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Resistance [RTE]

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  • #152
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,296 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    goose2005 wrote: »
    electric lighting in a church crypt in 1920 was an incredible extravagance

    overall i liked it though, some good performances, even minor ones like Miss Lawlor or the journalist Eithne

    was it ever clear what Harry (the banker) did? I thought he was going to run away with his mistress

    No, he was just going to 'enjoy his last night' with her.


  • #153
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,120 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    mick malones mauser wrote: »
    It was awful rubbish
    No redeeming features whatsoever

    The sad thing is that there are people in RTE who commissioned this .....and they actually believe it was fit to be broadcast....and they actually get paid...and they will probably continue to get paid to churn out garbage like this.

    I thought the twist with the sister getting killed was decent enough.
    I wouldn't call it rubbish just below mediocre stuff to try and be kind.

    It felt it should have been a play rather then a TV series, it felt divorced from reality like watching science fiction. The viewer has to have a lot of suspension of disbelief.

    As for the historical revisionism it was very evident where the writers agenda is.
    But in fairness to him it is not only arty writers who are guilty of revisionism.
    Historians have been guilty of revisionism of this time period ,based on political agenda for decade after decade.

    However, if I see written by Colin Teevan on anything else I won't be going out of my way to watch it.

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #154
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,120 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    jmcc wrote: »
    You obviously never saw the absolute SJW sh!tefest that was "Rebellion"? :)

    Regards...jmcc

    I gave up on that after one episode when it was first out

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #155
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    Duggie2012 wrote: »
    basically the treaty passed by a small margin but the people were split. Ended up with one side(republic or nothing) in a graveyard with the priest giving them a stash of hidden guns. Joey and Jimmy's niece went the way of the republic while Jimmy came into the graveyard at the end looking for Joey to persude him to stay on his side(free state). He wouldnt and it ended with Jimmy driving away pretty much.

    Thanks. Didn’t miss much so!


  • #156
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,803 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Interview about the series with the writer on BBC Radio 4 this morning, can be heard here from 2:24:50

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0002bmj


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  • #157
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,729 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Was the Liam fella leading the Anti-Treatites Liam Mellows? Couldn't quite figure him out, and if it was he looked nothing like him


  • #158
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    castletownman wrote: »
    Was the Liam fella leading the Anti-Treatites Liam Mellows? Couldn't quite figure him out, and if it was he looked nothing like him

    No, Liam Lynch


  • #159
    mad muffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Was recording this for my wife. Missed the first ep but downloaded it to the q box from catchup. For some absolutely logical reason(I’m sure… NOT!) RTÉ have deleted it.

    Not even on the player. 2-5 yes. 1? Wtf do you need to watch ep.1 for… ?:rolleyes:

    Now my wife is looking at me with daggers in her eyes :eek:


  • #160
    Strazdas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,750 ✭✭✭✭Strazdas


    Caught up with the last three episodes over the last few days. It actually turned out to be a fine series in the end and got better with each episode.

    I hadn't realised just how violent and oppressive Dublin was during that period. Martial law, curfews every night, troops and police everywhere and ordinary people being constantly stopped and searched : it was akin to occupied France circa 1944.


  • #161
    MPFGLB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭MPFGLB


    Just watched the first 4 episodes of this (and watched rebellion before it )

    Reminded me of the low budget dramas the BBC do in the afternoon like Father Brown..watchable but instantly forgettable

    Such a pity becasue this period in Irish history from 2016 to 2023 is full of intensity and possibilities for great drama

    Collins was a disappointment in Resistance ...why not use the one from Rebellion

    The sets were very limiting and there was alot of twoing and froing that made no sense...e.g. only took a few hours to go and down from Dublin to Cork& back ...

    What was lacking was the tension that must have been felt on both sides, the human angle and also how Collins and co organised and recruited and kept going in the face of the best army in the World at the time ...all missed

    Seemed just like a bunch of people walking around the same few streets just willy nilly shooting each other ...no real story arch


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