Tuesday, 25 January 2011

Harry jumps the shark

Is the forensic lushy dead? One Silent Witness viewer commenting on on Digital Spy hopes so. "The alternative is a Deux ex Machina of epic proportions that is so ridiculously implausible it "jumps the shark", says Phil Solo.

"Deux ex Machina?" It's hardly Othello Phil. In last week's episode all the characters were revealed to have a powerful link with the same hole in a field just outside Sheffield. If the hole had filled up with water and sharks were in it and they started jumping over them we wouldn't bat an eyelid. Bugger your disbelief. It's about making do. We're still  a long way from Masterchef and there's nothing else on.

Anyway, according to reports there appeared to be a shadowy figure of Harry's build limping away from the body. Was there? I missed this, probably because the ghosting on our telly is so bad that I would have just taken it to be a character from One Born Every Minute over on Channel 4. Most likely mum-to-be Julia's partner Dean, who initially supplies a "healthy dose of humour in a bid to relieve the tension in the delivery suite".
Anyway Phil says for Harry to be the mysterious figure in the background requires the gunman to either let him go and burn a handy wino, or for a third party to swoop in, kill the gunman, set him alight, bandage Harry's shot-up knee, and fade into the darkness. "All in the few minutes between Leo seeing the shooting from the cab window and him scrambling down to the riverbank. And all while wearing, or changing into, the same clothes as the assassin."

BUT, Tom Ward who plays Harry allegedly refers to the scene's climax in this week's TV Quick as "a moment when it looks like Harry's dead." And Viv in the post office says there was no gang tattoo on the gunman's hand.

Can't wait. Pass the magic blanky.


Wait up Dean! It's a boy!

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