Red Riding

My wife and I got bored and disillusioned with the slow, slow plot development and the gratuitous smoking. The remote came to hand after about 20 minutes and we swapped channels.

you should have stuck with it to the end! Rob very dark & sinister.

First Class production, acting, location and atmosphere. Looking forward to the rest of the trilogy.

Bleak, dark & sinister reflects a lot of our musical tastes I reckon.

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Originally posted by Rob B:
and the gratuitous smoking.

It was 1974 - everyone smoked everywhere. What surprises me is how little complaint there has been about the references to niggers, gyppos, queers, polacks etc. which were also common currency in those days.

Absolutely superb production. The scene when the cub reported turned up at the party and everyone of any import was there sucking up to the 'baddy' was like the old hammer morror scenes where everyone turns out to be a zombie or a vampire.
Great stuff and looking forward to the next two.

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Originally posted by Rob B:
My wife and I got bored and disillusioned with the slow, slow plot development and the gratuitous smoking. The remote came to hand after about 20 minutes and we swapped channels.

Yeah my wife thought it was a very slow start but believe me it certainly improved. In those days people did gratuitously smoke

Loved it, dark, bleak all the good things in drama.

Started off alright, but overly smokey atmospheres and the frequent use of cheap tense moments of silence during conversations got me thinking about lithium batteries, so I left it for Google.

2nd episode even better, a bit more light but not much.

Am downloading now, will watch tomorrow - iTunes lets me keep up with GB TV.

Just finished reading GB84, can still remember being in South Wales during the miner's strike and going to London on the bus to do the student protest thing. The book much darker, but very true to the times.

Will be interested to see Michael Sheen in the Damned United, seems to be good times for Mr. Peace. Certainly, he writes a good book but nothing for when you are feeling a little down.

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gratuitous smoking

To the extent that it looked like the programme was sponsored by the tobacco industry.

Yes, people did smoke a lot then but certainly not to that extent, in my neck of the woods anyway.

steve

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Originally posted by Paper Plane:

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gratuitous smoking

To the extent that it looked like the programme was sponsored by the tobacco industry.

Yes, people did smoke a lot then but certainly not to that extent, in my neck of the woods anyway.

steve

In the context of staying close to the source text, then the cigarette smoking, whilst from a present perspective gratuitous, is correct. It did evoke memories of pubs in Glamorgan, I must say, and only reinforces the giant step forward it is to have smoking banned in public places.

I do think it was a mistake to jump straight from 1974 to 1980 - why make a trilogy from a quartet?

they ran out of money.

Nice Jensen Interceptor convertable though