This episode was beautiful as it was sad😭 The writing in this show is so well done, as is the filming and acting!! I find myself in love with this show and its collective assortment of performers, who all play pivotal rolls.
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Everything just.. Falls into place
randreww13 July 2018
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Up until now, the realism in this series has been adequate if a little too dramatic. But this episode was more like watching pantomime. You have Frances, saying his goodbyes in an obviously premeditated manner; giving everyone either a pet talk or manning up to the opposition. And then you have the old woman act as a mystic shaman of cliffhanger premonitions. But the ending is the worst piece of contrived nonsense I have ever seen in a period piece!! Frances, who by this stage was the least dull character, drowns in a coincidentally placed sinkhole in a mine all on his own for hours. No one thinks to send groups or pairs in to the mine as they have been doing up til now, no one can hear his screams even though sound travels extraordinary distances in tunnels due to reflection, & we are to believe that this man gave up after half a day in a puddle of warm water. The writer seemed to forget that one need not learn how to swim in order to get out of a spring!
There is a daft lack of commitment at display in this narrative & the way it was handled. The dynamic between these men was fascinating to witness, but now I fear all we have to look forward to is more misery & soap like drama from the same tired carnal rivalry between the women, to win the heart of doomed Ross. Yawn. How typical of the BBC & of a female writer.
Up until now, the realism in this series has been adequate if a little too dramatic. But this episode was more like watching pantomime. You have Frances, saying his goodbyes in an obviously premeditated manner; giving everyone either a pet talk or manning up to the opposition. And then you have the old woman act as a mystic shaman of cliffhanger premonitions. But the ending is the worst piece of contrived nonsense I have ever seen in a period piece!! Frances, who by this stage was the least dull character, drowns in a coincidentally placed sinkhole in a mine all on his own for hours. No one thinks to send groups or pairs in to the mine as they have been doing up til now, no one can hear his screams even though sound travels extraordinary distances in tunnels due to reflection, & we are to believe that this man gave up after half a day in a puddle of warm water. The writer seemed to forget that one need not learn how to swim in order to get out of a spring!
There is a daft lack of commitment at display in this narrative & the way it was handled. The dynamic between these men was fascinating to witness, but now I fear all we have to look forward to is more misery & soap like drama from the same tired carnal rivalry between the women, to win the heart of doomed Ross. Yawn. How typical of the BBC & of a female writer.
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