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Broadchurch thread 2- the one where everyone in MNPD requests a transfer to the traffic division

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EauRouge · 27/01/2015 17:09

Thread number one.

So are we all still watching, despite the mumbling, bad writing and inaccuracies?

I'm not sure what ClaireGwen is up to, but they've written her to like kinky sex which in telly land means she's a bad un.

Last night's highlight for me was DH's genuine confusion over whether subtitles were for the hearing impaired or vision impaired (he may have had a couple of beers). Also sweaty Lee hammering in fence posts.

Has that junior solicitor fella been in something on CBBC?

When does The Missing season 2 start?

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hollyisalovelyname · 17/02/2015 10:42

Who was the father of Clare's baby ?

Wdigin2this · 17/02/2015 10:44

Well, as I can't understand it, not only do I not know who did it, I don't even know what got done!!!

AnnieHoo · 17/02/2015 10:47

Ricky's always in Amsterdam. Maybe he's illegally importing bluebells n tulips n drugs n sex slaves n all that. And then chucks the evidence into Thorps furnace and bungs Gary 50k for the bother.

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EauRouge · 17/02/2015 10:51

Ooh, good point about the illegal bluebell trade- aren't they protected? So it's bluebells and fences. This series isn't crap after all, we were just missing the really subtle clues.

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PatterofaMinion · 17/02/2015 10:54

Well we saw Lee staring into the incinerator but that doesn't mean he put anyone in it.

Maybe he found it already done, and knew who did it.

We don't know whose baby it was.

Lee said he liked France because no one knows him there, well almost no one (so Lisa is there innit)

LIZS · 17/02/2015 11:00

By BC standards it doesn't even mean it happened, just a result of DTs imaginings. On another note how much does Clare pack in to that teeny rucksack - changes of clothes, full make up back , hairdryer( where does she get to shower and dry it in a beach hut), pendant, portfolio ...

AnnieHoo · 17/02/2015 11:03

Furnaces are fuelled by red diesel innit.

hollyisalovelyname · 17/02/2015 11:03

Thank you Patter

Icimoi · 17/02/2015 11:04

haha that told her, the snotty nosed junior solicitor.

Snotty-nosed junior barrister. /EndPedantMode. Though the way she carries on, it has to be a matter of time before she's struck off. I did enjoy the junior prosecuting barrister telling her she was inherently a very nasty person.

Whoever it was raised the question of what had happened about Ellie's work, I think she must have got leave of absence to attend the trial, both because of being one of the main investigating officers and the fact that it's her husband who's on trial.

And I think it really has to be Joe who is guilty. They've been so careful not to have him actually claim to be innocent. But it was truly laughable that, the confession having been excluded, they showed Ellie referring to it in evidence and having an exchange with the defence barrister about it without anyone so much as raising an eyebrow.

AnnieHoo · 17/02/2015 11:04

Illegal importing of red diesel. It's worth a few bob that stuff!

whothehellknows · 17/02/2015 11:19

Oooh, that's true! They should have gone apeshit about referring to the confession during evidence.

MissM · 17/02/2015 11:26

Why did DT take Claire to the abortion clinic? Was it his baby? DUM DUM DUM DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA-DA… (I don't think it was btw).

eddiemairswife · 17/02/2015 11:38

I'm utterly, utterly confused by everything. I can't keep track of who slept with who in Sandbrook; I can't understand what the barristers' mother and son have to do with anything, but most of all who looks after Fred and the baby when all their nearest and dearest are in court. I take it that baby is not breast-fed.

hollyisalovelyname · 17/02/2015 12:38

Relax,the baby was in court.Her sister was holding her.
Poor Fred, although perhaps OC might have the most wonderful childcare for him.
Too much going on plot wise, superfluous plot - barrister and son, editor/ barrister romance,suspension of disbelief too many times. Characters coming and going - Nigel's mother.
It must be very draughty for Lee living in that folly. Smile
Still I'll watch next week.

LucasNorthsTwiglets · 17/02/2015 12:56

Thank you so much for explaining all that, whothehell - much appreciated!

Fiderer · 17/02/2015 12:56

The BC bit was really annoying. First Lucy's bank accounts from 8 (?) months previously being conveniently left out on the kitchen table. Then the prosecution having a v speedy warrant/legal request to access Ellie's bank records what seemed like over night ready for the trial next day.

MJB shouting and posturing. Olly is beyond infuriating - shagging the evil junior barrister and then happily preparing his 2 trial outcomes. And I did so love him as Leonardo

At least the Sandbrook case moves on, a bit, and Hardy was fair skipping up that hill.

Think if I knew someone on the BC production I'd be whacking them with one of Lee's fence posts by now, shrieking "Tell me Joe's found guilty". Bugger confidentiality clauses.

Hakluyt · 17/02/2015 13:14

"just why is it relevant about barrister and journalist ladies, did they really need to kiss "

Why? Lots of other kissing- is there something in particulqr about this kiss that's gratuitous?

Behindthepaintedgarden · 17/02/2015 13:16

The court room scenes are just beyond belief in this series. Would the defence barrister really be allowed to go throwing accusations around at all and sundry in order to get a not guilty verdict for her client. She effectively created a situation where if Joe was found 'not guilty' Mark was implicitly being accused of murdering his son.

And why introduce a love story between the editor and the prosecuting counsel? Surely there's enough going on without that.

Hakluyt · 17/02/2015 13:18

And I know we're supposed to be ignoring due process for dramatic effect, but would the defence barrister really have been allowed to actively make stuff up? The affair between Dr Who and Ellie for example?

Oh, and that really does prove my point made on many baby name threads- adult women do not suit -ie names.

VeronicaCaCa · 17/02/2015 13:39

Re the bank statements, I think the defence barrister said to junior "good call re-examining the joint bank account statements" so presumably they had access to Joe and Ellie's bank statements and only had to match up the cheque amount and date with the one on Lucy's.

But yes highly implausable that a yr old bank statement was left lying on a table in the first place.

How would Claire know whose baby it was if she was shagging Lee and Ricky? Unless there was a one off contraceptive failure I suppose.

And someone upthread said something about DT's imaginings - but we haven't seen any fantasy type sequences have we? Just disjointed clips that have been revealed as flashbacks eventually. Eg Pippa's body being carried from the river, Claire in bed, which turned out to be at the abortion clinic by the looks of it?

OnlyLovers · 17/02/2015 13:59

Veronica, but after the defence barrister said that, her junior looked shame-faced and said something along the lines of 'actually no, I didn't see the bank statements, I just went home with the journalist and shagged him so I could look through his stuff.'

But I still don't know what he had lying around that allowed her to bring up the loan/bribe.

Welshwabbit · 17/02/2015 14:58

Just caught up. The old lawyer cliché is that a jury never looks as a defendant it has convicted. If that holds true, he's getting off.

Welshwabbit · 17/02/2015 14:58

*at, not as....

DontGotoRoehampton · 17/02/2015 15:32

It's all about the fences!
Grin could be
it's all hokum , but the defence lawyer is my new hero - wanna be her!
Mark is a good actor. Completely believable.

Fiderer · 17/02/2015 15:39

I didn't realise the defendant didn't have to be called to testify. Seems odd (and apparently not just in the BC alternate legal universe) that you can be tried for murder, i.e. the CPS think you're guilty and there's a good chance of a conviction but the Crown can't put you on the witness stand if the defence don't want that.

Can't see why the jury wouldn't see that as suspicious. If the defendant thought his defence team were any good then he'd be sure they'd counter any attack on him from the prosecution. So the inference would be he can't think that they'd be capable of bolstering his case and how good could his case be?