Are there any examples of Ted being good at his job? Mostly he's alienating his management and hounding the wrong suspects.
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 13:42 (three years ago) link
john stalker yes. there was also a straightarrow outsider cop parachuted into the met in the 70s for similar clean-up purposes whose name hurried googling hasn't uncovered for me (i don't think he was mired in fake scandal tho)
i did discover that met officers referred to the operation countryman anti-corruption squad (made up of rural coppers) as "the sweedey" lol
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 13:47 (three years ago) link
thank you
Frank Williamson is the man you're thinking of although he was in the Met already I think and couldn't get traction on his efforts which is why Operation Countryman (Dorset constabulary) got started.
I think that BBC show was quite dismissive of Williamson, that he talked the talk about when it came down to it wouldn't risk his pension over accusations.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
Frank Williamson: this isn't the person i'm thinking of
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:38 (three years ago) link
it was sir robert mark
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:40 (three years ago) link
or nark as i wrote first
If Ted H was H (or otherwise involved with the OCG) he wouldn't have had to visit Lee Banks in prison, would he? The channels of communication would already be in place.
This is what he'd want everyone to think, of course (which can be the answer for everything to do with LoD.)
Mostly he's alienating his management and hounding the wrong suspects.
In the case of Ryan Pilkington and Jo Davidson he's bang on, though.
Thought of the Steve: hot or not? debate again this week when Twitter went mad over him charging the industrial unit to potentially avenge a fallen comrade. He's a coiled spring! Ladies love that shit. Apparently.
― trishyb, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:49 (three years ago) link
Those little baseball caps tho
Everybody had em this time. Did they get a discount or
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 14:58 (three years ago) link
the over-egging of hastings' coming doom, the blizzard of possibly false hints that he's a wrong un too, has kind of become a black box they can get anything out of and we won't be surprised (which means we'll be a bit disappointed either way)
― mark s, Monday, 15 April 2019 10:17 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
^^^
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 15:36 (three years ago) link
Steve is a hottie! There's no ambiguity.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:14 (three years ago) link
xpost i'm getting a "last chance saloon" vibe from ted's overuse of the catchphrases this season
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
john stalker reminds me of how i was too young to have been alive (or was a baby) when he was in the public eye for his policing and so i just knew him as the guy in the awning advert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZzeeAMtIVQ
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
wonder if that was his final awning
― building a hole (NickB), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:42 (three years ago) link
The sheer preponderance of closed loops and callbacks and every character getting a bit of an action scene and Ted told to retire feels extremely This Is The Last Season to methis is what they want me to think ofc
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 20 April 2021 17:44 (three years ago) link
who is going to turn out not to be dead after all?
tommy hunterjohn corbett DENTON <-- i want this but im not going to get it i know jackie laverty
― mark s, Tuesday, 20 April 2021 18:13 (three years ago) link
DOT COTTAN
I rewatched this because I’m mental and also because my wife hadn’t seen it. I liked how the chief constable characterized quashing AC-12’s corruption investigations as “taking back control”. Here’s something. When Jo Davidson is In The Chat with the person we presume is H, H says AC-12 got two of their men killed. Jo was like yeah, good ol’ Lewis. H replies, it was Fleming. Now, how on earth could H know that it was Kate who tipped AC-12 off about the workshops? The only person Kate told about that was Jo, when Jo confronted her.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 07:41 (three years ago) link
i thought it was more that Kate was causing trouble in general - potentially recognising Ryan, and being an old ac12 adversary to boot
― kinder, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 08:22 (three years ago) link
Maybe so, but it seemed explicitly connected to the deaths in the workshop. Like this was the final straw and Kate needed to pay. It seems like only someone in AC-12 could have known that Kate was the source of the info on the workshop.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 08:45 (three years ago) link
H-ate ? 😬 🤯
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 08:48 (three years ago) link
dont this-makes-no-sense me, you DOT-DOT-DOT-DOT-swallowing chumps
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 08:49 (three years ago) link
I rewatched this because I’m mental and also because my wife hadn’t seen it.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTaTATDUJ2sn2s06GoiN15eETpnvNSZK1lSZw&usqp=CAU
― trishyb, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 08:57 (three years ago) link
One of the things I love about LoD is how the memes overlap with other programmes now.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 08:58 (three years ago) link
trishyb if that picture is any indication you have apparently authorised intrusive surveillance of my house
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 09:01 (three years ago) link
My favourite bonkers theory is that because Jimmy Lakewell told Steve to look into the 'race claim' - when you add H to that you get an anagram of Carmichael.
If this was Russel Davies I could see it, but I'm not convinced.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
While at the same time Adrian Dunbar is doing press and dropping hints about S7 (it's what they want you to think).
