Discuss - Ep #1056

Robservations #1056

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Re: Discuss - Ep #1056

Maggie, robot murderer.  I only just met Claude North, and already I'm glad he's being jilted.  Oh, turns out he's been hypnotizing Roxanne into liking him.  That explains everything.  I think he'd have needed to do that to the fans to get them to raise him to heart-throb status.

Q hated Ang.  And Rebecca is complete.  We all knew it, only Maggie didn't.  Now the search for Julia, where a methodical approach would have done it I would think.

The main villain  player in the drama is dead so it should be a curtain call, but no Roxanne wants to,stay to tell Barnabas it feels as if she's known him all her life. Talk about instant love.
Meanwhile the lovebirds whom we have been following declare they will start again and all the misunderstanding is cleared up. The great build up off Claude comes to a whimpering end as he is dead.

It's kind of hard not to agree with Inspector Hamilton. The story is preposterous
Nice job cross cutting between Quentin/Maggie, Barnabas/Angelique and Claude/Roxanne. Sometimes DS really makes you forget it's low budget.
Big reconciliation between Maggie and Quentin. Quentin reveals that he hated Angelique with a passion. Once again, this doesn't completely jive with what had been established before. Even if the love letters that Maggie found weren't genuine, it seems to me that someone would have picked up on Quentin's true feelings at some point. This last minute revelation worked better in Rebecca than it does here
Barnabas stumbled across Claude North's dead body, a twist that I really didn't see coming. The character was given such a huge build-up which ended up not amounting to very much. Sort of like Damien Edwards. Was this a case of DC killing the story at the last minute?

They should have had Claude North appear a lot earlier.

Since it seems to be common knowledge that Angelique was a major tramp, what possible scandal could she have threatened Quentin with? Could this be a vague reference to what happened between his father and Sam Evans?

That's probably why that part of Rebecca didn't get included, though it's not as if Rebecca spelled it out, either.  It would have been comical for her to have an even bigger unnamed scandal, when she already was the Steely Dan's Josie of Collinsport.  But couldn't she just have threatened to reveal that?  Only her personal circle really knew.

Ang could easily have brought up Sam in the cave because that's exactly what was on her mind and in her plans at the time.

Maggie, robot murderer.

Nooooooo please!!