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Line of Duty
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How many times did Hastings say “Great work you two?AFKABartram said:The build up to the interview with Buckles was like something they’d do for Comic Relief, with the big reveal being Mr Blobby or something shit like that in chair opposite. So much filler stuff, characters staring etc,
The series still had a cracking couple of episodes that literally had the whole country talking about, and very few programmes get to that level. But that was a really poor season decider. Poor content and poorly shot.1 -
It could have been in the southern hemispheregolfaddick said:One thing I hate about all the final episodes of LOD is the "where are they now" bits....as if it's a real life crime programme. Tonight's took the biscuit with Jo, her dog & partner. They go skipping off into the AUTUMNAL sunset (lovely red & brown leaves everywhere) when we know that the investigation into Gail Vella's murder was only started in mid October 2020 & Hastings got his retirement papers about a month later (date on letter). God knows how long it took to wrap everything up, get Jo into WP and for her to find a new gf.......but it certainly wasn't before November !!
So if you are going to wrap everything up with a lovely bow at least make it credible.
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Never had curbs down as ‘H’0
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Could have been nearly a year later - she had time to meet the ginger Kate-replacement, I doubt that's part of the witness protection package.golfaddick said:One thing I hate about all the final episodes of LOD is the "where are they now" bits....as if it's a real life crime programme. Tonight's took the biscuit with Jo, her dog & partner. They go skipping off into the AUTUMNAL sunset (lovely red & brown leaves everywhere) when we know that the investigation into Gail Vella's murder was only started in mid October 2020 & Hastings got his retirement papers about a month later (date on letter). God knows how long it took to wrap everything up, get Jo into WP and for her to find a new gf.......but it certainly wasn't before November !!
So if you are going to wrap everything up with a lovely bow at least make it credible.
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I enjoyed the season as a whole and the conclusion made sense to me. I take it for what it is - one hour of entertainment.
I'm sure if the writer had known that a small BBC 2 series would become a BBC1 megahit he might have saved the best twists for later seasons. As it is he has used most of them up.2 -
16-1Mendonca In Asdas said:Never had curbs down as ‘H’4 -
It was ok, rather than the usual brilliant - but I'll still be very pleased to see another series.1
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It can't be a year later if the Investigation started in October 2020 & we have just entered May 2021. Do keep up fella.North Lower Neil said:
Could have been nearly a year later - she had time to meet the ginger Kate-replacement, I doubt that's part of the witness protection package.golfaddick said:One thing I hate about all the final episodes of LOD is the "where are they now" bits....as if it's a real life crime programme. Tonight's took the biscuit with Jo, her dog & partner. They go skipping off into the AUTUMNAL sunset (lovely red & brown leaves everywhere) when we know that the investigation into Gail Vella's murder was only started in mid October 2020 & Hastings got his retirement papers about a month later (date on letter). God knows how long it took to wrap everything up, get Jo into WP and for her to find a new gf.......but it certainly wasn't before November !!
So if you are going to wrap everything up with a lovely bow at least make it credible.
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Think it is a clever ending, it leaves the viewers demanding a "proper ending", meaning that if the BBC don't pick it up a 7th series someone else will.1
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Still wouldn't work timeline wise. Also it was known she loved Scotland & wanted to go back there.Chizz said:
It could have been in the southern hemispheregolfaddick said:One thing I hate about all the final episodes of LOD is the "where are they now" bits....as if it's a real life crime programme. Tonight's took the biscuit with Jo, her dog & partner. They go skipping off into the AUTUMNAL sunset (lovely red & brown leaves everywhere) when we know that the investigation into Gail Vella's murder was only started in mid October 2020 & Hastings got his retirement papers about a month later (date on letter). God knows how long it took to wrap everything up, get Jo into WP and for her to find a new gf.......but it certainly wasn't before November !!
So if you are going to wrap everything up with a lovely bow at least make it credible.
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I said when I bumped the thread for this series, that I hope they resolve the H/Fourth man situation and then come back for one more series with a cracking stand alone story to finish things off.Deserves a better ending0
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I would assume it was a year later.golfaddick said:
Still wouldn't work timeline wise. Also it was known she loved Scotland & wanted to go back there.Chizz said:
It could have been in the southern hemispheregolfaddick said:One thing I hate about all the final episodes of LOD is the "where are they now" bits....as if it's a real life crime programme. Tonight's took the biscuit with Jo, her dog & partner. They go skipping off into the AUTUMNAL sunset (lovely red & brown leaves everywhere) when we know that the investigation into Gail Vella's murder was only started in mid October 2020 & Hastings got his retirement papers about a month later (date on letter). God knows how long it took to wrap everything up, get Jo into WP and for her to find a new gf.......but it certainly wasn't before November !!
So if you are going to wrap everything up with a lovely bow at least make it credible.
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For those of you for whom this was your first series, you should have seen it when it was good.0
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Anyway, it was better than the end of Viewpoint.
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What, you mean he hasn't? Then that's another thing QAnon have got wrong.RodneyCharltonTrotta said:The reveal that Buckles was a key coordinator for the OCG is like finding out that Graham Norton has been pulling the strings for Al Qaeda for the past 20 years.3 -
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Her well known love of Scotland would be a very good reason for her to settle as far from Scotland as possible.golfaddick said:
Still wouldn't work timeline wise. Also it was known she loved Scotland & wanted to go back there.Chizz said:
It could have been in the southern hemispheregolfaddick said:One thing I hate about all the final episodes of LOD is the "where are they now" bits....as if it's a real life crime programme. Tonight's took the biscuit with Jo, her dog & partner. They go skipping off into the AUTUMNAL sunset (lovely red & brown leaves everywhere) when we know that the investigation into Gail Vella's murder was only started in mid October 2020 & Hastings got his retirement papers about a month later (date on letter). God knows how long it took to wrap everything up, get Jo into WP and for her to find a new gf.......but it certainly wasn't before November !!
