Minder and Law and Order

[incy]

Well there have been two remakes on TV recently that got my attention and both have disappointed

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[valkyriekaren]

The problem with Law & Order UK is that the episodes aren't just close to the US ones, they're actually based directly on them. So yes, you get the plea bargaining stuff which simply doesn't happen under British law, and also ridiculous hearings like the one in 'Born Bad' where an argument that the kid wasn't liable because he was genetically predisposed to violence gets allowed to be heard when in fact those arguments have been had and lost years ago and would be completely contrary not just to English law but also to European human rights law.

[moral_vacuum]

Indeed. I always wondered how they'd deal with the differences between US and UK law - I didn't realise that not bothering was an option.

And Freema can't act. Every single one of the ADAs in the US version have been brilliantly clever hotshot lawyers, whilst Freema seems like the work experience girl.

[ivory_goddess]

In all fairness, she's not the equivalent of an ADA, she's something lesser. I can't remember exactly what she is, but it's why she doesn't get to wear a white wig in court and ends up doing all the research.

[incy]

she is as solicitor advocate, rather then a barrister (Again a difference between the UK and the US).

[sciamachy]

Minder went way downhill when they started playing it purely for laughs. In the first series of the original, you had some excellent fight scenes. It takes a lot to convince my dad that a fight scene is authentic, as he was a boxer, but he loved the Minder ones in the original. Blood, snot & loose teeth flying. Proper TV violence, not the crap they have on Eastenders these days. Haven't seen the remake yet but I suspect they're using the way too safe school of stage fighting.

[moral_vacuum]

It all went downhill when Minder became "the Arthur Daley Comedy Hour".