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I hope this was the worse episode.

posted 14 years ago by Cobram
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Been watching this on PBS for the first time, and they showed episode 6, the one where the newspaper office is held hostage.

This was Keystone cops meet the Bobbies, hard to get into the serious parts when the actions of the police and everyone else involved were so ridiculous and contrived. It was almost as if they filmed the walk through of the script and broadcast that.

As I said in the title, I'm really hoping this is the worse it's going to get, the previou episodes were all very good to excellent compared to this craptastic phone it in attempt.

If it's all in the head of a coma patient, they could use that to justify just about anything. I don't think it'll take that route though, based on the quality of the episodes leading up to this one.

Man without relatives is man without troubles. Charlie Chan

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[–] mungreluk 14 years ago

Yes for me this is the poorest episode of the whole 1st series, and if Im watching them all, i try and get this one out of the way quickly!!

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[–] mungreluk 14 years ago

Which one is that then ?

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[–] mungreluk 14 years ago

To be honest Mick I struggled to like that episode for a few reasons.

Would Gene and the other officers really allow that 'Toolbox' character to do what he did, constantly go beating confessions out of drug addicts ?

And it was taking believability way too far that the woman just happened to be Maya's mam, and she (Maya) was the unborn baby inside her.

[–] stevemcqueen666 14 years ago

Mungreluk-I can believe that Gene would allow Toolbox to "deal" with drug dealers. I think in a previous episode we find out that Gene's brother was a druggie and in this episode Gene kicks a dead druggie in the head. He has nothing but contenmpt for them and probably views them as sub human. Maybe Gene knows that he would not be able to control himself if he bet them up.

On Maya's mum; perhaps if Gene's world is not real that it is possible for Sam to meet her. I would guess that Maya talking to Sam in his hospital bed triggered this event?

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[–] SpiltPersonality 13 years ago

yes, we do find this out. And I love the way Gene talks about his brother being weak for turning to drugs, as he sips on his hip flask. Funny as hell

SpiltPersonality

[–] peggygeordie 12 years ago

This was probably the weakest episode, sustaining its plot only by having characters act absurdly helpless against a hostage-taker that should have been easily overcome by almost any of them, let alone the Gene Genie! [Spoilers] I did love the moment Sam disarms Gene and Gene's stunned reaction. In the meantime, Annie is shown as a complete ditz, without the sense to drop or twist or do anything to get away from her kidnapper. Sam and Gene let themselves be handcuffed to a radiator (I can only imagine how many times during that they could have resisted), and then - truly beyond belief - when Gene engineers an escape, he kicks the gun away from the kidnapper and RUNS when the Gene we know would have pounced on the gun and then kicked the kidnapper into insensibility. The villain was a tedious old man, having to shift aim constantly to keep everyone under control, with any number of distracted moments. He also repeats himself, which makes him a boring character. Jackie seemed more interested in taunting Gene than in actual survival and was really a very irritating character, even more than she was supposed to be. Not that there aren't some amusing moments, but they are bought at the expense of believability.

Since when has "risk of being shot" stopped Gene Hunt in taking down a villain?