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POLL : What did you think of The Fall - Walk the Line?

13 Nov 2014

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13 comments:

  1. Sandi13 November 2014 at 22:49

    A slow, yet satisfying start to the season. The opening scene with Stella interviewing Annie was chilling, the simple action of giving her the hair band to snap on her wrist was moving, and very sad. I am wondering what will happen between Paul and Katie, their scene was particularly interesting. She isn't scared by him at all by the looks of it, and he really doesn't know how to handle that at all. Are they hinting that she will become some sort of accomplice?


    Those last five minutes were the worst, I know Paul has regretting killing Sarah's unborn baby and that he probably has the closest thing we can call love for his own daughter, but I was still terrified that he was going to hurt Rose's child. Intense scene was intense! Stella was stupid to think that Rose would be safe though really, that was a total balls up on her behalf. It's going to be interesting to see the aftermath of this play out.

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  2. Lil Miss13 November 2014 at 23:45

    What this show can convey with it's subtlety that others cannot do even when there shoving it in your face is amazing!

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  3. Sandi14 November 2014 at 00:08

    I couldn't agree more!

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  4. Nimueh12314 November 2014 at 21:19

    Paul's affinity to children scares me. He is so nice to them it is sickening. I did wonder what happened to him to become who he is.
    Now that Sarah has seen Paul's face, there is no way she is getting away, imo. And I do wonder whether Colin's role Tome Anderson is the guy Rose left after Paul's attack!
    Not sure what the score with Katie is - I think she basically still fancies Paul. She certainly knows how to put 2 and 2 together or is she just bluffing to get Paul going?

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  5. Nimueh12314 November 2014 at 21:27

    Paul's affinity to children scares me. He is sooo nice to them it is really horrible.
    I have no idea what Katie is on about- I get the impression she still fancies Paul and I wonder whether she just tries to get him going by throwing all her suspicions at him. Silly girl!
    I do wonder if we got a clue who Colin's character will be: Rose left a man called Tom after Paul's attack on her. Is this maybe Tom Anderson?
    Great episode!

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  6. Nimueh12314 November 2014 at 21:29

    Rose has no chance now that she has seen Paul's face. I just hope he does not kill her with the little girl upstairs!
    Why did Rose's daughter not scream when she saw Paul coming up the stairs? She just took to him - I found that a bit odd.

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  7. rrubiconn14 November 2014 at 23:29

    I really loved this season premiere, but I’m biased. I
    completely love this show. This episode had the feeling of branching out,
    exploring the far reaching consequences set up in the claustrophobic first
    season. The dynamic remains the same: the narrative is more interested in the
    terror of Paul Specter’s crime than the horror it causes in others, though it
    definitely does that as well. Where it differs greatly from other crime shows
    is that Paul Specter is not a mystery, and definitely not a genius. He’s simply
    a man committing terrifying acts and getting away it. With Stella, The Fall
    subverts the tortured genius super detective by giving us small glimpses of
    that tortured genius and having it actively work for the investigation instead
    of hindering it.

    That’s why the first scene with her and the victim were so
    great and fascinating, because it works on all these levels. We find out some
    more of information regarding Stella. Whatever trauma she experienced, for now,
    is irrelevant, only that she developed a coping mechanism that she passes on to
    the victim and helps her not just remember, but work through the pain of her
    trauma. Another great scene was the one with her underling, where she tells her
    the reason she took her under her wing was to have an ally in the force,
    someone to trust. This builds on the Stella we got in season one, a caring,
    honest, kind person that was mostly detached from her relationships with the
    other cops in the station. It was difficult to discern her character then, at
    least up until she takes charge of the suicide situation and helps the cop who
    just before was degrading her character and pretty much calling her a whore.

