Cut her some slack, she can hardly see in that chainmail veil. She's probably just trying to figure out where the hell her opponent is.

Also, is it just me or is that a completely crap fighting stance? As far as I can tell to actually attack or defend usefully from that pose she'd have to either turn around 180 degrees or move the sword away from whoever she's fighting in order to angle her arms around to a point where she can actually take a swing. Otherwise she's stuck doing not-very-effective thrusts within a fairly limited angle of movement.

Though her husband's life wasn't in danger in Alice's case, at least not as far as she knew. Ian was deliberately trying to lure Luther in to most likely kill him.

Well, I wasn't referring to the part where she warns Luther over the phone, since that's not what got her killed. I was talking about what she did after. Anyway I didn't get the idea that Ian actually wanted to kill Luther at that point, just that he wanted to be able to talk to him one-on-one, but he wasn't sure he could trust Luther and he was afraid if he called him himself, Luther might just roll in with a bunch of police and arrest him. I actually thought Ian's situation spiraling further and further out of control as he keeps trying to fix it and keep out of jail was handled pretty well.

Courtesy of browsing the YA section in my local bookshop, here's one for the Terrible Book Covers With Impractical Female Armour archives: Spellbound, by Heather Brewer. (Why does she have bare arms -- apart from possibly some sort of shoulder protection -- but a chain-mail veil, for crying out loud?)

Though her husband's life wasn't in danger in Alice's case, at least not as far as she knew. Ian was deliberately trying to lure Luther in to most likely kill him.

And I know - they need to be on a show together where they are the only characters who DON'T die. Though she didn't die on Bones ;)

I sometimes feel like Indira Varma and Sean Bean are in some kind of morbid competition...

What, grabbing a knife and waving it around at the guy who is well out of knife range and has a gun pointed at your head is the right thing? And then kind of half-assedly trying to run away? I'm not saying Ian wasn't at fault or anything but her actions seemed totally contrived to me, as if the script was telling her "ok, now you gotta get killed, start acting like an idiot all of a sudden." It especially doesn't make sense because when Alice Morgan had her at knifepoint earlier in the series, she just did exactly what she was told to (i.e. what anyone would do) instead of trying to poorly defend herself.

Tried to get herself killed? If Ian hadn't lost it (and it was really fifty fifty, I think), she would have been fine and have done the right thing.

Well, I didn't mind the yawning thing too much (and things like it), since it was in the premise of the show that Luther is heavily intuitive and operates on wild hunches as a matter of course, but he always then goes on to confirm them with hard evidence - it's when the show's world began to act in wildly unrealistic ways to coincide with his hunches and to create drama that I jumped ship. Like how he magically knew where ian hid the diamonds, and the combination to his safe. And yeah, his wife practically *tried* to get herself killed.

I kind of agree about Luther s1's ending - the last two episodes both felt really contrived (I mean, more than "she didn't yawn with me she's a sociopath" contrived normal for the show), and only there to kill off Indira Varma. Which is a reason I'm still having difficulty going back to the show. Plus, I rather liked Ian Reed. For one thing, he had an awesome first name. ;) And for another, he's played by that Mackintosh dude, who is in other stuff I quite like (Muppet Christmas Carol, Our Mutual Friend). I think I'll eventually get to it - Elba really does rise above the material - but really. I don't think I could probably spend much monies on it, unless it went to the 5 or 10 dollar shelf here.

Did someone say Harvest Moon?

And the Law of Fin de siècle holds true. Everything's better with Wardogs.

Did someone say Harvest Moon?

What you all need to do is play Harvest Moon. :')

Are any of you going to see 'The Impossible'? A friend-of-a-friend saw it and felt it was terribly sad and moving, she had no idea that the event was just so horrible! Also her friend chimed in and said she actually cried as she watched it. I was going to make a scathing comment but then my friend suggested that these people may have a condition where they are unable to feel empathy unless Ewan McGregor is coaching them with his face. Tragic.

Farming Simulator is insanely hard. No wonder the agricultural industry is in such a bad way.

