See I really liked that, it was all being set up for something which felt kind of predictable and it ended up not being that, it was a good episode that tied up some storylines for the main cast and has been left in a way which could be the finale, but might not be. The alternative seems to be that the guy we saw being bent in the first 10 minutes of the first episode a decade ago was some big mastermind, is that not a far more boring ending than this?!

Edited May 2, 20214 yr by RabbitFurCoat

That episode felt pretty final to me tbh, I’d be kinda surprised if we got another series :(

Yeh the more I think about it it was a brave ending. To go out on a realistic commentary about the lack of accountability and truth and institutional corruption and to do it in an understated way was inspired

Edited May 2, 20214 yr by steve201

My mood at that finale is the Carmichael meme tbh

 

Just announce series 7 BBC and all is forgiven x

They definitely left it open for another series

 

What will Carmichael do now that Ted confessed?

Kate mentioning she was re-joining AC-12

Ted probably going after Osborne?

 

 

I'm still a bit wtf?! :lol: damp squib doesn't cover it :drama:

 

The James Nesbitt casting was...a choice?! A big actor in a huge show and he didn't even get any dialogue :lol:

I mean it did seem pretty final, certainly in Hastings' final speech, and I suppose it's being true to life. It's been thrilling and dramatised, but it's always been a pretty blunt portrayal that corruption is very much present in the police force however much they deny it.

 

That said, it was very underwhelming though, Buckles being the mastermind just doesn't add up, however much a red herring his bumbling persona clearly was, Osbourne clearly was in on it in some way yet survived. I also noticed there wasn't anything about what came of Steve, Kate and Hastings in the epilogue and there usually is...:thinking:

 

It seemed a very Empire Strikes Back-esque ending where everything looks doomed, so let's hope the Return of the Jedi series is on the way! I'm still not gonna believe it until I see it, Mercurio has never explicitly said it's the last season and he clearly likes to troll his audience x

 

 

My mood at that finale is the Carmichael meme tbh

 

Just announce series 7 BBC and all is forgiven x

 

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I'm still a bit wtf?! :lol: damp squib doesn't cover it :drama:

 

The James Nesbitt casting was...a choice?! A big actor in a huge show and he didn't even get any dialogue :lol:

 

Doesn’t mean he won’t be in another series of it though!

f***ing raging

 

Although H can’t be buckles as H told Jo To plant evidence unless it’s lazy writing

Poor Chloe - she solved the 'fourth man' mystery and no one even gave her the credit she deserved x

 

I can't really add anything further other than what's been said - underwhelming but it felt like it could be either final or left open for another series. All of the main strands of the six series have now been wrapped up so they could do another seventh series as a clean break or continue to go down the institutionalised corruption angle.

 

But at least we had justice for queen Lindsay Denton with the two prison bitches FINALLY getting caught *.*

I think the best part of tonight's episode has been the reaction on Twitter

 

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:lol:

Poor Chloe - she solved the 'fourth man' mystery and no one even gave her the credit she deserved x

She carried AC-12 this series! The only one actually doing investigative work and getting the receipts!!

I'm ready for the Carmichael & Chloe spin-off series that we deserve x

Jo Davidson’s biggest stan here x

I'm ready for the Carmichael & Chloe spin-off series that we deserve x

omg need!!

Jo Davidson’s biggest stan here x

only because she’s scottish

Jo being the only guest lead to not end up dead or in prison though!

 

That final scene of Davidson, Corbett, Huntley, Waldron, Denton and Gates all being put in the box, along with the constant call-backs to earlier seasons, made it feel like a final episode but after the record viewing figures this has had I don't think the BBC be the reason why there won't be another series. Either way, if it comes back then it'd have to be the start of a "new story" that isn't linked to the previous seasons.

I still feel like it's not buckles

 

when lakewell was strangled in buckle's cell, it was a warning and he looked absolutely petrified

what i also don't get is why Jo was told to frame buckles with the documents, when it was buckles all along on the laptop, why would he set himself up?

 

I think thurwell was the final H but possibility wasn't able to film so they had to resort to Buckles, there were far too many time spent on characters who had nothing to do with this season!

Not sure what this is supposed to mean!

 

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Ultimately it's all controlled by criminals, the corrupt police officers are just the facilitators. The scene with Lakewell worked because was 'H' was never some kind of overall mastermind, Buckells took and gave orders and was handsomely rewarded for it, he still had huge amounts to be worried and scared about. Yes he can influence but he can also be easily be bumped off if ever he thought about talking.

 

To me the point of it is that the corruption doesn't end, there isn't one person who's controlling everything, and it'll be like any criminal enterprise where new people will pop up to take over the ones who are caught, the next lot of corrupt officers will be working their way up the police force now. I like the way that those involved were all in that situation for different reasons - the lazy and greedy and those who are groomed into it.

 

I'm struggling to understand what else people were expecting from this episode and why some of the other potential endings would have been any better - Osbourne was barely a character and Thurwell was only an image - you can't have non-characters as the main protagonists, and we've already had enough overly dramatic 'urgent exit required' endings.

 

I wasn't sure what the relevance of the scene with Fairbanks was and Chloe didn't deserve to go out with such a whimper.

Edited May 3, 20214 yr by RabbitFurCoat