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shallowness) wrote2018-09-17 06:50 pm
shallowness) wrote2018-09-17 06:50 pm
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Penultimatum
Bodyguard episode 5
In which our protagonist turns into a terrier—a traumatised terrier, but one who manages to get an incredibly long leash from the women around him. Yes, it may have strained my credulity a bit, and the finale need more scenes that raise the pulse, frankly. This ep was mainly about investigating Julia’s death (AND KIM’S, DAVID) and testing out theories the audience had been pondering all week.
I had started going ‘Maybe Vicky is a sleeper agent!’ or ‘Maybe it’s the kids and the genre will change!’.
But also a whole new element was introduced with an organised crime angle, and I’m not entirely onboard with that. Yes, bringing back Chanelle and her lift was clever, but the rest of it—while logical—feels a bit like cheating by the show. Of course, her using ‘Sam’ made me think ‘secret service?’ even though, for reasons discussed by me in response last episode and in the ‘who benefits’ discussion among the characters, their motivation for orchestrating such a long-running campaign against Montague makes no sense.
I think where we’re at is that there is a connection between the secret services and the train bomb attempt, which I guess was about getting more powers. Who David’s mate’s handler was is murkier, the unproven theory being that the security services found him useful, but this was before the business with the PM and Julia doing her own thing. He might not have had a handler, just a nudger. We’ll see where Budd’s fishing expedition with the underground arms dealer leads. It might lead back to the Cayman Island connection, which we’re now thinking was behind the fatal bomb, right, although what we learned about the bomb suggested sophisticated bomb-making skills, and someone may have urged the aide to get Tahir on the stage. I’d have liked them to have pressed that point more in the interrogation.
It feels necessary to detail these things, or I’m liable to get confused. In the previouslies, all full of relevant clues, I realised I hadn’t registered Julia’s second Death Star comment, so well done, David’s memory.
But that whole thing where he turned on Julia (it wasn’t her! It was your colleague who, on the face of it, did the right thing, and was understandably irked that Kim’s death was being forgotten) felt a bit rich, because once again, David was with-holding. He was extremely jammy, in part, that his boss and the commander were in favour of the security services theory, so much so that they let him be a part of the SO15 investigation, when he shouldn’t have been close. This was even after they knew he had a pattern of with-holding stuff from them, was willing to ignore rules to get them ‘non-evidential information’ and mentally ill. Oh, yes, and it was even more personal for him than that his principal had died on his watch.
See also Louisa’s behaviour. I felt for her having to deal with both David and her Chief Inspector’s male issues when she was trying to solve the case.
Vicky’s non-response to finding out David had had an affair was amusing. That moment where David was managing to flirt with Chanelle, even though it was an act, felt odd, as if the actor gave the character his own skills. He wasn’t even close to that flirty with Julia. (I am sure your agent is receiving plenty of calls these days, Mr Madden).
Anyway, we learned that the politicians (all men now) had done what we thought they had, the portmanteau ‘compmat’ was hurled about everywhere.
I felt that David was promising he’d get help while thinking he’d get ‘the killers’ in the most violent way possible and die doing it, instead of truly admitting he had a problem. Remember what he said about death benefits for Vicky and the kids? He’s just going to carry on with his plan without work resources, one presumes.
In which our protagonist turns into a terrier—a traumatised terrier, but one who manages to get an incredibly long leash from the women around him. Yes, it may have strained my credulity a bit, and the finale need more scenes that raise the pulse, frankly. This ep was mainly about investigating Julia’s death (AND KIM’S, DAVID) and testing out theories the audience had been pondering all week.
I had started going ‘Maybe Vicky is a sleeper agent!’ or ‘Maybe it’s the kids and the genre will change!’.
But also a whole new element was introduced with an organised crime angle, and I’m not entirely onboard with that. Yes, bringing back Chanelle and her lift was clever, but the rest of it—while logical—feels a bit like cheating by the show. Of course, her using ‘Sam’ made me think ‘secret service?’ even though, for reasons discussed by me in response last episode and in the ‘who benefits’ discussion among the characters, their motivation for orchestrating such a long-running campaign against Montague makes no sense.
I think where we’re at is that there is a connection between the secret services and the train bomb attempt, which I guess was about getting more powers. Who David’s mate’s handler was is murkier, the unproven theory being that the security services found him useful, but this was before the business with the PM and Julia doing her own thing. He might not have had a handler, just a nudger. We’ll see where Budd’s fishing expedition with the underground arms dealer leads. It might lead back to the Cayman Island connection, which we’re now thinking was behind the fatal bomb, right, although what we learned about the bomb suggested sophisticated bomb-making skills, and someone may have urged the aide to get Tahir on the stage. I’d have liked them to have pressed that point more in the interrogation.
It feels necessary to detail these things, or I’m liable to get confused. In the previouslies, all full of relevant clues, I realised I hadn’t registered Julia’s second Death Star comment, so well done, David’s memory.
But that whole thing where he turned on Julia (it wasn’t her! It was your colleague who, on the face of it, did the right thing, and was understandably irked that Kim’s death was being forgotten) felt a bit rich, because once again, David was with-holding. He was extremely jammy, in part, that his boss and the commander were in favour of the security services theory, so much so that they let him be a part of the SO15 investigation, when he shouldn’t have been close. This was even after they knew he had a pattern of with-holding stuff from them, was willing to ignore rules to get them ‘non-evidential information’ and mentally ill. Oh, yes, and it was even more personal for him than that his principal had died on his watch.
See also Louisa’s behaviour. I felt for her having to deal with both David and her Chief Inspector’s male issues when she was trying to solve the case.
Vicky’s non-response to finding out David had had an affair was amusing. That moment where David was managing to flirt with Chanelle, even though it was an act, felt odd, as if the actor gave the character his own skills. He wasn’t even close to that flirty with Julia. (I am sure your agent is receiving plenty of calls these days, Mr Madden).
Anyway, we learned that the politicians (all men now) had done what we thought they had, the portmanteau ‘compmat’ was hurled about everywhere.
I felt that David was promising he’d get help while thinking he’d get ‘the killers’ in the most violent way possible and die doing it, instead of truly admitting he had a problem. Remember what he said about death benefits for Vicky and the kids? He’s just going to carry on with his plan without work resources, one presumes.