tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413013422636027916.post8672625565781856176..comments2024-03-05T10:32:32.208+00:00Comments on IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS: LUTHER: NAILED TO THE WALL IN THE FINAL EPISODESMichael Carlsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04490121869284175945noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413013422636027916.post-31661900038179377052010-06-18T07:35:09.773+01:002010-06-18T07:35:09.773+01:00Youre right, that's why they needed to set up ...Youre right, that's why they needed to set up a few hints of Reed's corruption earlier...McIntosh can play the bad bit, but they seemed to want to emphasise his loyalty to Lutha above the rest...Michael Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04490121869284175945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413013422636027916.post-44933151574798278062010-06-15T17:19:52.468+01:002010-06-15T17:19:52.468+01:00I'd give it a B- Michael. You are right about...I'd give it a B- Michael. You are right about not properly building up motivation of the Ian Reid character.<br /><br />Throughout the series, I thought of him as a sympathetic character, a friend and supporter to Luther. His machinations and bad behavior seemed to be a tack on that the writers did to bring a denouement in the final episode.<br /><br />It reminds me of my reaction to the movie "Bonfires of the Vanities" which starred Tom Hanks as a Wall Street bond trader. In the book, the character Sherman McCoy is a self-centered, selfish, entitled dolt who has a good life and blows it. While watching, I couldn't imagine Hanks being that character. He is too sympathetic a personality. I felt the same way about the actor who played Ian Reid.dlwilson26https://www.blogger.com/profile/02443098422005693038noreply@blogger.com