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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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APlaceInTheWinter · 18/02/2015 19:44

Ok I have a new theory.

The bluebells are a red herring. They're important to Claire and Ricky because they carried out their affair in the bluebell field but that's it.

Lee was in the incinerator place because he went there to tell the Thorp Agri guy to leave Lisa alone. This happened before the murder and it didn't work because the Agri bloke was still stalking her on the day of the murder.

Agri bloke saw Lisa with Lee on the day of the murder and was so upset he tried to kill himself.

Whilst Lisa and Lee were having fun in the bluebells ahem Pippa found them, threatened to tell her DPs, Lisa pushed her and Pippa fell/died. Lee helped Lisa flee to France.

Claire stole the necklace because she believed that Lee didn't kill Pippa. my only flaw in this is why Claire stopped giving Lee an alibi which put him more at risk of being found guilty when she'd gone to all the effort of stealing the necklace so he wouldn't be found guilty aargh

TendonQueen · 18/02/2015 20:11

Agree with the barrister backstories being utterly boring. I don't give a stuff about their jailed offspring, fading eyesight, any of it. None of it has made them more rounded and real as characters: that's only done through performances, which Charlotte R has managed but Marianne JB hasn't (may as well have been a cardboard cut out). The hairbrush was the best moment for me of their scenes as I have the same one and got quite excited for a moment!

No way they can properly wrap up Sandbrook in an hour, so who knows what will happen there.

ARealPipperoo · 18/02/2015 20:57

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Nerf · 18/02/2015 21:03

Sandbrook.

The girls vanished while the parents/aunt and uncle were at a wedding.
During the wedding dad tried to shag a bridesmaid and carried a hip flask
Stalker man was watching Lisa and then tried to kill himself that night
Mum is/was already an alcoholic and shagging Lee
Lisa may have hated Pippa or her aunt
Claire was pregnant and Hardy took her for a termination. We don't know whose baby.
No bloody ideaGrin

whothehellknows · 18/02/2015 21:12

APlaceintheWinter I think your theory sounds likely, except that I don't think that Claire stole the necklace to protect Lee. I think she went to get it back because it was hers (given to her by her nan) and she hadn't ever intended for Pippa to keep it.

I didn't think the hairbrush scene was unlikely. Her mum had just died and she couldn't see photos properly to help bring back memories- all she had left was the feel and smell of the hairs left in her mum's brush. I thought it was touching.

APlaceInTheWinter · 18/02/2015 21:42

whothehellknows yy that makes more sense about the necklace.

I think Joe is going to be found not guilty because from a jury's pov there isn't really enough evidence - forensics placing him at the scene but not specifically on the night of the murder; large hand prints on Danny that could have belonged to anyone; shoe prints that could have belonged to a range of people; money that Joe confessed to giving Danny but if the confession is thrown out then surely that admission is ruled out too; emails and texts that could have been sent by anyone with access to Joe's computer and phone; Joe had Danny's phone but surely on its own that isn't enough.

I think the whole point of this series has been to show that guilt is no guarantee of a conviction.

MajesticWhine · 18/02/2015 21:58

I think Joe will be found not guilty. The kiss of Maggie and Jocelyn was a nice touch even if unnecessary to the plot. As for the rest of it, I'm on the fence (snigger)

AnnieHoo · 18/02/2015 22:11

"I think the whole point of this series has been to show that guilt is no guarantee of a conviction."

  • totally agree, that's what I've got from it too. Jocelyn made some statement similar to this when she was round at the Miller's house.

Thanks for clarifying where we are with the vicar not accepting the call to the stand Winter so that was to show Becca's reaction more than anything do you think?

APlaceInTheWinter · 18/02/2015 22:43

so that was to show Becca's reaction more than anything do you think?
I can't really work out the point of it tbh It all felt so contrived. Firstly because it's not that unusual for a vicar to visit a parishioner but the defence were trying to imply it was significant. Secondly because they couldn't force him to testify so it was a false sense of jeopardy for him iyswim and thirdly because there has been no development of the Becca/vicar relationship so it didn't really add to or detract from it. Maybe it will be significant for series 3? Grin

MissM · 18/02/2015 22:58

I think APlaceintheWinter has nailed it.

Blondeshavemorefun · 18/02/2015 23:43

Was the flashback of lee's reflection do to with the furnace. Did kill the girl?

Why did Claire give the pendant back to DT?

lostoncemore · 19/02/2015 00:04

I don't know - it is either to drop Lee in it, to show Hardy that she is being honest (yeah right), in a weak attempt to get Hardy back into bed?

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EauRouge · 19/02/2015 08:04

I like APlace's theory too. I'm always suspicious of hoteliers now though...

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LifeOfBriony · 19/02/2015 08:12

The Vicar is a reformed alcoholic - in series 1, he was shown attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in another town. (Someone from Broadchurch knows this but I don't think this is significant to the current series).

Blondeshavemorefun · 19/02/2015 08:16

Seemed to have missed the hairbrush scene

What was it?

PatterofaMinion · 19/02/2015 10:15

There is a village called Sandbourne in Hardy as well, I think...more references...

btw I think Claire gave Hardy the pendant because she had nothing left to lose in terms of her relationship with/attachment to Lee. That was over and so she thought, feck it.

Mind you it's not going to be very reliable now is it - probably got the wrong DNA all over it.

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 19/02/2015 10:45

Ooh OC has just announced her third pregnancy!

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EauRouge · 19/02/2015 10:51

What, in real life? I luffs Olivia Colman.

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ThinkIveBeenHacked · 19/02/2015 11:15

Yep IRL

SpanishFly · 19/02/2015 11:29

lostoncemore "in a weak attempt to get Hardy back into bed?" - but I dont think they were ever in bed together. We saw a flashback of him looking at her while she had her head on a pillow, leading us to believe they'd had sex, but in the last episode it showed him looking at her in that position in the abortion clinic

APlaceInTheWinter · 19/02/2015 13:11

I'm glad some of you like my theory

Is Claire giving the necklace back not her attempt at redemption after her talk with Rev Rory? She said she was at rock bottom and Rev Rory said when he was there, he had to fight his way back through what had brought him there

I've enjoyed the series' attempt to be inclusive with its female-heavy courtroom and the lesbian kiss but it's starting to bug me that even with such an enlightened approach to diversity, if a straight woman is shown as liking sex then she must be bad/immoral/unreliable/possibly a murderer ie Becca; Claire; 'horrible' junior defence. I think that's why OC had to look so awkward in her sex scene - so there was no confusion that she was falling into the women who like sex category.

PatterofaMinion · 19/02/2015 14:03

Didn't hardy actually say to Miller that he had slept with Claire, or did I imagine that?

AnnieHoo · 19/02/2015 14:28

Lee told Ellie that Claire had slept with Hardy. Don't know if he did or not.

SpanishFly · 19/02/2015 15:18

Lee told her that she did. But now I think about it, I don't even care at any more Grin Wine

BingoBonkers · 19/02/2015 15:57

I am losing interest in Broadchurch. The first series was amazing and a must see date on the sofa for each episode, the second series is simply meh. Not even MEH but meh. I am over it.