Crossfire

[Pegojack]

Good opening episode of the three part drama series Crossfire tonight. Anyone watch it?
Basic premise is three British couples with assorted kids on holiday in a big resort hotel in a remote corner of an unspecified Spanish island, Balearics or Canaries, which is attacked without warning by an unknown number of presumably terrorist gunmen. The latter walk around the hotel shooting people indiscriminately. The guests hide or flee, Keeley Hawes is an ex policewoman who runs into the hotel security manager whilst looking for her family and he takes her to his office, where he has a couple of old hunting rifles.
She spots her daughter on cctv, hiding outside from an approaching gunman and runs out with a rifle.
Then the bit that really annoyed me! As the gunman raises his pistol at the daughter, KH bursts out of the door, points her gun at his back and shouts "drop your weapon! Drop your weapon!". He spins around and fires at her and that's how they leave it.
Now, come on. These guys are going around indiscriminately murdering all and sundry, your family is in mortal danger and you've got the drop on one of them. Would you yell out a police warning?
I'd have quietly got as close to him as possible, shot him in the back, took his pistol off him, finished him off, checked his backpack for spare ammo and got my daughter the hell out of there. What would you have done?

 

[Swanjaxs]

spoiler alert :lol: :lol:

 

[Squarebear]

I thought this was going to be an anecdotal thread about errm Crossfire, Rebound, Big League, Striker and many more 1970s games.

 

[Best_loser]

A kick in the balearics for anybody who hasn't watched it yet

 

[Niigata Jack]

Good opening episode of the three part drama series Crossfire tonight. Anyone watch it?
Basic premise is three British couples with assorted kids on holiday in a big resort hotel in a remote corner of an unspecified Spanish island, Balearics or Canaries, which is attacked without warning by an unknown number of presumably terrorist gunmen. The latter walk around the hotel shooting people indiscriminately. The guests hide or flee, Keeley Hawes is an ex policewoman who runs into the hotel security manager whilst looking for her family and he takes her to his office, where he has a couple of old hunting rifles.
She spots her daughter on cctv, hiding outside from an approaching gunman and runs out with a rifle.
Then the bit that really annoyed me! As the gunman raises his pistol at the daughter, KH bursts out of the door, points her gun at his back and shouts "drop your weapon! Drop your weapon!". He spins around and fires at her and that's how they leave it.
Now, come on. These guys are going around indiscriminately murdering all and sundry, your family is in mortal danger and you've got the drop on one of them. Would you yell out a police warning?
I'd have quietly got as close to him as possible, shot him in the back, took his pistol off him, finished him off, checked his backpack for spare ammo and got my daughter the hell out of there. What would you have done?

I enjoyed it myself, wouldn't even go and make a cuppa either :lol:

What I dislike with these types of programmes, is that they're all a bit to far-fetched, where they don't need to be.

 

[Pegojack]

Good opening episode of the three part drama series Crossfire tonight. Anyone watch it?
Basic premise is three British couples with assorted kids on holiday in a big resort hotel in a remote corner of an unspecified Spanish island, Balearics or Canaries, which is attacked without warning by an unknown number of presumably terrorist gunmen. The latter walk around the hotel shooting people indiscriminately. The guests hide or flee, Keeley Hawes is an ex policewoman who runs into the hotel security manager whilst looking for her family and he takes her to his office, where he has a couple of old hunting rifles.
She spots her daughter on cctv, hiding outside from an approaching gunman and runs out with a rifle.
Then the bit that really annoyed me! As the gunman raises his pistol at the daughter, KH bursts out of the door, points her gun at his back and shouts "drop your weapon! Drop your weapon!". He spins around and fires at her and that's how they leave it.
Now, come on. These guys are going around indiscriminately murdering all and sundry, your family is in mortal danger and you've got the drop on one of them. Would you yell out a police warning?
I'd have quietly got as close to him as possible, shot him in the back, took his pistol off him, finished him off, checked his backpack for spare ammo and got my daughter the hell out of there. What would you have done?

I enjoyed it myself, wouldn't even go and make a cuppa either :lol:

That guy fighting with that kid with a gun was bloody farce, he was a big enough guy to have sorted the situation and would have turned the gun on him, that's what I dislike with these types of programmes, they're all a bit to far-fetched, where they don't need to be.

Yes, I have to agree with you there, he was twice the size of the weedy youth he was fighting with and he was on top of him with the gun between them. Seems a bit implausible that he couldn't get the better of him.
And bollicks to spoiler alerts, if you're going to watch catch up, its your fault! We haven't got it here in Spain.....

