Spooks

[altariel]

Dear Points of View,

Why oh why oh why, when I loved the the last season with the fiery force of a thousand suns, and when I think Ros is TEH AWESUM and there isn't any boring Jenna-of-the-piece Zaf and it's about SPIES dammit - why oh why oh why am I not enjoying the new season of Spooks? Why oh why oh why have you turned it into something alarmingly like Judge John Deed?

Right this wrong immediately.

Yours faithfully,

Disgruntled of Cambridge Circus

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who dislikes Judge John Smug!

Now, Lewis Collins as the Lord Chief Justice, that I'd watch.

"Is anyone in need of JURISPRUDENCE?!"

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Judge John Dredd we call it here. The best way to watch it is to treat it as panto.


Now, Lewis Collins as the Lord Chief Justice, that I'd watch.

Ooh, me too! He would surely settle the trickier cases by flinging himself over the dock and shooting everyone in sight.

But what part for Gordon Jackson?

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, bad telly people. Bad, naughty, wicked telly people to be making telly which is not as it should be for your proper enjoyment and entertainment! They should be spanked.

I hope you whiffled your moustaches in their general direction.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Not only did I whiffle my moustaches, I also twitched my tail. That's how serious it is!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Good lord! That is serious, indeed. Methinks I felt the ground shake beneath my feet.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

But at least Judge John Deed has Ray Doyle in it.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

mraltariel sez: "I had the enormous pleasure of Mr Ray Doyle as Sir Thomas More in the theatricals! Ooh missus!"

[mraltariel.livejournal.com]

I did not say "ooh missus". I didn't.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

I dunno this Judge Deed whereof you spake, but I'm now at a point when I only watch season 6 for eye-candy. Politically, this has gone into the realm of leftie-cloud-cuckoo-land with GAPING HOLES such as a vaccine that cures the plague in less time that it takes to double-park on a yellow line, and a serious lack of anyone wearing a BEARD at the Iranian Embassy. Plus, Yalta? Aurora? I could do with a bit of realism here. Say, zombies?

(But when Adam is running, as opposed to his incredibly non-sensual sex scenes, he's HOT.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Last season of Spooks was really thoughtful and savvy. This season is dumb. Sticking in a retired agent called Connie doesn't count as being clever. Has there been anything with the understated power of that episode where Ruth left?

On Judge Deed: The BBC website dutifully supplied me with a truly awful summary: "Martin Shaw stars as Judge John Deed, a man who is not afraid to question the establishment in the name of justice." Yes, it is exactly as bad as that sounds. Every week, the judge (serial philanderer BUT THAT'S OK because he is a grammar school boy and stands up to the Establishment) battles unlikely career politicians and the wicked, wicked big pharmaceutical companies.

Why do we watch it? Rage can be cleansing. Also, we have a running sweepstake on how early in each episode one of us shouts, "This is PREPOSTEROUS!"

[greylin.livejournal.com]

The sweepstake in our household is for how many times in one news programme Fiona Bruce can say "THAAsands".

Am not enjoying this Spooks either. I fell asleep, in fact, during ep 3 and when I woke up I thought I was watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

how many times in one news programme Fiona Bruce can say "THAAsands"

Ooh, we'll be doing that now!

I keep falling asleep during Spooks too, which isn't great for a programme in which the narratives are meant to be suspenseful.

[manna]

"Martin Shaw stars as Judge John Deed, a man who is not afraid to question the establishment in the name of justice."

Huh. They missed out 'will make you laugh until you fall off the sofa'.

Ooh, and Amazon.co.uk tells me that it's finally coming out on DVD! I should buy my mum a set for Christmas. Plus - my mum would be very happy with hours of Martin Shaw to ogle. Minus - my dad would kill me.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Doesn't your dad have to go and do things to wood when Judge Deed is on? Perhaps you could get him a matching lathe? ;-)