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Fortitude

151 replies

TalcumMucker · 29/01/2015 22:47

I can't see a thread about this, I'm not the only one watching surely?!

Anyone?

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BaconAndAvocado · 10/04/2015 09:44

Thanks duck

I thought it was unnecessary to see the little girl being hit then stabbed but it is a Sky production..........

Overall, I thought Fortitude was an ambitious series and had a definite European feel to it, a good thing. I liked it that certain questions went unanswered.

The script was excellent and unpredictable. I didn't see Michael Gambon and Stanley Tucci being killed off.

The acting was superb, Luke Treadaway (fell in love with him after seeing The Curious Incident ) and the tall bespectacled guy who was Shirley's "feeder" were both great.

Will watch the next series.

We have almost finished watching the last season of Breaking Bad so will be feeling a little forlorn.......Sad

WineCowboy · 10/04/2015 10:26

Wow, DH and I can't stop talking about this. Yy cinnabar with your post and fiderer yes! What is going to happen to the tusks?! DH says it's ok cos they are ivory.....Hmm

I liked it too bacon, loved the accents! and the mix of nationalities. (Have you watched The Wire yet? If not there's your next box set/s!)

I thought it was brilliant, layers slowly being peeled back to explain a bit more each time, then apocalyptic ogre and terror at the end!

I still wonder what the hell the pig was all about though too....

EarlyIntheMorning · 10/04/2015 12:53

Fantastic cast and atmospheric location spoiled by a ridiculously juvenile and needlessly gory plot. What a shame.

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 10/04/2015 17:13

Elena and smearing jam on her face,what was that all about?

The blood outside the tent when Ronnie and Carrie were still together, what was that?

The pig? Confused

Despite my reservations I think we'd probably watch a second series.

Fiderer · 10/04/2015 17:32

The jam was odd - a nod to even prehistoric wasps liking sweet things?

Hat off to CinnabarRed for the infection being parasitic rather than viral. I couldn't understand why Carrie wasn't infected but Liam was and why Shirley was after just a quick look inside the mammoth shed. I assume even one wasp hatched and able to sting would have infected them, Elena too.

I found the whole prehistoric insect being defrosted and infecting humans storyline quite believable.

Though how Elena knew she should handcuff herself after her feverish retching episodes doesn't make sense.

And Hildur's husband should have shot Yuri in the leg rather than arse around fighting on the glacier. Even if he were guilt-ridden and felt he was defending her reputation ( from loony Yuri?) about the hotel.

The hole Yuri drilled wouldn't have exposed the larvae so quickly to the warmer air enough to hatch, surely? Not sure where they would go with series 2.

EarlyIntheMorning · 10/04/2015 18:21

Actually Fiderer yes you're right, that is a believable story. I guess I feel the level of gore and the way Dr Allardyce coughed all those wasps discredits it. Also, it's a bit 'zombie' or 'vampire' like in the way the infected look for their new victim...

Fiderer · 10/04/2015 18:44

Early I agree about the victims.

Shirley attacked her mum - Marcus suggested it was because her mum belittled her- but they lived together. Elena attacked Carrie - but cared for her and they also lived together.

So why did Liam go across town and kill Prof. Stoddard? And why was Dan there?

StillStayingClassySanDiego · 10/04/2015 19:10

And why was Dan there?

That too!

I liked Dan, I'd watch it just for him.

ChaiseLounger · 10/04/2015 21:29

There was no cliffhanger.
I felt very disappointed.
In the penultimate episode the glues coming out if dr's mouth aka Green Mile, was pathetic beyond pathetic.

ApplesinmyPocket · 11/04/2015 15:29

"The jam was odd - a nod to even prehistoric wasps liking sweet things? "

At that point Elena seemed to be still fighting against the urge to kill Carrie. I thought the desperate stuffing in of the jam was to try and block the inevitable exit of the virus-jelly into the girl she felt so motherly towards.

I liked Fortitude, I thought it was unusual, unpredictable and interesting.

Could have done with less vomiting, fewer pustules, Morton surviving, and more loose ends tied up - but on the whole, a gripping series set against an amazingly scenic backdrop.

DustBunnyFarmer · 11/04/2015 21:46

It was a shit ending - just watched it on catch up. The fight on the glacier was way too long - totally lost interest. The only saving grace is that we haven't had to watch a squillion episodes before getting shat on (yes, Lost - I'm looking at you).

