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Old 11-01-2016, 12:38
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So while junk like DIP and The Affair and Homeland get renewed, and whichever other equally vomitous shows are popular in the UK go on and on (like Doc Martin), which dimbulb network canceled Green Wing? The same idiots who canceled Getting On?
Your last posts have both been feeble attempts to troll the forum. Any reason for this?
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Old 11-01-2016, 12:48
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Watching this does not require any brain cells at all - and for me, that is the whole point! I watch enough neurone-tickling stuff and now and again, it is quite nice, in the depths of a miserable British winter to sit and bask in ersatz Carib sunshine and smile at the antics of a silly detective.

BTW I am not missing Camille - I much prefer Florence. She at least has the semblance of a real policewoman rather than just be eye candy.
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Old 11-01-2016, 15:04
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don't watch it then... its not rocket science.

I really don't understand why people persist in watching a programme they don't like and you did watch it how else are you in a position to comment on it? If you didn't watch it why are you commenting on it?
I agree with you. I'm always saying this to other people. I think in the case of DiP I really liked it at first, and I liked the characters, but one by one the decent characters have gone and now there's only Dwayne who seems remotely interesting, and he's become a caricature.

The plots are poor, too. Surely they were better than this originally?

And the humour seems to have taken a nose dive. I don't find Humphrey and the situations he finds himself in at all funny. It's just too predictable. He's just too idiotic.

But you are right - some weird feeling of loyalty kept me watching last series. This series I hoped that the programme would take a turn for the better. It hasn't, judging by the first episode, so I'll say goodbye to it.

I feel a bit sad, though, as I think it could have been so much better, while still being fun and frolicsome. Still, many people still seem to like it, so I'm pleased for them.
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Old 11-01-2016, 15:45
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Watching this does not require any brain cells at all - and for me, that is the whole point! I watch enough neurone-tickling stuff and now and again, it is quite nice, in the depths of a miserable British winter to sit and bask in ersatz Carib sunshine and smile at the antics of a silly detective.
I agree. Sit down with a cuppa or glass of wine and relax, you know what you are going to get.

BTW I am not missing Camille - I much prefer Florence. She at least has the semblance of a real policewoman rather than just be eye candy.
Plus we've lost the "I love Camille" stuff which was beginning to get really grating.
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Old 11-01-2016, 16:27
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I agree with you. I'm always saying this to other people. I think in the case of DiP I really liked it at first, and I liked the characters, but one by one the decent characters have gone and now there's only Dwayne who seems remotely interesting, and he's become a caricature.

The plots are poor, too. Surely they were better than this originally?

And the humour seems to have taken a nose dive. I don't find Humphrey and the situations he finds himself in at all funny. It's just too predictable. He's just too idiotic.

But you are right - some weird feeling of loyalty kept me watching last series. This series I hoped that the programme would take a turn for the better. It hasn't, judging by the first episode, so I'll say goodbye to it.

I feel a bit sad, though, as I think it could have been so much better, while still being fun and frolicsome. Still, many people still seem to like it, so I'm pleased for them.
I do understand where you're coming from , for ages I felt that way about Dr Who and each week I watched found myself going "Argh!!!! its so shit!" so I stopped watching.

I actually think this show is perfect for what it purports to be, a bit of light TV fluff. Viewing figures suggest its what people want.
I'm not so sure the earlier series were that much better TBH but then I barely remember anything about any of them once the show is over because its just a bit of chewing gums for the eyes.
Anywhoooo... I won't watch a show that doesn't entertain me and this one does, in a fluffy ridiculous, suspension of disbelief kinda way
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Old 14-01-2016, 23:15
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They've done tonight's method of killing before, haven't they? Though it may not have been an envelope seal the previous time, it was something pretty similar? I would have thought that the governor's office would use self-adhesive envelopes rather than ones that you have to lick, or if not, they would have one of those sponges that you dip in water to wet the seal.

When Humphrey was doing his mad babbling to demonstrate that he is solving the crime, he said, "They weren't at the party!" He must have meant Ellery, who was in the kitchen at the time he was talking about, but surely the only reason he said "they" instead of "he" was to keep the audience in suspense! If he hadn't figured out that it was Ellery at that point, then he wouldn't have known that the killer wasn't at the party.

JP seemed to have completely got over his fear of water as there was no mention of it when he and Duane went to look at the rock.
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Old 14-01-2016, 23:33
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They've done tonight's method of killing before, haven't they? Though it may not have been an envelope seal the previous time, it was something pretty similar? I would have thought that the governor's office would use self-adhesive envelopes rather than ones that you have to lick, or if not, they would have one of those sponges that you dip in water to wet the seal.

When Humphrey was doing his mad babbling to demonstrate that he is solving the crime, he said, "They weren't at the party!" He must have meant Ellery, who was in the kitchen at the time he was talking about, but surely the only reason he said "they" instead of "he" was to keep the audience in suspense! If he hadn't figured out that it was Ellery at that point, then he wouldn't have known that the killer wasn't at the party.

JP seemed to have completely got over his fear of water as there was no mention of it when he and Duane went to look at the rock.
Don't know what season we have, but now the Commissioner is doing grunt work?

