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Season 14 (last three episodes)

posted 16 years ago by musical_devotee
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I've just finished watching the latest 3 episodes on DVD and I must say I'm not too happy about them.

I think the plots were too lame (the first two episodes in particular) and just lacked the elements of good drama and humor that made Frost so special over the years. To put it simply, they seemed quite ordinary (the clown story in the second episode, the conclusion of the story in the first one) when compared with the earlier episodes.

I saw this pattern emerging with season 13 ('Endangered species') and it sadly continued. I really hope the last episode that is due next year puts Frost back on track and gets him a worthy exit.

Any thoughts from other Frost fans?

[–] Passport-To-Pimlico 16 years ago

Having just watched the first two episodes of the latest series, I totally agree. It struck me just how dated it all looks. Perhaps that's part of the Frost charm, but the new ones from this year pretty much could've fitted in with the early stories from 1992 (aside from the size of mobile phones).

The clown sub-story went nowhere and the portrayl of the kidnapper at the end was far too hammy.

"They say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is"

[–] Thorsten-Krings 15 years ago

I'm just not sure if the solutions always stand the test of logic, particularly the first episode. A paedophile kills two girls in the m ost brutal way and then doesn't do anything for the next 20 years? What occured to me is that -much as I like all the actors- they are just too old. You get the impression that it's a police station manned with OAPs.

[–] CrystallineBlue 15 years ago

Thorsten-Krings why are you offended by the sight of elderly people contributing to society? You expect older adults who are healthy and fit to sit quietly in an old-age-home playing bridge all day?

People don`t suddenly lose all their skills and character when they turn 60 - or 70, or whatever age you have arbitrarily decided people become useless. It`s reasonable that a career-minded individual who enjoys his or her work would want to continue their career in the senior decades.

[–] Thorsten-Krings 15 years ago

I'm not at all offended by it, on the contrary. It's just not realistic that you have a police station excvlusively manned of one age group and in real life most of them would be retired by now. That's just a simple fact of life.