is the yin of bent coppers not subtly balanced by the yang of rats and undercover officers? it is these invisible harmonies that the jedi mercurio seeks to reveal
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Thursday, 2 May 2019 07:50 (five years ago) link
mercurio retrograde
― mark s, Thursday, 2 May 2019 07:51 (five years ago) link
[staring off into the middle distance]
woaaah
― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Thursday, 2 May 2019 07:53 (five years ago) link
I watched the very first episode a couple of weeks ago and wasn't especially keen, it all felt a bit too dour, too murky. Then it got to the twist at the end of the second episode and I'm on board.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 May 2019 08:26 (five years ago) link
b: it is great at shock developments (on sun i told myself "just one more ep b4 bed" and hence confronted self w/a home invasion and a throat-cutting)
― mark s, Wednesday, March 29, 2017 10:57 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
coSINE
― mark s, Thursday, 2 May 2019 08:29 (five years ago) link
Now I think of this as a British spin-off to John Wick, with its own magical crime universe of frozen body parts, infinite AC units, part man/part balaclava-men, etc.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 2 May 2019 08:51 (five years ago) link
Ha, that was pretty much the exact moment we went "OK, this is worth watching now, wtf is going to happen" too Matt DC.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 2 May 2019 10:37 (five years ago) link
I believe it was Newton who first postulated that for every corruption there is an equal and opposite anticorruption
― mick signals, Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
Often within the same officer.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 2 May 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
lol steve is such a sulky pup
(s4 rewatch notes)
― mark s, Thursday, 2 May 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
He's more a determined little terrier, surely
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Friday, 3 May 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
a subplot in s4 is who of kate and steve is going to get promotion and when i wrote that steve was (a) convinced it's kate and (b) had just overheard undercover kate sucking up to thandie newton by slagging of AC12
so he had a gob on him as he drove away
― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2019 07:54 (five years ago) link
(ok lol v slow on this) = the greatest crossover event in history:
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--m78oMrIr--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/wpqyegy4xmgjkbzkuiqj.png
― mark s, Friday, 3 May 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
s4 rewatch note: actually good self-deprecating joke from ian buckell: "this dick's no grass for ac12, he's a dci -- and i didn't get there by sticking my neck out, i got there by any other buggers. maybe that's why you're still a ds"
― mark s, Saturday, 4 May 2019 18:48 (five years ago) link
"he's got fractured legs, pelvis, back, skull"
*in bed an unbruised arnott has a small plaster on his forehead*
― mark s, Monday, April 17, 2017 11:59 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^back at this lol
― mark s, Saturday, 4 May 2019 21:18 (five years ago) link
i had somehow forgotten how nuts s4 was they pack so much in!
― mark s, Saturday, 4 May 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
*slaps roof of s4* "this bad boy can fit so much fucking balaclavamen in it"
― mark s, Saturday, 4 May 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
easy with that s4 mate, do you want to put a Denton it
― mick signals, Saturday, 4 May 2019 22:12 (five years ago) link
I watched the first three seasons last week. I guess I’ll watch S4 this weekend.
― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 4 May 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
Rewatched or watch watched?
― mick signals, Saturday, 4 May 2019 22:34 (five years ago) link
more top-notch comedy from buckells, my new favourite secretly quite smart character
― mark s, Saturday, 4 May 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link
tokyo r yr in fr a TREAT
― mark s, Saturday, 4 May 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
Watch watched!
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 5 May 2019 01:29 (five years ago) link
the series has always been at it's best when it's essentially a Columbo-like battle of wits between AC-12 and some specific devious individual - Gates, Denton, Huntley. This series has lacked that specific focus, and although the murder of Corbett was a great shock ending it also served to completely deflate the tension built up to that point.
― kinder, Sunday, 5 May 2019 05:56 (five years ago) link
Series 3 was a messy one too, perhaps even messier than this current series, but it still had that big denton energy
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 5 May 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
also, i know it's a horrible critic's cliche to be all "even at it's worst, this is still better than 90% of everything else", but i'm still thoroughly enjoying this comparatively weak season
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 5 May 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
Season 5 suffers from conspiracies and balaclavas being the weakest parts of LoD. Anyway despite the massive spoilers in this thread, I'm here for the H=Blobby reveal and will be mightily cheesed off if they put it into next season with a stupid cliffhanger.
