Helen's character doesn't make sense!!!!
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PippinInOz — 15 years ago(August 25, 2010 02:34 AM)
Helen's character is so annoying and unlikeable I actually press the fast forward button when she appears on the screen! No, really. Is the script making some sort of snide comment about psychiatrists?? Let us be honest here, after watching this character visiting one seems like a very very dodgy thing to risk LOL! I wouldn't trust 'Helen' to navigate crossing the main road let alone tell me the profile of a criminal. Once again, very odd programme in so many wonderful - nay - peculiar ways.
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PippinInOz — 15 years ago(September 24, 2010 04:05 AM)
Yes I know. Although must admit to really enjoying seeing characters behave in ways that people really do behave - mind you with the Health Nazi's on the loose in so many Australian, English and Northern American countries it tends to be done behind closed doors.
Maybe they put this in (the drinking bit) to alert the viewer to the mess Helen was in? Although still think the entire characterisation is peculiar to say the least. There is quite a bit of unintentional humour going on here isn't there? This could just be my sense of humour though.sometimes, you really have to just laugh. In fact, watching this programme, it is essential! -
martyc35 — 15 years ago(October 23, 2010 11:28 AM)
Besides switching the actors who played Helen and her motivations regarding their separation, they seem to have totally ignored continuity of script writing as well. They didn't even bother to make her death believable: the young woman from Bosnia who had taken the gun and said she had tossed it, was INSIDE the police premises with Helen and Tommy several times, including just before this incident, and apparently was never searched or even taken through a metal detector. Suddenly, just when the writers wanted to kill off Helen, she brandished the missing gun as if she had had it all along. This is impossible. So Helen dies because of crappy writing? Or crappy policework? After I saw that, never having liked Helen much, anyway, and utterly hating Tommy's simpering behavior toward her, I leaped up, and said, "Good! She's dead, and just in time!"
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gailandzoo — 14 years ago(June 06, 2011 12:25 PM)
Normally I wouldn't be happy reading a spoiler. But Helen gets killed? YIPPEEEEE! I'm glad I'm not alone in seeing how annoying she is. I'm just seeing this series fo the first time, renting them from our library. I like mos tof the shows. But if Helen is in a scene, I find myself either leaving the room or fastforwarding. I started with the second season because that was all I found. Now I have the first season. Helen is in it. So I don't know if I want to watch them.
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martyc35 — 15 years ago(October 23, 2010 11:30 AM)
Besides switching the actors who played Helen and her motivations regarding their separation, they seem to have totally ignored continuity of script writing as well. They didn't even bother to make her death believable: the young woman from Bosnia who had taken the gun and said she had tossed it, was INSIDE the police premises with Helen and Tommy several times, including just before this incident, and apparently was never searched or even taken through a metal detector. Suddenly, just when the writers wanted to kill off Helen, she brandished the missing gun as if she had had it all along. This is impossible. So Helen dies because of crappy writing? Or crappy policework? After I saw that, never having liked Helen much, anyway, and utterly hating Tommy's simpering behavior toward her, I leaped up, and said, "Good! She's dead, and just in time!"
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cengelm — 15 years ago(December 06, 2010 04:53 AM)
Helen's character is so annoying and unlikeable I actually press the fast forward button when she appears on the screen!
Strange, I did the same. And I hardly ever do that related to a character.
Almost everything she says is mindless blurb. The record of her lovers might include the male population of London -
GaelinW — 15 years ago(January 07, 2011 06:11 PM)
I'm getting tired of the 'Will they? Won't they?' game. Lynley doesn't seem to be all that hot as a stud anyway. Great cop; but probably boring lover.
LOL! I never actually thought about it that way. I've always thought that Nathanial Parker was gorgeous. Still do. But as the series has gone on, the Lynley character has become less attractive. My guess that has less to do with the actor's looks and more about how the character has been written.
Anyway, back to the point. Now that I think about it. You're absolutely right. Lynley seems as if he would bean absolute snore in bed.
And I agree with the OP. I don't remember Helen #1, but between Helen #2 and Helen #3, the character seems to have done a 180 degree turn in personality. #2 was a complete witch. Never could stand her. And #3 was so mellow and cheerful it was impossible to buy her as the same character.
If they let Jack do it his way the show would be just 12 snorgtees.com -
fanaticita — 14 years ago(July 12, 2011 05:04 PM)
Well, I agree with the comment about spoilers, but now that it's out in the open. . . so Helen and Tommy get married, then what? They separate? Divorce? Helen dies? I'm in the middle of season 2, but I want to know!!!