 

[Squarebear]

The Guardian review is quite funny, though I don't think she is a fan. Not yet, anyhow.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/sep/20/crossfire-review-keeley-hawes-stars-in-the-worlds-most-stupidly-corridor-based-thriller?utm_term=632a8c4823d072ec979247ef31c38739&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email

 

[Swanjaxs]

I enjoyed it myself, wouldn't even go and make a cuppa either :lol:

That guy fighting with that kid with a gun was bloody farce, he was a big enough guy to have sorted the situation and would have turned the gun on him, that's what I dislike with these types of programmes, they're all a bit to far-fetched, where they don't need to be.

Yes, I have to agree with you there, he was twice the size of the weedy youth he was fighting with and he was on top of him with the gun between them. Seems a bit implausible that he couldn't get the better of him.
And bollicks to spoiler alerts, if you're going to watch catch up, its your fault! We haven't got it here in Spain.....

What what! No catch up in Spain! I thought your beloved adopted country had everything! Even your tap water comes out sparkling doesn't it :lol: :lol:

 

[Pegojack]

Yes, I have to agree with you there, he was twice the size of the weedy youth he was fighting with and he was on top of him with the gun between them. Seems a bit implausible that he couldn't get the better of him.
And bollicks to spoiler alerts, if you're going to watch catch up, its your fault! We haven't got it here in Spain.....

What what! No catch up in Spain! I thought your beloved adopted country had everything! Even your tap water comes out sparkling doesn't it :lol: :lol:

There's no catch up because the miserly BBC won't let foreign based viewers have access to it, presumably because we aren't paying the licence fee. Fair enough! I could get an unidentifable internet address, but frankly I can't be bothered.
A little bit of jealousy there in your water comment, methinks. No, the water doesn't come out sparkling, but it comes out clean and drinkable. And the rivers and beaches aren't covered in raw sewage either, unlike the UK. You'll soon be paying champagne prices just to get tap water from whichever foreign owned company supplies it.

 

[Swanjaxs]

What what! No catch up in Spain! I thought your beloved adopted country had everything! Even your tap water comes out sparkling doesn't it :lol: :lol:

There's no catch up because the miserly BBC won't let foreign based viewers have access to it, presumably because we aren't paying the licence fee. Fair enough! I could get an unidentifable internet address, but frankly I can't be bothered.
A little bit of jealousy there in your water comment, methinks. No, the water doesn't come out sparkling, but it comes out clean and drinkable. And the rivers and beaches aren't covered in raw sewage either, unlike the UK. You'll soon be paying champagne prices just to get tap water from whichever foreign owned company supplies it.

Not really mate, happy living with the Gower on my doorstep, just fed up with you banging on about how wonderful your life is whilst bitching about the UK at every opportunity, nobody cares man :lol:

 

[Pegojack]

There's no catch up because the miserly BBC won't let foreign based viewers have access to it, presumably because we aren't paying the licence fee. Fair enough! I could get an unidentifable internet address, but frankly I can't be bothered.
A little bit of jealousy there in your water comment, methinks. No, the water doesn't come out sparkling, but it comes out clean and drinkable. And the rivers and beaches aren't covered in raw sewage either, unlike the UK. You'll soon be paying champagne prices just to get tap water from whichever foreign owned company supplies it.

Not really mate, happy living with the Gower on my doorstep, just fed up with you banging on about how wonderful your life is whilst bitching about the UK at every opportunity, nobody cares man :lol:

Yawn.....

 

[Darran]

There's no catch up because the miserly BBC won't let foreign based viewers have access to it, presumably because we aren't paying the licence fee. Fair enough! I could get an unidentifable internet address, but frankly I can't be bothered.
A little bit of jealousy there in your water comment, methinks. No, the water doesn't come out sparkling, but it comes out clean and drinkable. And the rivers and beaches aren't covered in raw sewage either, unlike the UK. You'll soon be paying champagne prices just to get tap water from whichever foreign owned company supplies it.

Not really mate, happy living with the Gower on my doorstep, just fed up with you banging on about how wonderful your life is whilst bitching about the UK at every opportunity, nobody cares man :lol:

And to think he moved away from Bags. :lol:

 

[Swanjaxs]

Not really mate, happy living with the Gower on my doorstep, just fed up with you banging on about how wonderful your life is whilst bitching about the UK at every opportunity, nobody cares man :lol:

Yawn.....

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[legoman]

This thread ended well.............

 

[J_B]

Pego's turned into Perch...