What a long way this show has fallen..........and it wasn't that good to begin with.
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Old 15-01-2016, 06:53
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Thought the sign posted the motive just a little bit too easily this week.

I will concede I went for the fainting or allergic reaction then poisoned her.
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Old 15-01-2016, 08:02
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When Humphrey was doing his mad babbling to demonstrate that he is solving the crime, he said, "They weren't at the party!" He must have meant Ellery, who was in the kitchen at the time he was talking about, but surely the only reason he said "they" instead of "he" was to keep the audience in suspense! If he hadn't figured out that it was Ellery at that point, then he wouldn't have known that the killer wasn't at the party.
I think when he said 'they weren't at the party' he was referring to the people from the charity who the poisoned letter was supposed to be a donation for. In his summing up, he mentioned that Ellery knew they wouldn't be at the party because he had received their apologies that they couldn't be there.
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Old 15-01-2016, 08:28
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Ah, thanks for explaining that.
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Old 15-01-2016, 08:39
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They've done tonight's method of killing before, haven't they? Though it may not have been an envelope seal the previous time, it was something pretty similar? I would have thought that the governor's office would use self-adhesive envelopes rather than ones that you have to lick, or if not, they would have one of those sponges that you dip in water to wet the seal....
IIRC the previously similar one was the one where it was the stamp that was "treated"?

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Old 15-01-2016, 08:49
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IIRC the previously similar one was the one where it was the stamp that was "treated"?

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Yes, there was - an air stewardess died in her sleep in the hotel, I think the killer was in a different country at the time of death but had previously loaned her some Saint Marie stamps.
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Old 15-01-2016, 10:05
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Don't know what season we have, but now the Commissioner is doing grunt work?

What a long way this show has fallen..........and it wasn't that good to begin with.
Again!!!!!!

Your last posts have both been feeble attempts to troll the forum. Any reason for this?
Poster must have some petty dislike for DiP to keep saying the same thing week after week. Maybe he has no choice of TV programs he watches as he is being forced to watch this by his overbearing mother.
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Old 15-01-2016, 13:10
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Poster must have some petty dislike for DiP to keep saying the same thing week after week. Maybe he has no choice of TV programs he watches as he is being forced to watch this by his overbearing mother.
I know what you mean. The more I time spend in these forums those more I am gaining sympathy for these poor folk who are forced to sit in front of a television they hate. I am tempted to start a charity, get Lenny Henry to do an appeal, "just five pounds can buy a cheap universal remote, so they can see what's on the other channel" or "a donation of twenty pounds can buy him a Columbo boxset, so he's always got something of quality to watch (if amazon have it on offer again like they did on black Friday)."

Please help us free these people from their TV despair, your donation can make a difference to real lives.
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Old 15-01-2016, 22:27
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Old 15-01-2016, 22:31
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BTW I am not missing Camille - I much prefer Florence. She at least has the semblance of a real policewoman rather than just be eye candy.
Well I for one am missing Camille big time, I want my eye candy back.
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Old 15-01-2016, 23:10
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Duane used to know more or less everyone on the island, didn't he? And he has been a policeman for ages, surely? So it seemed strange that he didn't seem to know Ellery's story already. The island police would have had to investigate Ellery's daughter's death, wouldn't they?
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Old 21-01-2016, 22:02
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I have noticed that bloke from The Javone Prince show and also Elizabeth from Poldark was in it as well
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Old 21-01-2016, 22:02
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I don't have any axe to grind with the show in general (I've only ever been an irregular viewer) but I feel tonight's plot was very dull.
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Old 21-01-2016, 22:05
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I don't have any axe to grind with the show in general (I've only ever been an irregular viewer) but I feel tonight's plot was very dull.
Yes, it was dull - mainly because I have no interest in modelling - but also it was one of the easiest murders to solve I've even seen on MIP. I got it straight away.
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Old 21-01-2016, 22:58
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I saw the same plot (photographer leaving his camera to take photos automatically and give him an alibi) on something else recently, so I guessed right away too.
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Old 22-01-2016, 00:54
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I don't have any axe to grind with the show in general (I've only ever been an irregular viewer) but I feel tonight's plot was very dull.
The acting was terrible from the guest cast members
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Old 22-01-2016, 06:49
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Oh dear is DIP,losing its appeal, far too easy AGAIN. Rather obvious actually. Getting a bit of a yawn if I'm honest.
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Old 22-01-2016, 09:08
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I thought last nights was quite good overall, didn't spot the thing with the cameraman until towards the end. I did think the thing with the stocking in her hand was a silly addition, fairly implausible for her to grab that out of his pocket and bunch it up tight in her hand as she was getting strangled, but I guess they needed that as a red herring to keep other options open.
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Old 22-01-2016, 09:11
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I must admit that I didn't get it, although I considered the photographer, but dismissed the idea of him leaving the camera unattended because the fact that there would be a succession of images with exactly the same framing would be so blindingly obvious that he would have been nailed the moment they looked at the pictures.

I never imagined that the photographer would assume they would be so useless as not to notice and hence would never have tried such a trick. Or that they would, in fact, be so useless, as to not notice for some considerable time.


BTW: Did anyone else notice the Kris Marshall sounded as if he had a bad throat for a few of his lines?
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