Anyone else watching Strike

I've read the books. Really didn't like The Silworm at all.

With Lethal White on TV, it is so dark I can hardly see what's happening. Cormoran is just gorgeous so I'm happy with that!!

I like the romantic link with Robin. Otherwise I could take it or leave it.

Maggiemaybe

^I think the plot is largely immaterial, I'm watching Cormoran ^

Snap.

The plot is completely daft. I’ll just search for clues while everyone parties around me - oh, here’s one! We’ll just rock up to the hotel I conveniently drove past and noticed the name of two years ago and see if the manager will divulge details of his guests - oh yes, he has! I’ll go undercover as a trade unionist’s daughter from the north, but won’t bother giving them a name that fits that, I’ll be fine just using my own surname - oh, they’ve googled me! The Secret 7 books were more realistic.

Yet I’m still looking forward to the last episode.

And I may have remembered this incorrectly, but I don’t think in the book she gave her name, they didn’t check her background, that chase didn’t happen.

Think this was put in to add to the drama, but as I say, might be me not recalling it properly.

BlueBelle

I agree about the darkness that often seems to happen I always use sub titles for dramas but it’s the plot that’s so far fetched thats annoyed me that scene in the parliamentary rooms with her fixing bugs while people were coming and going was laughable ...as if
Then she found Jimmy s girlfriend and got a job just like that and invited to a party where she found the note ...honest a kid would have written better then she completely outruns a man who is conveniently knocked over by a police car oh pleeeeze .will she escape to Cormran s arms now she s left Matt .? Or will that be the next cliff hanger to make you read the next book churned out

I understand what you’re saying BlueBelle, but it’s all whizzed along on the tv, in the book it makes more sense how she placed the bugs, landed the job, found the note etc.

Last night it all happened over a few minutes, which doesn’t give you the easing into the plot as you’re reading.

DH has recorded this-shan’t watch it now! Too much (repeat) telly anyway

I think the plot is largely immaterial, I'm watching Cormoran

Snap.

The plot is completely daft. I’ll just search for clues while everyone parties around me - oh, here’s one! We’ll just rock up to the hotel I conveniently drove past and noticed the name of two years ago and see if the manager will divulge details of his guests - oh yes, he has! I’ll go undercover as a trade unionist’s daughter from the north, but won’t bother giving them a name that fits that, I’ll be fine just using my own surname - oh, they’ve googled me! The Secret 7 books were more realistic.

Yet I’m still looking forward to the last episode.

I am just pleased that there is something that is not a repeat on the box at the moment, short lived though it may be. I just love Cormoran and Robin, despite not understanding the plot, and having read the book some time ago.

I agree about the darkness that often seems to happen I always use sub titles for dramas but it’s the plot that’s so far fetched thats annoyed me that scene in the parliamentary rooms with her fixing bugs while people were coming and going was laughable ...as if
Then she found Jimmy s girlfriend and got a job just like that and invited to a party where she found the note ...honest a kid would have written better then she completely outruns a man who is conveniently knocked over by a police car oh pleeeeze .will she escape to Cormran s arms now she s left Matt .? Or will that be the next cliff hanger to make you read the next book churned out

I think film techniques don’t help. Backgrounds are dark and shady and sound is often so soft it’s difficult to hear what the characters are saying. Missing a few words and clear pictures here and there doesn’t help to put across the story on the small screen so often I’m left wondering what’s going on. Incidentally, this is the only Robert Galbraith book I couldn’t read to the end. Twice I tried and gave up. Maybe I should try again.

Calendargirl I’m with you, read all the books when they came out and agree, compressing for TV is difficult. It’s also a pleasure having something new to watch rather than the continuous repeats.

Well, I have to disagree with comments about the book!
I read all the Strike books during Lockdown, and thought that Lethal White was the best of the lot.
I liked The Silkworm the least.

The trouble with the tv adaptation is you can’t condense a big book into four episodes, and if I hadn’t already read it, I would be muddled about the plot, and who was who.

Also, and I hate to write this, but Tom Burke is just too gorgeous to be Cormoran, who, according to the book is ‘massive’ and very overweight. (More like Robbie Coltrane as Cracker).

However, he is sooooo gorgeous that I have to force myself to keep watching him, wondering why Robin ever married that awful Matthew when hunky Tom is just a few inches away, leaning over her computer......,

?????

Hated the books so wasn’t expecting anything better.

Well I know what’s going on ladyleft but is so so far fetched nothing really rings true and if it wasn’t for watching cormaron I would have switched off long ago
A child could have written better everything is so far from what would happen that it’s a fairytale
I was soooooo looking forward to it too

I'm with sodapop.

I think this is the fourth series vegans.

Sodapop I m only watching it for Cormoran too but I must remind you I did get there first ❤️

Well, I’m enjoying it and know what’s going on!

I am watching it, but the plot is so far fetched - when Robin found the note last night, as if!! With a whole strange house to search, during a party no less, she just happened to find it ?

I think the plot is largely immaterial, I'm watching Cormoran
It does seem to have lost its way, I thought it might be the screen adaptation but you say the book is dire as well grandMattie. Hopefully the next one will be an improvement.

I gave up on it but meant to try again. Don't think I'll bother though. Doesn't sound as though it improves.

Waited ages for the book,it wasnt worth the wait, new book due out soon,I am looking forward to it,hope its better than Lethal White,and as good as her previous books

I think so too. It is mostly harmless and , at least, it’s home grown and made.... DH read the book earlier and said it was rubbish.
JKR seems to be writing to fill her time. Goodness knows she doesn’t need the money.

Loved the first series but this one is dire.

So have the scriptwriters.

I signed the Official Secrets Act, merlotgran and can divulge no more than that.?

Callistemon

They are private detectives investigating something, merlotgran.

No shit, Sherlock?

They are private detectives investigating something, merlotgran.