Vigil (BBC)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3XRW0kfI2As

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Bump, starts in an hour.

really enjoyed that!

built really nicely throughout the hour, very excited for N2!

Basics (I've no idea how to do spoiler text on new site)...

A small trawlers nets are entangled in a submarine and it's brought to the bottom with its crew. While the trawler is being sunk an officer (Burke) on the sub Vigil can hear on sonar the trawlers nets being entangled with a sub and it sinking. He wants Vigi to surface to see if there's any survivors from the trawler, Burke has either experience or knew of a similar sinking previously. The Captain of Vigil doesn't want to surface as he knows this would expose Vigil's position, it's only really later in the episode that the reason for not surfacing is that it's an enemy sub that would have been entangled in the nets and this would then expose Vigil's position. Burke is dismissed from duty and is found dead later which then triggers an investigation in to his death which is why detective Amy Silva is transported to the sub to investigate the circumstances around it.

I've enjoyed it so far. Very good at capturing the claustrophobic atmosphere on the submarine. Interesting to see Shaun Evans play a character who is 'helping' the police but really keeping watch to make sure DCI Silva doesn't find out too much. The shoe is normally on the other foot when he's playing Morse.

First episode quite good, I heard nothing about this series until I saw it mentioned here 😉

Rose Leslie has come a long, long way since downton Abbey

Why do I have a feeling Adrian Dunbar is going to pop up some time 🤔

It's been a while since I've been on a nuclear sub 🙄 but this one doesn't have a feel or look of one 😏

A bit of a moby dick look to it 🤣

It’s no Das Boot. That series was so realistic, the sub in this is like a hotel. I think she bumped her head once and had a tiny bunk and that was the height of her discomfort.

@cozar yep this ain't Das Boot for sure.

I enjoyed Ep1, but Ep2 has left me a bit middle of the road now. I'll stick with it for now - we'll see.

Bits I'm not sure about:

• wtf with the tanker
• the two cliff hangers conveniently resolve and without adding anything further.
• The Colombo moment where now its the 1st Officer, the guy who was supposed to be running interference is now her best mate as is the Captain.
• And now a new hare running with the girl from the camp drowning maybe.

Have you missed the Sub Doctor who is female, numerous crew members, Main characters, including the lieutenant commander at the base 🤔 seems like a good female representation all round IMO.

My sincere apologies, I've misread your post, I thought you meant more female characters /involvement etc. I stand humbly chastised 😔 agree also re Martin Compston 😏

Phew, thought I was in trouble 😊

Loving this so far I have to say can't wait for episode 3

For those questioning the look of the interior of the submarine Channel 5 has a new series called "Submarine: Life Under the Waves" starting on Monday 13th September.

Submarine: Life Under the Sea follows the crew of nuclear-powered HMS Trenchant as they set sail on 120 days of tense and dangerous underwater operations. For the first time ever, the top-secret world of the hunter-killer submarine will be revealed as we explore how the crew of 100 men survive underwater for so long in cramped and confined spaces. At depths of over 400m in the North Atlantic, HMS Trenchant must deal with engine fires, poisonous air and food shortages as they’re tasked with defending the British Trident nuclear deterrent from Russian nuclear submarines, and gathering secret intelligence off the coastline of Russia.

I'm trying to work out if it was filmed on a sub, or did the recreate a sub, or filmed in some industrial setting, disused factory or power plant maybe?

Wait for the Range Rover with blacked out windows to show up - that's the giveaway that the show has entered the realm of Bodyguard/Line of Duty nonsense.

I'll forgive a blacked out range rover but never, ever, ever if James Nesbitt turns up 😊, I'm still traumatised from wasting 4 hours of my life watching the worst pile of Gik ever produced or broadcast "Bloodlands"

Funky a little generous when discribing a Travel Lodge 😁

Hmmm, not sure about that episode, the flash backs rather annoying. Captain looking decidedly dodgy.

It looks like the Range Rover is no longer the only vehicile of choice for the suspicious types in these series. When the MI5 people left the police office they drove a Range Rover. Kirsten was tailed by them in a BMW, that has to be explained.

I hope it picks up because the third episode was disappointing. As a whodunnit story it's no longer that interesting, they revealed too much.

Silva's back story is resolved so if every message received from Kirsten is to be a hook for another flashback it's really poor.

I'm also disappointed that my suspicion about the age of the submarine being a factor in the story line was correct. I got a chuckle out of the revelation that it was a USS Los Angeles class submarine that was responsible for the sinking of the trawler. I used to play The Hunt For Red October and 688 Attack Sub video games as a teenager so I know that the Los Angeles class submarine pre-dates Trident. It's a 'noisy' boat so if Vigil couldn't detect it then their equipment is definitely fecked. It would have been more realistic if they had said it was a Gotland class submarine because those are almost undetectable, but I guess then they would have to factor the Swedes into the story line.