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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9860740" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean, it's not the least plausible plot of a thriller series set on a long-distance international flight I've watched recently (that's still the inferior Red Eye - I love Richard Armitage but he needs to get a better agent!). At least this one, when you accept a number of somewhat implausible premises, the plot flows logically. The main two being:1) In a clearly post-Line of Duty age, the "OCG", i.e. "Organised Criminal Gang" in British police-speak is a mighty and terrifying international force [ISPOILER]capable of agile-ly striking at individuals and their families in a way the worst, most-state-backed and well-funded terrorists and spies wish they could. This, to be clear, is an utter nonsense. There are specific countries which organised crime kills huge numbers of people and has its hooks deeply into the state (often despite hard work from the governments), but there's a reason nothing like this has ever happened.[/ISPOILER]2) That the UK government is run by people who are all terribly nice and would throw a fit over the life of one Australian, let alone actual British citizens, and would take insane gigantic risks to preserve the lives of unimportant British citizens (no MPs or lords or billionaires on the plane, interestingly given it was in Dubai). This is pretty hard-to-stomach given we know for a fact that it isn't the case with any government in my lifetime, and really never has been. [ISPOILER]That'd plane would have got blown up over the sea.[/ISPOILER]And the show is actually quite well-put-together, reasonably tense, quite twist-y in mostly plausible ways (once you accept the premise), doesn't devolve into farce except when the Foreign Minister is hand-wringing about people's lives, and gets a lot of stuff right which puts it above most thrillers (even the final [ISPOILER]crash-landing of the plane is, apart from the glide-slope and total lack of mention of slats, mostly plausible, and like that front landing gear snapping off probably saved a lot of lives, which is true from some real crash-landings too - plus the random navy pilot lady is pushing the stick in the right direction, something some real pilots have failed to do![/ISPOILER]).</blockquote>

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