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Foyle's War
New series starts this evening on ITV1 (9-11pm).
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- No one seemed particularly upset that a police officer had been shot.
- Nothing much was said about someone nearly running over Milner near the beginning.
- Henry, who as a mapmaker had presumably signed the Official Secrets Act, spoke very openly to the priest about forthcoming bombing raids on Germany and even told him that one was planned for Berchtesgarten. However strong his religious ideals, this seems very unlikely.
- Milners well thought out theory about Henrys death being murder rather than suicide was practically ignored.
- The refugee German priest (who, as it turned out, was neither a refugee nor a priest) was given a parish on the vulnerable south coast some time after his arrival in 1937. Wasnt he more likely to have been interned to be on the safe side, because by then it was obvious that Germany was a threat?
- He said at the end that hed been to a seminary but had never been ordained. Would he have been able to cope with running a parish?
- He was found out because he had said he had previously been a priest at a village in Germany and an aerial photograph, intended for use in a bombing raid, showed that the village didnt have a church. He said it was a careless mistake, but it wasnt one the Germans would have made when they were sending a spy to England. (Ref. another thread a prime example of a story being contrived!) And wouldnt the allegedly thorough checks carried out on his arrival in England have discovered this lie?
- The spy wasnt expecting Foyle to turn up at his church to arrest him, but he managed to have a loaded gun conveniently to hand, although I didnt see where he got it from.
- At the end of the episode Samantha said she'd resigned from her job at the mapmaking centre in order to rejoin Foyle at the police station. Were people allowed to 'resign' from such positions so easily in wartime?
My husband was content just to watch it as it was and I kept making comments. Must have been very annoying for him that I was being such a nitpicker!
My fault for reading the thread, I suppose. :-(
If AH has distanced himself because of the plots, then you know there is a problem.
I think it is a reflection on how scriptwriting is going generally. Their apprenticeship is done by writing episodes for soaps- and they're hardly a recommendation to go on and do other things.
I may be being hard, but you can see a general dumbing down and decline in quality.
I think that it is a perfectly valid area of discussion, as it involves writing and construction of.
You've done it again!
I've emailed Webbo to see if he can add the word Spoiler to the title of this thread.
I just think people shouldn't be so cavalier.
Jenny has apologised for spoiling it for others- unintentionally, but it does not mean that it should be forbidden to talk about it at all.
I DIDN'T get it.
Not on my tv(London area) - not in RT either.