Just some eejit who came in to show off with their insider info and fecked off again.
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It might have been a deliberate spoiler?
What a nasty silly-billy.
Thank God we've got no-one with any insider knowledge around here!
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ July 11 2009, 2:49 PM BSTIt might have been a deliberate spoiler?
Yeah. Spoilerers should be shot!
Bit self indulgent in my view. Rope works because of how it was written, directed etc. You can't transpose techniques or what next an Episode of Thomas the Tank Engine where he never leaves the station?
Also the story and characters are just not that engrossing.
Quote: zooo @ July 11 2009, 2:54 PM BSTYeah. Spoilerers should be shot!
I mean from the show, to pull in viewers. There was loads of online plugging (I wouldn't say spamming) before the show aired.
Oh right, no, I don't think so.
Not in this case, anyway.
Quote: Mark @ July 11 2009, 1:19 PM BSTIncidently, great to see Mark Gatiss, they just about managed to keep that a surprise I think (although the Radio Times almost broke the pact the press had voluntarily made)
Quote: zooo @ July 11 2009, 2:21 PM BSTHow did they almost do it? I didn't know there had been a pact. Some twat said he was on it on another forum.
The press office very nicely asked everyone to keep it a secret, so it would be a shock when the door open and he appeared standing there. The creators themselves also emailed websites, including this one, to politely ask that certain spoilers - including the one about Mark - were not published.
There were still clues for anyone who did a bit of detective work (he was credited as 'Sam Kisgart' in the various listings mags)... so that's probably how that person on the LoG website discovered it. Either that, or more likely he probably just read the rather irresponsible Radio Times preview...
The detective is played by a familar face (especially to fans of Shearsmith and Pemberton's work) but the show begs us not to reveal his identity, for some reason, so anagram fans, take note...
Anyway, hopefully it was still a surprise for most people. Looking at Twitter it suggests the cover up generally worked.
Ha, yes possibly.
Mark's gone by Sam Kisgart before. He even had his own website for a while.
Quote: Mark @ July 11 2009, 1:19 PM BSTHi. Welcome to the site. Thanks for posting. I couldn't work out where the cut was but, watching it back, I think you're right... it was the lid lifting wasn't it.
Long time lurker, first time poster.
Yep. Just as the lid was lifted, it cuts. I study media at College, so I was very focused on finding the cut!
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ July 10 2009, 7:15 PM BSTThey used Hitchcok's technique when there was a close-up on the lid of the chest. I don't remember another, but was there possibly one where there was just a shot of the door to upstairs?
Yeah, and I actually posted it first. 
Just watched it, very enjoyable indeed; such great characters.
Quote: sootyj @ July 11 2009, 2:56 PM BSTAlso the story and characters are just not that engrossing.
Disagree.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ July 12 2009, 7:41 PM BSTDisagree.
I agree with your disagreement. I don't find it funny very often, but it has great characters and is rather engaging.
As someone who puts in the epidurals, this sounds to me like the typical opinion of a pro-"natural" birth lobbyist midwife.
As usual, this person is making assertions based on their personal experience/opinion as regards pain control, progression of labour and delivery complications. They have not conducted any research, nor are even quoting a statistically-relevant study to back up their claims. Bad science. (The inferred-to data on delivery interventions in patients with epidural pain relief is debatable to say the least.) Time was when people did valid research and evaluated the evidence, published it for peer critcism, then made a claim. Midwifery being one of those specialities that often sees itself above and outside traditional nursing (perhaps because most midwives are not qualified nurses), they are for some reason allowed to spout out opinion as fact; based on anecdotal and occasionally almost mystical personal intuition. (As regards the wonderful midwives versus the uncaring doctors and silly patients type of debate - go look at the CEPOD enquiries into causes of maternal and foetal deaths in the UK over the last 10 years.)
Anyway, I know that's not the point you were making. Joy is in some ways quite a good (yet more disturbed and taken to its logical/illogical extreme) pastiche of a midwife.
Anyone else think Dawn French's performance in this show is absolutely superb?