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shallowness) wrote2024-12-20 08:18 am
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The Ink Black Heart 1/4
Strike – The Ink Black Heart 1 of 4
I beg the show’s pardon, in the context of the show itself and not the trailer, Drek’s Game wasn’t as terrible as I thought, and the animation of The Ink Black Heart was not too shabby at all. Granted, I suspect them of using Comic Sans MS for the speech bubbles, but I appreciated that what people were typing was also read out in ‘computer voices’ as a device for keeping viewers (me) clued in. And I think they did a decent job of dramatizing all the online research. Others may and have disagreed.
I’d always wondered how they would adapt this. The answer seems to be ruthless streamlining. At the birthday celebration that looked like a date, a tipsy Robin confessed that she’d been thinking about leaving Matthew on the honeymoon, which was news to Cormoran. The kiss/freeze went slightly differently to how I’d imagined, the whole thing about Robin’s body remembering the attack didn’t figure. The chilling impact on Cormoran and Robin’s working relationship was apparent, though. Ilsa (have we seen her before on the show?) was SUCH a shipper.
Pat was excellent value, as Edie came in, wanting Robin to take her case and stop Anomie, then died (couldn’t they get a BBC News website graphic instead of a fake one, like they did with Google?) The moment where Cormoran wanted to comfort Robin and had to let his hand hang there!!!
The cops (and spooks) are obsessed with the far-right angle. I note that Ryan has become Richard (possibly because like me they kept thinking of the man responsible for Popular, Glee etc), and while fancying Robin, not quite fully appreciating how amazing she is at her job, but the way she reeled off details about Edie after one meeting was impressive. Meanwhile, the more he learned about the case, the more intrigued Strike got, and investigated the disgruntled Wally, but pushed his amputated leg too far, and got made and hurt, although I appreciated the quick thinking to pretend he was a cop to get rid of the far-right thug and save himself a pulverisation. Robin was focusing on the arts centre and Pez of the thick Liverpudlian accent, as Edie had named him. Good grief, Grainger looked spectacular in the Jessica disguise. The subcontractors were asked to rule out various people from the wall of suspects.
We ended with Anomie appearing to admit that they’d killed Edie in the chat room, and for all that the agency has been hired to unmask them, we all know that the case is about justice for Edie for Robin and finding out who the murderer was for both partners. I don’t remember whether we’ve stuck to the chronology of the book for some key interviews.
I beg the show’s pardon, in the context of the show itself and not the trailer, Drek’s Game wasn’t as terrible as I thought, and the animation of The Ink Black Heart was not too shabby at all. Granted, I suspect them of using Comic Sans MS for the speech bubbles, but I appreciated that what people were typing was also read out in ‘computer voices’ as a device for keeping viewers (me) clued in. And I think they did a decent job of dramatizing all the online research. Others may and have disagreed.
I’d always wondered how they would adapt this. The answer seems to be ruthless streamlining. At the birthday celebration that looked like a date, a tipsy Robin confessed that she’d been thinking about leaving Matthew on the honeymoon, which was news to Cormoran. The kiss/freeze went slightly differently to how I’d imagined, the whole thing about Robin’s body remembering the attack didn’t figure. The chilling impact on Cormoran and Robin’s working relationship was apparent, though. Ilsa (have we seen her before on the show?) was SUCH a shipper.
Pat was excellent value, as Edie came in, wanting Robin to take her case and stop Anomie, then died (couldn’t they get a BBC News website graphic instead of a fake one, like they did with Google?) The moment where Cormoran wanted to comfort Robin and had to let his hand hang there!!!
The cops (and spooks) are obsessed with the far-right angle. I note that Ryan has become Richard (possibly because like me they kept thinking of the man responsible for Popular, Glee etc), and while fancying Robin, not quite fully appreciating how amazing she is at her job, but the way she reeled off details about Edie after one meeting was impressive. Meanwhile, the more he learned about the case, the more intrigued Strike got, and investigated the disgruntled Wally, but pushed his amputated leg too far, and got made and hurt, although I appreciated the quick thinking to pretend he was a cop to get rid of the far-right thug and save himself a pulverisation. Robin was focusing on the arts centre and Pez of the thick Liverpudlian accent, as Edie had named him. Good grief, Grainger looked spectacular in the Jessica disguise. The subcontractors were asked to rule out various people from the wall of suspects.
We ended with Anomie appearing to admit that they’d killed Edie in the chat room, and for all that the agency has been hired to unmask them, we all know that the case is about justice for Edie for Robin and finding out who the murderer was for both partners. I don’t remember whether we’ve stuck to the chronology of the book for some key interviews.