Spooks

[altariel]

So Spooks appears to have moved on from being merely extremely good to become ABSOLUTELY FRICKING BRILLIANT.

It was a near-future dystopian headfuck! It was so cool! It's what the inside of my head is like!

Wicked, wicked corporate and bureaucratic interests! Brave, brave civil liberties protestors!

Damn, I so wish Robert Glenister was Home Secretary. And, best of all, two characters were forced to call their fathers to account - welcome to personal and societal ADULTHOOD - extra nice touch that Harry was out of commission for most of episode 2.

They even managed to find something for Zaf to do, and they've struggled with that for... ooh, about a season.

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

The favourite book! *sob*

I watched both episodes together last night too, then stupidly didn't realize I could switch over and watch the next one on BBC Three. However, I had got very excited, so perhaps it was better I watched something else to send me to sleep.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I found out about the third ep by reading someone's LJ, but I couldn't find it last night... hopefully won't have to wait too long.

I'm wondering what my other favourite character's chances of survival are now. I always knew she had a thing for Harry (who doesn't, after all?) but drawing attention to it like that means it's a Plot Point.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'll be hideously depressed if they bump off Ruth. But then this one of the brilliant things about Spooks, there's real jeopardy about the characters.

Peter Firth did enjoy doing his bit of Walt Whitman, didn't he?

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

He did it so well! I must watch it again and look up that poem, I want to see it written down. I find Walt Whitman a bit hit and miss with poetry but I liked that one.