Shetland - help!!!

Cold I am enjoying "Trapped" too because I've been to Iceland and it's great to see the scenery again. I am glad they are showing the weather as it really is, and not always with the sun shining which some series do. Since a holiday in Iceland, I have never complained about changeable weather in the UK .

Lully I'm not sure if you're saying tongue-in-cheek that Icelandic people are cheery because in "Trapped" they clearly aren't shown that way. IRL they are lovely and very friendly.

Just started watching Trapped and realise that the landscape of Shetland is far better IMO than Iceland that looks cold wet and miserable. So I take back all the negative comments about Shetland. I think I have become a southern softie ?

I enjoy Trapped too. What a cheery, friendly lot of people in Iceland.

I think Dougie Henshall is fine but I haven't read the books. I think if you have, the actor - at least initially - isn't the person you had imagined and therefore seems wrong.

I think it's very good. The storyline is a bit grim but unfortunately probably quite true to life. It's similar to the story in the new series Baptiste.

I loved the books but Dougie Henshall is miscast and that does spoil the TV series for me a little. Having said that I don't like the storyline this time so I've stopped watching this series.

notanan2 - Trapped is quite good though

Am loving Trapped although like the last series I cannot decide whether it is going to turn out to be a family drama or a political conspiracy - or both!

I am also enjoying place spotting as I was in Northern Iceland last summer and visited the two villages where Trapped is filmed

No the genes remain quite noticeable (jet black hair etc) but at the same time are considered native at this point IYKWIM (see above reference to the Galway Girl song) at least they are in other areas with high density of Armada genes I dont know specifically about Shetland.

You sound an expert in the Shetland stories, notanan2.

Irrespective of what he looks like, and I imagine 300 years of breeding since the Armada might have diluted some of the dark features, it sounds like Cleeves emphasises his outsider status in each book. Maybe I should be viewing/listening to the books in order.

Any thoughts on why they made Red Bones first? I am only hour or so in to the audio. There are so many differences between the TV and the book not least that the action is on Bressay not Whalsay. Closer to Lerwick I suppose so easier for Perez to nip back and forth. No mention of the Shetland Bus yet!

I just wish that Vera filled the Shetland hole when Shetland isnt on but it doesnt

Trapped is quite good though

Tosh fits in with the books in that she was new to the station in the series, and the series are set a bit later in Perez's personal life.

His boss is a totally different character but I prefer the TV series boss

Im not sure how much that rings true however given that the armada genes are so integral to a lot of coastal areas (e.g. the Galway Girl song: "her hair was black and her eyes were blue" etc) - his spanish looks wouldnt have been that unusual around the coast, and certainly wouldnt have made him an outsider..... but with his dark looks and heritage referred to so much in the books it is jarring to not have that in the show.

Sometimes to the point of being a bit over invested in cases involving outsiders and darker skinned victims etc

As much as I ahem appreciate Douglas's charms
It is annoying that the character has been white washed because his "other" spanish armada heritage is central to the books and how the character has a way of relating to outsiders.

I've decided to rewatch the Shetland series from the beginning and then listen to the audio books. The first story was based on Red Bones which is book three. I have just heard:

Perez was what the locals called a Black Shetlander. His ancestor had been washed up from a sunken Spanish Armada ship. He’d inherited the name, the dark hair and the Mediterranean skin.

I like Dougie Henshall in the part but thinking that Dougray Scott would have been much closer to this description. I wonder who was originally in the frame for the role?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7Z3mcqWk20

They have made certain changes to the storyline for the TV series compared to the books
- in the books Cassie is very little - around 6 or 7 - but the TV series made her about 15-16 at the start
- in the books Duncan is a rather selfish character - he doesn't want fulltime custody of Cassie as he likes his freedom so he does the alternate weekends
- in the books the "Tosh" character doesn't exist - it is just Jimmy and Sandy at first - although after Fran's death they write in a Willow - a detective from the Mainland - but she is Jimmy's boss.
- in the books Fran, Cassie and later Jimmy live in a house that she converted in Ravenswick

However I'm sure that the changes were made to make the story run more easily without having to stop and explain things - for example in the books Jimmy often has to work around childcare constraints/school times - whereas TV's late teen Cassie can be left when he has to go out

we do put on subtitles!

I don't know how old Tosh is supposed to be but if I said to DD Your dress sense/lifestyle should be maturing in line with your age/career IMO^ she would roll her eyes and say 'Mum!!!'.

My DH complains that he hasn't a clue what Tosh is saying.

MawBroon with those bags under his eyes its more likely hes been out getting too much of that!

MawBroon
Any volunteers to make the - I can provide lots of yarn from my stash!

Needs the love of a good woman perhaps?

But Douglas Henshall doesnt look well this series IMO. He looks puffy/goutey I hope he is okay

And the actress who plays Tosh is less convincing as the single party gal given that she is so much older now & her previous story line (& the massive bump she was sporting last series). Her character's dress sense/lifestyle should be maturing in line with her age/career IMO

Erm, I think that the person who starts the thread should have first dibs on Perez!!

That was Gaelic for !

Its a bit irritating because you cant just will your kids to whoever you want, its ultimately up to the childrens court and given that there were willing blood relatives AND the circumstances of Frans death Im surprised Perez got to keep her (or his job)

But thats being pedantic Im glad he did because I love the dynamics of Perez and Duncan, they are good for each other: Duncan reminds Perez to have fun once in a while and Perez is Duncans voice of reason

Well - spoiler alert! Gransnet Noir.
Alice’s body is found in a but an ben, strangled with a skein of knitting wool and asphyxiated with a large chunk of . Jimmy Perez has a list of suspects, ladies, shall we say “of a certain age” who have been seen to be making advances, cooing such endearments as “seems like a nice boy” and “we like a bit of rough”.
Now read next week’s gripping instalment..... [brin]