Ripper Street

[fastolfrus]

Still all in all it reminded me of how much I liked to watch Sharpe and X Files at university (guilty pleasure perhaps), when TV become short films...

What about Hornblower?

[fastolfrus]

Plus I need some guncotton (even if in real life it would be less spectacular!)

You need guncotton in real life?

I suppose it depends on your definition of spectacular....

[fastolfrus]

I thought it a grittier version of Murdoch Mysteries. I, like fastolfrus, found my self thinking about the buildings (& modeling them). I also found the slang interesting & will use some of it in Victorian games e.g.'You a Blue!' (Policeman).

Actually my first thoughts were about the new Police faction that has been released for EotD.

Was a bit uncertain about the white fivers though.

[Thunderchicken]

I thought it was cracking and very authentic. As someone who studies the Victorians in depth I could pick holes in it but as has already been mentioned the production companies have to appeal to a wide audience so some artistic licence has to be tolerated.

Looking forward to next weeks episode, the trailer looked good.

Some pics for you:

The real Leman Street police station:

 

There are no recorded official photographs of Abberline but it is suggested he is one of the two detectives in the centre of this picture:



A wider shot of the same picture showing H Division taken at Leman Street police station around 1888:

[thebinmann]

I thought it was cracking and very authentic. As someone who studies the Victorians in depth I could pick holes in it but as has already been mentioned the production companies have to appeal to a wide audience so some artistic licence has to be tolerated.

That's was the key, my wife and sister both enjoyed it too! So we could hope to see a second season...

I'd love to read the police report of the last incident 

[Mason]

I thought it was ok as a drama, not great but plenty of scope to, potentially, become really good.

As inspiration I thought it was brilliant, and I immediately thought of Thunderchicken's and thejammedgatling's builds, and Malamute's great set-up.

Eagerly awaiting the next episode...

[Funghy-Fipps]

I enjoyed it very much! There's no mistaking it's influenced by the recent Ritchie Sherlock films to a degree, but I found it very watchable. Eight episodes, too.

[Galloping Major]

I enjoyed it very much! There's no mistaking it's influenced by the recent Ritchie Sherlock films to a degree, but I found it very watchable. Eight episodes, too.

Totally agree 
I also noted s similar feel to Deadwood, which has got to be good 
My idea of good entertainment on the box 

www.gallopingmajorwargames.com

[thebinmann]

I also noted s similar feel to Deadwood, which has got to be good 
My idea of good entertainment on the box 

www.gallopingmajorwargames.com

Glad the Deadwood feel wasn't just me, I think it was the Maison Close and the Pinkerton!!

Right on about entertainment on the (goggle) box, perhaps as close as you can get the "gaming" stuff too and still share with family...

[Sterling Moose]

Nice topiary collection at the front of this picture..........................or maybe even a recent drug bust.

[Malamute]

I enjoyed it very much! There's no mistaking it's influenced by the recent Ritchie Sherlock films to a degree, but I found it very watchable. Eight episodes, too.

Thirded, great entertainment.

 it makes a change to see something a bit grittier than Downton Abbey.

It's also inspired me to dig out my Gothic collection and play some games this year.

[admiraldick]

just finished watching episode 2 and i'm very impressed. i've been thinking for a while that i would really like a decent gaming table full of crumbling brick buildings and this has only enflamed the desire yet more. i've not played EotD yet, but something like LotOW with Peelers, Vigilance Committees and criminal gangs would be fantastic.

like others have pointed out it doesn't feel like the most accurate, however the artistic license that is taken seems to be to help conjure the atmosphere of the period. much like how Deadwood included a lot of swearing that was anachronistic, as geniune curses wouldn't have seemed so coarse to our modern ears. there's been some criticism in the papers about its racism and misogyny, but i have to say i was actually more impressed that it didn't pull its punches and try to gloss over the prejudices that would have been rife at the time.

@Bezzo: the term 'bluebottle' was used repeatedly throughout the show, meaning policeman. apparently that was a common phrase at the time, either implying that police tended to swarm around a dead body or being a elongation of the word bottle, which was cockney rhyming slang ('bottle and glass') for arse.

Simply the modern Sherlock TV series and the Guy Ritchie films have set a high bar for this.

i liked Sherlock, but it got trite very quickly. i would say a far closer comparison would be Luther which seems to have been set in the same grim and gorey world of London, populated by monsterous psychos, but divided by about a hundred years.

as for the recent films, the soundtrack is nearly indistinguishable, and i keep expecting Reid to bump into Watson in the street.

[thebinmann]

I thought the gang in the second episode makes for a great warband in EOTD etc... Some interesting characters and ideas too, though tatooed hands = very hard to paint....

[fastolfrus]

I thought the gang in the second episode makes for a great warband in EOTD etc... Some interesting characters and ideas too, though tatooed hands = very hard to paint....

Green armbands are quite easy though....

[has.been]

Don't paint tattoo, use a blue gel pen over a matt flesh surface. Leave for a day to totally dry then varnish/wash as you wish. It works for me & I am using cheap sets of pens purchased from Asda (supermarket) about twenty for under £3.