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Sykes and John kept getting interrupted! Just as they we're getting cosy too! I really am loving midsomer a lot now! Sir Sykes or...........whatever they would give in doggy knighthoods
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Yeah, that's true. I loved Sykes tonight
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Isn't it a bummer when you're in a cornfield being chased by a light plane and there's no petrol tanker around to help you out?
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Neil Dudgeon looks like Cameron.
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"Eth" your showing your age there
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It's not often that MM confuses me, but can somebody explain why the secretary's Dad needed to be killed?
It was obvious when we thought it was to do with smuggling but when the reason for the real murders came out I couldn't understand why he had to die? Was it because he saw her flying a plane when she had said she couldn't fly? |
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It's not often that MM confuses me, but can somebody explain why the secretary's Dad needed to be killed?
It was obvious when we thought it was to do with smuggling but when the reason for the real murders came out I couldn't understand why he had to die? Was it because he saw her flying a plane when she had said she couldn't fly? Did anyone else think June has aged quickly all of a sudden and lost a tremendous amount of weight. |
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In the last scene, why were June Whitfield and Bernard Cribbins wearing American style Vets Uniforms? most old soldiers wear berets and blazers with service badge on the pocket. Is it so they can sell it to America and the Americans will understand what they are?
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It's not often that MM confuses me, but can somebody explain why the secretary's Dad needed to be killed?
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Or that your car that you just got out of was not close enough so you can get back in it and drive off
![]() Just as he could have got back in the car, so could Cary Grant have just laid down in the cornfield to escape the plane. But it is "cinematic etiquette" not to do so. As in in all dramas, where someone is being chased by a car, the form is to run forwards towards the camera, not turn to one side or other and duck down a side street to escape the car and be out of sight of the camera. |
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Neil Dudgeon looks like Cameron.
As for the plane, if I were chased in a cornfield I would lay flat on the ground till the plane passed over then legged it pdq to the car repeating lying down if need be. |
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Yes I agree, I am glad someone else can see this, I thought it was just me who thought that, it would easy to take him for Cameron's brother.
As for the plane, if I were chased in a cornfield I would lay flat on the ground till the plane passed over then legged it pdq to the car repeating lying down if need be. |
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Midsomer is becoming ridiculous. As if there isn't enough irrelevant padding with Barnaby and his wife, we've now got Kate's domestic life with her parents. And how many people, ESPECIALLY in the Police, notorious for skiving and malingering, do you know who routinely spend their free evenings working on a case? Not unless they're on triple time.
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Midsomer is becoming ridiculous. As if there isn't enough irrelevant padding with Barnaby and his wife, we've now got Kate's domestic life with her parents. And how many people, ESPECIALLY in the Police, notorious for skiving and malingering, do you know who routinely spend their free evenings working on a case? Not unless they're on triple time.
In the early series, poor old Cully had a succession of jobs for the writers to be able to include her in the circumstances of a few of the murders that occurred. Same on a few occasions with the activities of Joyce. As with the original Barney Bee, the personal lives of other members of the cast are included to make the main character seem less one dimensional. It's now become more a "dog and pony show" (we've had the dog for a bit, I'm expecting the pony to arrive at any minute). We've now got a "will they won't they?" element introduced between the pathologist and the sergeant, just as there were occasional ones involving Cully. It really doesn't bother me, it's a pretty harmless sort of on-going series, that doesn't deserve to be taken too seriously. It's set in an "unreal world" which I guess is part of its enduring attraction for many. |
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As with the original Barney Bee, the personal lives of other members of the cast are included to make the main character seem less one dimensional. It's now become more a "dog and pony show" (we've had the dog for a bit, I'm expecting the pony to arrive at any minute).
We've now got a "will they won't they?" element introduced between the pathologist and the sergeant, just as there were occasional ones involving Cully. It's true there has always been this nonsense, as with Joyce and Cully, but they'e now effectively doubling it with Kate's personal life. It wouldn't be so bad if it was developing the characters, such as, say, scenes in Rumpole that have little to do with the story. The difference here is it's just mindless froth. And not another tedious 'will they won't they?' |
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, it's a pretty harmless sort of on-going series, that doesn't deserve to be taken too seriously. It's set in an "unreal world" which I guess is part of its enduring attraction for many.
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He'd seen Laila Rouass flying her husbands body out and tried to blackmail her, which she explained when she was threatening Barnaby with the flare gun.
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Dammit I was out for the evening and forgot to record.
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As far as I can make out, he had seen the fellow she was going to marry, loading up the plane with the goods he was smuggling out. Having said that, i was a bit confused too.
Did anyone else think June has aged quickly all of a sudden and lost a tremendous amount of weight. Long may it continue! |
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Yes, plenty of artistic licence. The airfield was a Battle of Britain fighter base, so why did June Whitfield land a Lancaster Bomber there? and why was Bernard Cribbins sister returning a Spitfire to Castle Bromwich for repair? Castle Bromwich built new planes but repairs were carried out by RAF ground crew on the base.
http://imageshack.com/a/img845/9514/scan0001.png One slight little old lady recalled the occasion when she delivered a heavy bomber to an airfield, that as she descended from the plane and made to walk towards the control tower, the party sent to greet the plane made no move. "What are you waiting for?" she asked. "The pilot!" "I'm the pilot." They didn't believe her and went and searched the plane. |
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OK episode,not that exciting like last weeks and bernard cribbins badly underused
Felt like he was struggling with every line. Why use him? Let him enjoy his well earned retirement. |
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Yes, it was all a bit of a mess and a rather mundane murder scenario in the end.
Sykes played his part well. But, is there any point in a dog at all? Contributes nothing to the story, (except perhaps to show what an empty and unfulfilling life Barnaby has), and whenever it is on screen it is clearly staring at its trainer off-camera for its next instruction. As or seeing eating at, or on the table - yuk! |
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But, is there any point in a dog at all? Contributes nothing to the story, (except perhaps to show what an empty and unfulfilling life Barnaby has), and whenever it is on screen it is clearly staring at its trainer off-camera for its next instruction.
As or seeing eating at, or on the table - yuk! Maybe the dog was originally introduced, like other characters as I suggested, to make both John Nettles and now Neil Dudgeon, look less one dimensional. However, the dog is acting the pants off Dudgeon, so it looks as if it's backfired. |
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However, the dog is acting the pants off Dudgeon, so it looks as if it's backfired.
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It was just an "homage" to "North By North West."
Just as he could have got back in the car, so could Cary Grant have just laid down in the cornfield to escape the plane. But it is "cinematic etiquette" not to do so. As in in all dramas, where someone is being chased by a car, the form is to run forwards towards the camera, not turn to one side or other and duck down a side street to escape the car and be out of sight of the camera.
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