Spooks/MI-5 5x01-5x02
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oyceterOk, I was stupid and watched 5x01 because I absolutely had to know what happened after the 4x10 cliffhanger and it was stupid and it's 3 in the morning but oh my fucking god why aren't there more people watching this show?
Sorry people reading this who are totally boggled by how this show can take over my mind (this is, btw, why I usually just watch an episode a month but then there are these finales and these season openers and OMG I cannot watch another episode for another month because MY HEART CANNOT TAKE IT!).
All caps overtake my LJ!
Watch this show!
I must write up a no-spoilers pimping post sometime.
GAH.
If you haven't figured it out already, the following writeup is going to be completely incoherent and poorly punctuated and probably gratuitously misuse caps lock and exclamation points.
Oh oh oh oh they killed Colin, how could they? I cried. It didn't have me gaping at the screen like Danny or Fiona, but that was because they got to pick like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
vonnie_k says in her write-up and they hurt so much because they were brave and went down fighting with everything they could.
I mean, Colin did too. But he didn't have the equipment to fight back, he had nothing but his dignity and broken glasses and an incomplete crossword puzzle, and he was never supposed to be out in the field in the first place. But he was, in the wrong place at the wrong time, and oh, my poor boy.
I didn't believe they would actually do it; I thought people would come, I thought the guys after him would beat him and rough him up, but I didn't think they'd go and kill him. And oh, Malcolm. And Adam, telling him to smile. I completely believe that Adam would smile and make nice with Fiona's killers if he thought it would get him closer so he could destroy them. Adam scares the shit out of me, which is why I love him so much, because he honestly isn't telling Malcolm to be cruel. He's just a ruthless pragmatist.
And just... oh my god. The body count and the pain and the tension and DID I MENTION THE PAIN?!?!
Just... Gah. I was so afraid for Adam and Harry at the end of S4, that I was just relieved when they both made it out alive. I like the four months have passed since Angela (though honestly, she really doesn't have much to do with the main plot of these eps, does she?), and hey, everyone's sporting new hair! I particularly like Jo's.
Part of me thought that the whole breaking down of the security systems and the attacks and explosions were total overkill, at least when Adam was watching on TV. But then they got into the special measures and the media and the feeling of your government spiralling out of control, doing things that you think are morally reprehensible, and that pushes so many of my buttons. And the writers just kept ratcheting it up, notch by notch, and now I can't sleep because there is way too much adrenaline coursing through my system.
There is so much incoherent love for these episodes, despite some qualms about the largeness of the plot. This show usually stays small and contained, but when they decide to go big, they really don't hold back. And they do it so freaking well.
I cheered for Jo in the episode; when she faked the sleepy voice and then kneed the attackers and knocked them out, I yelled "Good girl!" at the screen (it's so good I live alone, I yell way too much at the TV nowadays). I love her being competent and having good reaction times now and how she puts her own motivations for staying with her job into her talks with Rowan. By the way, I was very proud of him too for what he said on TV.
And Zaf! Usually I'm not that emotional about the villains of this show, but by the time it got to the end, I cheered when Zaf took a baseball bat to that bastard who killed Colin and punched the civil liberties woman in the face and pulled the race card on Zaf. Only I wanted Zaf to hit him a whole lot more. Ditto with Adam and Collingworth.
I was completely incoherent in my head when Collingworth started throwing gasoline on everything; the show had me so on the edge that I honestly can't even remember calculating probabilities of Harry dying or being maimed or injured as well.
And just because it's my LJ and I can, I yell at the guys in their stupid cabal and Jensen: YOU FUCKING BASTARDS! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU SO MUCH!
I also yelled at the show when there were the snippets of all the bloggers protesting; why all the white men? Where were the women and the people of color? I mean, they did get two clips in of women, but none of minorities, until civil liberties woman showed up on screen. Also, I totally cheered when the bloggers came out to protest because why yes, I overidentify and see some disturbing parallels.
