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Old 16-07-2012, 09:15
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It was "relocated" to Latvia cos that's where the book was set
Yep, 'The Dogs of Riga': that the source material filled the broad BBC remit presumably helped the in its commissioning.
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Old 16-07-2012, 10:09
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i enjoyed the first episode, but this was so boring, what happened to his girlfriend, no explanation as to where she and her son went to. The story was just muddled and did not seem to be any point to anything except that the merry widow wanted to get into Wallander's pants at every opportunity. It was like watching a program on pause and just as depressing.was looking forward to this and even KB was not up to his usual depressing best
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Old 16-07-2012, 10:11
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The best I could say about this was that it was "average"
Branagh's acting in this has never impressed me, but it must do something for the director, the number of unnecessary close-ups we get of his face.
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Old 16-07-2012, 10:26
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I don't get it - the base stories are excellent, the scenery is stunning (although there wasn't much of that tonight), Branagh is a terrific actor... and yet it just doesn't work. I was really bored, and couldn't follow the story (and I'd read the book in the last year).
I'm surprised at that, I read the book a good few years ago and I thought it followed the storyline very well.

I think sometimes though, important plot points get just a line of dialogue in adaptations. The hidden drugs in the raft a case in point.
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Old 16-07-2012, 11:27
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If you watched last week, you don't have to be a genius to work out why his lady friend is no longer in the picture.
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Old 16-07-2012, 11:35
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Her character's name in the US The Killing was Christina Nilsen, a Scandinavian name I would have thought?
Maybe - it's just I'm sure I saw her say in an interview that she'd be playing an eastern European. I haven't seen the series myself. Anyway even if that isn't the case (I might have got some interviews with her muddled as I've read quite a few with her) the point still stands about Soren Malling in this episode of Wallander.
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Old 16-07-2012, 11:46
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If you watched last week, you don't have to be a genius to work out why his lady friend is no longer in the picture.
I thought last week in the garden was about as far as yer average bloke ever gets to doing the actual breaking off ...
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Old 16-07-2012, 11:56
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If you watched last week, you don't have to be a genius to work out why his lady friend is no longer in the picture.
The books have all been filmed out of order and they've had to change a lot of the personal relationship stuff.
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Old 16-07-2012, 12:12
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The books have all been filmed out of order and they've had to change a lot of the personal relationship stuff.
Very true. Dogs Of Riga was the second book, and Baiba Leipa became a supporting character through most of the following novels.
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Old 16-07-2012, 13:24
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Better episode this week....and Rīga looked stunning...in a bleak sort of way.
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Old 16-07-2012, 14:29
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If you watched last week, you don't have to be a genius to work out why his lady friend is no longer in the picture.
i didn't she would hang around after they went to the counsellor,
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Old 16-07-2012, 14:33
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Me too! I had forgotten 'Meyer' was going to be in tonight's and grinned when he appeared. Funny how they assume a British audience will buy a Danish sounding person as a Latvian though.
How many Brits would know what a genuine Latvian accent sounded like anyway??
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Old 16-07-2012, 14:38
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i didn't she would hang around after they went to the counsellor,
This confirmed it for me, because he'd been through counselling before, and wasn't going to change.

Run, (insert female friend's name here) run!
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Old 16-07-2012, 18:47
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"I have a daughter about the same age as you". What a chat up line, Kurt! What gal could resist that?
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Old 16-07-2012, 18:48
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"I have a daughter about the same age as you". What a chat up line, Kurt! What gal could resist that?
He was trying to put her off, not chat her up.
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Old 16-07-2012, 19:31
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"I have a daughter about the same age as you". What a chat up line, Kurt! What gal could resist that?
I hope you're joking, if not.
He thought she was a Brass trying to chat him up, he was trying to get rid of her politely.
Obviously later on we found out she was using it as a cover to speak to him as he was being watched.
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Old 16-07-2012, 19:38
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How many Brits would know what a genuine Latvian accent sounded like anyway??
Seconded, then again I don't even remember who Meyer was last night anyway.
I remember who's who while it's on, but forget the names about 5 minutes after it finishes.
I finished off last night with Stig Larsen film too.
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Old 16-07-2012, 20:12
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Who looks after Jussi when he's away, now that she's jacked him in?
In the original books, Kurt didn't get Jussi until the 10th and final book 'The Troubled Man', published last year, when he finally achieved his ambition of moving out of Ystad and getting a house in the country.

Every time Kurt is called away in the book, he relies on his neighbour to look after Jussi. It happens so often in the end that the neighbour asks if Kurt wants to sell Jussi to him, but he declines as Jussi is his only company.
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Old 16-07-2012, 20:32
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Did anyone notice the painting on the wall of Kurt's hotel room in Riga? Looked like another one of his dad's efforts!!!

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Old 16-07-2012, 20:46
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For the first time Wallender bored me last night. I don't know if my mind wandered off a bit because I thought it was so boring or the storyline was generally boring. After an hour and a half what happened? was the Russian mafia killing people or the Latvian police? The last series was gripping and I enjoyed the first episode of this - I hope it is better next week.
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Old 16-07-2012, 21:26
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For the first time Wallender bored me last night. I don't know if my mind wandered off a bit because I thought it was so boring or the storyline was generally boring. After an hour and a half what happened? was the Russian mafia killing people or the Latvian police? The last series was gripping and I enjoyed the first episode of this - I hope it is better next week.
Mafia in combination with Bent coppers killing their own people from each organisation.
Not sure what to make of the Fisherman business/decoy, then again not that bothered, best forgotten.
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Old 16-07-2012, 22:44
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Slower than a week in the jail, as they say........
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Old 17-07-2012, 14:04
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I hope you're joking, if not.
He thought she was a Brass trying to chat him up, he was trying to get rid of her politely.
Obviously later on we found out she was using it as a cover to speak to him as he was being watched.
Ahh. He seemed to be getting quite a lot of action with the ladies for some unknown reason :/
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Old 17-07-2012, 15:02
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Ahh. He seemed to be getting quite a lot of action with the ladies for some unknown reason :/
Come on... He's Kenneth Brannagh!
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Old 17-07-2012, 15:56
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Come on... He's Kenneth Brannagh!
Kenneth Branagh looking more than a bit rough.

Though some of us like 'em a bit rough-looking.
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