Line of Duty (BBC Police Drama)
Discussion
Muncher said:
My brother in law is met police firearms and has just ripped apart the firearms bits, not even remotely realistic, you would have thought you’d at least have someone consulting on those bits?
I’m guessing second person up the stairs with the battering ram rather than firearm was one?!JonnyVTEC said:
Muncher said:
My brother in law is met police firearms and has just ripped apart the firearms bits, not even remotely realistic, you would have thought you’d at least have someone consulting on those bits?
I’m guessing second person up the stairs with the battering ram rather than firearm was one?!- going through doors without even pointing their guns
- taking instructions from a non firearms trained commanding officer
- the decision to go through the door would be taken by the officers and not someone outside
Antony Moxey said:
pquinn said:
Bit pointless throwing acronyms around to sound 'authentic' if no one has a clue what you're talking about.
That said wasn't exactly hard to work it out.
You worked out it stood for Covert Human Intelligence Source??That said wasn't exactly hard to work it out.
It just felt too much like a try-hard attempt at cleverness the way they never stopped chucking it about - normal humans would switch other words in occasionally.
pquinn said:
In the end I almost did, though I thought it might be 'confidential' as in confidential informant. But 'informant' or 'source' was the obvious starting point from the context.
It just felt too much like a try-hard attempt at cleverness the way they never stopped chucking it about - normal humans would switch other words in occasionally.
I assumed the I was for informant and that it didn't matter much beyond that.It just felt too much like a try-hard attempt at cleverness the way they never stopped chucking it about - normal humans would switch other words in occasionally.
You often see posters using acronyms on here so people will respect that they're subject matter experts.
Antony Moxey said:
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Anyways, more importantly, when did Arnott develop such an acute love of the pie?
He admitted in a recent interview that all he did during the last year or so was eat. So much so that when it came to filming, the wardrobe department had to 'alter' all his clothing as none of it fitted. The beard is also an attempt to hide several chins.Anyways, more importantly, when did Arnott develop such an acute love of the pie?
Muncher said:
My brother in law is met police firearms and has just ripped apart the firearms bits, not even remotely realistic, you would have thought you’d at least have someone consulting on those bits?
Given its recorded in Northern Ireland, its not like theres not plenty of firearms experts over here.... Given the glut of similar style programmes over the years, we've not bothered with Line of Duty before and, given the quality of last night's episode - the acting, the storyline, the characterisations, the characters, the filming - we won't be bothering any further.
FFS. Have the BBC never watched anything like Spiral which hooks you in the first five minutes and makes you love and hate characters in equal measure as you understand them. This lot, if they were all swallowed by a sink hole, we just wouldn't care.
Total toot.
FFS. Have the BBC never watched anything like Spiral which hooks you in the first five minutes and makes you love and hate characters in equal measure as you understand them. This lot, if they were all swallowed by a sink hole, we just wouldn't care.
Total toot.
Deckert said:
Pretty dire opening , I thought all the acting was flat. Steve and Kate scene in the car...awful.
Poor casting for Macdonald in that role , very unconvincing as a DCI, she looked like she was reading her lines in a rehearsal.
Hope it improves.
Kelly Macdonald has always been pretty wooden but last night was really poor - she sounded like a primary schooler reading to her classmates. Poor casting for Macdonald in that role , very unconvincing as a DCI, she looked like she was reading her lines in a rehearsal.
Hope it improves.
rlw said:
Given the glut of similar style programmes over the years, we've not bothered with Line of Duty before and, given the quality of last night's episode - the acting, the storyline, the characterisations, the characters, the filming - we won't be bothering any further.
FFS. Have the BBC never watched anything like Spiral which hooks you in the first five minutes and makes you love and hate characters in equal measure as you understand them. This lot, if they were all swallowed by a sink hole, we just wouldn't care.
Total toot.
I think it would be a mistake to dismiss Line of Duty just because of last nights episode. FFS. Have the BBC never watched anything like Spiral which hooks you in the first five minutes and makes you love and hate characters in equal measure as you understand them. This lot, if they were all swallowed by a sink hole, we just wouldn't care.
Total toot.
If you haven't watched it before, it would be best to start from the first series. It has been excellent through series 1-5 and there's a reason it scores something like 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, it is really very good indeed.
rlw said:
Given the glut of similar style programmes over the years, we've not bothered with Line of Duty before and, given the quality of last night's episode - the acting, the storyline, the characterisations, the characters, the filming - we won't be bothering any further.
FFS. Have the BBC never watched anything like Spiral which hooks you in the first five minutes and makes you love and hate characters in equal measure as you understand them. This lot, if they were all swallowed by a sink hole, we just wouldn't care.
Total toot.
You don’t need to be hooked in the first five minutes - this is a programme that you can’t start watching at Series Seven, you have to have watched it from Series One Episode One otherwise you’re never going to get it. S1E1 hooked you, and then you stay throughout. It’s no surprise you didn’t enjoy it if this was your first ever episode.FFS. Have the BBC never watched anything like Spiral which hooks you in the first five minutes and makes you love and hate characters in equal measure as you understand them. This lot, if they were all swallowed by a sink hole, we just wouldn't care.
Total toot.
Deckert said:
Pretty dire opening , I thought all the acting was flat. Steve and Kate scene in the car...awful.
Poor casting for Macdonald in that role , very unconvincing as a DCI, she looked like she was reading her lines in a rehearsal.
Hope it improves.
Got it in one!Poor casting for Macdonald in that role , very unconvincing as a DCI, she looked like she was reading her lines in a rehearsal.
Hope it improves.
However there was a lot of scene setting so it must get better. The tectonic plates of AC12 have truly shifted - Steve’s back has gotten really bad, Kate has quit and Hastings has all but given up. They even have new offices / HQ.
As a point of interest, are there any police on here that can tell us how many times a year do real Police knock the front door in with a dozen, or so, heavily armed officers? Jed Mercurio seems fixated on the concept. The Sweeney approach seemed more likely.
It seemed odd, that when they were about to set off the night before, they were about to leave in hi-viz cars with their lights already flashing in the garage, yet the morning after, the black BMs and Sprinters went out in force.
I was bit lost, and I think part of that was because I foolishly watched the re-runs of series 1 last year because I thought I'd missed it. I wasn't sure whether Kate had left at the end of the previous series and I'd just forgotten, or if we're supposed to figure out that she left between series. For a while I presumed it was just a lucky coincidence that they started an investigation in a squad where she was already working undercover.
The flashing lights on the cars ready for the evening raid puzzled me, too. In fact there seemed to be quite a lot of flashing lights deployed as they left the police station gates. Maybe that's just because it seems to exit directly into housing.
The flashing lights on the cars ready for the evening raid puzzled me, too. In fact there seemed to be quite a lot of flashing lights deployed as they left the police station gates. Maybe that's just because it seems to exit directly into housing.
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