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

Looks like curtains for nidge and the show as a whole. All the best shows bow out before they fizzle out.

RIP King Nidge OMG though WHAT A FINALE! No words to describe it really, one of the best finales from any TV drama, I genuinely mean that, simply sublime! It had all the ingredients that make a thrilling final episode - dramatic, intense, shocking and a cliff hanger! I was honestly shaking after the episode, it was THAT good! Still in shock tbh, did NOT see that ending coming at all. Also stunned at the Fran bit, that was brutal Jesus. I remember I posted on here a while back about the paper spoiling it and I thought they had got it wrong... it did happen but they stated it was going to happen last week. The shocks just kept on coming from the onset, Janet's murder was particularly gritty and gruesome.

Patrick had completely slipped my mind so to see him jump out of the van and shoot both Siobhan and NIDGE completely stunned me! That close up of Siobhan covered in blood was really harrowing! I thought what was particularly harrowing and haunting was Nidge realising in the moments before Patrick shot him dead was that Warren was going to witness his father being murdered, you could see the horror in his face.

I'm ABSOLUTELY gutted that Nidge, Siobhan (probably Fran too!) are dead. I honestly really liked Siobhan and Charlie Murphy was a superb actress. Same can be said for Tom Vaughan Lawlor. Stunned that they killed Nidge, I suppose I should know by now that Love/Hate doesn't shy away from killing off it's big characters.

Something about that ending felt very final. Nidge Siobhan and Fran were central to this series and carried most of the plots. I think was the last series. I can't see Love/Hate without Nidge in it which is why I think tonight was the last episode of Love/Hate ever...and what a way to go... the series certainly went out on a high! Television at its finest!

Of course, if it turns out Nidge survived ( Although that would not be EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY UNLIKELY! Same for Siobhan... I'd love if Siobhan managed to survive too, but I reckon she's done for sadly! Top class acting in the last few minutes, hats off to Tom and Charlie!) somehow, then I'm all for another series

Love/Hate deserves to sweep the board at the awards/IFTA's after tonight's episode! Stuart Carolan = GENUIS! The actors, the directors,scriptwriters,etc... all deserve recognition. Absolute top quality tonight, this has been an all around amazing series and I reckon the show will be talked about for years to come as the greatest TV show to come out of Ireland Love/Hate is in a league of its own!

it's odd the way people keep going on about Nidge being dead.
he was shot twice in the torso, people survive being shot in the chest all the time in real life....
if they wanted to kill him off, then he would have been shot in the head multiple times.

there's no show without Nidge, Aido is the only one who is actually free and not on life-support.....

as for Terrence going after Patrick or Fran, he wouldn't give a sh1te about them, and he has no reason to leave sunny Spain to do some drug-dealing in Dublin...

Maybe next series will have Janet's boy doing an Omar-from-the-Wire style campaign of revenge against Terrences operation? Dunno, maybe not, but they're running low on characters.

ghostdancer wrote: »

it's odd the way people keep going on about Nidge being dead.
he was shot twice in the torso, people survive being shot in the chest all the time in real life....
if they wanted to kill him off, then he would have been shot in the head multiple times.

there's no show without Nidge, Aido is the only one who is actually free and not on life-support.....

as for Terrence going after Patrick or Fran, he wouldn't give a sh1te about them, and he has no reason to leave sunny Spain to do some drug-dealing in Dublin...

What about his financial interest?

Safe writing to not show a headshot to be honest. Remember that the rags were reporting about a hitch in the contract negotiations between RTE and TVL. This gives them a way out of either scenario depending on how said negotiations go

tvnutz wrote: »

1. Why not just go shoot him in the head? You are there, you have time, just a bullet in the head to be sure. Otherwise I wouldn't count him as dead just yet.

2. Everyone going on about the Fran scene...basically take right from the Sopranos, only a bit more graphic. Although if you have ever watched Oz, you might understand why I wasn't overly shocked about this scene.

3. Everyone saying it has to end, its over blah blah, this was exactly the same thing that was said when Darren died, I'm fairly sure they can come up with other stories.

I don't recall many people saying that on here when Darren died. A lot of people were speculating that he could survive but no-one that I recall said that the show couldn't go on.

At that stage, you still had Nidge and Fran - two massive characters. Now, not only do we not have them, Tommy or Darren, we don't even have Elmo. That's the difference. Nothing left to carry on.

I enjoyed the series as a whole. If its going to finish better it finish on a high rather than fizzling out.

DeanAustin wrote: »

Anyone who thinks Nidge will survive is off their head. No way he is surviving that.

he was shot once in the back and once in the chest.

people survive those all the time
and usually they don't have the police minutes away to potentially help them either.


Cig/Gaffer will probably arrive on the scene and, to make up for beating the crap out of Nidge, have a moral u-turn and call and ambulance and have him saved.

RoryMac wrote: »

The big difference between this and Darren being killed off is Darren was just one of the main characters and still left Nidge & Fran to carry the show.

But now Nidge & Fran are gone(dead & locked up for 10+ years) there is noone to take over. There are no storylines to carry over.

To continue they would have to introduce a whole new main cast, backgrounds & storylines and at that stage it ceases to be the same show

you do know that there's another season, right?