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<blockquote data-quote="Julia&amp;#039;s Gun" data-source="post: 280660" data-attributes="member: 987">Yes it&#039;s a very weird episode. I remember there being some great threads about this that were on those old imdb forums a while back before they got rid of them. There were rumours about the cast all taking LSD during this episode, which is why it feels a bit surreal in places.I find it really annoying to try and sit through. Last time I only watched about half of it and that scene with them shouting in the boatyard really irritated me so I gave up!I think they were trying to do something a bit different, and perhaps Patrick McGoohan thought he was being very clever shooting scenes creatively, but it doesn&#039;t really come off.What I don&#039;t like about this episode onwards, is that (this might be controversial) for me Peter Falk starts overacting from this point onwards. Up until then, he was always so in character that you would be totally buying whatever implausible threads of evidence he was picking up on. But after this episode, I feel he starts becoming more mannered, a a bit more of a self-conscious characature. I&#039;m not a great fan of the later Columbo&#039;s but I remember thinking this episode was where it started losing its sparkle, and Columbo became too self aware..... Just my thoughts though!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Julia's Gun, post: 280660, member: 987"] Yes it's a very weird episode. I remember there being some great threads about this that were on those old imdb forums a while back before they got rid of them. There were rumours about the cast all taking LSD during this episode, which is why it feels a bit surreal in places. I find it really annoying to try and sit through. Last time I only watched about half of it and that scene with them shouting in the boatyard really irritated me so I gave up! I think they were trying to do something a bit different, and perhaps Patrick McGoohan thought he was being very clever shooting scenes creatively, but it doesn't really come off. What I don't like about this episode onwards, is that (this might be controversial) for me Peter Falk starts overacting from this point onwards. Up until then, he was always so in character that you would be totally buying whatever implausible threads of evidence he was picking up on. But after this episode, I feel he starts becoming more mannered, a a bit more of a self-conscious characature. I'm not a great fan of the later Columbo's but I remember thinking this episode was where it started losing its sparkle, and Columbo became too self aware..... Just my thoughts though! [/QUOTE]

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