Think the ending was great if a bit rushed, and I would have had Ryan at the grave with Catherine at the end, and maybe saved the "ghost" of Becky for that scene as well. Richard's absence from this episode was a bit odd, seeing as he'd already come back and played a part in the story already.
The summation of the B-plot was fine for me - Catherine has retired, so it'd make sense that she (and us as the audience) wouldn't be that involved in the details of what went on. Wrapping it all up with a character from previous series would have been way too "neat" or "Deus-Ex-Machina" for a finale. In the end, all four male villains of their series (TLR, Rob, Faisal and Darius) met their end offscreen - this was always Catherine's story.
Interesting that there was a slight attempt to humanise TLR and his relationship with Becky. I've always felt there was an undercurrent in the writing that Catherine's hardline approach to the 'truth' of Becky's death and TLR's relationship with Becky stemmed from her having to form an 'all or nothing' mindset against him in order to cope with the grief; she'd become blinkered by the 'black and white'-ness of her version of events, whilst perhaps the truth was a little more 'grey'. She describes their relationship and TLR as abusive but of course as the audience we only see it retrospectively and from Catherine's perspective; other characters are slightly more open-minded (I'm not saying TLR wasn't a **** of course!) than Catherine.
The summation of the B-plot was fine for me - Catherine has retired, so it'd make sense that she (and us as the audience) wouldn't be that involved in the details of what went on. Wrapping it all up with a character from previous series would have been way too "neat" or "Deus-Ex-Machina" for a finale. In the end, all four male villains of their series (TLR, Rob, Faisal and Darius) met their end offscreen - this was always Catherine's story.
Interesting that there was a slight attempt to humanise TLR and his relationship with Becky. I've always felt there was an undercurrent in the writing that Catherine's hardline approach to the 'truth' of Becky's death and TLR's relationship with Becky stemmed from her having to form an 'all or nothing' mindset against him in order to cope with the grief; she'd become blinkered by the 'black and white'-ness of her version of events, whilst perhaps the truth was a little more 'grey'. She describes their relationship and TLR as abusive but of course as the audience we only see it retrospectively and from Catherine's perspective; other characters are slightly more open-minded (I'm not saying TLR wasn't a **** of course!) than Catherine.
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