Ripper Street season 2 ep 1
Oct. 29th, 2013 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightWatched this last night and enjoyed it enormously.
Spoilers behind cut.
Though I think I'll probably enjoy it more if I opt to watch it on my own from now on. S is just the worst person in the world to watch telly with, unless it's something like Agents of SHIELD, which we both agree is stupid.
Anyway, the first episode of the new series of Ripper Street was great, once I'd got my head around the weird dialogue again. While it's true that we don't know people didn't speak like that in Victorian times, the literature of the period does make it seem a little unlikely. Plus, the whole thing does have a bit of lawless Wild West feel about it, which is probably deliberate, to sell it to the Americans.
But I still think it's great, and this first episode didn't disappoint, though I am disappointed to look on the BBC website season 2 page and see that Emily Reid and Deborah Goren probably won't be back. Also, a new female character is to be introduced (I assume as a love interest for Reid, or at least a female character for him to engage with) who is supposed to be Jane Cobden, the suffragette. This is both exciting and worrying. I can see how such a person would appeal to Reid, but hope she won't be just thrown in as a random SFC, especially as she's based on a real person. There's also to be a new detective sergeant, Albert Flight, who is Irish, and will no doubt have Fenian connections.
Scared of cliche, but hoping they can pull it off.
As for the first ep, it looks like this series will be different, in that it's introduced a nemesis for Reid in DI Shine, who didn't die in the same episode. So, not so much monster of the week this time, more of a seasonal arc. I wonder if that's the last we'll see of Blush Pang? She was a nasty piece of work, but all the more reason to bring her back. It could be, though, that they feel they've 'done' the Chinese story now and don't need to.
I do like Reid. I think he's a great character. I like Drake and Jackson too. I don't agree with much that the Guardian's TV critic said about the show (she baled after the first episode last year, and seems to think that every single episode in the series was about horrible rapes and murders of women, which is not the case), but I do agree that at its heart it's a three way bromance.
Speaking of TV, I've started watching season 2 of The Good Wife again. I stalled for some reason about half way through. Can't understand why. It's such a good show!
Spoilers behind cut.
Though I think I'll probably enjoy it more if I opt to watch it on my own from now on. S is just the worst person in the world to watch telly with, unless it's something like Agents of SHIELD, which we both agree is stupid.
Anyway, the first episode of the new series of Ripper Street was great, once I'd got my head around the weird dialogue again. While it's true that we don't know people didn't speak like that in Victorian times, the literature of the period does make it seem a little unlikely. Plus, the whole thing does have a bit of lawless Wild West feel about it, which is probably deliberate, to sell it to the Americans.
But I still think it's great, and this first episode didn't disappoint, though I am disappointed to look on the BBC website season 2 page and see that Emily Reid and Deborah Goren probably won't be back. Also, a new female character is to be introduced (I assume as a love interest for Reid, or at least a female character for him to engage with) who is supposed to be Jane Cobden, the suffragette. This is both exciting and worrying. I can see how such a person would appeal to Reid, but hope she won't be just thrown in as a random SFC, especially as she's based on a real person. There's also to be a new detective sergeant, Albert Flight, who is Irish, and will no doubt have Fenian connections.
Scared of cliche, but hoping they can pull it off.
As for the first ep, it looks like this series will be different, in that it's introduced a nemesis for Reid in DI Shine, who didn't die in the same episode. So, not so much monster of the week this time, more of a seasonal arc. I wonder if that's the last we'll see of Blush Pang? She was a nasty piece of work, but all the more reason to bring her back. It could be, though, that they feel they've 'done' the Chinese story now and don't need to.
I do like Reid. I think he's a great character. I like Drake and Jackson too. I don't agree with much that the Guardian's TV critic said about the show (she baled after the first episode last year, and seems to think that every single episode in the series was about horrible rapes and murders of women, which is not the case), but I do agree that at its heart it's a three way bromance.
Speaking of TV, I've started watching season 2 of The Good Wife again. I stalled for some reason about half way through. Can't understand why. It's such a good show!