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| Wire in the Blood 5 - Discussions on ep spoilers!; Likely to have some spoiler info in here | |
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| DontUWish | Aug 22 2007, 05:15 AM Post #121 |
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Thanks, guys. I'll definitely use the ftp site soon and am so glad that option's available. It's just annoying that more people in the U.S. aren't getting the chance to see Wire. I'd like it to get noticed and don't really understand why it wouldn't at least get released over here. They release DVDs of really bad (and really low-budget) movies all the time, so why not release the DVD for a pretty good, pretty successful TV show? |
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| molsongrrrl | Aug 22 2007, 08:26 AM Post #122 |
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well the other seasons of wire are available here on dvd - so i'm fairly certain this one will be too. i find that when i am reading that the next season of "Spooks" (MI-5) is being released in the UK - that it takes about another month or so to find the announcement for US release. hopefully that means series 4 of wire will be available here sometime in october or so! |
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| fromdownunder | Sep 1 2007, 12:59 AM Post #123 |
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canoodling with the missus in Brisbane
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For all the Aussie's out there... Season 5 episode 1 will air on ABC TV on Friday 21 September 2007 at 8.30pm. http://www.abc.net.au/tv/guide/netw/200709...2007T203000.htm |
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And what's wrong with my dressing gown??? *God, where do I start...* | |
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| Helen's World | Dec 2 2007, 08:25 PM Post #124 |
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Anoyone know when Wire in the Blood, will be on here in the US? |
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| Lootcha | Jan 12 2008, 06:56 PM Post #125 |
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We are having Wire in the Blood here in Brazil airing by HBO, the whole season 4 and 5 already were shown, with subtitles in portuguese which is fantastic. My only complain is the translation they put for WITB, they call it here "Rastros da Maldade" (something like "Evil Footsteps"), it sounds like a western movie for us. I nearly miss it because I thought it was a John Wayne kind of movie
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Lootcha simonelahbib.ausxip.com | |
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| LahbibLover | Jan 12 2008, 08:51 PM Post #126 |
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I said SIT IN THAT CHAIR
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I have no idea either but I check about twice a week on bbcamerica.com to make sure I don't miss Series 5. I am definitely ready for it. |
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| yankeelady | Jan 13 2008, 01:11 AM Post #127 |
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G3 Curtain and Duvet!
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I did contact BBC America and asked about Series 5 for WITB, and I was told there were no plans to broadcast it. I made my displeasure known, but I know that's not going to do any good. As an FYI, all of the S5 WITB is on YouTube and have been posted by Celine1968. I have watched all of them, and they are great. Subscribe to Celine1968 and you will get a raft of Simone's movies. Cheers, Pat |
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| Juls037 | Feb 6 2008, 08:23 PM Post #128 |
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If folks are still looking for US versions.... Just got the S4 DVD of WitB last night, courtesy of Amazon.com. |
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| ekny | Feb 15 2008, 12:14 AM Post #129 |
In love with a prisoner
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I believe this is a review of an episode from WitB 4, rather than 5, can't recall--whichever, it includes extensive spoilers & is chock-full-o-snark. Actually, I had to snicker (frequently) while reading it. And hey, he was perfectly agreeable in the 1-line reference to Bad Girls and Simone Lahbib, so no hard feelings on my part. --e ----------- From The Times July 26, 2007 Last night’s TV http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol...icle2139378.ece A killer caught by ketchup Tim Teeman My record with Wire in the Blood (ITV1) is not good. It is possibly the creepy xylophones, the inky atmosphere, the constant violence, the horrible way the victims (mostly women, mostly sexually brutalised) die. And oh, the credits, which spell out “Wire in the Blood” with streaky, splodgy blood. Suddenly I want to be watching anything – even Two Pints of Lager . . .– than another two hours of shrink Robson Green scratch his chin over cadavers and muse thus: “By beheading her he was really saying, ‘Mam, why didn’t you let me play outside?’” Green’s fractured, maverick, psychological guff always wins the day, and so it was in The Names of Angels, another unutterably grim trail of mutilation and perversion penned by Alan Whiting. (Alan, what is your home life like? Do you write this eating Rich Tea and listening to Gardeners’ Question Time with a sick smile on your face, cackling?) This week’s killer kept a hammer and gaffer tape in the boot of his car. It also turned out that he stole other men’s identities and travelled around Europe killing women. Back in the city of “Bradfield”, which seems to have a big wheel just like the London Eye, Simone Lahbib, who played that foxy governor from Bad Girls who ran off with Nikki the prisoner, is now transformed into DI Alex Fielding, who – much as she would hate to admit it, thereby producing tension, so far nonsexual – finds herself relying on the quirky skills of Dr Tony Hill (Green). He does stuff like check