I AM disappointed we didn't see his name in the opening credits!  I imagine his screen time will be similar if not more than what Charlene Mackenna had last Series and while her name no longer appears, it did in S1.

-- Edited by whimsyfox on Monday 4th of November 2013 11:08:33 PM

These are lovely and exciting and lovely and...I think I've run out of positive superlatives! Have to keep some back until after I've actually seen the episode, lol!

I hope you've got plenty of paper bags for your obvious hyperventilating later!

The tension is amazing... and Damien appearing with the three established characters, in the H-Division headquarters... it is an awesomely surreal moment! and the swagger! I love Flight already!

I agree with everything you said Domino. The scene where he defended Joseph Merrick was stunning! He is a great asset to the squad - and the programme.

It was heartening that despite the fact that he's ambitious and cocky, he has heart.  He has good intentions and seems to be a good man.

 

When he fell asleep I was yelling at the TV NOOOOOO.  Because if Reid and co find out he fell asleep they'll never trust/accept him.  And even if they don't, he will carry around that guilty conscience.  He looks devastated (to me) when he's looking into Merrick's room.  He might already realize he fell asleep and something could have happened on his watch.

 

I think his name will appear in the second group of credits in the opening credits, you get the pictures accompanying Matthew, Jerome and Adam's name and then second shot is just a group of names. It may happen after episode four for example as while we know he's a new cast member, he's literally just been introduced.

It was lovely to see Damien back on screen again. And that accent is Irish, watered down here and there (the reasons why to be revealed in a later ep perhaps?) but it was there. It was a very solid debut, the new boy wanting to impress the boss but unwise to the ways of Whitechapel. He'll get there in the end but i saw his frustration at wanting to make a good impression and Reid's reticience at letting him, remembering Hobbs (as Homer said, he wasn't Hobbs) but i'm intrigued about Flight and what we might learn about him in future episodes.

Wasn't too keen on the idea of Shine being the one who killed Joseph Merrick, there's toying with history and then there's meddling and that bordered a bit on the meddling. Shine also intrigues me, he'll smile at you before he rips out your throat. Very intense actor.

 

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Due to time differences, I had to wait until 10 pm to watch and was feeling tired and a bit under the weather and considered just watching today. But then the show started and the anticipation of seeing Damien back on the screen overcame any tiredness and I watched the whole thing with rapt attention. Love the whole episode. There were some great moments of depth and emotion. I loved that it was Flight who came to Merrick's rescue out on the streets. I had so hoped he'd come to the rescue once again at the end. :( Still, whatever dark secrets Flight may have, it seems he's good at heart. Yay!

Hi Duizend Talpen, thanks for sharing your reaction, good to read you here

The wave of excitement for Damien's debut was tangible, sounds like you felt it too!
Yes, you have pinpointed that moment where we see where Flight's baseline moral code points, in that moment he is a hero and although that is somehow seemingly tarnished by him falling asleep while guarding Merrick later on, resulting in Shine being able to do what he did he was only involved, not intentionally.

I found Jackson's comment about Flight not being Hobbs intriguing..not just a kind of 'he's not a great a man as Hobbs' , but it felt like a laden statement like he sensed a whole lot of things about Flight!

I am conflicted about the smoking thing, not in any moral sense because Damien is a grown man and what he does with his body is his own business, but it was just odd seeing it, but that oddness very quickly turned into fascination because of the way he used that one cigarette as a prop, in such an amazing way...said so much about Flight in that whole dialogue-free exchange with him, Jackson, Drake and the whole of H-Division..as he entered their 'territory' !

Irish twang is the perfect way to describe Flight's accent J-B, it was quite subtle but discernably Irish

Merrick's end was absolutely heartbreaking ..hands up who was sobbing at that point? and just before shouting at the screen: "WAKE UP FLIGHT!"

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ooh well spotted fifi, I thought maybe it was just an abstract reference to wimpy style policing (maybe it was a a phrase of the day or something?) and / or an assumption on Reid's part?