Dirk Gently episode 3
May. 30th, 2012 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daibhidcI can't believe they're not making any more. That was brilliant!
Since I missed ep 1 of the series, this is the only non-sf episode I've seen, and it worked very well.
Both escalating the fridge subplot from Teatime to Dirk's entire flat and making it the key to the plot were genius, although they may have tipped their hand a bit too early; when Dirk was being dumped by Melinda I started thinking "There are too many cleaners in this. 'Cleaner' ... assassin who leaves no traces ... that's got to mean something" even though I couldn't put the details together.
Inspector Gilkes was brilliant in his utter contempt for Dirk, as was Macduff's developing attitude of "This isn't one of your weird cases, and you need to stop mucking about and treat it seriously". (Or if you want to get metafictional about it: this isn't a sci-fi story any more, and if we're in a proper detective drama we need to act appropriately.)
The evidence against Robbie was so strong that for a while I thought he'd really done it, even though I knew there was 15 minutes to go, and that Dirk being wrong about him was against the fundemental structure of the Dirk Gently universe. (Dirk can be wrong. He can be completely and hilarously wrong - the handwriting thing is a case in point. But when he makes a spurious decision about the case for absurd reasons, he isn't wrong, even if the reasons prove to be pure nonsense. [That's another reason I started being suspicious of the new cleaner; because right at the start Dirk tried to claim that getting a new cleaner was a vital part of the case.])
I really can't believe they're not making any more of these.
Since I missed ep 1 of the series, this is the only non-sf episode I've seen, and it worked very well.
Both escalating the fridge subplot from Teatime to Dirk's entire flat and making it the key to the plot were genius, although they may have tipped their hand a bit too early; when Dirk was being dumped by Melinda I started thinking "There are too many cleaners in this. 'Cleaner' ... assassin who leaves no traces ... that's got to mean something" even though I couldn't put the details together.
Inspector Gilkes was brilliant in his utter contempt for Dirk, as was Macduff's developing attitude of "This isn't one of your weird cases, and you need to stop mucking about and treat it seriously". (Or if you want to get metafictional about it: this isn't a sci-fi story any more, and if we're in a proper detective drama we need to act appropriately.)
The evidence against Robbie was so strong that for a while I thought he'd really done it, even though I knew there was 15 minutes to go, and that Dirk being wrong about him was against the fundemental structure of the Dirk Gently universe. (Dirk can be wrong. He can be completely and hilarously wrong - the handwriting thing is a case in point. But when he makes a spurious decision about the case for absurd reasons, he isn't wrong, even if the reasons prove to be pure nonsense. [That's another reason I started being suspicious of the new cleaner; because right at the start Dirk tried to claim that getting a new cleaner was a vital part of the case.])
I really can't believe they're not making any more of these.
