Spooks Rewatching Discussion: 3.1
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melwilTime for a new season. Thus enters a season of change.
3.1
Oliver Mace. Oh joy of joys. And Harry in the ambulance trying to get them to contact the people in charge. And Danny driving too fast . . . it's all happening too fast.
"Would you get your hands off my files?" I do love Sam at times. And the way Mace goes straight for Ruth and the look they share. There is so history there.
Oooh - the empty MI5 seat. We all know who's supposed to be there, don't we? And do you think they really have name plates? Wouldn't they know each other?
Ruth in the hospital! She makes the lie up very easily there, doesn't she? And so was launched a hundred or so Harry/Ruth fans. Harry reads morse code very fast though.
Off to Doghouse - Ruth talking about how dangerous Mace is - I am almost certain that they've met before this, that they've come across each other. And Adam the Tramp!
I really like the overlap between Christine and Zoe - both being accused of assisting Tom - and as I said yesterday, both with a vested interest in Tom.
"I like the niceties. They protect us from tyranny." Oh how I love Harry. This speech basically sums up my civil liberties position . . .
Oh Adam's way to cheery. I don't like it. Unnatural really. And Sam's flirting with him. Does Sam flirt with every half attractive man? Though Adam eating sandwiches is strangely alluring . . .
I like that Adam puts his and Fiona's story right out there for Danny. Gets his attention, gains his trust, and shows how much more open he used to be. The Australian ABC didn't show this scene during its broadcast, which is a real pity because it's very important in the long run. Also shows a real difference between Adam and Fiona in their openness about their collective past.
TOM! I'm thinking back to Harry and Tom's rather bitter relationship towards the end of season 2, and I think this really is following it. I really love the way they show Tom, just how broken and desperate he really is. The church is lit beautifully too.
The sad thing is, to some extent at least, Joyce succeeded. Tom, to all intensive purposes, did go mad. But it wasn't Joyce who sent him there, he just gave a good push. In fact it wasn't until another operation that Tom made that final step out of the role he knew so well. I think Tom would have landed there in the end eventually - Joyce just made it quicker.
The government being told exactly what they want to hear stuff is goose bump eerie. We cop it over here all the time - I notice it especially when it comes to education. The government either gets what they want or manipulates it to their requirements. Just today Downer 'rewrote' the constitution.
(That slap followed by the soothing is just awful)
Again Tom turns to Zoe and Danny first. I mean it makes sense not to go to Christine, of course, her place is crawling with spies. But his first interactions with Zoe and Danny are just filled with such understanding.
Tom's reference to the 'bum's market economy' is a neat reference to his past at the London School of Economics.
Nice catch Zoe.
"addicted to danger" kind of sums Adam up too, doesn't it.
Um, Christine, he's only been out of your life for a day or two. Though he is going a little nutty, I suppose. It's the lottery ball talk that puts a girl off.
"Zoe. Flirt. Now." has to be the best command in Spooks ever. And Zoe picks on it so so well.
SPOOK TAXI!
I like the way Adam gave the ok for Tom to be there. I don't know if he wanted Tom there for some sort of back up, or to have him understand that they were dealing with it. After all, if they called him there, then they had some level of control over him.
"It's not about your life, is it?" I'm just realising how different the relationship is between Harry and Adam to the relationship between Harry and Tom. Harry treated Tom as much younger, almost like a school child in a lot of ways - especially towards the end. Adam - who of course came in as an outsider - is afforded much more respect, more equality.
Of course - Tom is there to back Adam up. Adam's read Tom pretty well here - knows that Tom will understand what he's trying to do. That's why he wants Tom there.
Oh Carmen Joyce is just as broken as Tom is really. She's so totally convinced herself of the right and the wrong of the situation.
Adam really does feel the need to get close to every woman he's near, doesn't he? He passes very close to Christine there.
I love Christine. Her understanding of how it destroys her is so in character. She's growing up, away from the over-eager, almost school girlish Christine who throws herself at the handsome boy, to the grown up who realises she doesn't need him or his vices.
But Tom does care about the lies! He does, he does!
