Vigil on bbc1

Great drama series considering the rubbish (imo) currently on TV. I’ve no idea whether submarine life, as portrayed in this drama, is true to life. More interested in the plot.

Son in Law is a submariner, has been since 2004 /2005.
He is now CPO , medic and nuclear expert.

Apparently he was watching Vigil in Scotland but my daughter down here in the SouthWest could not bear to watch it !!!
Filled me with admiration for my SIL, not that he ever tells any of us what he really does.

It was a great watch from the start with the trawler....don't want to ruin it for anyone not watched it yet. BBC1 has done it again for me, getting me hooked, waiting on Sundays to arrive to watch the next episode. It gives a real insight to what working on a submarine is like, I definitely couldn't cope being cooped up like that.

Ooh thanks, not heard about this, will check it out, love a good TV series

Well worth - I am hooked!!

Loving it & great acting!

Great drama, Suranne's approach to her detective work and investigations were perfectly executed at just the right pitch. I felt for her being winched down from the helicopter ?

Although supposedly entirely fictional, I feel this was likely far too close to real life for the families of the trawlermen lost when the Antares was sunk in the same manner in 1990. I would imagine the detailed scenes of the crew fighting for their lives aboard the sinking trawler would be very upsetting. I wouldn't imagine they'd watch it for a minute, but knowing that this very personal tragedy has been used in a tv drama is probably quite upsetting.

Really enjoying Vigil. I was disappointed when Martin Compton died in first episode. However he still has his part to play!!

Great drama but think it will be only once a week from next week as Silent Witness starts next Monday at 9pm.

It’s good, however it’s so claustrophobic I wouldn’t last five minutes. Total respect to the people do it. Very good so far just hope it hasn’t given nightmares to the people that lost relatives and friends on the Antares. It was so awful.

The strangest bit is the Cox’n, a Chief, being called Sir by everyone.

NeilSpurgeon I asked DH about that and he said that if he is a Warrant Officer (formerly Fleet Chiefs) he will be called 'Sir' by all in ranks below him and 'Mr' Glover by commissioned officers.

It's too dark to see if he's a Warrant Officer and I couldn't see his face either but the voice is distinctive as young Endeavour Morse.

NeilSpurgeon you are perfectly correct - he's a CPO

For submarines, a coxswain holds the rank of chief petty officer 2nd class (CPO2) - Wikipedia (so not from the horse's mouth).
So he should not be addressed as 'Sir'

Excellent

Compulsive viewing, excellent acting, and great storyline.

Thoroughly enjoying, although needing sub-titles feature, as quite difficult to hear some of the dialogue.

Snap! I was just about to watch the first episode.

Liked the start of the first episode - nice shot of the builders' logo (VSEL) on the opening credits.

Most of my family have worked in or around those boats and their predecessors for years - I daresay a few of my friends will be expecting to be called up to Rosyth when HMS Vigil returns for repairs!

Cracking show though - I agree with everyone else - and you can imagine our conversations too!!

Thoroughly enjoying it

Callistemon

^Give me Morse every time.^

Bingo Grammaretto!!

I did wonder why they needed her to solve it as they already had Endeavour on board!
(It took me a while to realise, it's the voice ?)

I was getting so annoyed as I knew his voice but couldn't think who he was.

MawBe

TiggyW Tue 31-Aug-21 12:05:46
I agree, Maisiegreen, there were a few anomalies, e.g., the car crashed into deep water, yet SJ and the daughter emerged onto a beach. Jade waiting for someone on a lonely country road?!

And a country road with a lamp post ? Living in a village - I wish!

Country roads round my way often have lamp posts close to villages or busier roads, locally some people trying to get them removed so they can see the stars.

Aldom

I have a phobia with the sea and after watching the horrendous scene when the fishing vessel is dragged under the sea I had to turn off the TV. My father was career Royal Navy. Also went through WW2. He said he could never have worked on submarines.

My father was RN in WW2. Some of his service was in submarines. He hated it with a passion, not sure if you'd call him full on claustrophobic but he didn't like confined spaces. He also said it was hell trying to sleep.

theworriedwell it took me a while to work it out as his face seems to be more in darkness than the others
(Does that mean he's the baddie? I hope not.)

I heard Shaun Evans talking about it on the radio so have recorded, anyone know if he uses his natural, Liverpool, accent, completly through me on the radio as I am used to his Endeavour/Oxford accent

I bet nobody mentioned the smell on submarines. ?

DH says that when he returned to the surface, after his enforced sojourn beneath the waves, the above wave crew, unscrewed the lid and leapt well away as the air was so thick, you could have cut it with a knife.