Love/Hate (v2) [** Spoilers **]

Larry Wildman wrote: »

Viewers are gas.

Patrick wondering wistfully "who's trying to kill me" whilst in a feud with Nidge and having survived two assassination attempts by Nidge's crew would have been utterly ridiculous.

If he said "who's trying to kill me?" people would be complaining about Travellers being portrayed as stupid.

I think we all agree that he knew who was trying to kill him. But IMO any man or group of men (travellers) surely could have gotten some information on the hit.

Patrick and his crew had time to cool down and think.

Blay wrote: »

The shot doubled Patrick over but then he starts running at him and the lad backs away panicking and firing more, then he hits Brandon.

ok, coola boola

walshb wrote: »

What pertinent questions did he ask him?

The guy told him straight out that he did it because he owed drug money.

I mean what do you want..honestly now..Nidge has tried to kill the guy two times previous to this and now this is the third time. Nobody else in the criminal world seems to have an issue with Patrick from what we've seen.

If Patrick had asked 'Who sent ya?', people would have been moaning about it been lazy writing or some crap and 'How could Patrick not know who was after him when Nidge tried to kill him twice before?'

I mean ffs..the show can't win no matter what it does..the whingers are never happy:pac:

Blay wrote: »

The guy told him straight out that he did it because he owed drug money.

Why did you do it? Drug money. WTF is that? What use at all is that?

Simple: Make it seem real. "You're gona' tell me everything you ******* know and then I'll decide whether you live or die"

Now, maybe he would have gleaned very little, but at least he would have asked.

Get over the whole "who sent ya." We know this. But to not ask anything of the hit at all is bonkers. Though, I guess these criminals can be smart and dumb. Patrick is one of the dumb ones.

And it's nothing to do with whingeing. It's just discussing a programme.

While I am at it. Paulie for me was the weakest character of all. Is Big balls really that hard up that he has a junkie watching his business? A junkie who falls in love with another junkie who spreads her legs within 5 minutes of knowing him. Maybe Patrick isn't the only dummy. Let's add in Deano too. He who answers the door to pizza men even though he didn't order pizza.

Blay wrote: »

What the fcuk could the guy possibly tell him though? :pac:

There's no info that guy could give him that is of any benefit to Patrick..zero. :pac:

You're making it seem like this lad has also the inside info on Nidge and how he could be killed but Patrick let it all slide though his fingers. He's some fcuking ex junkie that Aido dragged out of the gutter to do a job for them..he's disposable to Nidge and he's disposable to Patrick.

But how can Patrick know that the guy has no information? You're telling me that a shooter who is sent to kill someone and then fails has ZERO information about what he was sent to do? The gun, the accomplice, the car, the place where he was approached, the time frame, the getaway plan, phone numbers, places where they met to discuss the hit etc etc. I can't believe I am actually having to explain this.

Patrick wasn't to know what this lad knew or did not know. Any normal man who has just avoided death, and who is in a running and deadly feud with another gang surely would try and get something from the man who pulled the trigger.

walshb wrote: »

But how can Patrick know that the guy has no information? You're telling me that a shooter who is sent to kill someone and then fails has ZERO information about what he was sent to do? The gun, the accomplice, the car, the place where he was approached, the time frame, the getaway plan, phone numbers, places where they met to discuss the hit etc etc. I can't believe I am actually having to explain this.

Patrick wasn't to know what this lade knew or did not know. Any normal man who has just avoided death, and who is in a running and deadly feud with another gang surely would try and get something from the man who pulled the trigger.

Maybe he knew better than to trust any information from a drug addict. He was willing to say just about anything to get out of it without much coercion

walshb wrote: »

But how can Patrick know that the guy has no information? You're telling me that a shooter who is sent to kill someone and then fails has ZERO information about what he was sent to do? The gun, the accomplice, the car, the place where he was approached, the time frame, the getaway plan, phone numbers, places where they met to discuss the hit etc etc. I can't believe I am actually having to explain this.

Patrick wasn't to know what this lade knew or did not know. Any normal man who has just avoided death, and who is in a running and deadly feud with another gang surely would try and get something from the man who pulled the trigger.

I don't think patrick needed any info from the would-be hitman though. He has hi-tech surveillance on nidge as it is, nidge isn't a mystery to him at all. Add to that he was fu<king angry.

Hitchens wrote: »

I think the point that Walshb is making is he wouldn't forego interrogating him just because he might lie


also he was clean at the time - as far as we the viewers know

Thank you. All the ifs and buts I am hearing are completely irrelevant. Patrick and his crew (via the script writers) should have at least made out that they interrogated him. Like I said, maybe they get nothing, but the complete no go is farcical.

Deleted User wrote: »

Its a pity that Love/hate dont get the money to make more episodes per season. Id love to see how they would develop the Port manager (Paul Ronan - Saoirse's father). I always liked the similar character Frank Subotka in the Wire.

This is just a random idea that's been rattling around in my head for a while, but depending on how successful this season is do ye think there'd be much response to some kind of crowd funding campaign for Love/Hate to increase the number of episodes?

Problem is though I can imagine if a significant amount of money was raised, instead of using it to extend the run RTE would probably say "Sure you're sorted for X number of episodes now, so we can slash your funding and still make 6" :mad:

One more series of 6 episodes in early new year

It will be interesting to see how the 'Gits bone' storyline develops in the next two episodes:

I think it's fair to say that Dano is dead, although that is still somewhat ambiguous due to no aftermath (no funeral, no body in morgue, no news headline, etc). If we take it that Dano is dead, then we're left with Tony. I think it's pretty obvious from last season that Tony didn't give a toss about Git; he simply wanted protection money from Nidge. Therefore my prediction is that Siobhan will tell the guards about the bone, and they will be able to arrest Nidge pending a trial - as someone pointed out earlier, season 6 could be about Fran and Nidge in jail together.

So much can happen that it's impossible to predict. I don't know who will get killed before the end of this season, but my guess is that season 6 will be about Fran and Nidge in jail together while Nidge awaits trial, and Terence will be out to get Nidge. Obviously there will be many more story lines and sub-plots along with that, but I think that's going to be the main one.