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55 mins of solid gold followed by 5 minutes of the worst TV in history

posted 16 years ago by skabnoze
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I am of course talking about the last episode. Having built up to this over the past five episodes, I felt that tonight's episode was fantastically crafted, well-acted and steeped in intrigue and entertainment... until the last five minutes, which effectively stripped everything away, led to an unsatisfactory climax with an abysmal ending. Who was the masked man? What happened to him? Is it me, or did his body just literally vanish? Surely, if the team returned to the care home and then went back to the cathedral the following night, the wells would not still be lit? A million plot holes in just 300 seconds, and absolutely no indication that any of these questions will be answered if there is another series, because there would be no point now.

Tobias Menzies and Dexter Fletcher were both superb guest stars, and the regular cast were outstanding. The writing in this episode was brilliant, the action sequences perfectly timed, and as I said above, there was enough intrigue to really make this episode engaging.

And then that ending. I really did feel cheated, disappointed and frankly pretty damn pissed off. What an awful ending to what has been one of the highlights of the summer.

Skabnoze
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[–] anatja 16 years ago

Highlights of the summer?

Where?

It started bad and ended the same way, no surprises here.

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[–] apostasia 16 years ago

As far as I can could tell, it was 55 minutes of melodramatic, loosely-bunged-together tosh followed by an inevitable, 'Oh God, how do we tie this up?' ending predicatable in its direness.

But don't get me wrong, it was certainly entertaining. I'm sorry the series is over, it's been laugh a minute. Encore!

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[–] skabnoze 16 years ago

Hey, without Lost, Heroes, House and so on, the summer's been slow...

I admit, Bonekickers wasn't that great, but I did enjoy this last episode - apart from the aforementioned reasons at the end.

Skabnoze
Dark Lord of Young Children's Education

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[–] syntinen 16 years ago

he's from a cohort where that kind of behaviour would have got him kneed in the nuts too many times for him to persist.

There isn't a British archaeologist alive of whom that isn't true - for the past half-century the field has been full of formidable women who you crossed at your peril. I still remember the opening of the British Museum's "Thracian Gold" exhibition in 1976, at which Dame Kathleen Kenyon took the delegation of Bulgarian archaeologists to a pub round the corner in Museum Street, drank the whole lot under the table, and strode out into the Bloomsbury dusk, walking straight as a ruler...

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[–] thetheeyecreature 12 years ago

"Cut out Parton's ridiculously anachronistic sexism for a kick off, it doesn't go with the actor or his age."

This is the only thing in your post I can't agree with. Sexism is the belief that one sex is superior to the other. Parton isn't a sexist. He's a lecherous boor. Agreed that doesn't fit the actor, and is really clumsy character writing.

Note: Julie Graham, who played Gillian, is only three years older than Adrian Lester, who played Ben. She was born in 1965, he in 1968. He looks young for his age, is all. What makes their romantic history unbelievable is that there's no chemistry between them.

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