| 1 | * JerkassWoobie: Barbara in the pilot, "[[Recap/InspectorLynleyS00E01AGreatDeliverance A Great Deliverance]]". Viewers spend most of that episode both wanting to cuddle her because she's had such a crappy life and smack her for being bitchy -- at the same time. |
| 2 | * LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Like they would ''really'' kill off the show's {{Deuteragonist}}. |
| 3 | * NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize: |
| 4 | ** Those familiar with Creator/MatthewGoode as a bad guy in ''Film/{{Stoker}}'' and ''Series/OrdealByInnocence'', would probably look askance at Lynley's resentful, junkie younger brother Peter in ''[[Recap/InspectorLynleyS02E03ASuitableVengeance A Suitable Vengeance]]''. Though he looks so young it takes a while to recognize him. [[spoiler: He turns out to be a target of the murderer, instead.]] |
| 5 | ** Creator/JemmaRedgrave turns up in a significant role in "[[Recap/InspectorLynleyS03E04IfWishesWereHorses If Wishes Were Horses]]". [[spoiler:She didn't do it.]] |
| 6 | ** Honeysuckle Weeks and Creator/JamesDArcy appeared as a married couple in "[[Recap/InspectorLynleyS06E02KnowThineEnemy Know Thine Enemy]]". [[spoiler: PlayedStraight, since they were the BigBadDuumvirate]]. |
| 7 | * PlatonicWritingRomanticReading: If the writers wanted viewers to believe Havers and Lynley aren't falling head-over-heels in love throughout the course of the show, they ''really'' shouldn't have had them call each other [[spoiler:their reason to get up in the morning]], or given them the infamous CryIntoChest at the end of "[[Recap/InspectorLynleyS04E01InDivineProportion In Divine Proportion]]" that looks like nothing so much as a man comforting his traumatized lover. Many, ''many'' fans have pointed out that Lynley has much better chemistry -- and a much healthier relationship -- with Barbara than he ever did with [[SatelliteLoveInterest Helen]]. |
| 8 | * RetroactiveRecognition: ''Tons'' of current stars started out as minor characters on this show, including Creator/HenryCavill (Superman in ''Film/ManOfSteel''), Creator/RichardArmitage (Thorin in ''Film/TheHobbit''), Creator/JamesMcAvoy (Professor Charles Xavier in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''), Creator/SamuelWest (Siegfried Farnon in ''[[Series/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall2020 All Creatures Great and Small]]''), and Creator/MatthewGoode (''Series/ADiscoveryOfWitches'') as Lynley's younger brother. Catherine Russell, meanwhile, would go on to break into the British TV mainstream as Serena Campbell on ''Series/HolbyCity''. |
| 9 | * TheScrappy: Lesley Vickerage's Helen, who is by and large considered a whiny, selfish milquetoast. Catherine Russell's incarnation of the character is generally considered likeable enough[[note]]the chief complaint being "she isn't Emma"[[/note]] (if a bit bland), but virtually everyone wants Emma Fielding from the pilot back. |
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