Bodyguard BBC

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V8mate

45,899 posts

188 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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SpeckledJim said:
MYOB said:
Ah, i understand. But is it possible to be charged with conspiracy to murder if the murder bid failed?
Yes, I'd have thought so, because the crime is the conspiracy, not the murder.

Like planning a terrorist attack - the person is guilty even before it has been carried out. No actual harm done, but rightly we make the planning a crime as well.
Yep - you can get a life sentence for conspiracy to murder when no murder was ultimately committed.

PurpleTurtle

6,940 posts

143 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Adam B said:
hehe

the script would have consisted of 60 mins of Bodyguard telling (naked) Home Secretary all about the virtues of trigger switches, M3 Competitions and Valliant vs Worcester-Bosch boilers, after which she shoots herself in the face
biglaughbiglaughbiglaughbiglaugh

robemcdonald

8,715 posts

195 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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selym said:
Riley Blue said:
I saw it as a bit of action hokum loosely based on reality, much like a Bond film is. I don't think it was ever intended to be more than that so I've no complaints.
You imagine how good it could have been though..........




















.........if they'd employed the services of the PH Continuity, Ballistics, Bombmaking, Police Rules of Engagement and Boiler Recognition Consultants PLC?
Nope it still would have been rubbish.

The Don of Croy

5,975 posts

158 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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PurpleTurtle said:
Adam B said:
hehe

the script would have consisted of 60 mins of Bodyguard telling (naked) Home Secretary all about the virtues of trigger switches, M3 Competitions and Valliant vs Worcester-Bosch boilers, after which she shoots herself in the face
biglaughbiglaughbiglaughbiglaugh
No mention of 'watches'? In the next series then, where the hero (or heroine) is about to make a critical decision they find time to expound on the features/benefits of the deployment clasp. Again.


DickyC

49,541 posts

197 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Off Topic - with a DMS, wouldn't the suicide bomber have to press and hold the button while the armourer switched on the power to the button? Like sliding out the piece of insulation on a 1.5V novelty? If you could see where that was, you could reverse the procedure and isolate the DMS.

Too easy? The bomb maker would make the isolater hard to find? Booby trap the whole thing?

I'm only trying to help.

swanny200

111 posts

137 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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A lot of the holes picked and continuity errors from all of you here are spot on and brilliant and I didn't really spot any of it because I was pretty hooked on the story, however watching it again would probably get the nit picker out in me picking fault with nearly every scene.

I did it with Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes recently after rewatching them again, tried doing it with Shameless too but to be honest it is a comedy so no fun in pulling out any continuity.

One error I noticed though, when Budd is in the square on the Radio, Deepak tells him back to back on 3 i.e change the channel on the police radio, however when Craddock gets Deepak's radio, you can clearly see her change channel to say something to her team that she doesn't want Budd to hear before handing it back to Deepak.

However Deepak doesn't change the channel and simply pushes the button and says to Budd "You all right?", you would think that Jed Mercurio would have spotted this seeing as he has been part of a major police procedural drama for a few years.

ukaskew

10,642 posts

220 months

Tuesday 25th September 2018
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Mezzanine said:
First three episodes were decent enough, it went downhill fast after 'the big event' and the last episode was just an unconvincing, unrealistic soap opera mess.

Hope Netflix kept their receipt.
Considering Netflix co-financed the series and it had 11m viewers (in a country of 70m) before they've even started to distribute it worldwide, I'd suggest they are likely to be pretty happy to say the least...And presumably very keen to put significantly more money on the table to acquire rights to series 2.

'Netflix Originals' are often pre-existing projects they've scooped up, such as -very average- movies that studio execs decided to cut their losses on and would have traditionally gone straight to video with. Getting involved early on a series that has received significant critical acclaim (regardless of what PH thinks) and staggering viewing figures is a huge win for them. Series 2 is a slam dunk for them even if it's crap.