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And after that – as the fan forums point out, the ending of Line of Duty had enough loose ends to warrant a return. So, will there be another series?

“It just feels like this is clickbait now,” snaps Mercurio. It���s a fair question to ask about a show with 15 million viewers, I say. “Feel free to generate some clickbait!” he yells, suddenly furious. Our time has run out and so has Mercurio’s patience. He gives a sarcastic, tight little smile – “I really enjoyed the conversation. Have a good day!” – and logs off: the unhappiest man to have written the most-watched drama of the 21st century (so far).

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Kate Fleming + My Favourite Outfits [6/?]

6x02

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girls be like *he is my comfort character* and whamm! it's the most emotionally traumatized fictional man you've ever seen!

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i want people to feel about my writing the way roger ebert feels about the mummy

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The five deadly sins of transformative fandom:

Treating popular fanon regarding a character as authoritative, and getting angry at people whose feelings toward that character are informed by the version who appears in the actual text  

Conflating “it’s possible to construct this particular narrative from elements present in the text” with “this is the narrative the text in fact presents“  

Dismissing criticism of a particular aspect of the text on the grounds that you can imagine some hypothetical context in which the cited elements wouldn’t be problematic  

Elevating a particular body of fan-work above the source material, and acting like anybody whose fandom doesn’t take the former into account is missing the point  

Getting so immersed in a deep subtextual reading that you reflexively assume anyone who has an issue with the explicit text of the source material is engaging in bad faith

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soooo what's his reason for the whole thing being dropped with no acknowledgement in episode 7? cause i don't think that was covid

well that's a lame excuse if ever I heard one. literally all it would have taken is a conversation to confirm it, and they couldn't even do that. and other shows have managed to do it in a pandemic. idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

edit: here's the link

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kate fleming at literally any given moment: for christ's sake, steve

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she was the real star of the show in S5 let's be honest

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LoD season 5 rewatch Thoughts

warning: this one is mostly moaning about the trajectory of the writing lol

it took me only two days to get through this season, whereas the other ones (esp. S2) took several, because i really wanted to give the earlier seasons my full undivided attention. i tried that with S5, but by episode 5 i found myself reverting to checking other tabs and scrolling through my phone while watching

steve calling kate boss almost makes up for the fact that they had basically no Classic Steve/Kate Moments this season

i actually enjoyed the OCG plotline this season, putting aside the implausibility of the number of shootouts/ambushes/robberies and the revolving door of people involved, stephen graham and rochenda sandall were great

it will never not be interesting to me that kate pulls rank on steve more in this season than steve ever did in the three seasons where he outranked her. in fact kate never even called him sarge in S1-3

i knew maneet was a goner as soon as she pulled out that video of her baby :(

kate sounding shocked about maneet possibly being bent because "you work right beside someone" kate hunni you worked with the caddy for two years

the problem with all the red herrings about ted being H is that when you watch it back knowing he's not H, you just realise he's an unprofessional dick and a bit of an idiot

ted is such a dick throughout the season but especially to kate who is trying her best to do her job. i'm still mad that they framed her leaving in S6 as a ~career move~ when honestly who'd want to work with this unprofessional dick?

in complete contrast to season 6, where everyone looked gorgeous, i think there's something off with the lighting or makeup this season, it's quite unflattering

they really missed a trick by not having ~the hargreaves reveal~ happen through his accent. if you get Professional Yorkshireman tony pitts on your show you should use him to his full potential

god, i think the end of 5x04 is the most harrowing scene in the show. i watched it on mute with subtitles

i think the reason S5 doesn't work for me is because it revolved around the "ted is H" storyline, which didn't interest me because i never at any point thought there was any risk of ted actually being H, so it was obviously going nowhere, but then we never got a convincing explanation for most of the red herrings either, like him destroying his laptop

when i rewatched S3, i still found the 3x06 interview scenes great to watch even though i fully knew how it would end. the 5x06 interview scenes however bored me

when S6 was airing, i started to think that maybe S5 holds up better than we thought. after all, it showed us quite a bit about how the OCG operates, and established that they're still exploiting terry and that ryan is involved after all these years (i think it would've felt like an ass pull for them to come back suddenly in S6 if not). but now that S6 has ended and i don't rate it too highly, i stand by my original opinion that S5 also wasn't that good. it's entertaining enough to watch week by week, when you're in suspense about how it will play out, but it doesn't hold up to rewatch in my opinion, especially in light of S6. my opinions have not changed since i wrote this post

