Beare on cricket, plus some Lewis related thoughts

[charlie_cochrane]

The old trout Beare is waxing lyrical about the Lords of Aether's cricket team (well, it's that time of year!) Do go and see what bad jokes he's come up with this time.

Now, did anyone see the rerun of "Lewis" last night, "The Dead of Winter". On the face of it a straightforward whodunit, but there was an odd thread running through it that never got referred to. Young Ros spotted it, (and here onwards there be spoilers) when someone got bludgeoned with a candlestick. "That's Cluedo! There's a woman called Scarlett."

"Of course," I replied, "and the victim is Dr Black, just like in the game!"

We started keeping an eye out and found a priest called Jasper (can be a green jewel), a Colonel called Colman, a Professor Pelham, a woman called Selina (moon? white?). Didn't find a peacock, but were pretty chuffed with ourselves - this had to be an integral part of the plot. However, not one character in the programme either noticed or referred to it. I mean, how could anyone not have noticed, even in passing, and wouldn't a smartie pants like Hathaway have referred to it?

In the end, the only apparent connection to the crime was that the butler did it (maybe the Cluedo references were a tacit nod to that old chestnut?) The solution of the mystery was hackneyed and featured a plot line that's been seen time and again.

Altogether unsatisfactory.

Comments

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I think that I found your peacock. There's a line of shoes by Selina Peacock.

Oh, and Hopkiss is the name of a character in another UK show, Blackmail.

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

Well, blimey O'Reilly. That just makes it worse!

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

I really do not want to know why anyone would wear those shoes with a bathing suit!

I am loving Beare more and more. He does his best to hide his good character, but his kind loyalty leaks through-- doesn't it? Skilled work with the old unreliable narrator...

[charliecochrane.livejournal.com]

LOL Thank you. That's just how he's supposed to come over.