Thanks. It was a really good episode, and the ones I've seen since then haven't been that impressive to be honest. I don't know why they haven't put it out on DVD yet like the other series'. I wish they would.
Well the episode is basically like I said above, and there's a wikipedia entry about the plot of the novel here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale_Horse_(novel)). It sounds like the killer was basically the same character, and the murders that happen over the course of the book are due to poisoning, but they don't go into too much detail about the character himself or if he was supposed to have killed in his teenage years as well. It would make sense if they changed the character to be more like Graham Young though, as it says in the same article - which I read while making the post actually - that the information about thallium poisoning in the book actually helped a doctor realise what was happening to some of Young's victims. Which would make it a sort of complicated shout-out, possibly. It's a little disturbing really, but I do quite like the end product either way.
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Date: 2011-04-25 11:15 pm (UTC)Well the episode is basically like I said above, and there's a wikipedia entry about the plot of the novel here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale_Horse_(novel)). It sounds like the killer was basically the same character, and the murders that happen over the course of the book are due to poisoning, but they don't go into too much detail about the character himself or if he was supposed to have killed in his teenage years as well. It would make sense if they changed the character to be more like Graham Young though, as it says in the same article - which I read while making the post actually - that the information about thallium poisoning in the book actually helped a doctor realise what was happening to some of Young's victims. Which would make it a sort of complicated shout-out, possibly. It's a little disturbing really, but I do quite like the end product either way.