Post by Salzmank on Feb 26, 2019 5:31:12 GMT
I have to admit, I didn’t like Poole, his stuffy, uptight attitude and constant bitching about being in the Caribbean was tiresome. I much prefer the episodes with Goodman and now Mooney, they are much more likable.
My fondness for Poole over the other DIs is a minority viewpoint, I know, and I do understand why. It’s just that I think the entire premise was kind of ruined when we don’t have Richard’s “stuffy, upright attitude and constant bitching”; the point of the show, for me (other than the clever plots), is how he comes out of that shell and learns to loosen up, and he was just loosening up when Ben Miller decided to leave the show (and, inexplicably, they killed the character off! That had to be Miller’s doing; it doesn’t make any scriptwriting sense to kill the character).
Do you have any favorite episodes? On the whole, mine are the ones written by series creator Robert Thorogood.