Baptiste on the BBC ones

[Jasha]

Enjoyed the first stand alone series and trying to get into this one but all this time shift back and forth isn't helping

[Mobius]

Yeah I was really looking forward to this, but the timejumping in episode 1 has put me right off. I've really lost any urge to continue.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

The Baptiste saga has always dealt in dual timelines, that's been a core aspect of the whole thing since episode one of The Missing.

[studpuppet]

The Baptiste saga has always dealt in dual timelines, that's been a core aspect of the whole thing since episode one of The Missing.

What BoBB said - you really haven't caught hold of the fundamental premise of the entire Missing/Baptiste saga if you haven't grasped that the gradual unfolding of each disappearance comes from piecing the threads of both timelines together. They even film past and present in different hues to give an extra visual hint (from memory the past has a yellow cast and the present has a colder bluer look).

[Jasha]

But previously it was a lot more layered and feathered in so you had to piece it together yourself, with this one there's no need for blue or yellow hues as it's either the ambassador in a wheelchair or not or Baptiste with stubble or a tramps beard, it's just too harsh for parallel threads to come together

[Mobius]

The Baptiste saga has always dealt in dual timelines, that's been a core aspect of the whole thing since episode one of The Missing.

Yeah fair enough, I can't really remember the original series.

I did find mad tramp Baptiste a little silly in the flashforward, but I am sure I'll push on with this.

[bgmnts]

Dual timelines are generally shit but I enjoyed most of what I watched. Really kicked up a gear with the

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terrorist shooting

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. Wasn't expecting that level of carnage for the show.

[Bently Sheds]

Weird how

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the Ambassador's daughter gets shanked once and dies

[close]

, but

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Baptiste gets well stabbed up and takes a cookery course

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.

[Custard]

Mrs Custard wanted to watch this, despite us both pretty much being bored to death during the last series.

But I gotta say, this was much better. It's a decent twisty turny storyline, and seems to finish Baptiste's own arc. It's decent and satisfying