Spooks/MI-5 4x05 The Book

[oyceter]

I love this show so, so much. (I also love my video iPod so, so much, as it inspires me to actually exercise because I can watch Spooks at the same time!)

But yes, this show? It is excellent. Why are more people not watching it?

Yay! I'm so glad that there's a Harry episode! I still want episodes for Ruth, Zaf, and Fiona, Zaf in particular because he's new and I don't know him very well yet. But Harry!

I continue to love that Juliet is amoral and scary, even though in this case, she wasn't the one actually doing Bad Things. But I suspect she is complicit on more than a few things beyond this case. And I suspect Harry isn't innocent either, which is why I love this show so much.

I was yelling at my iPod while running at the scene in which Harry basically blackmails Juliet with the fake book. Not angry yelling, but "OMG so cool!" and "Harry you rock!" yelling. It is a very good thing that I was running by myself.

Other points of yelling in the episode involved the shootout with Zaf, in which I was worried that they might kill him off. I know it's rather irrational, and I don't think they'll kill off a character quite yet, but given S3 and given how this show operates, I know no one is safe, and I love that there is actual suspense and tension every time there is a fight. I don't know who will win and who will make it out unscathed, and that makes for a great viewing experience.

I also continue to adore the Harry-Ruth interaction, particularly her phone call and his incredulous response: "You want me to go over to your house?" I love Ruth so much.

I also loved the awkward hiring moments with poor Zaf.

I'm a little worried about the new person whose name I have already forgotten; I am hoping that the mini-romance thing with Adam will prove to be one-sided. I hate the whole stupid romantic triangle thing. I'm not really that worried though, because the show is very good about these sorts of things. It is probably just latent worry from Alias and all the crazy-making romantic entanglements. And the thing with the car alarms and the cell phone was pretty nifty.

Adam does get partnered off with the woman-of-the-week pretty often though.

That last scene with Harry and the book was great, particularly Harry's expression.

Comments

[cofax7]

Yay Spooks!

If you want, I can burn S5 to dvd for you (what I have of it, anyway)...

[oyceter]

Oh thank you, but I've actually been torreting it, muhahaha. Also, I am planning on trying to sic it on Rachel and Yoon as well. And I bought the S1 DVDs at Fry's on sale.

I may be slightly addicted now. It was all because of S3!

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

*Carefully scrolls past spoilers* I added this show to my Netflix queue a while ago, but haven't watched it yet. My British born physical therapist is a huge fan, but sort of scared me off it. He said it is incredibly intense and frightening and dark. I'm already watching BSG and I'm not sure I can handle another dark show. Do you think it is as dark as BSG? Or, how would you categorize its darkness level? I'm just not up to anything with realistic depictions of torture, especially, so spoil me please if need be about that.

[cofax7]

It's not as unremittingly dark as BSG, I would say. But it is realistically dark. People do die sometimes, and sometimes the heroes fail. There are some fairly intense depictions of torture, though, once in a while.

[actoplasm.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's great so many people are watching this great show that continues to get better and better. I still don't like Rosaline in S5, but the episodes just blow my mind each week. My mom's watching them now (live) and we get to discuss each episode each week. The sad thing is we're up to episode seven now and there's only like twelve a season, so soon it'll be done! Tis sad.

[oyceter]

Um... no idea, since I have only seen six episodes of BSG! It's not a happy fluffy show in that it deals with very timely political issues, and people get hurt, even people in the main cast. It's a show in which things can go very wrong, and when they do, they have consequences, but in general, it doesn't tend to depress me, despite dealing with very depressing issues.

I think it's because I really like the characters and they feel relatively optimistic, and they try, even when they fail.

Re: torture. There are a few episodes that deal explicitly with torture. Usually the show isn't that bloody, but there is psychological torture.

[oyceter]

I love this show so much!

Who is Rosaline? Hrm, maybe I haven't met her yet.

S5 is already up to episode seven? Eep, I am behind on the dling! I hate the wait, but the show is so intense that I can't binge on it either, so... oh well.