Cycling death on TV drama

[GringoMan]

This looks dangerous!
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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrTXl-Ov0ng&hd=1[/media]

 

[Arch]

Well, it's all over now. I noticed that another minor character turned up on a bike in the final episode - so in fact it was a fairly positive thing, cycling wise - it showed cycling as something rather everyday. After all, the woman might just as easily have been killed crossing that road on foot.

I know I'm biased, but I thought DT was very good.

 

[summerdays]

I enjoyed the drama as well ... and thought that although the death occurred on a bike ... it could just as easily have occurred in a car, motorbike or a pedestrian etc ... the cops not having their lights and sirens on was the main factor in this particular collision.

 

[661-Pete]

I watched it too - but it won't stick in my memory. Never mind. They had some sort of judicial enquiry over the cyclist's death, but no prosecution for Death by Dangerous Driving. Ho hum - I suppose the scriptwriter has the final say....

Does anyone know where the car park was in Edinburgh where the daughter met her real farther for the first time?

Probably in Glasgow . That's where the series was made I believe. Although - there was some footage of the Royal Mile and Edinburgh Castle wasn't there?

 

[Fiona N]

I think you're being over sensitive. It's 'because' we know she's going to die, whatever she's doing. Look at an episode of Casualty, where you get a dramatic build up to someone making a piece of toast and getting electrocuted. Toasters aren't dangerous per se, but you know because of the style of the show that this one will have a loose wire, or she'll spill her tea in it or something. Sometimes of course, they bluff you, and just when you're expecting the toaster electrocution, a gas main explodes.

If it had been 'Single Mother', then the minute the husband got on a motorbike, we'd have been going "oh, yes....."

I think if someone already has the idea that cycling is dangerous, the film will reinforce it. But so will every news story, or near miss they see. And their views are unlikely to be changed even if a character cycled the whole way through and never had a scratch.

At the very end, the other husband arrived with a bike, so it's clearly just seen as a way these people get around.

Blimey, I may have to get a telly, it all sounds quite exciting

 

[Fiona N]

On a related topic - i.e. whether the writer has an axe to grind - has anyone read Sebastian Faulk's 'One week in December'?

I seem to remember him mouthing off somewhere about cyclists on pavements (and no lights at night, RLJers etc.) so when there was a repeated occurrence of a cyclist on the pavement dressed in black with no lights at night in the novel, I though, oh here we go... but in the end this archetype was pivotal to the story in a good way

 

[Arch]

I watched it too - but it won't stick in my memory. Never mind. They had some sort of judicial enquiry over the cyclist's death, but no prosecution for Death by Dangerous Driving. Ho hum - I suppose the scriptwriter has the final say....

Do we know that? I don't think we do. We know the Police paid up the compensation, but I'm fairly sure that doesn't preclude any prosecution. I assumed the 'enquiry' was a Scottish version of an inquest, but I may be wrong. If it was a soap opera, we'd find out, but it was a finite drama.

Anyway, it wasn't about that, it was about the family and what happened to them. The means of death was irrelevant - although the 'real father' character being a barrister and sticking his nose in was mildy important, so it needed to be something where blame could be attributed.