Taboo - BBC1

Jokester · 7 Mar 2017 at 17:01

It's strongly hinted at that she isn't dead - there was a brief shot of her coming to and swimming away

Darujhistan · 7 Mar 2017 at 18:43

Participant said:
so you missed the big sword and gun fight then?

Darujhistan · 7 Mar 2017 at 18:52

Psycho Sonny said:
Didn't think it was that great tbh. I hope there is a season 2 to expand it a bit more as on it's own it was very poor for the cast they had. Predictable too that he would get away and go to his Island and trade powder for tea, opium, etc. Too short IMO and not enough of a story. Writing was very poor but with very good acting. Thought it was weird his sister killed herself too, she finally got rid of her tool of a husband.

So you missed one of the main themes then? The incestuous relationship where both saw themselves as two half of one whole? this continued until she rejected him and refused to even reply to his letters? You missed the passionate kiss where she sat on his lap and then 'dumped' him? Only to later kill her husband only to be rejected herself by James, leading to her throwing herself off a bridge? He handed her a massive rock and told her she was on her own basically.

I think the truth is you didn't understand the story. Not that there wasn't enough story.

Darujhistan · 7 Mar 2017 at 18:54

I enjoyed it, it was no Peaky Blinders or GOT, but a solid drama overall, hopefully there's more to come and more explanation of what happened before James rocked up out of nowhere.

Psycho Sonny · 7 Mar 2017 at 19:51

Darujhistan said:
So you missed one of the main themes then? The incestuous relationship where both saw themselves as two half of one whole? this continued until she rejected him and refused to even reply to his letters? You missed the passionate kiss where she sat on his lap and then 'dumped' him? Only to later kill her husband only to be rejected herself by James, leading to her throwing herself off a bridge? He handed her a massive rock and told her she was on her own basically.

I think the truth is you didn't understand the story. Not that there wasn't enough story.

i watched all of that. still don't understand why she killed herself. it came out of nowhere.

she rejected him. he rejects her. she kills herself. bit stupid when you explain it like that makes it look even worse than what it was.

wolfie138 · 8 Mar 2017 at 08:29

it didn't come out of nowhere, she murdered her husband after some fairly unpleasant events and presuambly expected Tom to hook up w/ her - then he rejected her.

Glanza · 9 Mar 2017 at 07:54

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cheesyboy · 9 Mar 2017 at 11:13

Psycho Sonny said:
i watched all of that. still don't understand why she killed herself. it came out of nowhere.

she rejected him. he rejects her. she kills herself. bit stupid when you explain it like that makes it look even worse than what it was.

Yeah. What about Romeo and Juliet too - why do they kill themselves? They were young, had so much to live for - without their current boy/girlfriend, perhaps, but loads of other stuff to do. She wasn't even dead when he did it. Stupid really. What's that Shakespeare on about?

Darujhistan · 10 Mar 2017 at 19:19

cheesyboy said:
Yeah. What about Romeo and Juliet too - why do they kill themselves? They were young, had so much to live for - without their current boy/girlfriend, perhaps, but loads of other stuff to do. She wasn't even dead when he did it. Stupid really. What's that Shakespeare on about?

Darujhistan · 10 Mar 2017 at 19:20

Psycho Sonny said:
i watched all of that. still don't understand why she killed herself. it came out of nowhere.

she rejected him. he rejects her. she kills herself. bit stupid when you explain it like that makes it look even worse than what it was.

I didn't come out of nowhere, it was one of the major themes of the entire series. I don't know how you missed it.