Spoilers from here on!Arborbridge wrote:I'm glad you gave me that denofgeek link, which reveals a level of sublety in the flashbacks I hadn't picked up on except subliminally.
I gave it as a view you might find of interest, but TBH I think it's far too unequivocal and any good prosecution barrister would rip it to pieces pretty quickly!
For a start their assertion that "
The real evidence though, is that fantasy ‘flashback’" is an oxymoron! And to go on to say that it "
never happened, because Talitha was the one telling the truth" is just circular reasoning. And as for their idea that the scarf "
would have been visible even under the jacket", well, I'd read the article before rewatching the series and I paid very careful attention to those parts, in fact rewinding and rewatching those scenes several times, and I think that claim is just nonsense. Sure, I couldn't see the scarf but it could
easily have been out of view under the jacket. In fact, I suspect that's exactly why the scriptwriters put the jacket on her in those scenes, to make it ambiguous as to whether she had it or not!
The only problem I have is that Talitha was supposed to be an entitled cow etc, which was well shown at the outset, but frankly I grew to like her a great deal quite early on and was convinced she was telling the truth. Obnoxious, yes, but I loved that freedom she had just not to care - very Zen. And under it all was this vein of humour and the whimsical smile. I was certainly "rooting" for her.
Ah, the scriptwriters managed to manipulate you and your feelings about her, eh?
Yeah, me too, and indeed, I think that was pretty much the whole point, and that they succeeded just reflects how good they were at it. And yes, the interplay between Celine Buckens and Tracy Ifeachor was superb.
Generally a class act all round and I recommend it to anybody ... although of course anyone who hasn't seen it already probably stopped reading at the first spoiler alert above ...