Dalziel & Pascoe

Diamond Geezer

Diamond Geezer

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If you're a sometime watcher like me you may care to watch this Sunday's programme (think it may be a two parter with the second part on Monday) as it's set amidst the world of horseracing.
 
It's the shots of any races that annoy me and spoil my enjoyment of the films. The main horse is being pulled so hard that its teeth are up by its ears, then suddenly they're all going about 75 mph and the horse has changed miraculously in running from a bay with two white front socks to a bay with two white hind socks and a star... these things are too distracting, I'm afraid!
 
Yes I seem to remember they did a racing theme in Midsommer Murders, the horse they used in the stables and on the gallops would have won a working hunter class hands down, also whoever they used to plait it should have been sacked, golf balls spring to mind.
 
and they had it plaited ( in a loose sense,thou it would have been the lad,and I only know a few lads who can plait neatly) on the wrong side,for a piece of work at home....
 
Forgot to watch this for the laugh - watching series 1 of ER instead! Still an hour or so till the poxy fireworks even start here so no point going to bed yet..... <_<
 
I thought it pretty good stuff as well.

The racing scenes weren't too unrealistic, and compare well with some of the tripe served up when dramas involving the I.T. industry are broadcast.
 
Bar the desperate need to invoke the 'non-trying' order on the grey, it was by no means as hokey as most racing films. The raceday atmosphere was quite authentic, too, especially with the quite normal look of the crowd. Did they shoot on an actual raceday, or was the whole thing staged? The vet's rather hammy, but the Polish (?) stableboy is spot on!
 
I kept flicking back to it in the adverts of MM - adn am off to watch the second part tonight. Against the grain of most racing things, it was one of the better ones,though I do have my doubts about the TBness of the grey still....
 
I think it went off the rails more than a bit, as far as being 'proper' cop work was concerned. The daring duo go EVERYWHERE - they don't seem to delegate to anyone to do the legwork or ring doorbells, and just happening to be driving down the lane where the plane crashed was just TOO pat for words.

I'm looking forward to dark, dismal, and dastardly stuff from 'Low Winter Sun', if I kin gerrmesen pust them ruther Glasgie accents!
 
They were on their way to the airstrip to interview the vet when the plane crashed near the lane they happened to be driving along, Auntie K :)
 
Oh, yes, I got that, hunney - it was just SUCH a coincidence that it happened to crash at the precise moment that Dalziel could leap out and rescue the baby, etc. In real life... oh, what am I on about? :D Most of our crime shows are so divorced from real life.

On the other hand, when I watch The FBI Files, I realize that none of us have long enough to live to see out the incidents in real time - I'm amazed at how many cold cases are now being solved, sometimes decades later, due purely to the retention of materials providing DNA.
 
Well it would be wouldn't it, :lol: but why can't Pascoe get to be the hero for once? He's much cuter. :P
 
One small flaw in the plot, the date of the flight when Julie Ann was dropped out of the plane was early Sept yet supposedly they were on the way to the Arc de Triomphe which as far as I know is always the first Sunday in October.
 
Originally posted by Diamond Geezer@Sep 12 2006, 11:43 AM
One small flaw in the plot, the date of the flight when Julie Ann was dropped out of the plane was early Sept yet supposedly they were on the way to the Arc de Triomphe which as far as I know is always the first Sunday in October.
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Perhaps they planned to do some sightseeing before going to the races? :blink:
 
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