Er zijn er meer zoals jij én ik.
Van de schrijver zelf op http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2012/10/hunted.shtml : (misschien niet lezen als je de serie nog wil bekijken?)
119. At 09:02 23rd nov. 2012, Frank Spotnitz wrote:
Thank you for the questions. While I can’t answer all of them, let me address the most pressing – the question of Sam’s survival after the bridge shooting and the baby in Scotland.
A balance always has to be struck between how much you show viewers and how much you withhold in order to keep them from anticipating a surprise.
In this case, there were viewers who surmised as early as Episode 1 that Sam didn’t lose her baby. I’m pleased if you were not among those viewers – I certainly didn’t want people to figure it out that quickly!
If you reflect carefully on the episodes you’ve seen, I think you’ll realise that the clues leading to this revelation were there all along, hidden in plain sight:
-- In Episode 1, when we first see Sam in Scotland after the shooting in Tangier, an entire year has passed. Why has she been gone such a long time? And why is she still in physical training?
-- After Sam gets her coffee and newspapers in the village, she stops on the pavement. She leans down to greet a child minder with a baby in a buggy.
-- When Aidan asks Sam whether she lost the baby, she doesn’t answer him. She simply shows him the scar from her shooting and says, “That answer your question?â€
-- In Episode 4, Aidan asks Sam about the sex of the baby he believes they’ve lost. Sam hesitates before answering, “A girl.â€
-- In Episode 7, Keel tells Sam he located her medical records from a hospital in Istanbul (the city where we first met the Blank-Faced Man in Episode 1). Sam freezes with fear when Keel tells her, “I know.â€
-- In Episode 8, Sam is seemingly assassinated by Deacon Crane with a sniper rifle – just as she seemed to be assassinated by Crane’s sniper rifle in Tangier in Episode 1. But wasn’t.
-- Crane “kills†Sam after he’s turned in his letter of resignation, refusing to accept any further moral compromises. And after we’ve seen Keel facing his own mortality, staring at the image of a fatal brain tumour.
-- Finally, when we see Sam return from running in Scotland a month later, she meets the same baby and child minder she greeted on the pavement in Episode 1.
This was no dream. But it should make you reconsider everything that’s come before it.
It turns out this was not a series about a woman seeking revenge for the loss of her child – it was a series about a woman trying to protect her child, to ensure her daughter doesn’t live to see her mother murdered, just as Sam did.
Sam’s “victory†in the final episode was in being able to recover a memory from her kidnapping – a man she saw with part of a finger missing -- that she could use to begin to fight back against the men who would see her dead.
It is true that many other questions about who wants to kill Sam were not answered in these episodes, but that was by design. This was always intended to be a long-running series, with the Hourglass mystery stretching over the course of years.
It’s interesting how few posts talk about how many revelations there were in this episode – about the contents of the case, the reason Jack Turner was bidding for the dam, the “suicide†of Stephen’s wife, Stephen and Jack’s true relationship to Tyrone, and the identity of the girl in the window.
But of course we wanted to leave you wanting more. If you as a viewer are frustrated that the series is not continuing, imagine how we as writers and producers feel after spending years developing it.
The BBC’s decision not to proceed has brought an end to this series, but there is some good news. The American broadcaster Cinemax is proceeding with a spinoff focusing on Sam Hunter’s character. I would hope that series would find a broadcaster in the U.K. as well.
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