Line of Duty Thread 9, no spoilers! Watch along as we find out (?) wtf is going on!

[TedisnotH]

Reporting in, fellas. Let's fill up Thread 8 first though, ok?

Well at least none of them died and Steve and Kate actually getting help! Although there are a few strings dangling there was a lot tied up. But with enough left to pursue if they do decide on another series.

Alternatively Ted can retire and open a donkey sanctuary

"No one makes mugs of ac12"

"Someone better tell Etsy"

Brilliant 🤣🤣

Nigel did too I think, got his pension and bought a nice new lawnmower out of his lump sum?

@Janus

I don’t honestly know how I feel. Buckels always came across as not being able to organise a piss up in a brewery, are we meant to believe he’s some great mastermind?? So I don’t think he was. He liked the money he got from doing whatever was asked, someone higher up was telling him what to do. Therefore when the reality was right in front of him, Lakewell getting killed, he was genuinely terrified?? From series one episode one we know Osborne is bent/manipulates the truth. Can he really be into organised crime though?? Jo believed Fairbanks was her father. But she did so many bad things, getting people killed along the way like the young lad in the diversion bookies, is she really guilt free?? That beautiful house, girlfriend, dog etc was a little bit unbelievable. I love the friendship Kate and Steve have. Is Ted expecting Carmichael to use that information he told her?? Will AC-12 be put back together? So many questions!!

Is that the point?

That Buckell's wasn't a criminal mastermind.

That's how he got away with it, because he was an over promoted idiot.

He was consistently overlooked because everyone over estimated the "smarts" a bent copper had to have

To start Hunter was pulling the strings and was a clever, nasty piece of work but as AC12 chipped away Buckell's was all that was left.

@Buggerthebotox

Seriously, it wasn't shit. It was a thoughtful and intelligent ending and probably reflective of realitity. Osborne off the hook, Buckells in jail, Ted's future uncertain and corruption covered up.

Very satisfactory. Thank you Jed for not turning it into a pantomime.

Agree entirely.

The 'H' business had gone as far as it could. All now set for future series to dig into other corruption stories. Including exposure of Osborne.

If it had been the end of LOD for ever and ever then there would have been mentions of Ted, Kate and Steve and what they were all doing at the end. But there weren't.

Finals are generally anti climax as its the last episode.
But LOD generally try to have good finals.
Not just meh.

@unique1986

How did Jo get a girlfriend so quick?

Maybe it's part of the WP package?

@SchadenfreudePersonified

The only good things was a glimpse of that beautiful golden retriever at the end.

(Still didn't make up for the crushing disappointment of f*cking BUCKELLS)

I said that Jo had got the bingo of witpro when she walked out and that gorgeous hound followed....Gill bouncy blowdry Biggelow would be fummin if she knew what she could have won....

*No one makes mugs of ac12"

"Someone better tell Etsy"*

Best line ever !!

I also think Jo played them like a Stradivarius claiming Fairbanks was her fake dad so she'd her Witness Protection. She knew his brain is like Swiss cheese now.

I agree with others that Line of Duty was better when it focused on individual officers being sucked into corruption, rather than the overarching, convoluted conspiracy storyline. The rot started when the series 4 ending had another shoot-out in the AC-12 building, continued with the whole Dot Cottan Morse code idiocy, and finished with this mostly damp squib series. Annoyingly, if there's another series, I'll watch it to see if it returns to its early form.

Cancel series 7

If the quality goes any lower it will morph into Bloodlamds

Mother of God, leave it there

The Steve's addiction storyline was a whole heap of nothing. It was given a lot of emphasis throughout.

Was the idea really meant to be that he had built the problem up so much to himself, and that actually it was fine to admit he was struggling?

I get the idea, and it's realistic, but it's not very LOD.

[quote tecatea]@cliffdiver 👍🏼[/quote]
Sorry mate

What was the point in the Jimmy Lakewell scene where he clearly said something to Steve that we are never told about.

Err, we did find out - in the next episode. Lakewell revealed that the case Vella was investigating was the Laurence Christopher case. Investigating that pointed the finger at Thurwell, Buckells and Osborne.

Why was buckles so scared in his cell when he saw the other bloke being murdered if he was top dog?

Absolute dog shit.

The suspense when we didnt know who was in the frame and they eked out who was being interviewed?

That was a total damp squib. All that build up and then.. meh.

So was Jed showing how idiots or people who act dumb can get promoted up through the ranks? Like Boris Johnson? Trump? But someone else is pulling the strings. Like Dominic Cummings. Who is pulling the strings now?

Matalan Cottage scene was fuckin ridiculous. Were we supposed to care that much about Jo's character that we'd lap up the cheese?

I cringed so hard at that.

It was like an M&S ad for nice jumpers.

@CheekyWeeShite

What was the point in the Jimmy Lakewell scene where he clearly said something to Steve that we are never told about.

Err, we did find out - in the next episode. Lakewell revealed that the case Vella was investigating was the Laurence Christopher case. Investigating that pointed the finger at Thurwell, Buckells and Osborne.

We already knew that, it was revealed before he died...

@UniversalAunt

Will I invest in series 7?

Nope,

I feel exactly the same.

I watched from the beginning.

I re-watched as tension mounted (EVERY F*CKING SERIES)

I chewed my fingernails to my ELBOWS.

And for what?

Jo moves to Midsomer and gets a dog. Terry gets a "safe house" and a hug. The Team in a lift looking very clean cut. Carmichael sports her sh*t-eating grin.

And nothing changes . . .

@WeeDonkey

Btw, witness protection looks very tempting, what with cosy cottages and bouncy dogs.

That dog was trying its hardest to take Jo out.

The Dogs H.

@Thewiseoneincognito

There’s got to be a season 7 now

But the Chief Constable has got all his people into senior positions so who will do any investigating? I thought for one awful moment that Kate was going to snog Steve, that would have been one step too far.

I hate to admit it but I was disappointed too. I was expecting Thurwell to be alive (who employs James Nesbitt for one photo and then no clear image of a body) and I was secretly hoping that the fourth man would transpire to actually be a woman (eg Carmicheal who seems so hellbent on diverting attention away from investigating anything to do with bent coppers). Of course both of which could still happen, as we were left with pretty much no progress it felt to me. I was honestly expecting something amazing to link into something that happened series ago to make us gasp. Such a build up to who was being interviewed and when Buckells sat down (who we only really met a few weeks ago and who's screen time has not exactly been huge) I just felt a bit "oh... Ok... Meh". It's lost the spark of earlier series but I still want another one in the hope of redemption (and more Ted Hastings quotes).

@Tarzaan

Why was buckles so scared in his cell when he saw the other bloke being murdered if he was top dog?

Absolute dog shit.

He wasn’t “top dog”. It was made clear in season 5 that Dot was referring to a group of four corrupt people within the organisation doing the same thing as him.