Look what is the TV Times' pick of the day for Monday !

There is one particular sentence that is guaranteed to get a reaction here!

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true! but I can't deny I may be a little bit excited for this advice!

domino wrote:

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@fifi not wishing to sway you one way or the other, but in the cast list there is a priest..but that doesn't necessarily imply his confession! (though i think it is!)

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 OK....I'm swayed!

So good to see that pic in the TV times that I almost don't care what it says.....almost!  But not sure what Jackson could teach him......he has charm and wit - oh no....hang on....that's not right, is it?!

PradaKat wrote:

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Hahahahahahahaha!

No requirement for that, unless it's a lesson how to wear long johns as low as possible

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 THIS! 

Tonight's Ripper Street episode is recommended viewing by the Metro and the Guardian:


The Ultimate Guide TV Picks 18/11/2013 | The Metro

Ripper Street, BBC1, 9pm
The surprise demise of an officer of the law sees an Irish prisoner – jailed for a prison blast that killed innocent civilians – set loose on the streets of Whitechapel. In an explosive chain of events, a rampantly anti-Irish parliamentarian is murdered and bright spark Detective Constable Albert Flight (Being Human’s Damien Molony) is sent undercover to flush out the killer – or killers. A gritty cop drama to be relished as much for its language as the crimes under scrutiny.

TV Highlights nov 18 | The Guardian

Ripper Street
9pm, BBC1

 

After two decades banged up in Newgate, dynamiter Aiden Galvin escapes from custody into the dark streets of Reid's Whitechapel manor. Worse, Galvin, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, is soon up to his old tricks again, targeting an MP famed for his opposition to Irish home rule. But are things quite what they seem? A cleverly scripted story of corruption and the nascent electricity-generating industry that finds naive copper DC Flight (Damien Molony of Being Human) having to prove his mettle. Jonathan Wright

I have a feeling there will be some great Flight quotes from tonight's episode! 2 hours 40 mins to go!!

I thought he was brilliant. The beginning in the confessional told us what he couldn't tell Evelyn. Then the scene at the end really got to me!

A lovely, solid performance by Damien as always.

Flight comes across as rather innocent, not drinking (though i can understand why, apparently his father died from the drink) and his mum dying when he was small. I could speculate his wanting to impress Reid could stem from an absent father (down the pub all the time) and neglect. The 'bless me father for i have sinned' opener was intriguing, was it supposed to be after everything that had happened or does it pertain to something else.

Loved that Evelyn called him 'lemonade', that suited him i thought. The scene between Reid, Jackson, Drake and Flight was a bit of a hoot, I had a feeling what was going to happen to Flight, to give him that black eye, i felt so sorry for him. And i felt the first stirrings of acceptance for Flight within the group during that scene too. His youth was alluded to once or twice by Abberline, Jackson and Drake. And wow, he did look young, he looked several years younger than his twenty nine years.

I'm married to an electrician so i found the storyline of the burgeoning electricity industry interesting too as well as the relationship between Jane and Edmund. He seemed to nip any impropriety firmly in the bud at the end but i wonder whether he truly has?

But Flight fell hard for Evelyn (lovely performance too by Charlie Murphy) and it hurt him to see her walk away and i think it hurt us a little bit too. I also thought the actor playing Aidan Galvin put in a pretty solid performance, felt a little sympathy for him but none whatsoever for his sidekick who sizzled himself on the transformer thingumajig.

I'll find the time to watch this again on iPlayer because of circumstances, i think i missed a lot of dialogue.

Agree Lisa and fifi - we thought we may find out what he was confessing to in this episode, but "I'm a liar" has only added to the intrigue! now that we have had glimpses of his backstory i wonder if it is to do with this - and how his past makes him as dedicated and determined as he is? I find it increasingly hard to see him as a real baddie because as we get to know him more we do see how young he is, and in this episode again, his good heartedness.

I am about to have a re-watch too!!

The episode is now available on the BBC iplayer (including in wonderful HD!)

Ripper Street Series 2 Dynamite and a Woman | BBC iplayer

Ripper Street was absolutely trounced by 'I'm a Celebrity' (or as i have now christened it, I'm a Z-Lebrity, Resurrect My Career!'), it pulled three times the viewers that Ripper Street did. It goes to show that some folk will watch any old tripe (or are just masochists.) 3.3 million to 10.8. Numbers down again from last week where it made just over 4 million. I'm wondering whether the move to a Monday night was a bit of a bad idea. Like Downton Abbey, IAC is a bit of a juggernaut so i'm hoping numbers will recover. And i hope for those who watch via Iplayer etc to bolster the numbers.

I noticed a few of the continuity errors in the pub. When he first enters and approaches the bar, his hair is sticking up and literally from one shot to the next it's flattened down but there'd be no time to flatten it down IYSWIM.

Now...Flight's confession at the beginning. It makes it interesting if the episode was chronological because it alludes to secrets, which we're aware of. I interpreted it as lying to Evelyn. Bearing in mind he's so young (and his youth was a central theme, he was called 'lad' and similar throughout and out of work clothes he looked incredibly young and so different) and he hasn't really been on the force long. I don't think he's had time to develop any kind of a shell, or an ability to separate truth from lies where work is concerned. I think the fact he doesn't drink, the pep talk from the boys etc spoke of his inexperience. So i firmly believe lying to someone, especially someone he was obviously developing feelings for, would sit uncomfortably for him. But that is just supposition, i suppose as the series unfolds, that may come to bite me on the backside and he is indeed an accomplished liar and has played everyone. Time will tell. (Wouldn't it be something if he was a spy for Shine? wow!)

-- Edited by rubyrosettared on Tuesday 19th of November 2013 02:46:31 PM

oh also, interesting that the kiss shot in the "next time" preview was not actually shown in the episode.  They used a different angle.  Not sure if I'm pleased or not about that.  Of course I wanted to see more of the Flight action in that bedroom...

and WOW, the lighting on him when Jackson was giving him advice!  (as shown in the 6th screencap on the first batch above from this evening)  It was incredibly just wow!