| snodipous | 22 Feb 2013 5:55 p.m. PST |
Anyone else following this BBC series? I was turned onto it by a mention by the fellows working on In Her Majesty's Name – the Scotland Yard company is going to be loosely based on characters from the show. I've been enjoying the hell out of it so far. They really play to a rough, gritty vision of 1889 London. Not for watching with the kiddies. |
| saltflats1929 | 22 Feb 2013 6:09 p.m. PST |
It's nice to see what Bronn does in the off season.
Fun show. |
Col Durnford  | 22 Feb 2013 8:25 p.m. PST |
I really love the show so far. As a matter of fact I'm enjoying more than Copper. Vince |
| Black Cavalier | 22 Feb 2013 9:08 p.m. PST |
I really in enjoy it too. & I've being trying to figure out why I think it's so much better than Copper, especially since they're similar in a lot of ways. (I stopped watching Copper after the 4th or 5th episode.) Is it just because everyone has British accents? Are the acting or stories better? It seems like Ripper Street episodes are partially centered around some new technology in the industrial age, & how that technology can be used for good or ill, like moving pictures or modern chemistry. For me I think that's one of the key differences. Also, I already liked the Sherlock Holmes movies & Matthew Macfadyen in MI-5 (Spooks) so might have been predisposed to liking Ripper Street |
| Mapleleaf | 23 Feb 2013 12:12 a.m. PST |
Ripper street is good because with a couple of exceptions regarding personal relationships each episode is self contained. The case is solved by the end of the show, Copper is one of those serial dramas where the plot develops from episode to episode. So if you miss one or two the plot has passed you by. It also seems a lot slower . |
| kreoseus2 | 23 Feb 2013 1:04 a.m. PST |
I am realy enjoying it. It was mostly shot in Dublin, so it is weird seeming places you know set as 19th century London. Phil |
| Rapier Miniatures | 23 Feb 2013 2:34 a.m. PST |
It is odious, inaccurate, derivative and formulaic, has no relevance to London Policing at that time and is a 21st Century procedural transported. I can see it running for years. Which is sad as the premise of what H Division did next, after the Ripper is an interesting one. |
| King Monkey | 23 Feb 2013 3:28 a.m. PST |
I agree with Rapier Miniatures, I gave up watching after the fourth episode. It's been commisioned for a second series. |
| parrskool | 23 Feb 2013 4:47 a.m. PST |
For a better picture of the infant Scotland Yard in Victorian Times, catch an old episode of "Sgt. Cork" from the 1960's |
martin goddard  | 23 Feb 2013 4:53 a.m. PST |
I have been enjoying it very much indeed. Look forward to the second series.Marvellous stuff! Martin |
| Bob the Temple Builder | 23 Feb 2013 5:05 a.m. PST |
Although the detective policing might be a bit too 'robust' to be historically accurate, the look and life of London in the 1880s and 1890s is very like the way my great grandmother described it to me when I was a teenager. She was born in the late 1860s and moved to London to be in service as a teenager. She remembered the general reaction to the Ripper Murders and how dirty and squalid life could be for members of the Working Class. The series is good fun to watch, but will not appeal to those who like their period drama to be absolutely authentic … although they seem to have done a good job finding locations that look the part. |
| CPBelt | 23 Feb 2013 5:29 a.m. PST |
I gave up watching it during the first episode. |
| Inkpaduta | 23 Feb 2013 11:27 a.m. PST |
I watch it but I can't say that I get that excited over it. I like Copper, also on BBC America, much better. |
ponders nirvana.
