Spooks/MI-5 4x06-4x07

[oyceter]

4x06 The Innocent

Juliet continues to be ruthless and interesting, and while there wasn't much Ruth in this episode at all, she had a very nifty role to play. I love Harry when he's angry at the establishment.

Sometimes I'm not sure about the politics of Spooks, just because on occasion it seems to be saying that we do need these inhumane methods to keep civilians safe. The characters walk a very fine line between what they should do and what they shouldn't. I mean, that is why I love the show, particularly because Harry and co. still do have a conscience (ok, maybe not Adam so much), albeit a very grey one.

New blond recruit hasn't done much yet, so I don't know what's going on with her. Alas, Fiona still didn't have that much to do, but I'm not fretting, since it seems like the next ep. will be all about her.

Zaf alas still doens't get that much character development, though I really liked his identification with Nazim and his refusal to pull the trigger. I really do like Zaf; I just wish I had more of a reason to, given that he doens't get that much plot.

Harry, as always, continues to be awesome.

4x07 Syria

I watched the preview for this one and immediately started fearing for Fiona. Whooboy. I am sad, but that Very Significant Look from blond recruit to Adam and Fiona was Very Signifcant. I really hope they don't kill her off, but I am pretty sure that they will. Sigh. I liked having a married couple as agents too. (this part was written before I saw the episode)

And now that I have watched the episode, I just... oh. Oh ow. Oh Fiona. I loved her so much too, and her fictional type is so my fictional girlfriend, and I loved her relationship with Adam, and oh my god that hurt. I was on the elliptical while watching it and thankfully I got off and finished the last part of the episode on solid ground, or I think I might have accidentally fallen off. But oh. It still hurts, even though I watched the preview a week ago and expected it and knew it was going to happen through the entire episode, but I just kept hoping that it wouldn't. And oh my god, their kid, and the way Adam looked when he realized that she had been planning it all along, and how it all made sense. Even though I wanted to yell at her for everything she was doing, it still made so much sense, particularly given her past. I hadn't been expecting that she would be just like so many of those dissatisfied wives of dictators and secret service men, the wrist thing reminded me too much of that woman Tom wept over way back when, and oh.

Am completely not coherent about this, because you could see it coming for so long, and it just kept ratcheting up the tension until those final ten minutes, when everything came together in a rush. And when Fiona broke the glass... gah. I nearly freaked out.

And beforehand, I was sort of flippantly thinking, "Wow, Fiona totally wins at the best angst game in Spooks so far." I can't imagine living for so long with that on your head, and it makes the torture episode with Adam make so much more sense (I'm not sure if that's what this episode is referring to, but still). And oh my god, just... the look on Adam's face through the entire rush to find her, and her little smile when she told her ex-husband that she would never make it to Damascus alive, no matter what.

Oh my brave girl.

Comments

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

Okay, did you understand what Fiona's big plan was in Syria? Because I was completely lost. Was she just hoping to get Farouk alone and kill him, or what?

[oyceter]

Um, I dunno? I sort of assumed that her big plan was mainly just to not get Adam involved and to try and sort it out herself, with the options of it being a suicide mission or something, just to get Farouk out of her life. I figure she really wasn't too rational at that point, given the circumstances.

[katie-m.livejournal.com]

Hmph. I am unimpressed. (With Fiona, not you, obviously.)

[oyceter]

Hee! Yes, I know my liking of Fiona is largely due to her character type pressing a lot of my buttons and not due to, say, her plan actually being reasonable or her character being well-done (I think they could have done a whole lot more with the relationship between her and Adam and etc. before this ep.)