O/T: russian roulette - anyone else see it?

[trueblue]

If so, what did you think?

I had no intention of watching, but flicked it on by mistake and found it gripping. The guy is very clever - and a little bit crazy. I did wonder if it was a trick (he is an illusionist after all) because I don't think we saw the bullet hit the sandbag - just heard a bang. But from the way he was shaking and looked totally freaked when he got one wrong, I'd say it was the real deal.

I notice there is a big moral argument about it today, but I'm sick of the way everyone in this country is mollycoddled now. Carry on like we are and no-one will ever go out in the dark, and will only leave their bed during the day if they're wearing a huge padded suit and people agree to sign a piece of paper agreeing not to breathe on them.

I'd say anyone that does try to copy the stunt won;t make much of a mess - in fact, their brain must be so small they'd stand a chance of missing it altogether!

 

[Meade's Ball]

The argument over it somehow influencing the population to go out and shoot themselves and each other is an absolute nonsense. You'd think there was nothing happening in the world to actually report on.
I watched the end of it and have to admit that i was slightly disappointed that he lived. In an ideal world, he would have been savaged by a tiger at some point during the exercise.
But it was alright tv.

 

[CHAPPERS]

It was well good, even if it was set up it was done very well. I personally think he could do it, the looks on the faces of them when they passed that thing round under the table and he could read what each of them did with it by judging their personalities was a picture. Mental.
He did look really freaked when he chose wrong but i think he may have done that to add to the effect of the thing.

great show though and very well presented.

 

[Brixtaan]

bored of magic

 

[Eastleigh Seagull]

I also switched on just as they were doing the passing the cork round. The following part when he guessed the words they were thinking was very impressive and the final bit was classic television - he is either a great actor or it was all real. Obviously though it would have been mildly funny if he had either got it wrong or bottled it.

 

[Albion Rob]

I think he honestly thought it was in chamber 5 and so when it wasn't he was faced with a real dilemma - think like he has never thought before or walk away and lose all credibility and never work on such a stage again.

Was the first thiung to unite my whole family for ages as we watched, we were all sitting there completley intrigued.

Also, the way he actually shot the bullet a nanosecond after fitring a blank to his head suggests he was shitting himself that much that he just wanted to get it over with.

I enjoyed it, though I would have been sickened with myself if he had killed himself, would have been an awful day for television.

 

[trueblue]

I watched the end of it and have to admit that i was slightly disappointed that he lived. In an ideal world, he would have been savaged by a tiger at some point during the exercise.
But it was alright tv.

Exactly!! It's enter-bloody-tainment. Why don't the police and every other well-wisher spouting off concentrate on the good work they do, and let the vast majority of well-adjusted, law-abiding people get on with their lives.

 

[trueblue]

Just thinking - I wonder if he took a gamble in the end. Three chambers left... one bullet.

He knew that if he pointed the first one at his head, from then on he wouldn't die. If he'd fired the second at the sandbag and was wrong, he'd have known the bullet must be in the only chamber left. At that point, although he'd have failed the challenge, I don't think many people would have expected him to point the gun at his head for the last one just to be bloody-minded (excuse the pun).

Maybe that's what he was working out for so long... the odds, because the mind-reading hadn't worked.

 

[CHAPPERS]

I reckon he definitely knew where it was, he just fired a blank away from his head to f*** us at home up. and it worked.
Imagine how the guy in the chair felt that had put the bullet in the gun, he looked like he had seen a ghost afterwards.

Emmense tv and all respect to the man.
He has provided me more entertainment in the space of 5 minutes than Blaine is going in 44 days. Good work Derren!