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Absolutely mind-boggling episode. That was bloody marvellous! I think I blinked twice. Mental, mental.
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That is one of the first times I haven't been doing two other things while watching a TV series. That episode was excellent.
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Hmmm; I'm not sure what to think after that episode. This entire season has mostly been fantastical and not entirely in a good way.
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That was awesome.
This'll probably be the episode of brilliance (or "Garveys at their finest") that I use as the positive comparison in 4 series time when its all gone to polar bear chasing nonsense.
This'll probably be the episode of brilliance (or "Garveys at their finest") that I use as the positive comparison in 4 series time when its all gone to polar bear chasing nonsense.
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They've got to tie the TV stuff in as well, that's too good a hook to pass up.
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Was that the international assassin episode? I loved it! All really hangs off the Kevin character. He's just as baffled about everything going on as we are! He's got a constant what da dickens is going on expression.
I expected the end of the episode to show it was just a hallucination from the poison
Thought it was? He hallucinated he was in purgatory whilst the neighbours kid thought he was dead so buried him? Wonder if we'll see if some of the stuff Patty mentioned that he couldn't possibly know will be true.
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The thing that's stuck in my head all morning as been:
"Why do you smoke?"
"To remind myself that the world ended."
I can't help but think that the 98% are the ones who departed, and the 2% are the ones who survived. Sort of a biblical flood style clensing.
"To remind myself that the world ended."
I can't help but think that the 98% are the ones who departed, and the 2% are the ones who survived. Sort of a biblical flood style clensing.
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Superb, the program is just getting better and better for me... superb stuff! This goes down for me as one of the great TV episodes of any series... right up there!!!
Hmm, i hadn't clicked at that. When i watched i just thought it was meant to be coincidence that he saw him crawling out of the ground, but now that you say that it seems silly and you are probably right
Reckon this series theme music is also a message to let us know they'll never try to explain the disappearances.
My own little theory on those three girls was they should have vanished along with everyone else but something happened to prevent it. Them going was fate catching up with them. That scene with them silently just sitting in the car not saying anything just seemed to show they had already departed in some way. Their physical bodies just hadn't caught up yet!
Everyone that went seemed to be the unwanted or unloved and that's why everyone left behind is wracked by guilt. They know, somehow, it's their fault.
The neighbours girl with her medical conditions, the woman Kevin was sleeping with, the unwanted pregnancy, the kids and husband that Nora seemed to begin to resent etc.
My own little theory on those three girls was they should have vanished along with everyone else but something happened to prevent it. Them going was fate catching up with them. That scene with them silently just sitting in the car not saying anything just seemed to show they had already departed in some way. Their physical bodies just hadn't caught up yet!
Everyone that went seemed to be the unwanted or unloved and that's why everyone left behind is wracked by guilt. They know, somehow, it's their fault.
The neighbours girl with her medical conditions, the woman Kevin was sleeping with, the unwanted pregnancy, the kids and husband that Nora seemed to begin to resent etc.
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Good theory!
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Hmm, i hadn't clicked at that. When i watched i just thought it was meant to be coincidence that he saw him crawling out of the ground, but now that you say that it seems silly and you are probably right
Yeah dude, the whole thing was supposed to be him getting his opportunity to face Patty on her plain of existence.
The confusion comes from the fact that Patty seemingly has no recollection of Kevin, suggesting that she is indeed a product of his subconscious and not a manifestation of the Patty who killed herself in the cabin.
Wayne and Gladys being her closest allies in the other plain is going to take some explaining if the above isn't true however, as is tying in Kevin's Dad on the telly.
The only thing I can't stitch into place is why Kevin killed Neil. Presumably because he felt sympathy for Patty and what he did to her, which would explain why he was so remorseful when he did the dirty in the well at the end of the episode.
I can't stop thinking about this episode, it's been in my head all day. Absolutely tremendous telly, I don't mind the slower episodes so much if you get something like this, "Lens" of "The Garveys at their finest" popping up from time to time.
Also, interesting to see Mary in the hotel as well. I wonder if she's in two places at once, which would tie in nicely with Washout's theroy. Brain crossed over, body still on earth/with the 98% and her popping back every now and then as Kevin did in the episode.
Wayne and Gladys being her closest allies in the other plain is going to take some explaining if the above isn't true however, as is tying in Kevin's Dad on the telly.
The only thing I can't stitch into place is why Kevin killed Neil. Presumably because he felt sympathy for Patty and what he did to her, which would explain why he was so remorseful when he did the dirty in the well at the end of the episode.
I can't stop thinking about this episode, it's been in my head all day. Absolutely tremendous telly, I don't mind the slower episodes so much if you get something like this, "Lens" of "The Garveys at their finest" popping up from time to time.
Also, interesting to see Mary in the hotel as well. I wonder if she's in two places at once, which would tie in nicely with Washout's theroy. Brain crossed over, body still on earth/with the 98% and her popping back every now and then as Kevin did in the episode.
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Really hope this gets renewed for another season. Last few episodes have been awesome
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Thought the girls disappeared as a result of Patty saving Kevin by draining the lake and the girls were the collateral damage of that. Also the water must be of significance as there are warning sides in the 'real world' surrounding the lake and then in purgatory there is the 'don't drink the water' undercurrent (pun intended)
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Nobody here watch the season finale yet ? Thought it was brilliant TV, right up there with the best. Hope we get a third season.....
Good to hear more (rearranged) Pixies too
Good to hear more (rearranged) Pixies too
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Nobody here watch the season finale yet ? Thought it was brilliant TV, right up there with the best. Hope we get a third season.....
Good to hear more (rearranged) Pixies too
Yeah I've just watched it, one of the best episodes for sure. Though it brought the entire story together quite well and that makes me wonder if there's a need for a third season.
I won't discuss it until it's aired on Sky Atlantic but great TV.