The sounds in the background

[Supernick]

Now I'm enjoying Messiah as much as the next person in spite of its sub-Se7en plotting, but I've got one major problem and it keeps bugging me every time I see it in a thriller, so this is an open letter to all scriptwriters out there.

Please, please, please, don't write a scene in your next crime drama where a tape, video or phonecall is delivered and then somebody utters the words "But what's that sound in the background?". Wow, lo and behold the technical geeks can filter it and it's the sound of a train/plane/motor racing track/elephant etc and shows the captive or criminal can only be in one posssible place in the city. It's been done a million times before and it's lazy as hell. Thankyou.

[nedflanders]

Supernick Dont over analyse just ignore it and enjoy it.  Have to agree about the Se7en plot though it was the first thing I thought about when watching last night.

[Bluemukka]

Also totally implausable in my view was the detailed knowledge of London which these fellows had - everything straight off the top of their heads. And how did the geek know the difference between a heavy goods train and a light train?

[Octavius]

And the unbonded warehouse?

[Bluemukka]

" And the unbonded warehouse?


LOL what IS an unbonded warehouse and how would you know if it was or wasn't??

[Supernick]

Im not even too bothered about implausibilities etc ( I watch Lost for goodness sake). It's just writers always seem to think that filtering tape or video like that is an amazingly clever way for the detective to look really ingenious, and that the audience will be amazed at their skill. But it's done so often and in so many thrillers thatit just strikes me as a really lazy way of getting closer to the murderer.

[Octavius]

An even more lazy way is the detective who has the most amazing intuition in the world ever.  I enjoy CSI Miami but Horatio knows who the murderer is as soon as he meets them.

[ursula62]

hey Octavius - don't knock it... so did Columbo!

[Octavius]

True, and Columbo was cool.

Just one more thing.

Bluemukka, a bonded warehouse is where they store alcohol/ tobacco or dutiable goods. An unbonded is where they don't.  Just wouldn't have thought they would have that level of info ona glass see-through copper's map o'London!