out the contents of the killer’s shopping trolley and from some tomato ketchup, cheap tea bags and luxury chocolates, deduces the psychopath to have fantasies of being rich and successful. The camera skitters around as his police colleagues look wonderingly at the stirrings of his instinctive genius. Moreover, says Dr H, our murderer has “NPD – narcissistic personality disorder”. More communal wonderment. And moreover again, he has not developed a sense of himself. And it’s all his mother’s fault. She was probably too critical and “rubbed his nose in failure”. All this from ketchup and tea bags! Forget DNA profiling, fingerprints, door-to-door inquiries. Your criminal potential is all there in your trolley. On the basis of my most recent Waitrose sortie – minestrone soup, blueberries, a big bag of prawn cocktail crisps and a cherry and sultana sponge cake – Dr Hill would have had me locked away immediately. I’m a menace. But he was right, as ever. Luke Harris, the murderer, eventually escaped after killing his mother, who was indeed critical (and blind). The killer’s method – never fully understood beyond being “a game” – was to remove the clothing of one of the women he had killed and put it on another to blur their identities. He stole the identities of three bosses who had sacked him to implicate them in the murders. Dr H was having a rough week: he also had to deal with a past client, a young criminal heavily coded to be a notorious killer, who wanted to kill himself. And because this is Wire in the Blood, where no one ends up happily commiserating over a pint in the bar, in the final reel the young lad did eventually top himself, a rivulet of blood from his wrist splashing on to stone. So yes, I definitely feel a hundred times worse about the world after all that. And you’ll find only low-fat yoghurt and maybe the odd pear in my basket from now on. Definitely no canned tomatoes. |
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| Lootcha | Feb 15 2008, 10:26 AM Post #130 |
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No it is 3rd episode of season 5. And a very bad review, that just shows how you can see bad thingts in everything specially if the person wants to see only it and it is the case of that critic guy. I am glad I am not like him, he just look for the worse. I didn't like this critic one bit, nasty guy, for me it is impossible to watch Wire in the Blood and just say only bad things all the time about it. I usualy don't like that kind of series, but Wire got me hooked up, specially by Robson Green which is great as Dr. Tony Hill and Simone Lahbib of course. Lúcia |
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Lootcha simonelahbib.ausxip.com | |
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| ekny | Jul 1 2008, 04:34 AM Post #131 |
In love with a prisoner
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I just got a chance to start rewatching S5 of WitB with the uncut episodes Molsongrrrl so kindly made available at her ftp address (I think this was discussed in the link thread for molsongrrrl's ftp site)--and am impressed with exactly how *much* better these episodes are in their uncut version, as opposed to the versions first aired in the UK. I've watched S5 twice, & feel fairly familiar with it... and just cannot believe how much the editing effected the versions first aired in the UK. They feel choppy, storylines are incomplete, some transitions don't fully make sense; they felt that way when I saw them, and a lot of that I put down not just to the editing & pace of the show--which has always had a kind of herky-jerky feel to it--but to my difficulties with following all the dialogue because of the accents: these, the uncut versions, however, are just a whole lot better, & I feel like it gives me a greater appreciation of how tightly-made the show is (as well as making the episodes more complete & enjoyable... uh, if you can say that about a show about murder). My understanding is a lot of SL's parts, w/backstory about her son, etc., got cut in the originally-aired versions, so yes, I'm looking forward to seeing more of that role, but as whole, I really recommend that fans of the show make an effort to get these while they're still available. Very interesting way to watch & compare, if you've seen them both. Many thanks, molsongrrrl!!!
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| molsongrrrl | Jul 1 2008, 04:13 PM Post #132 |
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first, you're very welcome for the episodes. second, i completely agree with you, the uncut versions are much better! in the original version, it just felt like we were missing vital information about the characters or motivation for the characters ... esp Alex. the uncut episodes fill in the gaps and make some of the personal stuff clearer. |
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| ekny | Jul 1 2008, 04:45 PM Post #133 |
In love with a prisoner
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Totally. The fact that this show *is* so well-made that I can rewatch an episode 3x & get additional information out of it each time is really gratifying. That's very rare with TV, imo; most of all to feel like there's helpful technical stuff to learn about the structuring of the episode, its editing, and the camerawork.* Iow, having a "before" and "after" version--in the wrong order--is really educational! --e*(I don't mean that one can't learn from any show, if you're watching for technical reasons, because you definitely can!--I just mean, it's not every show I would have the patience to sit through even once, much less more than once.) |
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| Lady McB | Feb 19 2009, 05:06 PM Post #134 |
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G3 Curtain and Duvet!
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Germany is a little bit behind, series 5 starts on Sunday the first of March on the TV channel ZDF. I've got the DVDs already. |
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