Do hope you feel better soon. Do stay tucked up and warm, it really is very cold (compared wih recently anyway!) out tonight - minus 2 when I came home from work at 6.30 according to the car thermometer. Hope it's ok that I've added some comments on JJD below the cut (but they are a bit of a spoiler, if you haven't watched it yet! You have been warned!) I was also slightly disconcerted by the end of JJD - as you say, it didn't feel like a final episode. In fact, there were several things left hanging, like the fact that the surveillance was obviously continuing, and their relationship was essentially unresolved that made you feel it was deliberately left in such a way that it could be picked up again. As to the ending itself, maybe I'm being picky but, cynical as I am about politicians and government today - and, believe me, working in local government, I really am deeply cynical about both of those - I found it difficult to believe that JJD would find out that he/Jo had been bugged, apparently by a Government agency and not do more about it. And his fellow Judges would have been absolutely outraged, not for JJD particularly, but at the principle of the interference of the executive with the judiciary. They are very careful to safeguard this separation of powers, thank goodness and this sort of covert surveillance would be seen by any Judge, or lawyer of any sort I think, as a most serious and prejudicial breach of that convention. Even today, with so many people in high office apparently devoid of principles, I think this would cause real ructions at the highest levels. And surely JJD would have had his rooms, flat, car swept by independent experts to check for other bugs once he knew what was going on. His and Jo's whole careers and future were at risk, after all and someone apparently in league with the LCD, determined enough and technically competent to do this and lay the rap with the hidden files for him wasn't likely to stop a one bug. His jokey complacency and comment about paranoia at the end just didn't ring true to me - JJD knows better than to be complacent about his enemies. So, I think there's potential for the odd special in the future, if G Newman has a special point he wants to make, perhaps! His scripts always have interesting storylines and don't pull their punches. I bet these programmes exposing what Newman sees as social injustices irritate the real politicians almost as much as the fictional ones!
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Hope it's ok that I've added some comments on JJD below the cut (but they are a bit of a spoiler, if you haven't watched it yet! You have been warned!)
I was also slightly disconcerted by the end of JJD - as you say, it didn't feel like a final episode. In fact, there were several things left hanging, like the fact that the surveillance was obviously continuing, and their relationship was essentially unresolved that made you feel it was deliberately left in such a way that it could be picked up again.
As to the ending itself, maybe I'm being picky but, cynical as I am about politicians and government today - and, believe me, working in local government, I really am deeply cynical about both of those - I found it difficult to believe that JJD would find out that he/Jo had been bugged, apparently by a Government agency and not do more about it. And his fellow Judges would have been absolutely outraged, not for JJD particularly, but at the principle of the interference of the executive with the judiciary. They are very careful to safeguard this separation of powers, thank goodness and this sort of covert surveillance would be seen by any Judge, or lawyer of any sort I think, as a most serious and prejudicial breach of that convention. Even today, with so many people in high office apparently devoid of principles, I think this would cause real ructions at the highest levels.
And surely JJD would have had his rooms, flat, car swept by independent experts to check for other bugs once he knew what was going on. His and Jo's whole careers and future were at risk, after all and someone apparently in league with the LCD, determined enough and technically competent to do this and lay the rap with the hidden files for him wasn't likely to stop a one bug. His jokey complacency and comment about paranoia at the end just didn't ring true to me - JJD knows better than to be complacent about his enemies.
So, I think there's potential for the odd special in the future, if G Newman has a special point he wants to make, perhaps! His scripts always have interesting storylines and don't pull their punches. I bet these programmes exposing what Newman sees as social injustices irritate the real politicians almost as much as the fictional ones!