Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Telly addicts

Related: Film discussion forum.

Original poster

THE MISSING IS BACK - part 4

938 replies

MrsderPunkt · 25/11/2016 08:11

As part 3 is full.

I'm having a day off due to illness, so am planning a re-watch from the beginning as have got used to the time switches that confused me at first. Quite looking forward to it - will pay extra attention to all things yellow, legs in fireplaces and anything else that you suggest. Probably cover my eyes at the drilla moment again though!

OP posts:
Thread gallery
7
Mhw02 · 03/12/2016 08:30

I don't think it was at all intentional that Sophie and Alice didn't look alike; I think it was just poor casting! They repeatedly say on the show how much the girls look alike: Baptiste says that when they were 11 they "could have been sisters", Driller tells Sophie that "you look alike".

Although the woman playing adult Alice has brown eyes, the girl playing young Alice has very blue eyes. Actually young Alice and adult Sophie did look very alike. I felt it was young Alice and adult Alice who looked nothing alike!

GrumbleBumble · 03/12/2016 08:41

We saw Alice and Sophie together when Sophie was ill they had a few close, affectionate relationship.

GrumbleBumble · 03/12/2016 08:43

Very close not few close.

purpleme12 · 03/12/2016 09:17

Yes I thought they were close too. I never saw what other people say about Sophie being funny with her.

But why was Sophie not seeing her dad?

I'm not sure if the brig was putting it on right at the end with Eve

LillianGish · 03/12/2016 09:18

Although the woman playing adult Alice has brown eyes, the girl playing young Alice has very blue eyes. My DD noticed that straightaway too.

MorrisZapp · 03/12/2016 09:29

Hello Missing lovers. I've started a thread in style and beauty to hunt down clothing items I loved on the show. If you can help I'd be happier than Gettrick at the Black and Decker January sale....>>

hollyisalovelyname · 03/12/2016 09:42

So I was right when I noticed the very explicit flinch Alice/ Sophie made when her 'dad' took her hand in the hospital in episode one.
He was a strange man and not her father.

BakeOffBiscuits · 03/12/2016 09:42

Morris Grin

Cel982 · 03/12/2016 12:04

As someone said upthread, it's not about whether Alice and Sophie look alike. It's whether Young Alice could believably have turned into Older Sophie, and looking at these pictures I don't think it's unimaginable. Their eye colour looks pretty similar here.

THE MISSING IS BACK - part 4
THE MISSING IS BACK - part 4
purpleme12 · 03/12/2016 12:08

I'm not sure why Sophie didn't want to see her dad?

MargotLovedTom · 03/12/2016 12:54

Because Gettrick had brainwashed her and poisoned her against her father. I posted this up thread: Gettrick had poisoned Sophie against her father - we saw him say "Alice's family want her back," as if to say "Your dad doesn't want you though."

MargotLovedTom · 03/12/2016 12:55

Emphasis on "want her back'.

shins · 03/12/2016 12:56

Capsicum I mentioned upthread that The Imposter isn't an accurate comparison - there was a lot to suggest Nicholas Barclay was killed by his own brother and the family was in on it.

EnidButton · 03/12/2016 13:57

I don't think it was meant to be a spot on accurate portrayal of real life. It was good enough that you only needed to suspend disbelief a bit. As you do with most dramas. Writers use artistic license all the time to serve a plot and drive things forward. I'm totally fine with that.

Anyway, fingers crossed the lovely Baptiste's final word was a hint to a series trois. Will see you all then. Smile

WidowTwonky · 03/12/2016 14:30

I also don't see any issue with the casting. They were not meant to be identical. Sam wanted her to be his daughter so desperately that he believed it.
Not unbelievable IMO

Ciutadella · 03/12/2016 14:37

agree, you have to suspend disbelief a bit to enjoy anything. Like Henry Reid not having his own mobile phone (an Army medic?) - but then one was kept in the cupboard? Not sure I understood that..

meatloaf · 03/12/2016 14:43

Henry Reid picked up the house phone in the room behind the door before saying the medical kit was in the cupboard

Ciutadella · 03/12/2016 15:17

Ah - thanks meatloaf I just rewatched. So Reid puts the house phone in his pocket, goes over to the first cupboard, and then goes to the other cupboard to try to dial behind the door. And nearly made it.

Would it have helped if he'd had a mobile anyway? As Gettrick presumably kept the gun pointed at him while in the car, so he couldn't have tried to phone sooner.
Can't believe the brig goes off to the garrison dinner! Though maybe I can - he wants to have as little to do with it as possible I suppose.

Justaboy · 03/12/2016 15:24

Anyway, fingers crossed the lovely Baptiste's final word was a hint to a series trois. Will see you all then. smile

Seems its now to be in Two years time!

mizu · 03/12/2016 19:30

fiderer that sounds fantastic.
I've loved every minute of this and like another poster said, I've tried to ensure children are in bed before 9! No breaks so full concentration needed for an hour.

yummymummycleo · 03/12/2016 19:59

I didn't think the relationship between Sophie and getterick made sense at times. In the scenes before they went to Switzerland when she had faked her own death they seemed in a relationship and like he had brainwashed her into thinking she loved him. Like they were a couple and they were keeping Alice locked up. But in the scenes directly before he decided to let her go and fake that she was alice she was down in the basement and there seemed to be no love between them and she didn't seem to be brainwashed in that way. I thought it was strange it then switched to what seemed like them having a completely different relationship.

I also thought it was unlikely the brig would go as far as he did just to cover up what happened in the house. So really he wasn't involved in the kidnapping at all. He just found out when Sophie got ill? Is that right? So how did Sophie know he was involved and treat him like he was involved when they had the conversation on the bench outside before she framed the other guy?

Overall I enjoyed it but there were a few bits I thought were tied up abit to easily. Plus, those bits above I didn't get.

CapsicumCat21 · 03/12/2016 20:19

shins I think that's matter of opinion. I don't think the sister who went to get the Impotser from Spain was 'in on it'.

Actually the one member of the family who expressed doubt about the Imposter's identity was the brother who ironically seemed to be most likely responsible for his brother's disappearance. I actually thought that was possible he knew categorically that the Imposter couldn't be his brother because he'd killed him.

Anyway going off at a tangent here..............

shins · 03/12/2016 21:00

Yes agree...I'm remembering it again and it was the brother who didn't believe and possibly the mother. The poor sister wanted to believe.

(sorry to carry on tangent Smile)

Dancergirl · 04/12/2016 10:01

Does anyone know in which episode we first saw Gettrick? That was in 2014 I presume dealing with the press stuff? How did he manage to leave the girls alone then?

ceeveebee · 04/12/2016 10:42

Presumably he just locked them in the basement?

Swipe left for the next trending thread