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

Did I miss something? What happened the whole Noelie/Fran story? Was it just left for that episode?

Really really good episode again last night. It's been great since the weak opening episode. The one complaint about last nights episode was the out of the blue "and here's Janet spending time with her son" segment. It felt totally out of place and pulled me out of enjoying the show to thinking "ok, in what way is this random sequence of events going to have immediate consequences". It was just too obvious and felt shoved in there to create a conflict. They made a weak attempt to organically fit in this Janet/Aaron/Nidge story by referencing it a couple of times but it didn't work for me. It had the subtlety of a pipe bomb in Frans front window when the whole Gardai number thing could have been brought in earlier and left us waiting a episode or two guessing will Janet get busted.

Anyway, it's a small complaint. The rest of the episode was quality and it's all coming to a head now for the finale. Can't believe the season is nearly over already. Wish they'd extended it to 8 or 10 episodes. The pace at which they go through the story can be thrilling at times but it sometimes feels rushed.

Why is it such compulsive viewing? I can't miss an episode.

ThisRegard wrote: »

Sure that's how long it would take in real life, why make it longer ?

Sorry I meant from when he went into the showers and stabbed himself to when he's back at Deane's house, as a poster said above, It just feels there's far too much going on that it's taking away from each story line

TiltedBrain wrote: »

what was the significance of the bone?

For real?

Deleted User wrote: »

Well to be fair to her the prospect of acid in her face was a great incentive to drive off

It's possible that she saw Fran and Dean driving in and legged it, assuming that Siobhan was fooked.

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

Fran will confront her and find Git's bone. Since both hate Nidge, I'd say the two of them could come to some sort of a deal to plant Git's bone on Nidge?

Fran's too volatile for that. He'd lose his temper and beat lumps out of her or kill her rather than plan a devious frame-up.

cofy wrote: »

Patricks son is not out of hospital yet, if he has a bad turn, Patrick could seek further revenge, but maybe that is too much for one episode,

I think Patrick's big speech about being tied to a soul for all eternity when you kill them in part explained why he wouldn't be the "eye for an eye" type to just kill Warren as revenge for his own son. He recognises that it was an accidental shot, that Nidge's target was him and not his son.
What it does is increase the urgency for Patrick to do something.

kryogen wrote: »

Right, I enjoyed the episode, only had one stand out moment where I felt like my intelligence was being insulted so thats not bad at all really (the dog failing to draw attention to Siobhan)

If the dog was hungry, he'd want a good aul drink of the blood, probably wouldn't give much of a crap about Siobhan. They're bred and trained as fighting dogs, not guard dogs, so wouldn't instantly care about an intruder, and if they're hungry would be more interested in getting a drink from Dean.

Peter Inexpensive Square wrote: »

The Garda getting the phone number from the phone shop, and just calling up the cop shop then seeing immediatley it text another number of a "known heroin dealer" - loada boo-hockey.

Note it texted the number of the known dealer's partner. We've seen in the series that Nidge often borrows Janet's phone, so that's not exactly miles off.

Omackeral wrote: »

But creative license is a given for any show and shouldn't be judged too harshly against real life procedures, it's for our entertainment at the end of the day.

Indeed, and it is explainable to a certain extent. We see Fran basically limping to the toilet; if they believe his injuries are severe and have left him weak and in pain, the escorting Garda might be a bit complacent about what he's doing.

If they opened a book on it, I'd probably put money on something outlandish happening next week. Something like Siobhan trying to plant the finger on Nidge, getting discovered by him and having to kill him instead.

Rough guess, at the moment, Nidge flies off to Spain with Terrance while his driver whacks Siobhan, Fran kills Trish and Patrick kills Aido (who was driving the car when his son was shot).
At some point the Scot will be caught by Aido, banging his missus, and will get a bullet and then they'll find out he's a cop and all hell will break loose.

I've been saying from the start of this season though that if Nidge doesn't meet his end, the show will be jumping the shark. He has a huge number of people who'd be happy to see him dead (even Janet!) and a dwindling number of people who can or will protect him. If it doesn't happen next week, then it'll happen early in the next season. Otherwise it's a bit of a farce.