SURELY HE WAS A CRIMINAL MASTERMIND IF HE FOOLED THEM THE WHOLE TIME
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:42 (three years ago) link
OH COME ON
I’ve mostly enjoyed this season but the last two episodes have been terrible.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link
Verging on Bodyguard levels of lousy script, plotting and acting.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 2 May 2021 20:56 (three years ago) link
lol it sucked!
― calzino, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
That was so bad! The joint reaction in this household likehttps://media.tenor.com/images/288254fa4a3b933f0787bc60ebc6c667/tenor.gif
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
yeah that was limp and poor and hinges on a mispelling and buckells just not caring. HOWEVER i *loved* that it was *incompetence* that was responsible for his power.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:00 (three years ago) link
Tbfffff at the end i was like, DO NOT GET KATE AND STEVE TOGETHER I FUCKING SWEAR and at least that didn’t happen
some absurd speeches in there fella.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link
Buckells going NO COMMENT all interview and then Scooby Doo villaining it, like God Jed, did you write this the same week you did Bodyguard? Did you even read it back after you wrote it?!
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:02 (three years ago) link
Also the chief constable going on camera “the public don’t want police officers to be held responsible for every little thing they’ve done” COME ON
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:04 (three years ago) link
no, i think hastings principle was that him failing upwards and being the last person standing just by dint of not being at the centre of things was what enabled him, without really having any urge to power, to be the centre of things. he liked the money and he’d just go along with it whenever it came along, and in the end that sort of thing, far more than superbrain conspiracy, is what brings corruption. dismal episode and i think the last two series have been fairly feeble compared to the high of S2. but as i say, i liked that thesis.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
Even worse “the public don’t want police to be accountable”
― stet, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
also nice witness protection programme jo. everyone else gets a shitty terrace at the arse end of nowhere.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
#LineofDutyFinale https://t.co/l8f5mtQWmR— No Context Eamon Dunphy (@NoContextDunphy) May 2, 2021
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
yeah a witness protection listed farmhouse with a golden retriever ... lol gtfo
― calzino, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
Buckells otm that even if he wasn’t some criminal genius, the gang still couldn’t catch himHole Ten holdings, COME ON
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link
― kinder, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
yeah totally. but the only reason they didn’t was because… chloe magicked up some IP address stuff on some printouts right at the end lol.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
xpost lol
that shot of the three of them in the elevator was very
https://bensbargains.net/thecheckout/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Phantom-Zone.jpg
― building a hole (NickB), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
I think this show has only been accidentally good
― calzino, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
It felt fairly ACAB, like, lol the police are bent, the few good ones are stymied at every turn and drummed out of investigations/work, the best you can hope for is witness protection or prescription drug abuse and broken marriage
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
What an absolute crock
― paolo, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
no honestly i think S2 was incredibly tightly plotted with masterly control of viewer and character knowledge throughout. the last two and this one especiallyvtheres been no thing within the plot to unravel it. it’s just been “oh we found a thing”.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
xpost to calz.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
underground box of clues was an exciting, dramatic and not lazy touch
― kinder, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
first four series were *tense*! last two have not been.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
We were like, but this was as bad as Bodyguard and people loved that shit, but it’s getting a pretty bad reaction on twitter so...look I’m just glad that Ted wasn’t bad, ok?!
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
I was a bit annoyed they kept referring to s5 so much cos I found it really boring, whereas the first few seasons (Gates! Denton! Dot!) are great. It really went off the rails a bit when they started doing that updated autopsy report “Dot actually was tapping away for a year, did ye not watch the footage or wha” shite.
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
otm.
― Fizzles, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
Tbf the end vibe of "bad guy just doing his thing because circumstances allowed and he could and no-one was that bothered" is pretty consistent with the rest of it (and also possibly Bodies iirc, not that it was so black and white). If there'd been some Big Secret Jimmy Thurwell pulling the strings and anticipating every turn just to outwit them all that'd would've been terrible.
Pacing was so odd and come off it with the 'we need to interview THIS PERSON right away' "but this person has been in front of us all along" for not one but TWO bad guys. Still not 100% sure what Hargreaves was meant to have done/been.
xp yes Dot's morse code was the worse point of the whole thing and they re-wrote what Kate actually asked iirc.
― kinder, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
Really did think Lomax was gonna be bent though at some point.
― kinder, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
"Nice one mate" "Nice one, mate"
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0aUvt3WUAMG3Dg?format=png&name=largeThey really did lean on hurting Ted, that was the only bit I was like “ah God no pls”
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:19 (three years ago) link
TED HASTINGS INNOCENT
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
some contrarians are trying to suggest it wasn't appalling writing because it still illustrates that cops are self-serving lying fuckers.. hmmm ..No it was just shit.
― calzino, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
how come that guy from occy health had such a swish office? every place i've worked, they've been in a portacabin in the car park at best
― building a hole (NickB), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:22 (three years ago) link
Well he was the fourth man you see. The role of confiscated prescription drugs and access to incriminating personal info about police officers there ocg most wanted rid of was... hold on, someone’s at the dooruser gyac dragged from thread screeching “FLEMSON WAS ROBBED!!!!1” by the two Benny prison screws with 100% job satisfaction
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:25 (three years ago) link
I am actually glad Davidson got a nice cottage with a golden retriever out of it all, so I guess it wasn't all bad
― paolo, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:30 (three years ago) link
got hooked up with josephine karlsson from spiral too
― building a hole (NickB), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
bit confused as to why davidson was given witness protection in the end. who was out to get her? pilkington and thurwell were dead, and she thought fairbank was the main guy? she didn't really know what buckells was up to (or did she?)
― building a hole (NickB), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link
I was literally planning to get an AC-12 mug for my other half but apparently no-one makes mugs out of AC12?
― kinder, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
I did enjoy the fact that after all the times they specify that evidence was found "in a lawful search", right at the end they have to say Arnott found the £50k "in an unlawful search"!
― kinder, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:56 (three years ago) link
the search of the attic didn't meet their usual lofty standards
― building a hole (NickB), Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
groan
― kinder, Sunday, 2 May 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
I thought season five and the bodyguard were both terrible but, um, quite enjoyed this one and especially the last two episodes
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 2 May 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link