Brief Word on Ripper Street Final Ep

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Well, it's the final ep for now. Hoping beyond hope that something will come of the possible deal with LoveFilm!

Brilliant, brilliant finale. If that really is it, which I still hope it isn't, at least it was a better way to leave things than the way The Hour ended.

The petition (which, if you haven't signed it, please could you?) now has over 20,000 signatures. I don't know if it'll do any good, but it should.

And not a single continuity announcement, at beginning or end of the show, from the BBC. I'm telling myself the reason for this is because they know how stupid they've been. But I doubt it.

Idiots!

Comments

[gillo]

I am hoping the lack of an announcement is a good sign. That is not a kind place to leave the story forever.

I love the Beeb, but sometimes they make it hard.

[ex_peasant441]

I thought it was very good. I'm glad they finally forced Reed to face up to the moral issues behind what he does. If the show does end there then it ended well.

[spikereader.livejournal.com]

It was a really good episode, although I had been dreading watching it with the thought of dreadful unresolved cliffhangers in mind. Here's hoping we'll see Reid, Drake and Jackson again. That's a lot of signatures, so perhaps someone will take a little notice.

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They do.

If that is the end, it worked better for me than the end of The Hour. But then almost anything would. ;)

[shapinglight]

It was certainly a better end than I was expecting, given that it was made without knowledge of the cancellation. Both Long Susan and Rose found independence of a sort (even if, in Rose's case, it was just finding her singing voice) and Drake has come a long way.

I would still like to see what Reid does next, though. He discovered in the previous episode that he can't do his job without Drake, but Drake now finds his job abhorrent. Somehow, Reid has to find a better way of being a policeman.

There's still a lot they could do but if it does come to nothing - well, at least it wasn't like the end of The Hour.

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Yes, the number of signatures skyrocketed last night. They only need about 150 now to make it 25,000.

[ex_peasant441]

I would like to see what Reid does next but if we don't get the chance then I will be happy having seen him take the first real step of realisation (and then stumble and then have it driven home to him in the face of the woman he loves) because I think that is enough to be able to imagine that he will at least try to find a new and more moral way.

The one I was least convinced by was Rose, mainly because her singing was so dreadful, but I agree we are intended to believe she will have a career. Long Susan got a brilliant ending, I think. And I can believe in the hope of redemption for Flight. I'm very unclear about where Drake will go next and so he is the most open ended. Jackson I assume will just drift along, but that is ok in his case.

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that he will at least try to find a new and more moral way.

The thing that was interesting about Reid's fall and realisation in this episode is that he is in fact a very moral man. He's always found the method of policing he's had to employ repugnant, and he's always cared about Sergeant Drake, yet he's never made the connection between asking Drake to do what Drake used to do and the effect it must be having on him. And suddenly he finds himself in the awful position of needing Drake to be what he used to be, because he can't see any other way of dealing with Shine except the old way, while knowing that Drake sincerely doesn't want to be that man any more. And then he lets himself be completely carried away by his hatred.

It was never a case of being blind to what he was doing. Oh, anyway. I just want to know what he does next. I also want to know what's happened to Emily Reid. If what's happened to her didn't matter, they would have just killed the character off offscreen somewhere.

The one I was least convinced by was Rose, mainly because her singing was so dreadful, but I agree we are intended to believe she will have a career.

I don't agree her singing was dreadful - not this week anyway. Definitely good enough for a music hall career.