    The rest of the episode, like I said, branches out of the
    claustrophobic, insular first season. Where the first season explored Stella’s
    position as an outsider and her difficulty with sexism and classism, this
    season is on the road to establishing her as part of the breaking down machine
    that is the Belfast police force. The issue with the dead, corrupted cops and
    the tense situation in Ireland has merged with the personal insults and media
    narrative created around women. So suddenly Stella’s one night stand, which
    makes her a hostile figure to the cops in the station, has become a scandal for
    public consumption, and her first act is to dress like a cop, less feminine,
    like she says. The 28 day review she’s up for cements her inclusion into the
    police force. I can’t wait to see how this develops further. Outside
    interference makes a group hold closer together, and it will I think force
    Stella to open herself to the other characters, the same way she did many times
    in this episode.

    Jamie Dornan is doing a brilliant job as Paul Specter and
    he’s a great foil for Stella. Just like last season, the narrative chooses to
    contrast their lives, exposing everything Specter does, showing us nothing but
    a killer, and withholding specific of Stella’s life, showing us a gifted
    investigator. It creates a fascinating narrative because in The Fall doesn’t
    sensationalize any of it, this is not a gimmick. They’re not a cat and mouse,
    and it is not exciting, it’s just plain old creepy and intense, especially with
    the added commentary the show has to make about the blatant misogyny that is
    part of every single day of a woman’s life. I was glad to see there was the
    same building of suspense, the same slow burn of the narrative, and how they
    kept everything that shaped the first season without repeating themselves. Like
    I said there is a branching out, and with Specter it is literal. He is
    traveling far. He is reshaping his obsessions. His daughter’s dolls are also
    his play things. He is a husband and a killer.
    It was eerie watching him become entranced by blondes, clearly because
    of Stella.

    This show is brilliant. I can’t wait to see the rest.

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  8. Molly15 November 2014 at 12:47

    Personally thought it was brilliant how no one was actually murdered in this episode. Spent the entire episode on tenterhooks as a result and made the scene with Rose at the end far more chilling.

    Also found the scene on the train excruciating to watch. I just wanted to shout at that poor woman the whole way through their conversation!

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  9. Sandi15 November 2014 at 20:11

    He seems to have a magic way with children, he just seemed to enchant Nancy by teaching her the tongue twister and helping her when mum and dad couldn't be bothered to in the middle of the night. It's odd, and makes him somehow even more creepy!

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  10. Sandi15 November 2014 at 20:19

    Katie is an odd lass, I dunno if she is going to get her fingers burnt, or get one over on Spector, or if they will end up being/working together, but it's an interesting dynamic to watch unfold I think.


    The guy Rose left after 'Peter' attacked her is the the same guy she went back to a couple of months later and then married, that's why she was reluctant to talk to Stella about the whole thing. It wasn't exactly very clear in the episode (it was more or less only one line on the phone to explain it I think) but he was the guy sleeping on the sofa downstairs, they'd had an argument because she had finally told him about it all.

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  11. Sandi15 November 2014 at 20:25

    Fantastic review of the episode, I agree with everything you say :) One thing I am enjoying about this season so far is the comparing of the two leads - they both seem to be very isolated in many ways, and both are obviously acting on instincts and obsessions that that are deeply ingrained into their psyche. I hope that this mirroring between the two of them continues to be explored throughout the rest of the show.

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  12. Nimueh12315 November 2014 at 20:28

    I do wonder what happened to Stella. She's clearly hinted that she experienced some ´kind of horror and so far she has showed so little emotion it is disturbing. She is totally dead pan - her voice, her facial expression, the way she relates to men - I do feel for her but would like to know what made her that way.

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  13. Sandi15 November 2014 at 20:33

    That is a very good point, no-one died at all in this episode, yet it still built up the tension and and ended in the worst way possible for Rose Stagg - being abducted in her own bed as her family slept around her.


    The train scene was great, I got the feeling that Paul was starting to obsess about blondes due to Stella perhaps? It was hard to read whether he was pleased, confused, angry or all three emotions and more about why she had bleached her hair though. One thing's for sure, he now knows her address from her driving licence, will he be paying her a visit any time soon?

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