the line 'oh he's always like that' about the spinning grant theories out of little details.'/'Oh he's alwaus like that.' (May have paraphrased too much and smooshed some lines together there.' The line about not being able to hear himself when he talked to himself was heartbreaking. The visual of his body lying in the school yard (I suppose because the teacher was the one with whom he identified the most?) was chilling. Has a part of him been killed by the operation? Or was is, as I took it at the time, him stepping away from the suicidal thoughts he'd been entertaining towards the end (see the revolver roulette' which it's unlear whether Carole or the other coppers saw, and its unclear as to whether Tony told them where to go either. I tended to think not, because he never does, he just hares in there heroically as befits the hero of an ITV crime drama, but it seemed from the Tony/Carole bedside conversation (and how many of those has this show had, seriously, it loves the hurt) that he had let her in on it.
Tony ending up wearing a baseball cap to hide the scar was a nice nod to his identification with the killer. Or maybe I'm reading too much into it, because what else was he going to wear? A trilby?.
The tv schedule seems to have exploded a little this week - if it's not trying to negotiate every channel's desire to put everything on at Tuesday 9pm by finding out when the repeats are on, it's a new series of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (yay! Less gore! By pints and pints!) on Thursday.