Ripper Street

[thebinmann]

Starting soon, oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh!

[inkydave]

Started now

[fastolfrus]

Just finished (allowing for kettle boiling and opening the digestives time).

Looks interesting - though I spent more of the episode thinking "could I make a building like that" rather than follow the storyline.

[thebinmann]

Just finished (allowing for kettle boiling and opening the digestives time).

Looks interesting - though I spent more of the episode thinking "could I make a building like that" rather than follow the storyline.

Yes the sets are great, but I thought the story (the content was really quite daring/shocking too) and characters were too! I have seen a lot worse at the cinema, it's a great British TV programme with a good cast and although the American seemed a bit To Sawyer in the League Of Extradonary Gentlemen, overall it won me over! Roll on next week.

It was very like Sherlock Holmes (even the music in some parts), as expected, but that is no bad thing!

I can advise any USA BBC views to watch and perhaps freeze frame for game related inspirartion!

[OSHIROmodels]

Didn't even know about it but I'm assuming it'll be on Iplayer?

cheers

James

[thebinmann]

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

[thebinmann]

Didn't even know about it but I'm assuming it'll be on Iplayer?

cheers

James

Guess so, or perhaps a repeat on BBC3, and it is worth a look

[thebinmann]

ta da

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00wk6ps/Ripper_Street_I_Need_Light/

But blocked outside the uk

[OSHIROmodels]

ta da

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00wk6ps/Ripper_Street_I_Need_Light/

But blocked outside the uk

Good man, I'll watch that tomorrow (probably).

cheers

James

[thebinmann]

Any time, no worries

[The_Beast]

ta da

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00wk6ps/Ripper_Street_I_Need_Light/

But blocked outside the uk

I wonder if I know anyone that can hack a UK IP...  

No, I shall patiently wait, and drop in on mum and sis at the odd moment...

Thanks for the 'reviews', such as they were. Positive comments WITHOUT spoilers were PERFECT.  

Edit:

Doug

PS Jolly jokers...

[thebinmann]

I wonder if I know anyone that can hack a UK IP... 

No, I shall patiently wait, and drop in on mum and sis at the odd moment...

Thanks for the 'reviews', such as they were. Positive comments WITHOUT spoilers were PERFECT. 

Doug

Doug

Doug

Doug

That was the idea   

[thebinmann]

I cannot escape the feeling it had been quite cynically assembled from a set of 'winning' components.

Decent, and wise policeman in charge  tick
Big bruiser for when muscle is needed   tick
American character to increase sales in US  tick

a splash of CSI, a dash of Sherlock music, a hint of steampunk

I will be watching and I honestly hope it gets a character of its own and not one simply borrowed from recent films and series.

Yeah I agree to some extent, but that is true of any story... you forgot the decent wise policeman with a "past". And to LOEG Tom Swayer alike was for the US market, but without that to sell it it might not have been made. For mainstream BBC I really think it was a good job, for me up there with Sherlock and Deadwood inb terms of me not wanting to miss it!

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...

[thebinmann]

a splash of CSI, a dash of Sherlock music, a hint of steampunk

I thought it was more English that CSI, perhaps Silent Witness or Whitechapel (which was great too!, esp the man in the walls episode)

[has.been]

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).