Even when their secret assignments never bring them into direct contact with criminals, those teeming "background" undercover officers have it rough. There was that one for instance, I forget which episode it's in, whose cover job is as an installer of kitchen flooring, and he gets terribly injured in the lino duty.
― mick signals, Thursday, 25 April 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link
mick signals is H
― mark s, Friday, 26 April 2019 09:24 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Bjxbj6j.png
― mick signals, Friday, 26 April 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
LoD s1 rewatch note: when the scottish guy starts calling gates "you bent bastard" (the one on the other end of the phone to gates, whose face and name i no longer recall) his accent momentarily reminded me of mike myers as fatbastard in austin powers, and now i can't unsee fatbastard as the overarching criminal mastermind
― mark s, Friday, 26 April 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
That would be a disappointing plot twist, imo
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 26 April 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
lol i just noticed that buckles spells his name buckells, which is somehow even stupider
― mark s, Friday, 26 April 2019 22:30 (five years ago) link
LoD s2 rewatch note: DENTON
(having a v bad time so far)
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
I remember the second season being gr8 but having a very weird and indeterminate ending
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 27 April 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
it's weird how much i've forgotten abt the story!
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
I remember it being v good. Is it?
There are lot of plot ellipses in Mercurio’s work and I’m never sure whether they’re deliberate or not, or if he’s just allowing himself future leeway to retcon
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 27 April 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
it packs a lot in! i'm still only a little way into ep2 so i can't tell if it's good but it's exciting :)
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
also lol denton is now handing out the v bad times
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
omg keeley hawes is also mom durrell in the durrells
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
she's in literally everythings2 is brilliant, but yes we re-watched it not remembering what ended up happening.
― kinder, Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
just bothered searching for a Bodies thread and there is a vv old one but perhaps I should take the Bodytalk thereis anyone else scared about the NHS after watching the new BBC drama 'Bodies'?
― kinder, Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
i'm just a bit startled that she's the main character in something i watched recently and enjoyed and didn't put two and two together -- good acting and different hair i guess
― mark s, Saturday, 27 April 2019 21:53 (five years ago) link
Also she’s in the suede video for Saturday night!
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 27 April 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
she's in literally everything
so true
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 28 April 2019 00:56 (five years ago) link
re-enjoying what a total horndog arnott is in s2 lol
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
I have the same bed linen as Arnott
― kinder, Sunday, 28 April 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
1: weird that we didn't see corbett's body imo2: is hastings like *way* overacting clueless over-blindsidedness? (i.e. dunbar signalling "something is going on" by pushing his character some way out of character?) 3: lol at the interviewing lady not liking ppl shouting 4:apologies to steve arnott for posting abt him being a horndog just upthread and putting him off his game
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
kind of wanted another 'urgent exit required' bloodbath
― kinder, Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link
nothing as yet has happened with that STEVE ARNOTT envelope Corbett was carrying, has it?
― kinder, Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
ep directed by sue (=susan) tully = michelle off of eastenders and suzanne off of grange hill btw
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:18 (five years ago) link
― Fizzles, Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:52 (five years ago) link
one way or another i think hastings will go down. they can’t repeat the arnott great escape of last season and didn’t Mercurio say he always had a six season arc in mind?
― Fizzles, Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
Will we find out whether Hastings is really H? And will Steve be able to get a boner? Tune in next week
― paolo, Sunday, 28 April 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
we saw bits of jackie's body in the downs syndrome lad's freezer in an earlier ep (harking back to an ep in s2 which i just happened to have rewatched so remember quite clearly) so its reappearance didn't surprise me much, except it seems like it's a selight of hand somehow. are they setting up that corbett isn't dead? it somehow feels like they're doing that -- we don't see his body, they said something "like material relating to his body" (not that but they very much didn't just say his body) and the stench of decay from dead jackie drove everyone inc.the camera away an actual picture also?
they're making much too much of hastings being H for hastings to be H :(
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 22:07 (five years ago) link
i mean i don;t see how corbett can't be dead given we saw him bleed out but
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
chekhov's frozen legs
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
Not sure why they suddenly brought Laverty in from the cold. Unless it's to do with a connection with the OCG (some theories that Lisa is Laverty & Gates' secret child, which is a bit far-fetched...)
this is sweet
Loved being re-united with @tomi_may for this series - lot of love for this man! Longest serving OCG member!😉 It’s been a pleasure 👌 and what a way to go out! Thank you for absolutely everything! #LineOfDuty pic.twitter.com/5qpeq2DGyW— Gregory Piper (@gregorypiper98) April 28, 2019
― kinder, Sunday, 28 April 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
do we know what the exams he passed are? (sergeant's exam?)
