T soprano
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Think I'll only carry on watching this because it's set in Brighton
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The Fear
- Thread starter RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)
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Watching it on +1, shocking continuity.
RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)
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Not a bad start, some good visual touches and I quite like the moments of eerie stillness. But some of the dialogue was poor and geographical continuity errors were annoying. I'm sure it'll improve and heat up now the characters have been introduced.
The problem we have is we know the area and pick holes in the geography. I am sure if it was set in Blackpool the locals would have the same sort of criticisms while we would just accept locations and judge the storyline on its own merits or lack of. Incidently I often have problems with the locations in Peter James' books.
T soprano
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And quadrophonia still one of my fav films but when they say wow look at that my son that's Brighton( on their scooters) it's not it's Eastbournehate it when films do this.
start at West Pier, heads towards Shoreham, and ends up by the Brighton Wheel
London to Brighton was the same
Chicken Runner61
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- May 20, 2007
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I'm so glad they had a helpline after the program. There must be loads of sweaty socks who just had their posh hotel firebombed by Albanian gangsters or who have a son who is traumatised by finding a bird he slept with cut in pieces and left in his bed.
T soprano
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And Albanian girls that are sex slaves
skipper734
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Not realistic. With such a stake in Brighton, the Sons of the Sweaty would have been 1901 at least. No Blue and White around and no mention of Gus and Tanno's Murray mistake. 
Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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Hopefuly it will get better and that episode was just setting it all up because I thought it was really poorly paced. Lots of nothing punctuated by driving haphazardly around Sussex. I didn't believe the relationship between the Father and Son's and lots of disjointed cliches. I won't spoil it for folks who haven't seen it yet but the opening scene was just nonsense, nobody would do that on that part of the beach at any time of the day, you would be caught instantly. I realise that to people that don't know Brighton that would just look like a dark, secluded part of a secluded beach but it has made a big deal of being set in Brighton, not some nameless seaside town and they should have picked somewhere else. Unless of course I have mistaken the part of the beach he was on. Felt a bit like when Hollyoaks does a late night special for adults.
Randsta
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I wanted to enjoy it but I thought the first episode wasn't very good tbh! not even taking in to account the geography issues, I thought it was poorly scripted and not great acting! If you really want the fear try going to dukes mound.
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Bevendean Hillbilly
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Even if you don't know Brighton you probably could see it was Madeira drive/aquarium pier intersection in bright sunlight in heavy traffic...the point was ( I imagine) is that this is a gangster who has gone respectable but his Glasgow street brawler lizard brain is re-emerging as dementia advances. See also the high risk assault on the Albanian Mafiosi. After both of these outbursts of extreme violence he forgets that he's done it and looks confused when others ask him about his split knuckles and suicidal negotiation strategy.
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mikeyjh
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I thought it was quite good, think they made his head issues a bit too obvious, a bit too early though. Some of you spent too much time looking at the background, while it's set in 'Brighton', it's really not important whether or not the geography was 'correct'....
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Don't worry lar. Fookin mods don't know dere friggin arses from dere elbows lar. Dey wen down dere to burst de fookin rockers lar an ended up batterin a bunch of auld ladies in fookin rockin chairs lar.
You have put it in a nutshell
I would imagine all TV series chop and change locations, its just as non locals you dont notice. I ignored all of geography issues and concentrated on the Gangster.
I'm no expert on Alzheimers, but I'm sure its the latest memories that tend to get lost and the older memories stay in tack. Despite being a pretty frightening guy himself, you can also see that he is also getting pretty frightened himself. As a street fighter he probably knew he could stand toe to toe and hit the other guy harder, but here he was losing his mind in a battle that not even he could win.
You could see his fear bubbling to the service at the end, when he cuddled up to his estranged wife.
I thought it top notch.
I would imagine all TV series chop and change locations, its just as non locals you dont notice. I ignored all of geography issues and concentrated on the Gangster.
I'm no expert on Alzheimers, but I'm sure its the latest memories that tend to get lost and the older memories stay in tack. Despite being a pretty frightening guy himself, you can also see that he is also getting pretty frightened himself. As a street fighter he probably knew he could stand toe to toe and hit the other guy harder, but here he was losing his mind in a battle that not even he could win.
You could see his fear bubbling to the service at the end, when he cuddled up to his estranged wife.
I thought it top notch.
Three, but one was long before our time.
Nibble
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I was happy to ignore the geography but didn't think it was very well written, however it was only the first of four so will keep watching, I do think it will be a good drama taken as a whole. Thinking of not watching them for next few nights and watching it in one go on 4od for my Sunday hangover treat.
He's known as "Richard E Can't"... cruel but largely accurate.
