#broadchurch show

[chaospossum]

Broadchurch S1: the town where everyone needs therapy

Broadchurch S2: no one got therapy and everything is worse now

[kaylinelizabeth4004]

hiya!! hope you're doing well ❤ just wanted to ask if you're planning on to continue your story on ao3 about alec and dr ryder?? i am loving it so far!!

no pressure of course! i love your writing :3 xx

Hi!!

Yes, I absolutely plan to continue it. I have the entire story plotted out. I’m not good at writing full length fics before, so I’m over analyzing each plot point to try and make sure it makes any sense haha. But I definitely plan to continue it!! Thank you for the support!

[thetraumatrain]

Broadchurch was a trip but can we address that it is pro “middle-aged-teacher-dating-teenage-student” because “true love and people are just so judgmental!” but anti-porn because that’s “rape culture”

[mudkipper]

!!!!

[sardonic-the-writer]

Me: I don't have a type

Me later, having finished the entirety of David Tennants filmography: I lied

[princeloww]

i made david tennant stickers 🙏 for the tennant girlies (gender neutral)

Buy on my etsy !!! U can choose between 10 pack, 30 pack or 50 pack

(Restocked - 14/2/24)

[ssheepie]

Depressed, distressed, but decently dressed.

[hecatesbroom]

One of the things that really gets me about Hardy and Miller's relationship in Broadchurch is how much the respect they have for each other shows in how they physically interact. Even when they're not particularly pleased with each other/the situation.

I mean, I think the fact that they don't sleep together even though there was plenty of incentive for the showwriters to add that in (the drama!!) says something already, but that's not what I'm talking about.

It's the little things. It's the fact that they barely touch at all even though Ellie seems to be pretty comfortable with physical contact -- whether it's meant to be affectionate or comforting or both. But Hardy isn't, and because Ellie's a pretty intuitive person she never attempts to touch him the way she would others.

And we see Hardy, in his turn, go out of his way to attempt to physically comfort her when he sees she needs support. The careful hand he puts on her shoulder when she finds out about Joe and the way he lingers a bit after that to see if she needs a shoulder to lean on.

Or the time he asks her if she wants a hug after the trial, because he knows she's the type of person to want a hug while going through something like that, but she declines because she knows he's not the type of person to go around offering hugs. That's the scene that really shows how much they've come to understand each other, I think: Hardy is willing to step outside his own comfort zone if he thinks it'll make her feel better -- he's willing to adapt for her because at this point they respect each other enough that things like this don't feel like an obstacle he can't overcome -- and she's unwilling to accept his offer, because it's not an olive branch or him warming up, but rather than that he's offering up a piece of his own comfort to make her feel better. And Ellie, who is generally too nice to allow people to do that, respects him too much to let him do so. Besides, I'm sure she'd just feel weird about it at this point.

Then at the end of season 2, when Hardy leaves and Ellie is there to say goodbye, it seems almost inevitable that they loop back to episode 1 and do hug this time. But instead Ellie extends a hand, and Hardy is almost surprised she doesn't hug him, maybe he's even a little disappointed (because that's what people do in these situations, right? Hug to say goodbye?). And in a sense we get an exact replay of the first episode, only now Ellie is offering Alec what she thinks he needs, whereas first he offered her what he thought she needed.

And maybe they were both a bit wrong, but only because they've come to respect each other's boundaries enough to make that careful miscalculation. And maybe they wouldn't have been wrong, maybe Ellie did want that hug and Alec did prefer the handshake, but only because the other was kind enough to offer exactly that to them, did they want the alternative -- to show their gratitude by shaping the situation to another's comfort, instead.

[currentlyraining]

started for david tennant stayed for the plot (and david tennant)

[foolishlyzephyrus]

no one is out here doing it like olivia colman, she is just a fantastic actress

[transjudas]

“Oh, God, don't do this to me.”

Alec Hardy + water trauma

bonus:

[heartofalifer]

okay but think about this

broadchurch shot the office style and then PC Bob comes up for his commentary "what do I think of DI Hardy?" and it cuts to a montage of Alec yelling MILLAHR and then Ellie at her desk massaging her temples "jesus christ"

and then cuts back to Bob "I think he's adapting well."

[crowlixcx]

they named him Hardy. he's a walking advert for erectile dysfunction and they called him Hardy

[marchentraume]

No thoughts today other than Alec Hardy and kissing him better

[kidneys-and-custard]

Do you ever just watch a show with David Tennant and see how he acts and think how David Tennant that is of him because he just acts like that

[should-david-be-there]

david tennant w just a regular, completely normal, definitely not a stooge, audience member/hen party member/international tourist/loud snack eater/stalls row j seat 1 occupant