SeramaSilly Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I love love love Philip Glenister and have been watching this series practically hiding behind the sofa - really scary! But I really didn't understand the ending - how could the brother still be alive when his own father had identified his body 20 years before? Very strange! Sophie x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 It was completely baffling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 We didn't really understand it either, but it was good to see Philip back on our screens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety Posted October 28, 2011 Share Posted October 28, 2011 I had no idea what was going on, and really wish they had explained it better at the end. A bit of a waste of time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 THe 2 people who carried out the shooting at the Braddick house (Mark Venn and the other chap whose name escapes me) and were identified as dead, weren't dead at the time. They were identified as dead so that they could disappear and reappear as MI5 Help Desk operatives, carrying out executions etc. (Kind of a less glam version of La Femme Nikita). The family etc had to believe they really were dead. DOes that help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 I got that part of it. What wasn't explained - unless I missed it - was the business about Gina's parents. They were lawyers who were murdered because they refused to do something, but we were never told what they refused to do or who killed them were we? A big thing was made of the fact that they were killed on the same day as the murder at the Braddick House, but were the murders connected? There were just too many loose ends for my liking - I prefer a Poirot figure to explain everything in words of one syllable at the end, so that we are left in no doubt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Sorry, I misunderstood. No, the detail of what htey were asked to do wasn't explained, but I assumed that it was something else that might have enabled a coup to take place. Presumably Braddick also refused. Once these people knew about it, they had to be silenced. I wasn't too worried that we didn't know the detail. For me the only thing that didn't make sense was why Gina had to be killed. Unless it was just that she happened to be investigating the deaths of her parents and might stir something up? I hope Philip Glenister doesn't end up getting typecast. He does these sort of roles so well. (He was OK, but not outstanding, in Cranford) Is there a series in Harry Venn, do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Unfortunately,I think there is a real likelihood of PG being typecast - I find it very difficult to banish Gene Hunt from my mind whenever I see PG and, as you say WitchHazel, he is so good at that type of role. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeramaSilly Posted October 29, 2011 Author Share Posted October 29, 2011 So did they make up the two men to look like corpses then so the father would be think he was dead? I was very baffled by it but I still enjoyed it because I think Philip Glenister is so charismatic and handsome in a different kind of way! Also I am really sad that Spooks has ended and I was so upset that Ruth was killed. I thought it was so touching when Harry went to see the cottage with the green door which she wanted them to live in! I hardly ever understood the plot lines in Spooks but it was just riveting stuff! Sophie x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 Clive James has summed up Hidden very well in the DT today -" in its last stages, the BBC One thriller Hidden stopped being mysterious and started being incomprehensible ". My thought exactly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted October 29, 2011 Share Posted October 29, 2011 So did they make up the two men to look like corpses then so the father would be think he was dead? I was very baffled by it but I still enjoyed it because I think Philip Glenister is so charismatic and handsome in a different kind of way! Also I am really sad that Spooks has ended and I was so upset that Ruth was killed. I thought it was so touching when Harry went to see the cottage with the green door which she wanted them to live in! I hardly ever understood the plot lines in Spooks but it was just riveting stuff! Sophie x What is it about PG he is grubby stubbly but oh so ...... I can only agree about the end of Spooks, I loved that show, the best thing on TV in the past 10 years, I thought that they eneded it quite well really no hearts and flowers that's not how it works, I will so miss it though, the only thing to make the darkening of the nights bearable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
