Au Revoir, Madame Nora

I didn't want to do a "spoiler" beforehand, but The London Standard indeed said on Thursday there would be a second series, now confirmed to be snapped up by ch4.
Couldn't they have just wrapped the thing up a little neater at the end and left it at that? Exactly what are all the "dead" planning on doing?
I felt somewhat validated (or some similar word that I can't think of)that we had a flood scene at the end, as I predicted before watching episode one. I wanted something a little more full-on mind you.
Agree with the Portishead comments. I don't suppose there's enough of a tune there for Portishead to bother suing...

merci.

i thought that was a perfect ending. i do feel everso moved by julie and victor's relationship.

i think the turning point for me was when i stopped trying to work it out and just started enjoying it being beautiful and interesting and intriguing. i can only hope it doesn't go the same way as 'lost', where the writers clearly had no idea what was going on, either.

(i know i keep banging on about twin peaks in relation to the returned, but i was reading this week about how david lynch never wanted to reveal the identity of laura palmer's killer - that for him that wasn't what the series was about - but they had to do it, and in the middle of the second series, because of pressure from the network. even as 16 year old watching it, i knew that was when it fell apart. it's not always the destination that's important, it's the journey. *lights gauloise* *looks engimatic*)

it was the town, flooded.

i was hovering on the brink between tipsy and hungover when i watched it, and indeed when i typed my thoughts on it. i think you can tell. today i'm just hungover.

Thanks Nora. I get an urge to buy the soundtrack but then i think whenever i've bought soundtracks to things i've watched it's never the same as when you are experiencing the music with what it's soundtracking so dunno on that one for the moment.


Gonna have to watch last night's episode again.It's all a bit blurred.Seemed at the time as if 'La Horde' had let the dam flood the town because they'd not been allowed to take all the returned back.

Ah just watched again. Think in my drunken state thought Gruff Rhys ( as it turned out to be, thanks) was talking French in the advert.And there were French subtitles.Is the Portishead rip off one on the soundtrack? I keep expecting the drums to come crashing in like they do on the Portishead song.

La Horde wanted Adele and her baby ( and someone else? can't remember now.Oh, Toni and his bro in the basement) but didn't get them. Would the town still have been flooded had La Horde got all they wanted? Who knows.


The ending was fairly satisfying for me, quite climatic.A few unanswered things but there always is. C'est La Vie.

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they are good questions, but i'm not convinced the answers would add anything - in fact, i wonder if they might take something away...

Climactic ending I meant to say, not climatic doh

New Dr Who will be revealed at 7pm BBC1 on Sunday. Dunno why i'm mentioning it as i'm not that fussed about Dr Who anymore anyway Though i see Peter Capaldi is now in the (rumoured) running.That'd get me watching again over any of the other candidates

Was it like THIS?

I had something like that problem before in Dublin. I can't remember if it was BBC player or something similar. I was asked for my post code so I gave a UK postcode and...bingo! But maybe that won't work for you, I don't know.

I was also thinking it would be nice to see their hands, and I wondered if we weren't seeing them because it's a bit of a charade.

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Does that mean it worked but you don't want to say in case the British television police bust you in Cork?

Johnny Factory(TM), I'm not sure whether to be amused or just scared of you right now. You either have a great imagination that needs to be channeled through something creative (from which you might earn a tidy penny) or you're an unhinged Dr Who obsessive and a dangerous man!

Eh? No that thing imagining Malcolm Tucker as Dr Who was pasted from The Guardian.It wasn't my creation. I just posted it because i thought it was hilarious but then deleted it because that was 2 posts i'd now made regarding Dr Who and it was starting to look like i was a Dr Who fan.Which i am NOT. I didn't even watch the most recent series apart from the first episode