― seandalai, Sunday, 5 May 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
if they *punt* it
https://www.instagram.com/p/BueD0cynX4O/
― seandalai, Sunday, 5 May 2019 17:55 (five years ago) link
iii: some computer sex thing i don't want to think abt probably involving balaclavas and furries
― mark s, Sunday, April 14, 2019 11:42 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mark s, Sunday, 5 May 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link
DOT SAYS DOT DOT DOT DOT
― mark s, Sunday, 5 May 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
When they mentioned Ted’s mother raised him Catholic because his old man left...children in mixed marriages are supposed to be raised Catholic?I like the idea that his background would have been unclear due to his name - I knew he was Irish the first time I heard him speak!Also do not want to think about his juggalo shame porn or whatever he was looking at.
― gyac, Sunday, 5 May 2019 21:29 (five years ago) link
bit of an Empire Strikes Back vibe to that last episode, everything left hanging
― or something, Sunday, 5 May 2019 21:45 (five years ago) link
https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/hastings/1263/
― mark s, Sunday, 5 May 2019 21:46 (five years ago) link
Can’t wait for next season when we find out Buckells is the 4th one
― gyac, Sunday, 5 May 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
Gill Juggalo
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 5 May 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
_didn't think much of it but lots of speculation that it's a police exam_Yeah, Ryan getting set up for some final-scene piano-backed montage putting on the uniform while Hastings goes to chokey
― stet, Sunday, 5 May 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
So wait, is Hastings bent/H or not?
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 5 May 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
it's pronounced huggalo xp
(terrific "villain revealed" scowls at the climatic point in a the interview-room-of-infinite-reversals also)
― mark s, Sunday, 5 May 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
the four dots thing is rubbishalso if he's saying dot... dot... dot-dot then in morse code that's dash dash dot dot, right?
Also Carmichael smugly shows that dying declaration clip to 'prove' Hastings was H, but in it Kate says something like 'blink at the first two letters of their name' (?) ABCDEFGH - blink; H, ok - then ABCDE.... *no blink, carks it*so the second letter definitely isn't A.
Absolutely loved the 'urgent exit required'.
Disappointed the computer was just porn as I'd been joking all along
― kinder, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
dash dash dot dot is z
― mark s, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
the big z
actually dot blinks on H and I one after the otherso probably meant Hilton who promoted himor is just closing his eyes for the final time
― kinder, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
I’m sure there’s a ZAZ or Mel Brooks gag involving an overelaborate dying confession in code. Touch of Cloth maybe?
Anyway, good season, surprisingly dismal last two episodes.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
Glad that Mercurio realised the only way to win at "who is H" is not to play. Less glad that the explanation was stupid.
― seandalai, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
Solid enough episode except that it really needed the audience to waver on Ted's innocence and start to side with Carmichael. It was clear from the beginning that he was being set up, unless you're on the "he set up Gill to set him up to throw off the scent" theory.
― seandalai, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
Or so Hastings says, anyway. We still don't know the REAL truth. I assume.
― trishyb, Sunday, 5 May 2019 22:59 (five years ago) link
Find the person signing off all the immunity agreements in exchange for no testimony of any actual use and you find H imo.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 5 May 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
Are there actual shops with ‘computer disposal’ in big letters on the window? ‘Computer repair’ yes of course but disposal seems like a weird thing to advertise, almost like a admission that they can’t fix your laptop anyway, or maybe it’s a secret signal to craven smut-fiends like ted that here is a shop that will not judge you and your wanktomania. Obviously I don’t have a Dell full of steamy blobby-on-blobby action to get rid of though so I’ve never really looked. Also still puzzled as to why he bubbled wrapped it first and who the hell keeps bubble wrap in their hotel room anyway?
Other thing that troubles me is the four caddies thing is obviously a four candles reference and that corbett’s dad will turn out to be ronny
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Sunday, 5 May 2019 23:32 (five years ago) link
http://images.45cat.com/the-four-dots-dont-wake-up-the-kids-1959.jpg
― mick signals, Monday, 6 May 2019 00:48 (five years ago) link