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Post by zaffra on Sept 8, 2004 15:12:58 GMT
The new BBC/TNT drama about 'the war on terror'
What did we think? or was everyone else at the PJ music prize?
All in all I rather enjoyed it, but they made it much more complicated than it should have been, far too many characters introduced at once and anoying grahics with names and locations poping up every few seconds.
It does have it's weak points: The Muslims are a bit 2D fundamentalists so far. Some of the dialog is a bit pulp, the American speaking of his friend who had been in the twin towers attack saying 'We buried his leg, it was all they could find' made me smile when it shouldn't have. Having lived in Nigeria I know it doesn't look like that.
But I like the strong female characters. A nice balance between the US and UK intelligence teams and their characteristic ways of working - Jemma Redgrave is ace as stuck-up clever bitch Emily Tuthill working for MI6 and Julianna Margulies is equally brilliant as her American opposite.
Also it's only a three part (although they're long) series shown on consecutive nights - Whay couldn't they do one a week? Being in three nights in a row is difficult for me (and I'm such a luddite I don't know how to set the video).
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Post by Robbing the Dead on Sept 8, 2004 15:29:54 GMT
I never saw it, but I greatly enjoyed the Hamburg Cell.
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Post by zaffra on Sept 8, 2004 15:40:04 GMT
The Hamburg Cell might have been more worthy, realistic? and better acted, but it was so slow.
I switched off half way through, It might have been because I was too drunk to concentrate.
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Post by pauliepoos on Sept 8, 2004 18:05:11 GMT
Some of the dialog is a bit pulp, the American speaking of his friend who had been in the twin towers attack saying 'We buried his leg, it was all they could find' made me smile when it shouldn't have. for MI6 and Julianna Margulies is equally brilliant as her American opposite. I laughed at the line. I think it has tried to have the grandeur and scope that Traffik had a few years ago. But what was with the subtitled dialogue? Line in English, line in Arabic with subtitles, back to English, back to subtitles. MAKE UP YORU MINDS. I suppose the thick US audience is being catered for there though. Agree that both women were on top form. It was good, but could have been better. My dilemma now is that do I miss the end of the football and watch tonight's, or tape it, and then be unable to watch it before the last one tomorrow, which will finish after Six Feet Under starts. 4 and a half hours over 3 days is a lot of committment to ask of a viewer.
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