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urban genie said:
Just watched it on i-player and must agree, I couldn't give a fuck about their back story or the drama of it, or the flash forwards, anyone who has read the original kniws nothing needs to be added to improve it.

Also the opening naration is shit if it isn't Richard Burton.

Was looking forward to this but 1st episode has been average
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Would rather watch...I can't believe I'm posting this...the Speilberg/ Cruise bum fuck than what turned up last night.
 
Blue Hefner said:
World On Fire series 1 has just finished. What a disappointing ending to an otherwise great show
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Did you not find it all very odd? It started off really well but were there only 50 people in the war or something.

I mean, the younger polish boy gets taken to Manchester and then his adult brother finds his way from Warsaw to Dunkirk where he interacts with the brother of the sister who was dating the husband of his sister ... and then ... the older polish brother ends up in a mental hospital in Manchester within cycling distance?

Then, the polish boy's sister trapped in Warsaw, after escaping execution for murder - coincidentally during a bombing raid designed to allow her husband (who by this time thinks his wife is dead) to parachute into Poland on a secret mission - is rescued and is taken to a hideout where her husband is staying.

This is AFTER Helen Hunt's character's nephew interacts with the same brother (of the sister who was dating the husband) in a Paris hospital, the husband being known to Helen Hunt's character in pre-war Warsaw.

I mean, come on!!!

Plus

it looked like the ending was re-hashed after deciding to change the determinate ending to a cliffhanger after a second series was commissioned. The Helen Hunt voiceover and "World on Fire will return" on screen message was just weird.

Helen Hunt, by the way, just didn't seem right.
 
TheRemainsOfTheDave said:
Did you not find it all very odd? It started off really well but were there only 50 people in the war or something.

I mean, the younger polish boy gets taken to Manchester and then his adult brother finds his way from Warsaw to Dunkirk where he interacts with the brother of the sister who was dating the husband of his sister ... and then ... the older polish brother ends up in a mental hospital in Manchester within cycling distance?

Then, the polish boy's sister trapped in Warsaw, after escaping execution for murder - coincidentally during a bombing raid designed to allow her husband (who by this time thinks his wife is dead) to parachute into Poland on a secret mission - is rescued and is taken to a hideout where her husband is staying.

This is AFTER Helen Hunt's character's nephew interacts with the same brother (of the sister who was dating the husband) in a Paris hospital, the husband being known to Helen Hunt's character in pre-war Warsaw.

I mean, come on!!!

Plus

it looked like the ending was re-hashed after deciding to change the determinate ending to a cliffhanger after a second series was commissioned. The Helen Hunt voiceover and "World on Fire will return" on screen message was just weird.

Helen Hunt, by the way, just didn't seem right.
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Helen Hunt looked more like a puppet than the Helen Hunt puppet in Team America.
 
TheRemainsOfTheDave said:
Did you not find it all very odd? It started off really well but were there only 50 people in the war or something.

I mean, the younger polish boy gets taken to Manchester and then his adult brother finds his way from Warsaw to Dunkirk where he interacts with the brother of the sister who was dating the husband of his sister ... and then ... the older polish brother ends up in a mental hospital in Manchester within cycling distance?

Then, the polish boy's sister trapped in Warsaw, after escaping execution for murder - coincidentally during a bombing raid designed to allow her husband (who by this time thinks his wife is dead) to parachute into Poland on a secret mission - is rescued and is taken to a hideout where her husband is staying.

This is AFTER Helen Hunt's character's nephew interacts with the same brother (of the sister who was dating the husband) in a Paris hospital, the husband being known to Helen Hunt's character in pre-war Warsaw.

I mean, come on!!!

Plus

it looked like the ending was re-hashed after deciding to change the determinate ending to a cliffhanger after a second series was commissioned. The Helen Hunt voiceover and "World on Fire will return" on screen message was just weird.

Helen Hunt, by the way, just didn't seem right.
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It is a show for TV not a documentary. They cannot cast 100os of people, each with complex story-lines

I think it's well filmed and gives different, if not basic, perspectives
 
Narcos Mexico turned out far better than I thought. I imagined it would be a slightly watered down version of the first 3 (the third one I loved) but it's potentially raised the stakes on all the previous seasons. Great cast and characters and gorgeous photography...stunning.
 
Blue Hefner said:
It is a show for TV not a documentary. They cannot cast 100os of people, each with complex story-lines

I think it's well filmed and gives different, if not basic, perspectives
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They didn't need to have interaction between the two characters on Dunkirk beach, it was unnecessary and there were plenty of other people available. I'm still to be convinced how the man got from Warsaw (avoiding German and Russian forces) and got to Dunkirk by foot and bumping into British forces.

The injured brother didn't need to interact with the doctor in Paris (not sure he would have been taken there anyway from Dunkirk) as it served no purpose to the eventual path the brother would take.

The chance of bumping into someone in the middle of war-stricken Poland countryside is quite frankly ridiculous, this could have been handled by elevating the Polish girl's story into being rescued by Polish resistance forces and somehow her getting a message back to her husband via the war office whereby he then decides to rescue her via this secret mission (of which we don't know much).

It's a poorly written story in my opinion.
 
TheRemainsOfTheDave said:
They didn't need to have interaction between the two characters on Dunkirk beach, it was unnecessary and there were plenty of other people available. I'm still to be convinced how the man got from Warsaw (avoiding German and Russian forces) and got to Dunkirk by foot and bumping into British forces.

The injured brother didn't need to interact with the doctor in Paris (not sure he would have been taken there anyway from Dunkirk) as it served no purpose to the eventual path the brother would take.

The chance of bumping into someone in the middle of war-stricken Poland countryside is quite frankly ridiculous, this could have been handled by elevating the Polish girl's story into being rescued by Polish resistance forces and somehow her getting a message back to her husband via the war office whereby he then decides to rescue her via this secret mission (of which we don't know much).

It's a poorly written story in my opinion.
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Each to their own but I enjoyed it.
 
Citizen Green said:
Anyone given 'The Devil Next Door' a go on Netflix? and if so do you reckon guilty or not?.
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Yeah, I watched it, very interesting, I don't think he was guilty of the charges levelled at him, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was involved somewhere along the line, in another capacity. The witnesses in the Israeli trial weren't exactly great!
 
TheRemainsOfTheDave said:
That's the thing, I sort of did. The CGI scenes were good and it did have different story lines to the usual. I'll probably watch the second series as there's only six (?) episodes and it's always better than what's on ITV.

6.5/10 I'd say.
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Slightly off-topic but I find all ITV dramas awful. They might start off ok but then end up finishing very poorly
 
somapop said:
Narcos Mexico turned out far better than I thought. I imagined it would be a slightly watered down version of the first 3 (the third one I loved) but it's potentially raised the stakes on all the previous seasons. Great cast and characters and gorgeous photography...stunning.
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Mexico was the third one wasn't it? Or have I missed one?
 
so what do we make of The Crown series three. I watched the first couple of episodes and really miss Claire Foy and Venessa Kirby. Two extremely talented actors who gave their characters real depth. Olivia Coleman and Helena Bonham Carter not in the same league for me.
 
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