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Theologian's thoughts on that #LineofDuty #LineofDutyFinale. First: I'm gutted not to have the big happy ending & I'll say later why it might not have hurt for Mercurio to give it to us... but of course... it does make sense. We have a world where there's no 'big bad' because 1/n
...there doesn't need to be; evil flourishes because of mundane everyday greed, stupidity, vanity, pride, fear, anger (Ted betraying Corbett), even misdirected love. The devil/ the big H (Hunter) left ages ago and the little Hs went right on doing his work 2/n
...the dots are not connected, there is no master plan, there is just the latest version of the banality of evil. Buckells is a C21st (Arendt's) Eichmann, a not-very-clever bureaucrat failing upwards to power & downwards to murder without really thinking about it 3/n
A sadly realistic ending #LineofDutyFinale
This is what would happen in real life: a big police cover up #LineOfDuty Osborne will be gently retired with honours (health reasons?) Carmichael promoted, Kate & Steve's careers will flounder - integrity always scares others - & corruption will continue.
Such an embarrassing scandal would NEVER be allowed to come out. Bravo Jeff Mercurio for daring to give us, not the ending we all craved for but the one which rings true. #LineofDutyFinale