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LoD season 4 rewatch Thoughts

there is surprisingly little complaining about the trajectory of the writing in this one lmao. this season was fun! the kate vs steve stuff has its own section at the end

jason watkins is such an underrated actor and it's a shame we only got him for one episode :(

everything about kate vs buckells is hilarious in light of recent events

i don't think it's ever made clear why tim tried to get hana to visit his flat/why he went to her flat to have sex with her? i think that's the only red herring this season that didn't quite make sense

kate worked with buckells and hilton at the same time back in S1, and yet she isn't worried at all about hilton recognising her when he walks into the office in 4x02... even though they had a whole conversation in 1x01 where he addresses her by name! there's no way he doesn't remember the woman who threw a fire extinguisher through a DCI's door?

again, the whole "buckells is a blundering fool" angle had not quite taken off yet. he's a bit flustered when ted confronts him in the alley, and he's clearly ~one of the lads~ but other than that there's nothing to suggest he's an idiot.

buckells clearly didn't get the memo about michael farmer being balaclava man. i'm not against show writers making it up as they go along (this essay makes a good case for not planning too far ahead), and i do think he was the one who left roz the "someone is watching you" note, but if hilton appointed him SIO of trapdoor to keep the investigation on michael farmer he doesn't do the best job - he keeps pointing out evidence that supports michael farmer's innocence!

steve and kate take a backseat in 4x04 and yet it's my favourite post-S3 episode! the scene where roz turns the interview on ted is one of my favourite interview scenes and definitely my favourite post-S3.

the nerve of ted and kate to drag buckells into his office for "blowing kate's undercover" when she's clearly just... bad at keeping her cover

i think the roz-tim murder plotline could've been more interesting if we hadn't seen their fight. like maybe if we'd just seen roz walking into tim's flat? then again i could be biased because i thought the ending to 4x01 was ridiculous

this season had its silly moments, and it was the start of the H storyline which i think was the downfall of the show, but overall it holds up better than i remember? almost all of the red herrings actually go somewhere/make sense in hindsight (except for the tim/hana thing). this was also the last season before the dialogue, particularly ted's, slid into self-parody. that being said, i think jamie's character could've been better developed.

the kate vs steve subplot

kate and steve spend the first two and a half episodes bickering. steve seems to have a problem with her promotion (why tho?), and she makes a jab at him about lindsay (fair enough, but it sort of came out of nowhere). it goes as far as steve accusing kate of colluding in the framing of michael farmer! it seems like it's heading somewhere, when i first watched i thought it would culminate in a massive come-to-jesus fight... and then kate brings him a lamb madras and suddenly they're fine, with no acknowledgement of why they were fighting or what the problem was?

i'm not sure if J*d wanted us to make a link between the sexism subplot and the bickering; did he want us to think that kate thinks steve is sexist? or that steve actually is sexist and can't handle his female partner being of equal rank to him, even though in the previous three seasons steve never pulls rank on kate and they treat each other like equals? in fact, if you watched S1-3 without knowing what ranks they are you probably wouldn't know that steve was kate's superior. and when he finds out she passed her inspector's exam, he is genuinely happy for her?

the scene where ted and steve meet in the pub to discuss his promotion (an opportunity he denied kate) reminded me of S1, where tony gates decides whether kate is fit to be on his team based on how well she fits in at a drink with the lads. (i don't think ted was wrong to not want to have a drink with kate - he does have a point about what people might think - but it was a dick move to then go with steve)

who deserved the promotion? on one hand, steve had much more experience as a sergeant than kate, who had probably only been sergeant for ~1 year; that's a perfectly legit reason to pick steve. i also don't think that identifying the caddy should make kate a slam dunk - solving one case doesn't necessarily make someone better leadership material. however, steve has done something to earn a bollocking off ted about once a season at this point (going rogue in S1, the nurse in S2, lindsay in S3) while as far as ted knows, kate is always on her best behaviour (he doesn't know about rich akers).

this line from the script made me chuckle. you and me both, steve.

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i love them

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trying to get on twitter when locals are doing surya bonaly backflip disk horse yet again

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Vicky McClure and Martin Compston on the set of Line of Duty series 4.

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he ordered her murder because of this

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these are making me chuckle too

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rather than death of the author i subscribe to a critical framework i like to refer to as Schrodinger’s Author where the authors intentions are important except for when i dont like them