So if you are going to wrap everything up with a lovely bow at least make it credible.
(Continuity is one of my bugbears... )
Maybe her new partner is a Kiwi.0 -
On the subject of Jo Davidson's new life, anyone else think the dog would be called Fleming and the new partner wouldn't know why?7
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Love a good lick from Fleming1
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One of the first posts on this whole thread.johnny73 said:Enjoyable so far. Really hope that kid gets his comeuppance. Great cast.
Only took 9 years!!6 - Sponsored links:
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How can it be a year later. We are only 6 months past the time when the investigation started. If you want to film stuff as "real time" by showing actual dates then you have to at least keep to the notion that your viewers are watching now, ie May 2021.cfgs said:
I would assume it was a year later.golfaddick said:
Still wouldn't work timeline wise. Also it was known she loved Scotland & wanted to go back there.Chizz said:
It could have been in the southern hemispheregolfaddick said:One thing I hate about all the final episodes of LOD is the "where are they now" bits....as if it's a real life crime programme. Tonight's took the biscuit with Jo, her dog & partner. They go skipping off into the AUTUMNAL sunset (lovely red & brown leaves everywhere) when we know that the investigation into Gail Vella's murder was only started in mid October 2020 & Hastings got his retirement papers about a month later (date on letter). God knows how long it took to wrap everything up, get Jo into WP and for her to find a new gf.......but it certainly wasn't before November !!
So if you are going to wrap everything up with a lovely bow at least make it credible.
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seems the cast got bored and the writer had weaved such a complicated web that he couldn't find a way to unravel .. let's hope the next series is both the last and is of better quality than this latest series which has been a hotchpodge even given the problems with the pandemic0
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The only way it could be in the future would be - and I know this is entirely speculation - that the whole thing is a work of fiction.golfaddick said:
How can it be a year later. We are only 6 months past the time when the investigation started. If you want to film stuff as "real time" by showing actual dates then you have to at least keep to the notion that your viewers are watching now, ie May 2021.cfgs said:
I would assume it was a year later.golfaddick said:
Still wouldn't work timeline wise. Also it was known she loved Scotland & wanted to go back there.Chizz said:
It could have been in the southern hemispheregolfaddick said:One thing I hate about all the final episodes of LOD is the "where are they now" bits....as if it's a real life crime programme. Tonight's took the biscuit with Jo, her dog & partner. They go skipping off into the AUTUMNAL sunset (lovely red & brown leaves everywhere) when we know that the investigation into Gail Vella's murder was only started in mid October 2020 & Hastings got his retirement papers about a month later (date on letter). God knows how long it took to wrap everything up, get Jo into WP and for her to find a new gf.......but it certainly wasn't before November !!
So if you are going to wrap everything up with a lovely bow at least make it credible.
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Totally agree......so then just drop any dates. No need to show a flip chart or Hastings retirement details with specific dates on.Chizz said:
The only way it could be in the future would be - and I know this is entirely speculation - that the whole thing is a work of fiction.golfaddick said:
How can it be a year later. We are only 6 months past the time when the investigation started. If you want to film stuff as "real time" by showing actual dates then you have to at least keep to the notion that your viewers are watching now, ie May 2021.cfgs said:
I would assume it was a year later.golfaddick said:
Still wouldn't work timeline wise. Also it was known she loved Scotland & wanted to go back there.Chizz said:
It could have been in the southern hemispheregolfaddick said:One thing I hate about all the final episodes of LOD is the "where are they now" bits....as if it's a real life crime programme. Tonight's took the biscuit with Jo, her dog & partner. They go skipping off into the AUTUMNAL sunset (lovely red & brown leaves everywhere) when we know that the investigation into Gail Vella's murder was only started in mid October 2020 & Hastings got his retirement papers about a month later (date on letter). God knows how long it took to wrap everything up, get Jo into WP and for her to find a new gf.......but it certainly wasn't before November !!
So if you are going to wrap everything up with a lovely bow at least make it credible.
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Fairly underwhelmed. But, it did the two things that were important: wrapped up lots of answers, and left the opportunity for new stories to unfold.mendonca said:What were your thoughts of the finale @Chizz?
It seemed like a finale, because every previous series started with Ted, Steve and Kate in unison, but ended with them at odds with each other. And this season, it was the reverse, highlighted by the final, panning shot in the lift.
It can either end now, or start again. My money's on the latter.2 -
Steve had to hand in his firearm and had a taser that he used when he got out of the van, then in the next clip he had a gun.0
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Slightly off theme: Stroud and Kettle 2 bent refs!4
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I don't mind the notion behind Jed Mercurio's ending of this season: sometimes stories do not have happy endings. That's true of life and I get it.
But my god, it's Sunday night telly. We want chases; a big reveal; all of it to come down. The whole chat about "handwriting" and "no way" without mentioning Buckells' name was the gammiest hammiest bollocks, too. And if he was a big nob then why was Lee Banks threatening him?There's more to come and I think it's going to be Osborne, but how can they stretch it out into another series? Hastings is forced to retire then unretires? Unlawful searches bring stuff up and then that all gets complicated? I dunno.
It's just a bit messy now, and that's again okay because life isn't straightforward. But... it wasn't great telly last night.5 -
Did feel rather lame that they tracked Buckles simlply because of the spelling "definately".2
