Line of Duty

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I think the ending worked brilliant.

Throughout the series you have detailed cover ups, interviews, in-depth dialog.

The last episode is 90% interviews which were magnificent but in the end, when Dot realised he could cover up no more, talk his way out of it no more, he did the last option any human has. BLOODY RUN. The ultimate example of a man who has run out of ideas.

It was a brilliant contrast to the whole series preceeding it.

 

[ROSM]

I agree with @mejona

Doesn't it show what a great series it is that despite it being a far fetched ending that you actually feel that there was a chance, just a chance that this could happen.

If 10 years ago someone had run a story about police cover ups, a paedophile ring protected by the establishment and famous people being involved, nobody would have taken it seriously but events prove it all was possible

 

[Fungus]

I really enjoyed it but there is just no way that an anti-corruption copper would be able to make that shot, 70 (ish) yards at a laterally moving target in a vehicle with just an iron sight, and i said out loud "**** off" when she did it.

Other than that is was an enjoyable conclusion. I particularly loved the interview/interrogation between Fleming, Hastings and Dot.

However, i do think there could have been a lot of mileage in allowing Dot to evade justice for another series and have Arnott successfully framed as The Caddy, sentenced and jailed, before he is vindicated in season four á la Denton this season.

Also, up the Clarets

She did seem rather keen to finish off Dot and his minder, regardless of endangering the public and her orders not to engage them. It seemed as if they suddenly realised it was the last episode and they only had ten minutes to tie everything up, so they decided on a mad climax rather than using it as the basis of a whole new series.

 

[Spicy]

The list showed up on frasers phone and was used against fairbank

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[ROSM]

She did seem rather keen to finish off Dot and his minder, regardless of endangering the public and her orders not to engage them. It seemed as if they suddenly realised it was the last episode and they only had ten minutes to tie everything up, so they decided on a mad climax rather than using it as the basis of a whole new series.

I think in previous series the bad guy doesn't always turn out to be that or that they seem to live to fight another day. In this series perhaps they tried to surprise by giving the visible baddie his just desserts

Doesn't mean there aren't still more twists out there

I mean Gill Bigelow is still around I assume

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Was this not to Gill then?

 

[Steve in Japan]

Overall I enjoyed it a lot - it wound me up (in a good way) more than most TV dramas do, and the ending was gripping. The bad guys lose and wouldn't it be nice if that happened more often in real life?

 

[drew]

Thoroughly enjoyed the series however, thought her shot to take out the car at the end was extremely accurate and I did wonder why the getaway rendezvous was so far away!!!!

 

[perseus]

Last Tuesday Jed Mecurio gave an interview in the Daily Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/04/27/jed-mercurio-line-of-duty-interview/
Nice bit of insight into his thinking.

It does help to explain why the general plot was crappy. I thought the first scene was OK and then decended into general crappiness and in the end ended up as drivel. I am not suprised an actor walked out of the set. I would have done the same.

 

[pasty]

Loved it. The only thing I found a bit odd were the subtitles at the end saying what happened to each character, almost as if it were a "real life true story"

 

[Petee]

Loved it. The only thing I found a bit odd were the subtitles at the end saying what happened to each character, almost as if it were a "real life true story"

They did this at the end of previous 2 series too. If you haven't yet seen them, they are well worth a watch. Both series are on Netflix currently.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

It does help to explain why the general plot was crappy. I thought the first scene was OK and then decended into general crappiness and in the end ended up as drivel. I am not suprised an actor walked out of the set. I would have done the same.

As I said weeks ago, this wasn't a who-dun-it series. The details of the plot aren't important. It was all about how police corruption works and how the bad guys manage to function at the heart of the system.

 

[perseus]

why I think accuracy in police drama is so important

As I said weeks ago, this wasn't a who-dun-it series. The details of the plot aren't important. It was all about how police corruption works and how the bad guys manage to function at the heart of the system.

A plot has to be a litle bit true to life. It wasn't.

“There’s artistic licence and then there’s pure misrepresentation.”

This explains it and saves me the trouble of writing it in my own words: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/02/line-of-duty-bbc-police-kate-london

It only got seeming seriously ridiculous in the second episode for me. Things that did not seem to fit together, I thought woud become unravelled turned out just be just bad plotting. Done in a rush without checking if it held together.

 

[BLOCK F]

Just finished watching it on catch up telly.
Great series. Loved it, best thing on tv for ages.
Some posters on here are really picky.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I am not suprised an actor walked out of the set. I would have done the same.

Does that also apply to football forums?

 

[drew]

A plot has to be a litle bit true to life. It wasn't.

“There’s artistic licence and then there’s pure misrepresentation.”

This explains it and saves me the trouble of writing it in my own words: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/02/line-of-duty-bbc-police-kate-london

It only got seeming seriously ridiculous in the second episode for me. Things that did not seem to fit together, I thought woud become unravelled turned out just be just bad plotting. Done in a rush without checking if it held together.

It's a drama for christ's sake. If you want reality then watch 24 hours in Police Custody!

As for the Guardian article, small wonder an ex copper is upset at a drama that is about Police corruption.

 

[el punal]

It's a drama for christ's sake. If you want reality then watch 24 hours in Police Custody!

As for the Guardian article, small wonder an ex copper is upset at a drama that is about Police corruption.

My Dad was a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III during the World War II, from which of course the Great Escape took place. When the film was released in 1963 he and his ex P.O.W. chums were invited to the premiere at Leicester Square. He, and they, thought the film was the biggest load of bollocks going - inaccurate, unrealistic and a lot of it untruthful.

It didn't stop it from being one of the most popular films ever made though.

 

[perseus]

You write social realism, not escapist drama, which means you’re not an apologist ?

My Dad was a prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III during the World War II, from which of course the Great Escape took place. When the film was released in 1963 he and his ex P.O.W. chums were invited to the premiere at Leicester Square. He, and they, thought the film was the biggest load of bollocks going - inaccurate, unrealistic and a lot of it untruthful.

It didn't stop it from being one of the most popular films ever made though.

I was thinking along the lines of Das Boot. That had the tension paced very well, and was panned by submariners but looked realistic to me (not knowing much about submarines).

Some things like the bolts looked dodgy in Das Boot, but I suspend disbelief in the story lines until it becomes quickly ridiculous like Line of Duty. Jed Mercurio pretends that is getting at the truth. Pretends that he is a social realist. A shit plot with sudden thrills (roller coaster of emotions if it affected you?) carried by the actors (casting was mostly OK). I'll not bother to watch the fourth series.

I was annoyed as the start got me hooked and I wanted to know how it panned out and how dramatic the bloodbath would be at the end.

Lots of good ideas that petered out as red herrings.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

Das Boot, a load of old cobblers.

 

[chaileyjem]

I am not suprised an actor walked out of the set. I would have done the same.

Actually Daniel Mays, Adrian Dunbar, Craig Parkinson, Martin Compston, Vicky McClure have all said about this series that its one of the finest things they've ever worked on, and that Jed Mercurio is an incredible writer.