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Hi all,
Not having watched the episode, I'm a bit confused by the plot summary. I don't quite understand why Tyler not only seems to accept Charlotte/Nina's death, but is actively promoting it. After all, she is his daughter, and such a gambit seems a bit much if he's only after his revenge.
Or is it because Charlotte is not his biological daughter? In that case, it would still come across as extremely callous.
Could someone shed some light in the plot summary? -- Syzygy ( talk) 07:11, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Apologies to J Milburn for undoing his revert of this edit - the only reason I did so was because the rationale for the revert is directly invalidated by WP:SPOILERS. My concern is this passage is very hard to understand without additional information that could easily be given - currently, the "second nina" seems to refer to one of the clues listed above, which is incorrect, and without this there's no indication how a middle name for Pemberton's character allows it to be part of the plot. As a minimum RIPNHS should be idenfied as the nina in question to remove this confusion; I think even greater clarity is achieved by stipulating that it alludes to Squires' death. This also makes the sentence much closer to the description of the given reference: 'The final nina that is seen in the episode, RIP NHS, we spotted at the last minute. We thought: “Well, that’s so close to the initials of Nigel Squires, who has just killed himself” that we had to use it[...]' U-Mos ( talk) 08:29, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
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The Riddle of the Sphinx", an episode of
Inside No. 9, was published in The Guardian the same day the episode aired? | ||||||||||||
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Hi all,
Not having watched the episode, I'm a bit confused by the plot summary. I don't quite understand why Tyler not only seems to accept Charlotte/Nina's death, but is actively promoting it. After all, she is his daughter, and such a gambit seems a bit much if he's only after his revenge.
Or is it because Charlotte is not his biological daughter? In that case, it would still come across as extremely callous.
Could someone shed some light in the plot summary? -- Syzygy ( talk) 07:11, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
Apologies to J Milburn for undoing his revert of this edit - the only reason I did so was because the rationale for the revert is directly invalidated by WP:SPOILERS. My concern is this passage is very hard to understand without additional information that could easily be given - currently, the "second nina" seems to refer to one of the clues listed above, which is incorrect, and without this there's no indication how a middle name for Pemberton's character allows it to be part of the plot. As a minimum RIPNHS should be idenfied as the nina in question to remove this confusion; I think even greater clarity is achieved by stipulating that it alludes to Squires' death. This also makes the sentence much closer to the description of the given reference: 'The final nina that is seen in the episode, RIP NHS, we spotted at the last minute. We thought: “Well, that’s so close to the initials of Nigel Squires, who has just killed himself” that we had to use it[...]' U-Mos ( talk) 08:29, 26 January 2021 (UTC)