forestfan wrote:hancockjr wrote: ↑25 Sep 2018, 23:18
forestfan wrote: ↑25 Sep 2018, 21:21
happyhoppy wrote: ↑24 Sep 2018, 07:42
The Bodyguard was very good but for me didn’t live up to its early promise. I never really felt the tension over the suicide vest in that last episode that I did in the first episode and it did drag on quite a bit.
The early episodes were so explosive that it couldn’t be sustained, unlike a lot of series where it builds up gradually. Thought the finale was good though, just the right balance of tension and resolution, I didn’t pick the identity of the bent cop or the Nadia twist in advance.
There’s sure to be a Series 2/sequel of sorts given the ratings, though not quite sure where they will take it. Richard Madden will be in demand anyway, this has surely put him up there with his former GoT co-stars like Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke - he’s already been getting mentions as a potential future Bond.
The Nadia twist was ridiculous - what sort of terrorist organisation would use a highly skilled bomb maker as a suicide bomber? Brilliantly acted, terribly scripted.
Perhaps she never actually intended to detonate the train bomb, and it was just part of the conspiracy to involve Budd in the situation (otherwise why did they pick a Sunday night train from Glasgow to London as opposed to a packed commuter one?), present her as a scared innocent victim, and distract attention from what was to follow? Though still seems a bit of an own goal in terms of increasing the security level around the politician they plotted to kill...
Alternatively, I guess there are probably people who just feel it is their duty to give their lives in this way, whether or not they are a skilled part of the operation. But you would have thought the ringleaders would make sure it was someone expendable.
The fanaticism of some and their absolute belief in a martyr's death being the gateway to a higher eternal existence, can be an extremely powerful driving force.
If that was Nadia's ultimate aim in this earthly life, then although a skilled bomber, she would have been taking steps to hopefully be in a position to eventually achieve this.
While on the surface it makes absolutely no sense for any terrorist grouping to use such a skilled individual as a human bomb, when others are available, it could be just plausible if she herself was of such a high rank as to override this. She may well have possibly ensured the necessary explosive expertise had been passed on or that it could and would be replaced.
As with blah, I was trying to avoid spoilers, but there was always the puzzle to me from the previous episode......Why had Nadia said Longcross supplied the bomb to her husband? This made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Why would the secret service want the train blown up? (There are other ways of promoting their 'favoured' politician's new terrorist security bill, as it seemed that the only possible reason they could have had)
The information Nadia gleaned from photographs and information on Budd's kids etc allowed other operations to be set in motion which presumably hinted at her having such authority and influence within the cell or grouping to have possibly decided her own future too.
and the perfume line, which is, of the alter ego is so true?
