Originally Posted by duncann:
“But it did explore a lot about people's attitudes at the time and how easily they were manipulated in a society where there was unquestioning respect for someone like Christie, no one checked a single claim he made about his war record, health or qualifications , either his victims or the barristers in court. It showed the weakness of the death penalty and especially carrying it out within weeks of sentencing. There was no legal or judicial attempt to help Evans at all despite the fact he was obviously of limited intelligence with virtually no education and easily led by both Christie and the police. Nowadays he would be regarded as of at least diminished responsibility even if they thought he was guilty. And how vulnerable prostitutes and lower class women were because no be cared about them, social services were poor and abortion was illegal. The series captured the look, feel and concepts of the times perfectly.”
“But it did explore a lot about people's attitudes at the time and how easily they were manipulated in a society where there was unquestioning respect for someone like Christie, no one checked a single claim he made about his war record, health or qualifications , either his victims or the barristers in court. It showed the weakness of the death penalty and especially carrying it out within weeks of sentencing. There was no legal or judicial attempt to help Evans at all despite the fact he was obviously of limited intelligence with virtually no education and easily led by both Christie and the police. Nowadays he would be regarded as of at least diminished responsibility even if they thought he was guilty. And how vulnerable prostitutes and lower class women were because no be cared about them, social services were poor and abortion was illegal. The series captured the look, feel and concepts of the times perfectly.”
A very good post!
Yes there were not all the support services that we take for granted now and you couldn't google anything! And of course attitudes to prostitutes, abortion and social behaviour have change to the point that they would be unrecognisable back then. It was a totally different society back then and you did take most things by word of mouth as you had no other reference point to refer to.





