Vigil- BBC crime/ thriller miniseries

[A380]

Anyway, I enjoyed it. It was a bit of daft nonsense for a Sunday evening. And had the added benefit for those of us who know Glasgow that we could spot locations, and occasionally laugh about them going the wrong way to get to a location, or running around the back of a building into an alley that’s in a different part of the city. And so on.

It was complete nonsense on stilts but great mindless Sunday night telly.

 

[A380]

I was disappointed there was no argument over which artist's Silver Surfer was the best Silver Surfer or where Lipizzana stallions come from.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Anyway, I enjoyed it. It was a bit of daft nonsense for a Sunday evening. And had the added benefit for those of us who know Glasgow that we could spot locations, and occasionally laugh about them going the wrong way to get to a location, or running around the back of a building into an alley that’s in a different part of the city. And so on.

That the great thing about Morse and Endeavour (oh well, and Lewis). If you are familiar with Oxford and its environs you spend your time spotting locations and favourite watering holes, and it helps you coping with the unlikely plot developments.

 

[Pickman's model]

One more for the list

Says the lightweight naval gazer

 

[danny la rouge]

Says the lightweight naval gazer

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

You have to watch those naval gazers. They're always gazing at their navels.

 

[bluescreen]

The soppy ending, though. They did all the ridiculous exciting stuff with the torpedo tube and the Morse code that no one in the Navy seems to be able to read any more, and the borked inlet valves and the knife to the throat (kill her why don't you, and while you're doing that we'll disarm you) but then acres and acres of wash-up. Meh. And tbh I can't really work out if it was pro or anti nukes - both sides lacked integrity. But oh the ending. I said and did all those bad things but we're still good? Right.

 

[Pickman's model]

You have to watch those naval gazers. They're always gazing at their navels.

And full of ship

 

[A380]

And full of ship

Worried about their Ratings .

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

The soppy ending, though.

I know. It was completely unrealistic. The last time i was involved in a murder investigation on a nuclear submarine it completely fucked up my relationship with a Russian undercover cop.

 

[A380]

I know. It was completely unrealistic. The last time i was involved in a murder investigation on a nuclear submarine it completely fucked up my relationship with a Russian undercover cop.

Well, we’ve all been there.

 

[Santino]

Morse code... because the Bosun is Inspector Morse.

 

[bluescreen]

Morse code... because the Bosun is Inspector Morse.

Dashed if I could see the connection

 

[rekil]

BBC Two - How to Build..., Series 1, A Nuclear Submarine

Proletarian Democracy likes this so so so hard.

 

[A380]

This is what the BBC promoted as soon as that shite finished: BBC Two - How to Build..., Series 1, A Nuclear Submarine

Will it have a companion magazine partwork, each issue with a piece like those model Aston Martin ones? If you subscribe for 321 years you eventually get all the components of an Astute stapled to magazines…

 

[A380]

Dashed if I could see the connection

Are you dotty?

 

[danny la rouge]

Will it have a companion magazine partwork, each issue with a piece like those model Aston Martin ones? If you subscribe for 321 years you eventually get all the components of an Astute stapled to magazines…

Those magazines always go out of business before the model is completed.

 

[A380]

Those magazines always go out of business before the model is completed.

Fuck capitalism.

In a workers’ state you would be guaranteed to get the final part of HMS Victory 7 years after you started.

 

[Wilf]

I did wonder whether they were going to let her die in the torpedo tube, as a high risk game of thrones type way of shocking the audience (particularly as a watery grave was the one thing that obsessed her). When that didn't happen, the whole episode was about the things we already knew falling into place. As far as I could tell, there wasn't one single 'reveal'. I enjoyed the series, but that part of it wasn't great story telling.

 

[two sheds]

Errr I understand not being able to send communications but why could they not receive them either? Apart from plot development of course.

And yes I thought the sloppy bit at the end grated, too. One of the reasons I stopped watching science fiction stuff was the difficulty to engage with the emotional turmoil experienced by non-carbon-based lifeforms. Police are just too similar.

 

[moochedit]

Errr I understand not being able to send communications but why could they not receive them either? Apart from plot development of course.

I think the russian spy sabotaged the radio but in last ep it got fixed by the bloke that held the gun to his head in the earlier episode.

 

[equationgirl]

Morse code... because the Bosun is Inspector Morse.

Coxswain.

 

[Saffy]

It could have been 4 episodes.

 

[Santino]

Coxswain.

Same to you.

 

[A380]

Errr I understand not being able to send communications but why could they not receive them either? Apart from plot development of course.

And yes I thought the sloppy bit at the end grated, too. One of the reasons I stopped watching science fiction stuff was the difficulty to engage with the emotional turmoil experienced by non-carbon-based lifeforms. Police are just too similar.

I think the long cable hosepipe thingy was supposed to be the submarines ULF aerial which have to be 100s of meters long to receive underwater.

 

[nottsgirl]

Sorry, but that episode was shite. And I say this within the context of the entire series, which made Silent Witness look like quality television. There was zero jeopardy and the end took the biscuit as far as soft focus cliches went. Very disappointing.

 

[two sheds]

She was in that torpedo tube for 15 minutes, what do you mean zero jeopardy

 

[moochedit]

She was in that torpedo tube for 15 minutes, what do you mean zero jeopardy

Being chased by a nutter with a knife in a room full of bleach fumes wasn't exactly a walk in the park either!

 

[danny la rouge]

Plus she had all that pressure to say the L word to her girlfriend! That’s a lot.

 

[moochedit]

And the water leaking on the sub