Waking The Dead Axed by the BBC
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msvat02 — 15 years ago(March 15, 2011 05:01 AM)
How can they do that?!?! It's by far one of the best TV series I've seen. No magic, simple deduction and logic. I live in Brazil, very far away from BBC if one considers a marked flooded by American shows. I just discovered the series on DVD and I'm in love with it. It's brilliant! Back to trash, again
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diayag — 15 years ago(March 23, 2011 10:08 PM)
I beg to differ with all of you. I am slogging through this series mostly out of nostalgia for what it once was, but it had gotten pretty bad last series and I'm surprised they put out another one. Someone has a pronounced heterophobia at BBC, not to mention reveling in darkness and misery; so much of what they are pumping out is pure **** (fill in your favorite expletive). I went off Being Human after season 1, sick of seeing Russell Tovey's arse in nearly every episode. Obviously aimed at a specific audience. Waking the Dead was that way last season, with sympathetic poor homosexual son and compassionate dad who was all accepting and everything, and yet and this season you have a murderous mother in the first two parter, a murderous and incestual "family" in the second. Clearly the only good life and good people are NOT heterosexual, NOT married and NOT procreating. And children's caregivers must have a nasty agenda or covering guilt. How relevant and uplifting. Programming to a small audience may be part of the BBC remit, but no one should be shocked when the rest of us get sick of it. If they are giving Tara a spin-off,it better be more interesting than her role has been in this series or it'll be a one-off. Her role has been so limited. Her bug farm was the first spark of life her character had, and it's been missing so far this season.
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Sleepin_Dragon — 15 years ago(March 24, 2011 10:00 AM)
I am sad to see it go, as grudginly as i am to admit it I agree with you series 8 was poor by the series standards, ive loved the first two eps of this series, back to form it seems, I disagree strongly about Eve, the character is great much better then the previous, and she is a strong (very) actress. It is still better then Law and Order UK, Taggart, currently Midsomer and every similar programme on, maybe exception of last series of Silent Witness, come on Beeb reconsider please. You think a drama about a bug farm will be any more cheerful, that I seriously doubt.
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Sleepin_Dragon — 15 years ago(March 29, 2011 10:43 AM)
I think every episode has been unbelievably good, I defy anyone not to enjoy, the show has had violence in it throughout, I loved Wire in the Blood that had major violence in it, not a sign of fatigue i think just a sign of the times.
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joseph-wyatt-677-63838 — 15 years ago(March 29, 2011 04:02 PM)
"It's become unwatchable due to the utterly repulsive violence and almost pointlessly sick plotlines."
Can't say I've picked up on that at all. Is it really any sicker or more repulsive than any other television serial out there? Could you point me to an episode from this current series which makes you feel that way? Because, though it's as dark as ever and has always been bleaker than a lot of other series, I've never thought it was to a wholly unbelievable level. It certainly doesn't revel in its gore like, say, a Zack Snyder film would.
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nikolina-sarcevic — 14 years ago(April 07, 2011 02:48 PM)
I don't wanna be rude or anyhing but if u choose to watch show entitled "waking the dead" n the show is in fact about cadavers u don't expect unicorns and rainbows flyin 'round the screen, right?
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Gary-161 — 14 years ago(April 10, 2011 12:02 AM)
I'm simply saying less is more. Gratuitous violence is usually a cover for a lack of imagination. In this series alone we've had two child abuse plots and the obligatory Islamic extremism (with the usual lefty sentiments that the state is the real bad guy.) So WTD is obviously on its last legs. Tonight, we shall see.
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TexasJohnBapster — 14 years ago(April 11, 2011 06:04 AM)
Verily I say unto theethe series has always been more about the aftermath of violence rather than violence itself for gratuitous reasons. Its not as if Boyd and co ever got personally involved in fights and shoot-outs in every single episode.
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haydesigner — 15 years ago(March 29, 2011 03:00 PM)
Right.
Because heterosexual people are
SOOOOO prejudiced
against everywhere.
[honestly, I couldn't roll my eyes anymore if I tried.]
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Gary-161 — 15 years ago(March 29, 2011 11:29 PM)
Is it really any sicker or more repulsive than any other television serial out there?
That's an indictment in itself. As Dragon pointed out, sign of the times. Maybe you can watch several people having their eyes gouged out or someone's kneecap busted in glorious technicolour, but I suddenly had a pressing engagement with a remote control. -
mylesever — 14 years ago(April 11, 2011 04:09 PM)
Personally I'd like to see a whether a crime drama without the violence could even work as well as this show did
Apart from the fact that it makes the viewer cringe, simply saying 'it is bad I don't want to see it, so I won't' is missing the point that the visual display of crime is meant to reflect the viewer's attitudes towards it - it's not cool it's not awesome; it is unnerving and uncomfortable.
To watch a crime drama and not like violence is like watching a sitcom and not liking comedy. Otherwise you may as well sit down with a cup of tea, and enjoy the happy, friendly, tales of adventure in Old Tricks.
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Gary-161 — 14 years ago(April 12, 2011 12:28 AM)
it's not cool it's not awesome
Of course it is. It's meretricious, comic book stuff. All that caring about the victim waterworks is always inherently hypocritical on these type of shows.
Last night we got another child abuse plot. The fresh ideas just keep coming, don't they? And yet another lovingly rendered torture chamber to fit like a pair of comfy leather slippers. Now, if only the pastor was a religious fanatic with a dirty bomb under his bed and a wife with Munchausen by Proxy lying above it, they would have ticked all the boxes. But at least we got Boyd walking away while an execution by thugs goes on behind him. That's always worth repeating.
Still, at least this particular axe felling will not be accompanied by loud screaming and ketchup flying up the wall to wobbly, psychedelic camera work. Thank heavens for small mercies. -
keith-s-russell — 14 years ago(April 17, 2011 09:38 AM)
I had found the show was beginning to run out of steam, but this last series was excellent with top notch stories. I have noticed that anything written by Ed Whitmore is usually well worth watching.The last story,Waterloo, was brilliant. I am not a great fan of Eve, especially as Boyd, but the stories are what make this series worthwhile.
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drwordsmith — 14 years ago(April 22, 2011 10:16 AM)
Waking the Dead was one of only 3 shows I still really enjoy tuning in for on the bbc - the other 2 being Spooks and Doctor Who.
Both Spooks and WTD had run out of steam for me a little bit in their latter seasons, but this last one of WTD was pretty damn good, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Went out on a high at least.
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reynolds-dale — 13 years ago(January 21, 2013 02:35 PM)
Wow! The homophobia of "diayag" is unhappy and funny, simultaneously. I'm reviewing the show season-by-season and have found it to be one of the most stimulating shows on TV, in America or in UK. Acting, writing, producing. Always unsettling. I hated Boyd losing his son, but admired his standing up to a homophobic dad about his gay son. Bringing reality to fiction is difficult and truly wonderful when realized. This writer's homohatred is revealing. He should work on it and welcome quality story-telling that includes all sorts of peoples. The Serbian-massacre one had me in tears. There's plenty of quality-family storytelling out there and these producers want it broadened to include even those "diayag" hates.
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malcolm-smith — 13 years ago(February 07, 2013 09:20 AM)
Likewise I am struggling through the final series.
The stories are getting increasingly fantastical and their near-psychic detection ability is getting more and more ridiculous by the minute.
I am surprised that this department doesn't solve the kidnapping of Shergar, the whereabouts of Lord Lucan and the identity of the man on the Grassy Knoll in their lunch breaks.