Whitechapel

[Jeff Leahy]

just to remind everyone via this thread, I got told off last time, that part two is on tonight, Happy viewing Rip pickers.

Pirate

[Suzi]

Hop-pickers!!

[Mike Covell]

Nose Pickers

The Pirate is right, ITV 1, at 21.00 hours, be there, or be a badger!

If you miss it, ITV iPlayer will have the show on for 29 days after tonight!

[Mike Covell]

Daily Mirror Entertainment Blogg

It was a bad week for the London Tourist Board with all manner of gory, grisly murders afflicting the capital in Moses Jones, Trial & Retribution, and our old favourite The Bill.

Whitechapel totally trumped the competition though with the brilliantly simple idea of a modern-day copycat killer roaming the streets meticulously replicating the heinous deeds of Jack the Ripper.

Of course, in the age of CCTV and DNA, it’s a ridiculous concept - at least I hope it is. But the writers accounted for this by having the CID team working the case openly mocking the detective who suggested the link.

The more serious down side for Rupert Penry-Jones’ DI Chandler was that the killer was copying a psychopath so ingenious he was never caught - or conclusively identified.

Edward Buchan, a quirky, creepy “Ripperologist” (whole-heartedly played by Steve Pemberton) explained that various theories posited the Ripper was a soldier, sailor, butcher, mason, even a woman.

Old school copper DS Ray Miles (the estimable Phil Davis) put it best. “All you’ve got to do now is solve the unsolvable,” he told his boss. “And catch the most famous serial killer that ever lived.”

Thanks Ray!

Competition is fierce among writers of Silent Witness, Taggart, Waking The Dead etc to out-do one another and come up with the most violent, twisted crimes. Writers Ben Court and Caroline Ip couldn’t lose.

“An attempt had been made to separate the bones from the neck,” the pathologist explains in tonight’s episode.

(Given it’s based on Jack the Ripper, it’s not giving too much away to tell you there is another attack.)

“The abdomen had been entirely laid open. The intestines lifted out of the body and placed by the shoulder of the corpse.”

Dead, in other words.

[Uncle Jack]

I think the twist will be that we won't find out who the killer is, like in real life, with the real Jack.

[Jeff Leahy]

Ok, I’ve figured it out . The killer was obviously Sam Flynn. Who else would have known about the cuts to Catherine Eddowes face..Quick send out the squad cars, they have the wrong Ripperologist locked up..

It was him, he did it

Pirate

[AdamWalsh]

Sure I saw a miniscule glimpse of Philips book in that basement - I bet some of your rooms look like that! And who leaves their computers on in closed cupboards? Its an interesting twist though (spoiler!!) to suggest a member of his JTR forum was privately learning with full intention to kill from the details given about the 1888 murders.........makes one wonder if the makers of the programme got the idea from this very board and its topics (specifically that talk about the injuries.........).

very clever.

[Jeff Leahy]

Sure I saw a miniscule glimpse of Philips book in that basement - I bet some of your rooms look like that! And who leaves their computers on in closed cupboards? Its an interesting twist though (spoiler!!) to suggest a member of his JTR forum was privately learning with full intention to kill from the details given about the 1888 murders.........makes one wonder if the makers of the programme got the idea from this very board and its topics (specifically that talk about the injuries.........).

very clever.

Someone indeed has been viewing the boards...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y

My partner said it looked like my study...I deny this..obviously

PS books spotted. Scotland yard investigates and the Facts.

[Chris]

Someone indeed has been viewing the boards...

Well, I think in a sense the boards were a primary inspiration, considering that the killer learned all he needed to know from a Jack the Ripper website with discussion boards - using a name that is registered at Casebook (albeit a name under which no messages have ever been posted!).

[Jeff Leahy]

Well, I think in a sense the boards were a primary inspiration, considering that the killer learned all he needed to know from a Jack the Ripper website with discussion boards - using a name that is registered at Casebook (albeit a name under which no messages have ever been posted!).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y

I still say Sam Flynn in the library with he candle stick

[Nemo]

Ripperology - murder porn?

Subject for a thread maybe - lol

One thing I like is the photography/filming

The surreal feel is right for the subject

Not sure about the plot yet - these dramas are usually very disappointing at the climax (where've I heard that before?)

[Nemo]

PS

I agree Jeff - who could have known that the inverted v's represented an attempt to slice the face off?

Smacks of plagiarism here

Would be nice if they give some credit to Casebook and some of the Casebook posters at the end - but I doubt it

When the Kelly killing is represented, I wonder if there will be a witness to a man in an Armani suit and wearing a Rolex...

[anna]

Hi all,

I'M BLOOMIN ANGRY!!

Last week we were cranks


This week the writers have outdone themselves....

Our detailed informed discussions on the medical details contained in the inquest reports,were referred to as........medical pornography!!!

The last thing I would call this mediocre programme....especially as it is being aired at prime viewing time on ITV,is clever.

I'd call it insulting.

[Rob Clack]

Well I'm a bit disappointed Philip's book didn't get more of an exposure. I caught 3 glimpses of it.







Rob

[Christine]

I always have a chuckle at TV shows that take that self-righteous attitude. If there's such a thing as Jack the Ripper porn, then that show (which I can't see) has got to be it.

Over here we have a show called Law and Order: SVU which did a show about a murderer who's inspired by some violent porn with a grown-up model dressed up as a little girl. This sort of thing is legal in the US, but not in many other countries. They were all self-righteous about it when their show depicts simulated sexual violence against little girls about every third episode.

So I'm sure that it's more provocative than anything you'll find on Casebook, if real murderers can be inspired by TV and the Internet, then just laugh at them condemning themselves. I think the book looked pretty good, though!