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So in Germany, parents of missing children are just allowed to run rampant on the scene of the crime?

posted 6 years ago by ManToTrust (1648)
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I'm only 2 episodes in and the cultural realism is coming across as really obscure just for story convenience.

That kid Mikkel is missing and his dad is understandably doing all he can to find him. But cops are swarming the cave and he's pretty much the only one in the there, and is in there alone.

It also has too many questions because it's trying too hard to be mysterious, and has predictable music tones that are overused in scary moments. Disappointing. I feel like the only reason people would rate this is to charity hype a non-American production...but that's not good enough.

[–] exatera (3942) 6 years ago

Why don't you finish the season and then form an opinion?

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Well, he is a cop, so I guess that is why he can go to the crime scene.

[–] exatera (3942) 6 years ago

I was also wondering from that post, how exactly are they supposed to search the cave at all if the entire thing is an untouchable crime scene as per OP's statement.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Speaking of the crime scene, the thing I didn't get was; why was the powerplant so guarded?! I realize it is part of the plot, the mistery that is yet to be revealed that something sinister and hushed up is going on, but It seemed like the police had no jurisdiction over it, first they had difficulties to get a search warrant and after Urlich went in there without it, they beat him up and question him and guards were heavily armed. Ok, he was trespassing I get that, but how could they beat him up and hold him when he was a cop? I think he was suspended after the incident if I remember correctly, but still even if he was suspended prior to the incident, the guards couldn't know it. Isn't it against the law to attack a police officer? Ok, we could argue the guards didn't know who he was, but it is a small town and also the boss of the power plant knows who he is.

[–] exatera (3942) 6 years ago

I think the power plant is outside of the police's jurisdiction, and possibly outside the law in general. It's like a secret government agency that does not report to any authority.

I was also wondering about all that radioactive cesium that they were hiding - where was it coming from? And besides, supposedly, if it's a nuclear power plant, they are allowed to have radioactive materials on site, but they were specifically concealing that.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Yeah, I think you are right.

And about the cesium, I guess we will have to wait for the second season to find out.

[–] ManToTrust (1648) 6 years ago

Yeah figured out he was a cop by like the 3rd episode. I guess that kind of fit in with the theme of the series with working up a contrived amount of more questions than answers. The guy never drops a badge in the whole series and dresses like a hobo who stumbled upon a lost hiker's coat.

I think the power plant is outside of the police's jurisdiction, and possibly outside the law in general. It's like a secret government agency that does not report to any authority.

I'm not familiar with German laws, but for any nuclear power plant to be above police jurisdiction? This was hard to believe. Oh and I feel like the guy who ran the plant needs his own netflix series. Really, he comes from a renegade background and somehow rises up the ranks against what would have to be a tide of ambitious locals going to school to support their local industry provider?

[–] exatera (3942) 6 years ago

I'm not familiar with German laws, but for any nuclear power plant to be above police jurisdiction? This was hard to believe.

I don't think it *is* a power plant. I think it's a front.

I mean, maybe it does actually produce power, but only as a cover.

[–] ManToTrust (1648) 6 years ago

That seems like a good theory.

Again though, even more of a reason to find out the backstory of Mr Nuclear Boss. It's hard to imagine a top secret government allowing a punk rocker to rise up through the ranks, rather than stack the fake power plant with their own top agents.

[–] FootOfDavros (6717) 4 years ago

Yes, it's a bit like in Diagnosis Murder where Doctor Sloane is free to wander around crime scenes, at any time, picking up clues the inept initial investigators missed.

Although perhaps in reality cop / police consultants would still only be able to access crime scenes whilst accompanied / witnessed rather than just whenever they fancied it.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 2 years ago

It's a tv / movie trope to make it easier for the audience to follow the clues themselves. Otherwise informations were just going to bombarded from multiple sources in an unlinear fashion and only real detectives would be able to understand the story.