DustBunnyFarmer · 11/04/2015 21:47

For the avoidance of any doubt, we won't be watching any 2nd series.

fairgame · 11/04/2015 21:56

I really enjoyed it and will be looking for to the next series. I'm easily pleased though Blush

AlternativeTentacles · 12/04/2015 08:40

Ok. So we got to the bit where Dan carried the girl out and then was gazing into the middle distance and the skybox decided to stop working. The screen went blank. So we reset and it didn't record after that moment. So we went to sky plus 1 and rerecorded it and it ended at the same point.

SO WHAT HAPPENED after Dan carried the girl out? AARRGGHH!!!

If you say 'nothing much' I'm not going to be happy.

DustBunnyFarmer · 12/04/2015 10:22

Um, nothing much. Honestly, although I was only half watching.

stinkingbishop · 12/04/2015 10:47

Right, in common with many of you, my questions (in addition to who the blazes at Sky had sight of this script and signed it all off with such an amazing location and cast, they could have done ANYTHING else with them, but):

Pig, hmm? Do we think it was affected and that's how Dr A picked it up? Or did she get it from Liam while it was still brewing in him?

How come some people go psycho and vom larvae, but then don't develop pustules (e.g. Liam, is it all thanks to the voodoo doll?) whereas some never go psycho, but become carriers?

What was Carrie's Dad doing in the closet in the house? Who beat him up? Who put him there? Do we think he'd already gone psycho when they were on the glacier together and had killed and vommed in something outside the tent? Did Elena put him there when he came back and beat him up because she wanted Carrie to herself? Is that how she got infected?

Why were they burning Carrie's/Elena's house at the end? Yes, to disinfect, but then presumably they should also burn Liam's, Shelley's, Jason's...

At the start, Vincent came to investigate why all the polar bears were eating each other...so are we to assume they had found and nibbled on the mammoth too? In which case don't they need to cull all the bears?

Agreed - why did Liam have to walk across town to the prof, Jason to the lab...I get that the parasite would create huge drive to find and kill...but surely the nearest human, not someone miles away who happens to have special significance (and what special significance did the prof have to Liam anyway other than that CE was presumably only available for a week's shooting so had to die asap?!

Arrrggggghhhhh....11 hours of my life, Sky.

fairgame · 12/04/2015 11:15

I thought that Vincent came to help investigate the increase in reindeer miscarriages, i don't think there was an issue with polar bears.

Jason killed Carrie's Dad. I don't know if anyone knew he was there judging by the scenes of him still being there when the house was burning down.

They have to be infected for more than 48 hours before they develop the pustules as that is how long it takes the parasite to mature. The people who went psycho were newly infected. The people with the pustules didn't get chance to go psycho when newly infected because they had been hacked up and couldn't move.

Thats how i interpreted it anyway, the rest of it i have no idea about Confused

IndigoApple · 12/04/2015 12:58

Agree with everyone else, the ending was so disappointing and unfinished. I was so looking forward to it after really enjoying the penultimate episode.

stinkingbishop and it was 12 hours not 11 as the first episode was double length! GrinSad

DustBunnyFarmer · 12/04/2015 14:09

The 12th hour being critical, as its now officially a whole half day of my life I'll never get back. I suspect the whole "I'm taking Liam home [to an unspecified but densely populared area]" is supposed to whet our appetite for more - potential apocalyptic doom, gasp! - but I can't be arsed.

stinkingbishop · 12/04/2015 14:09

But why did Jason put Carrie's Dad in his own closet then???? And why did Jason then want to kill again (the scientist) - Liam/Shirley etc just needed to kill and vomit once to deposit larvae...

Or am I expecting more logic in the plot than is actually there Wink.

ShebaRabbit · 12/04/2015 15:01

Despite myself I watched the last epi. How come Liam didn't die?
Think Jason was still in the house when Carrie and Elena first got there so maybe he hid Carries Dad and legged it. Doesn't make much sense, script was awful.

fairgame · 12/04/2015 15:04

Liam never developed any pustules either Confused

Now it's all making less and less sense.

diddl · 17/04/2015 19:13

What a load of bollocks!

only watched for Christopher Eccleston(Hmm) & Stanley Tucci!

I would have been interested enough in who killed Pettigrew tbh without the virus plot.

Fiderer · 18/04/2015 07:22

Poor diddl. CE spent most of the series in the morgue Grin

I wish Elena had died too, she annoyed me no end and she'll probably be in S2 now and Dan will be all remorseful and even more dopey about her.

Lammy7 · 18/04/2015 17:07

wow what a finale. Loved it! Would have loved it a lot more had the flies all come zooming out of Uri's ice hole and infected everyone! Then we mightn't have series 2....and to be honest IMO that might be a good thing :)

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