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The Fall

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hollyisalovelyname · 13/05/2013 07:49

Watched it last night. Tis good, but disturbing. Gillian Anderson very good. Jamie Dornan scary. Anyone else see it?

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ginmakesitallok · 10/06/2013 22:10

I'm cross now

HappyHugs · 10/06/2013 22:11

Apologies to those whom I upset - I didnt actually think I was giving anything away, just thought people would be pleased to know there was more to come. Obviously not, so genuine apologies (reverses out, tail between legs, head down)

SoTiredAgain · 10/06/2013 22:13

I still don't get why the path had to know the strangle victim from his university days. Why could it not have been a random off the street who had seen the news and had triggered the memory and the need to say something?

SoTiredAgain · 10/06/2013 22:15

auntie. He's a skinny sod, I cant imagine that he was any bigger when he was younger.

AitchTwoOhOneTwo · 10/06/2013 22:16

oh look it's not just a little coincidence that he managed to find the dumbest lawyer in B'fast... remember, she knows that someone has free access to her house and yet she decided to spend the night there. then didn't bother to get ALL the locks changed, refused her sister's offer of shelter and still stayed there. honestly, the woman deserved to die.

wintera · 10/06/2013 22:16

Did you all see the little extra bit after the credits?

ghosteditor · 10/06/2013 22:16

Maybe because it had to be a plausible back story and progression, rather than spending time assessing whether the person reporting the initial strangling was genuine? Just trying to picture it and I think it needed credibility and authority otherwise would have just seemed too much of a coincidence.

BOF · 10/06/2013 22:16

Did the e-fit come from the strangling victim friend of the pathologist? I assumed it was from the partygoers who saw him briefly as he left the last crime scene?

redlac · 10/06/2013 22:16

Rubbish ending :(

mumofthemonsters808 · 10/06/2013 22:17

Very disappointed with the ending, by the time it returns I will have watched many crime dramas and will be unable to even recall the plot.

MrsHende · 10/06/2013 22:19

He does a lot of running now though, could he have been a bit chubbier back at uni, probably drinking more and eating junk? (massive sweeping statement there!)

Thurlow · 10/06/2013 22:19

I liked it. And I liked the ending. I'll happily wait for a S2 rather than have it all rushed in S2. Just waiting for the next series makes it feel different from some of the other shows out there. Things don't always get wrapped up neatly and presented with a bow.

PartTimePunk · 10/06/2013 22:20

Wintera - what extra bit???

AitchTwoOhOneTwo · 10/06/2013 22:20

not to mention the fact that the whole statement-giving from the path's friend was wholly designed to titillate. could she honestly have pouted her glossed lips more? that, cut against a real killing (iirc, i watched it weeks ago) was very crude. likewise GA getting laid while a dead girl was being put on a bed etc etc. blech.

SoTiredAgain · 10/06/2013 22:21

Aitch. You are too logical Grin

The party goers did not see his face. He had his face covered.

DelphiSwimsLate · 10/06/2013 22:21

I am cross too. I also wanted pretty wrapping paper and a bow. Humph.

AitchTwoOhOneTwo · 10/06/2013 22:24

lol, i was APPALLED by this show from ep1, i am so shocked that everyone likes it, particularly on here. so many lapses in sense, nothing comes from character... actually, did anyone read the thing he wrote in teh Guardian today? he's banging on about how we got to know the brunettes... i never felt that for a second. also, that we begin to understand the killer's motivation... likewise. what does everyone else think? i felt like he was talking about another (better) programme.

christinarossetti · 10/06/2013 22:26

I felt uncomfortable about the way the path's friend giving her statement was portrayed - it was intended to be titillating and made my skin crawl.

And I've watched enough Cracker and Prime Suspect to KNOW that serial killers don't go round giving their trophies to their daughters or keeping them in the frigging loft.

flatmum · 10/06/2013 22:27

Aitch, I'm with you, baloney. And isnt someone going to notice when a NICU nurse just disappears and 2 children disappear from school.

I'm all for escapiscm and fantasy but the characterisation has to be just the tiniest bit believable (he tells his wife hes shagging a 15y old and 5 minutes later they're having sex?).

SoTiredAgain · 10/06/2013 22:27

aitch you remind me of those two old men in the Muppet show - Statler and Waldorf. Grin

HappyAsEyeAm · 10/06/2013 22:28

Ok. I loved it, but there are too many loose ends for me. Far better than most of the other stuff on tv, nonetheless.

1 he gave a dna sample at the police station. I refuse to accept that he did not leave any blood ie dna at the last crime scene given that he took a few punches and was caught unawares.

2 he invited the police to come and get him and said that he was leaving. Why didn't they set up some kind of patrols eg at the border to intercept a man with Peter's description and the profile they put together?

DelphiSwimsLate · 10/06/2013 22:28

I wouldn't say it was brilliant or that it was anything much different to other serial killer type things.

christinarossetti · 10/06/2013 22:28

I've not got a clue about his motivation - Sarah Kay's dad seemed to be brought into to indicate something deep and meaningful, but that's been all a bit messily interspersed with the 'childhood in care' line.

It seems like such a 'committee' series to me - everyone threw in their ideas and nothing could get left out even if it made no sense whatsoever.

SoTiredAgain · 10/06/2013 22:28

They've just gone on holiday, haven't they?

christinarossetti · 10/06/2013 22:30

Yes, but it's a fair point that you usually have to plan these things, not just walk out of responsible jobs.

She couldn't even get home from work the other night, let alone go off on a jaunt.