Oliver Mace has ambition? Really? What a shock!
3.1
Oliver Mace. Oh joy of joys. And Harry in the ambulance trying to get them to contact the people in charge. And Danny driving too fast . . . it's all happening too fast.
"Would you get your hands off my files?" I do love Sam at times. And the way Mace goes straight for Ruth and the look they share. There is so history there.
Oooh - the empty MI5 seat. We all know who's supposed to be there, don't we? And do you think they really have name plates? Wouldn't they know each other?
Ruth in the hospital! She makes the lie up very easily there, doesn't she? And so was launched a hundred or so Harry/Ruth fans. Harry reads morse code very fast though.
Off to Doghouse - Ruth talking about how dangerous Mace is - I am almost certain that they've met before this, that they've come across each other. And Adam the Tramp!
I really like the overlap between Christine and Zoe - both being accused of assisting Tom - and as I said yesterday, both with a vested interest in Tom.
"I like the niceties. They protect us from tyranny." Oh how I love Harry. This speech basically sums up my civil liberties position . . .
Oh Adam's way to cheery. I don't like it. Unnatural really. And Sam's flirting with him. Does Sam flirt with every half attractive man? Though Adam eating sandwiches is strangely alluring . . .
I like that Adam puts his and Fiona's story right out there for Danny. Gets his attention, gains his trust, and shows how much more open he used to be. The Australian ABC didn't show this scene during its broadcast, which is a real pity because it's very important in the long run. Also shows a real difference between Adam and Fiona in their openness about their collective past.
TOM! I'm thinking back to Harry and Tom's rather bitter relationship towards the end of season 2, and I think this really is following it. I really love the way they show Tom, just how broken and desperate he really is. The church is lit beautifully too.
The sad thing is, to some extent at least, Joyce succeeded. Tom, to all intensive purposes, did go mad. But it wasn't Joyce who sent him there, he just gave a good push. In fact it wasn't until another operation that Tom made that final step out of the role he knew so well. I think Tom would have landed there in the end eventually - Joyce just made it quicker.
The government being told exactly what they want to hear stuff is goose bump eerie. We cop it over here all the time - I notice it especially when it comes to education. The government either gets what they want or manipulates it to their requirements. Just today Downer 'rewrote' the constitution.
(That slap followed by the soothing is just awful)
Again Tom turns to Zoe and Danny first. I mean it makes sense not to go to Christine, of course, her place is crawling with spies. But his first interactions with Zoe and Danny are just filled with such understanding.
Tom's reference to the 'bum's market economy' is a neat reference to his past at the London School of Economics.
Nice catch Zoe.
"addicted to danger" kind of sums Adam up too, doesn't it.
Um, Christine, he's only been out of your life for a day or two. Though he is going a little nutty, I suppose. It's the lottery ball talk that puts a girl off.
"Zoe. Flirt. Now." has to be the best command in Spooks ever. And Zoe picks on it so so well.
SPOOK TAXI!
I like the way Adam gave the ok for Tom to be there. I don't know if he wanted Tom there for some sort of back up, or to have him understand that they were dealing with it. After all, if they called him there, then they had some level of control over him.
"It's not about your life, is it?" I'm just realising how different the relationship is between Harry and Adam to the relationship between Harry and Tom. Harry treated Tom as much younger, almost like a school child in a lot of ways - especially towards the end. Adam - who of course came in as an outsider - is afforded much more respect, more equality.
Of course - Tom is there to back Adam up. Adam's read Tom pretty well here - knows that Tom will understand what he's trying to do. That's why he wants Tom there.
Oh Carmen Joyce is just as broken as Tom is really. She's so totally convinced herself of the right and the wrong of the situation.
Adam really does feel the need to get close to every woman he's near, doesn't he? He passes very close to Christine there.
I love Christine. Her understanding of how it destroys her is so in character. She's growing up, away from the over-eager, almost school girlish Christine who throws herself at the handsome boy, to the grown up who realises she doesn't need him or his vices.
But Tom does care about the lies! He does, he does!
Oliver Mace has ambition? Really? What a shock!