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:47 (three years ago) link
https://metro.co.uk/2021/02/23/line-of-dutys-jed-mercurio-hints-at-more-episodes-after-series-6-14134508/
Mercurio says he expects there to be more beyond S6, but this may just be what he wants you to think.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:49 (three years ago) link
That RT interview upthread was inconclusive:
In our previous interviews, Mercurio explained that securing a two-series commission was essential; if only one was guaranteed, he told me, he would wrap up the entire storyline, rather than risk it being cut short. So – without going the full Ted Hastings on him – either Mercurio knew the sixth was the last series or he has abandoned his rule of always plotting two series ahead. Which is it?
“Yes,” he replies enigmatically, before elaborating: “That was part of the conversation with the BBC. We’re in a situation where it’s not entirely clear that there will be a seventh series. We would hope there could be. But we’re having to do our planning coming out of COVID, and a whole bunch of other things around the idea that these things aren’t guaranteed at all now.”
Interviewing dramatists is often tricky, as they have a natural understanding of the rhythms and tactics of dialogue. But Mercurio is an especially challenging conversationalist, as his signature interrogation scenes show a highly sophisticated sense of the flow of information and misinformation. Tempted to borrow Hastings’s trademark exclamation of frustration, “Give me strength!”, I have another go.
This time, then, Mercurio hasn’t stuck to his rule that, if he wasn’t sure there would be a next series, he would wrap it up in the one he was writing? “I haven’t necessarily been true to that,” he says. “I think the indications are that the BBC remains very supportive. So, without a formal commission, I would say conversations have been very reassuring from the standpoint of not having to wrap things up.”
― kinder, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
(That's all quoted text btw)
― kinder, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:11 (three years ago) link
lol
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
horcruxio call him by his name
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
For anyone with Alexa, ask it "Who is H?"
― groovypanda, Thursday, 22 April 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
Bit underwhelming. It feels like there was a romance plot between Kate and Jo that got subtracted somewhere in the script stage. Looking back it’s like... what actually happened? Did we learn anything we didn’t know before? Apart from the fact we probably won’t be seeing James Nesbitt any time soon?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 April 2021 07:39 (three years ago) link
Loved the Hastings Raised Eyebrow of Respect when Jo started quoting law regulations
― groovypanda, Monday, 26 April 2021 07:43 (three years ago) link
Finding a flyblown corpse in this show doesn't quite convince me Thurwell's definitely dead xp
― groovypanda, Monday, 26 April 2021 07:45 (three years ago) link
He's clearly not dead.
I'm not 100% clear on why Kate ran. Was she not supposed to have a weapon?
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 26 April 2021 07:52 (three years ago) link
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Monday, 26 April 2021 07:54 (three years ago) link
Initially I thought they were going off to do some in-real-time DETECTING which would be impossible if they were gummed up with explaining how they killed Ryan. Kate's reluctance to give up her gun would suggest she thought she was in imminent danger of being shot by bent coppers?
It seems weird that the series would be extended to seven episodes and then spend this whole episode on not really moving things forward materially - unless the point was to slow everything down and make it feel as though they're going to run out of time. (xp with gyac, exactly).
― Tim, Monday, 26 April 2021 08:05 (three years ago) link
I appreciated a long interrogation scene, it’s clearly been done to ratchet up the tension between Carmichael and the rest of the gang even more, Ted seemed like a man with increasingly little tolerance left so interested to see where that goes for the finale. Ofc his police pension is at risk but he’s never shied away from doing the right thing even if it would cost him personally.
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Monday, 26 April 2021 08:34 (three years ago) link
you just know she had the time of her life with these lines. the crew must have been howling after each take, egging her on
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 April 2021 08:36 (three years ago) link
it was worth watching just for "Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey" alone!
― calzino, Monday, 26 April 2021 08:38 (three years ago) link
that was a blatant crowd-pleaser but still...
― calzino, Monday, 26 April 2021 08:45 (three years ago) link
If ‘as per my last email’ was a person #LineofDuty pic.twitter.com/Kyq1gW3Tid— Becca 💐 (@Beccaakeen) April 25, 2021
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 April 2021 10:38 (three years ago) link
what an exceptional villain she is though, her every facial expression is full of haughty contempt and pure hatred - almost a perfect politician.
― calzino, Monday, 26 April 2021 10:52 (three years ago) link
gonna tell my grandkids she was Rachel Reeves
― calzino, Monday, 26 April 2021 10:58 (three years ago) link
So what do we reckon they'll find beneath the floor of the printing shop?
― groovypanda, Monday, 26 April 2021 11:03 (three years ago) link
It was the gun workshop, wasn’t it? Fuck knows but Jackie Laverty has to be a possibility.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 April 2021 11:19 (three years ago) link
Funny that Carmichael didn’t even flinch when Ted basically accused the chief constable of being H.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 April 2021 11:21 (three years ago) link