I know this topic is only slightly relevant to this forum but what did you all think of “Ghostboat”? I thought the first episode was very good especially the last 10 minutes when three (CGI) Bf 109s strafed the sub. At that point I thought the plot was that the sub had travelled back in time to 1943 (as in “The Final Countdown”) and that episode 2 would have lots of WW2 action.
In fact in Ep 2 we learned that was not what had happened and the second episode was a bit like that Hollywood movie “Below” about the haunted sub.
I suppose ITV deserve some credit for doing something different but it all ended up a bit predictable. Here are some of my gripes about the production –
1) Like most CGI aircraft the 109s didn’t move right. To my eye they moved too slowly. Also the production was set in Dec 1943 yet the 109s were obviously 109Es with 1940 style markings. Should they not have been Gs or some other type?
2) The scenes supposedly set in a Scottish naval dockyard were obviously filmed in Malta as the buildings in the background were in that familiar beige Maltese stone.
3) One crucial plot point – about the sub travelling forward in time from 1943 to the present – was never explained properly. And what happened to the crew? Perhaps I wasn’t paying attention.
Overall I felt the story left rather a lot of questions unanswered. What did you all think?
Colin
I understand the 1st episode but i did not understand the second it made me :confused: but the 1st episode was brilliant.
James
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