Marchland

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i am so sad need something else in my life but i am so excited about tonight

been off work with flu for the past 10 days and just feeling human again so watched marchlands on catch up twice just to get the story in my head

happy watching

WHat about Scott? Couldn't he have done it?

How could Scott have done it? If he was 17 in 1987, he'd only have been born in 1970 and Alice died in 1967,

As an ignorant southerner, I am wondering what is so phoney about Alex Kingston's accent - sounds authentic to me? Seriously, can someone tell me what is fake about it?!!

Ditto Mark. He wasn't that much older than Scott because Scott just said Mark was shagging Olive the summer before he left, in 1987. So if Olive knew Alice, she must have been at least 7 or so years older than both Scott and Mark.

Either that or these screenwriters should be shot for not even bothering with basic arithmetic.

i think alice and olive were the same age.

Didn't we see Olive as a little girl in the graveyard with her mum in the first episode? When the mum said hello to Ruth.

Okay, then Olive and Alice would have been born in 1959, because Alice was 8 when she died in 1967.

Scott and Mark were born in about 1970, 1969 at the earliest, possibly 1971 if they were 16 in 1987.

So Olive's at least 10 years older than Mark.

Sure didn't look it back in 1987!

From what I can see her accent as such is ok but she is still pronouncing all her words properly without any of the northern quirks.
We would say "get in't bath" and such. Doesn't feel authentic.
Dh says I am way too picky about accents.

Yes, we did, my. She said she lost her hearing when she was 4 when she was talking to Mark.

olvie was his older gf then.

she looks older now doesnt she.

what about Dean Andrews, is his accent authentic?

Yeah but he's a Northerner anyway.

Why is Scott the only one of that family left in the area though? Do we think the parents come to a sticky end?

what do you think the letters meant on the bathroom mirror?

oh ok fair enough - he sounds the same as Alex to me tho!

Yeah Ignore me. DH says I am a complete pain in the arse when we're trying to watch something and I'm whinging about the accents

I think they meant ask Olive.

Could the Grndad have done it? Or the Grandmother? Why else were the even there? There is no real reason to have Ruth and herhusband living with the inlaws unless they have a plot point to drivee forward.

I think Olive pushed Alice in and the shock of it made her go deaf or she saw who did it. Where was Ruth when Alice died? There have been references to her not being where she should have been.

Loving Marchlands too. Have no idea what the twist will be or who was involved in Alice's death but obviously someone was because there's far too many unanswered questions. BUT, just wanted to say a really HUGE pwhoooooaaaar at Dean Andrews! Blimey, those eyes are soooooo shaggable. If he'd of looked like this in Life on Mars or Ashes to Ashes I'd have been hard pressed to choose between him and the sex-god Gene Hunt .

In the first episode when Alice was running through the woods it showed you her dad in the woods. Perhaps she stumbled across him doing something he shouldn't, ran off and fell in the water. Intriguing.

singlehappymummy Hands off Dean!

oh Vev you might have something there

Olive as a young girl signed 'sorry' to Alice's mum at the beginning - hmmmmm