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 22:16 (five years ago) link
didn't think much of it but lots of speculation that it's a police exam
― kinder, Sunday, 28 April 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
jackie laverty vs jane cafferty
a thing that happens in life a lot but almost never on-screen is ppl with the same or very similar names (except as a central flagged-up plot point): i remember my film-school sister getting v excited abt brookside when it had two characters called jackie and jacqui
― mark s, Sunday, 28 April 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
I kept getting Dryden and Denton confused.There was also JamieNotJames and Jimmy Lakewell
― kinder, Sunday, 28 April 2019 22:33 (five years ago) link
last one I promise
Think your child has been recruited by the OCG? Here's our guide to help you understand which abbreviations to keep a watchful eye on... 👀 #LineOfDuty pic.twitter.com/c2HUXDpXSS— Social Media Gurus (@SMMS_Guru) April 28, 2019
I am more concerned about Dunbar’s sudden bad acting that Ted’s guilt tbh
If next season is the last season, the gaffer has to be out of the picture, it’s standard Gandalf disappears in the third act whatnot
There’s no way he’s H tho
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 28 April 2019 22:55 (five years ago) link
Also I’ve missed Kate and her hopeless undercover sitcom scenes this season
AM-M was very broad in this ep, almost like a Comic Relief skit, but I thought it kind of worked
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 28 April 2019 22:58 (five years ago) link
Agreed, what are they playing at with the "remains relating to an IC1 male"? We glimpsed remains wearing a bloody brown leather jacket, not the stylish hoodie ensemble Corbett was last seen in.
― mick signals, Sunday, 28 April 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
― stet, Monday, 29 April 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
xps: IC1 male whose dna matches Corbett though, iirc?
― kinder, Monday, 29 April 2019 06:21 (five years ago) link
someone has spotted that Ryan Pilkington's social worker was a Jane Hargreaves (the third Jane/Jayne along with Cafferty and Aykers!) - unknown if related to Lester.as I see it there are a few possible reasons for Ted's weird behaviour/attitude:- genuinely going off the rails/ going maverick due to pressures of the job, wife moving on, wife getting tortured, feelings of betrayal /guilt re Maneet- acting out some kind of masterplan to draw out the real H/ crack the case etc- Adrian Dunbar doesn't know which way this is actually going to go so having a bit of fun/ not knowing best way to approach the character
― kinder, Monday, 29 April 2019 07:08 (five years ago) link
We glimpsed remains wearing a bloody brown leather jacket, not the stylish hoodie ensemble Corbett was last seen in.
I think it just looks brown because of all the blood.
I like how the AC-3 people are alternate-reality versions of AC-12. I like that Brandyce even has the regulation haircut.https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/lineofduty/images/6/6e/Michelle_Brandyce.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20190428223028
― trishyb, Monday, 29 April 2019 10:02 (five years ago) link
someone on another thread said it's like when Father Ted, Jack and Dougal go to one of the other islands :)
― kinder, Monday, 29 April 2019 10:10 (five years ago) link
Yes!
― trishyb, Monday, 29 April 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link
It's a bit weird that anyone would leave £50k lying around in a hotel room tbh. Wouldn't you put it in the safe or take it work or hide it in your car or something? You'd only leave it on the side if you half wanted someone to come along and find it. Or was the non-concealment of it supposed to help his defence?
― Br. Des Shadows (NickB), Monday, 29 April 2019 11:22 (five years ago) link
tbh even assuming dunbar did suddenly forget how to act (or was badly directed by michelle of eastenders) i can't make head or tail of ted this last ep
https://comb.io/0OdbLn.gif
(i actually didn't think it was a very good ep)
― mark s, Monday, 29 April 2019 11:40 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Ted in prison should be a wrenching NOOOOOOOOO kind of moment, and instead it's really just "well, I guess it kinda depends on whatever the plot turns out to be".
The mystery box plotting removes agency from the characters. It's like an RPG railroading kind of thing.
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 29 April 2019 12:20 (five years ago) link
I've reviewed the evidence item and you are correct.
― mick signals, Monday, 29 April 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
bubble wrap laptop = mystery box
― kinder, Monday, 29 April 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link