I thought it would be soothing but my attempts to play it have always been quiet disasters.

What is Farming Simulator like? I've been vaguely interested in it ever since the NOSCOPE 360 CORNSHOT video.

Regarding Luther, I liked Idris Elba a lot and his character was pretty well-written, but unlike people who seem to draw the line between S1 and 2, I for one just couldn't stomach the ending to S1. It was incredibly contrived and expected the viewers to follow its absurd leaps without even a hand-wave. Biggest example: Luther somehow manages to recruit Mark into helping him even though Mark has absolutely no reason to trust Luther, much less breaking the law to do so. Even worse, this happens OFF SCREEN. Mark jumps directly from raging at Luther to helping him in the very next scene, and we're supposed to take for granted that Luther gave a touching speech that convinced a man who totally hates him to be his accomplice. There are other parts that really bug me too, but that's the worst. Just unforgivable in my book.

Okay so I'm not the most experienced player of "Simulation" games but I have a few namely Train Simulator 2013 (stop laughing), Farming Simulator 2013 (which I may be slightly responsible for talking Wardog Kyra into buying) and my newest acquisition from the Steam sale DCS: A-10C Warthog. What I'm trying to figure out is why of these three games is it that the one with the fighter jet (sorry, close air support aircraft) is the one I'm finding BORING!

Maybe there is something wrong with me.

Idris Elba is my beloved spouse, as is Ruth Wilson.

No but seriously, even though I am mildly traumatised, I enjoyed Luther and was glad I watched both Series 1 and 2. Yeah, I totally feel people on the whole 'Series 2 is stupid' thing, but for me it certainly wasn't as much of a rapid descent into incoherent try-too-hard shittery that not even intriguing actors can salvage, as in the case of Series 3 Misfits. (DON'T EVEN TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT SERIES I AM SO ANGRY)

Putting my reverse-racist goggles on, I think it is very interesting how race is subtly treated in the series. I don't think there's a single Villain of the Week who is a POC. I've not yet heard claims of reverse-racism regarding this, but it could spotlight the idea of whiteness and crime--they mostly look like pretty ordinary white blokes and that is partly why they almost get away with shit in the first place. I don't think many people will pick up on the fact that Alice Morgan being a pretty white woman in combination with her evil genius affects how easily she slips in and out of situations. The camerawork also particularly brings out the pallor and eye colour of these actors. Possibly we are encouraged to be more aware of the presumed "default" nature of whiteness.

On top of the ridiculous gangster plotline in S2 I also wasn't entirely convinced by the way women were shown. I think basically all of the main female characters who were in S2 were presented as mildly-to-moderately contemptible for their ambitions in a manner that wasn't present in S1. Still, at least they got what they wanted, re-build their relationships with each other where applicable, and were not fridged. It's certainly nowhere NEAR as bad as Sherlock but I think we want a higher benchmark here!

I am looking forward to Series 3, anyway. ugh Elba is just so glorious.

I like Elba a lot but I really felt the second series was stupid.

I enjoyed both series of Luther. I'd been warned about the lack of Ruth Wilson in the second series so was actually pleasantly surprised by how much she did crop up after all. The whole gangster storyline was a ridiculous, but basically I find Elba's character compelling enough that I'd watch if they made more.

I don't think I'm ever going to get bored of being called Wardog...

It certainly makes the random article button infinitely more amusing.

Yeah - I burned through series 1 last night, but the lack of Ruth Morgan is holding me back from series 2. Also lack of Indira Varma, who is really cute and an awesome character.

But Ruth Wilson is really awesome. It's quite sad, but I'm seriously considering watching Lone Ranger for her...though I probably will wait till it hits the super, super cheap theaters.

Lack of Ruth Wilson I think was a primary factor.

Also I think it went weird... did it have some weird manbonding due to rescuing an under-age prostitute?

Kyra and I bought it on DVD about a year ago. I seem to recall that we liked series one but found series two a bit off for reasons I can no longer recall.