Close the curtains !!!!!!!

Another vote for you, felice. UCan't cope with either the open curtains or the lights staying off. I'm told it's to increase tension. Frustration is what it evokes in me and a degree of insult to my intelligence. I know it's only a story but surely it has to have some semblance of natural human behaviour. Since we're pretty well unanimous here then there's NO doubt about it!!

Or if I were watching a creepy film (I don't usually, I am a wuss.)

We live in the sticks (no street lamps) and I often leave my curtains open at night, and I have a lamp on and the tv. No one can see in unless they are trespassing in our private garden. I like to see the stars and moon.

It bothers OH, he feels more cosy with the curtains shut. Admittedly if it were a dark and stormy night and I was alone, I might shut them then.

Inishowen, I was shouting at the tv in girlfriends when Gail did that! Use the phone to call the police, not as a torch!

The acronym TSTL is frequently used in internet reviews of romance fiction - Too Stupid To Live.

Yes, why do the potential victims set themselves up for the bleeding obvious?

I always think of Tippi Hedren in "The Birds" when she deliberately goes up into the attic where the savage winged beasts are getting in and then - surprise! - gets attacked.

When someone is being chased and they run UPSTAIRS! Where are you going to go from there then??!!

Hear, hear to all that every one says about not drawing curtains and people going into houses and potentially dangerous situations on their own. My curtains are firmly drawn once the lights go on, but I must admit I do like it when people don't draw their curtains and I can have a really sneaky look in to see what their house is like when the lights are on

Oh felice, I so agree with you! I'm forever shouting: "close your curtains!" to the TV. And I think the Americans are even worse with this issue, looking at their films & programmes. For me, this makes the whole "story" (being told) less believable. Perhapd it's all the fault of the set designers?

If I were in a house alone, and heard a noise in the cellar, I really can't think that my first move would be to open the cellar door (which always creaks) and then tiptoe quietly down the stairs to see what was lurking in the depths. No, I would be that cloud of dust on the horizon. Watching 'Vera' last week - otherwise excellent - I too ended up yelling at the screen as this middle aged, unarmed, unfit and defenceless woman went into a building where there was a known dangerous individual, having first called for 'immediate back up'. Why why why didn't she wait for them?? She survived of course as there are going to be more episodes, but it does annoy me so much - it strains credibility in an otherwise first class production.

Same here, I always notice in dramas etc, they never pull the curtains. When going to bed at night, to getting up in the morning with sun streaming in, the curtains are never pulled.
I wish it didn't bug me so much. But why don't producers pay attention to these little details.
We can't all be wrong.

Inishowen, I think I'd have been straight out the house, calling the police, if I found a cat stabbed in the hall.

I'm surprised nobody has heard me shouting 'draw the curtains'.

what annoys me even more is when they show the 'good' person going into the house and they dont turn the lights on!!!!!

This weeks episode of Girlfriends. Gail enters her friend's house and finds the cat stabbed on the floor. So, instead of putting the lights on she used the torch on her phone to investigate! I was shouting "put the lights on"!

Sorry, way off from the OP, but.....

I too love Avril Paton's Glasgow pics. She wouldn't remember me I expect, but we met on Arran when I was under 10 and played together - my parents and I were staying at their boarding house on holiday.
The other picture I like best is 'Rainmates'
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I love Avril Patons work Varian as a weegie who lives away from the city it reminds me of home .We were in the city last night and going through the west end and your friend is right,nobody closes curtains ,must admit I dont either so it must be inbred ...lol

I'm glad it's not just me. The not putting the light on is a bugbear of mine. Also (and I know this is ridiculous) when they are standing at the sink doing the washing up and they don't roll their sleeves up! I need to get out more

This might be a better link

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I always say the same felice
and I do remember the Broadchurch episode and commenting on it at the time - or rather saying rather loudly 'shut the blinking curtains you silly girl'.

More than 20 years ago, during the IRA troubles, a senior army officer was shot and injured when IRA members scouted out his garden and then went back in the dark and shot him through a window. None of his curtains were closed. I can remember being amazed at the time both that he hadn't been warned about this obvious risk and anyway hadn't, worked it out for himself.

And they leave their cars unlocked too!

their front rooms

If I lived in a city I would definitely close my curtains when the lights went on but my friend who lives in the West End of Glasgow doesn't. She says that nobody does and if you are thinking of redecorating you can walk around the neighbourhood and look in all the windows to see what other folk have done with their

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