Speaking of disturbing parallels, I really doubt that the writers/directors meant to do this, but the long shot of the London skyline with the two huge towers of smoke rising up? Yikes.
Actually, maybe it wasn't that unintentional, given the plot with the airplanes.
I think I didn't like Ros that much, largely because she was in the credits and I figured this was their way of getting her in. So there wasn't much tension in her scenes.
Also, on a more petty note, I don't want the show to throw anything romantic at Adam because a) I am personally biased because I liked Fiona a lot and b) judging from the character details they're putting in, it feels completely out of character for Adam. I really don't think they will, given the small but constant mentions of Fiona (Adam looking at her picture on his desk killed me).
And dude! Ruth and Harry! Ruth completely freaking out in her quiet, Ruth-like way over Harry's disappearance! Juliet actually commenting on it! No pain for Ruth, please? I don't think I could bear it right now. And man, it hurt to see the team so understaffed near the end, with Harry out and Fiona gone and Colin (sob) gone and Jo out in the field.
And oh, how could I forget Juliet? I really like her, and seeing the car door crashing into her hurt so much. I love how she can sit there in her hospital bed, paralyzed, and talk to Harry about what should happen to each of the men planning the coup, and how she wouldn't let Meyers get away.
Gah. Just... *flails wildly*
I am SO GLAD I didn't have to wait a whole year between S4 and this. Because wow!
Every single time I think they can't get to me emotionally anymore because they've played all their cards, they do it again, bigger and better and even more heartbreaking and nervewracking than before. I was so scared for the major players, the field agents, that I forgot about Malcolm and Colin and the smaller side roles who have nevertheless won me over, and that just broke my heart.
Oh, Colin. Of course it was Hitchhiker's Guide. It hurts just to think of him and Malcolm in the S4 finale, digging a hole through the wall and trying to think of an explanation for it.
Sorry people reading this who are totally boggled by how this show can take over my mind (this is, btw, why I usually just watch an episode a month but then there are these finales and these season openers and OMG I cannot watch another episode for another month because MY HEART CANNOT TAKE IT!).
All caps overtake my LJ!
Watch this show!
I must write up a no-spoilers pimping post sometime.
GAH.
If you haven't figured it out already, the following writeup is going to be completely incoherent and poorly punctuated and probably gratuitously misuse caps lock and exclamation points.
Oh oh oh oh they killed Colin, how could they? I cried. It didn't have me gaping at the screen like Danny or Fiona, but that was because they got to pick like
vonnie_k says in her write-up and they hurt so much because they were brave and went down fighting with everything they could.I mean, Colin did too. But he didn't have the equipment to fight back, he had nothing but his dignity and broken glasses and an incomplete crossword puzzle, and he was never supposed to be out in the field in the first place. But he was, in the wrong place at the wrong time, and oh, my poor boy.
I didn't believe they would actually do it; I thought people would come, I thought the guys after him would beat him and rough him up, but I didn't think they'd go and kill him. And oh, Malcolm. And Adam, telling him to smile. I completely believe that Adam would smile and make nice with Fiona's killers if he thought it would get him closer so he could destroy them. Adam scares the shit out of me, which is why I love him so much, because he honestly isn't telling Malcolm to be cruel. He's just a ruthless pragmatist.
And just... oh my god. The body count and the pain and the tension and DID I MENTION THE PAIN?!?!
Just... Gah. I was so afraid for Adam and Harry at the end of S4, that I was just relieved when they both made it out alive. I like the four months have passed since Angela (though honestly, she really doesn't have much to do with the main plot of these eps, does she?), and hey, everyone's sporting new hair! I particularly like Jo's.
Part of me thought that the whole breaking down of the security systems and the attacks and explosions were total overkill, at least when Adam was watching on TV. But then they got into the special measures and the media and the feeling of your government spiralling out of control, doing things that you think are morally reprehensible, and that pushes so many of my buttons. And the writers just kept ratcheting it up, notch by notch, and now I can't sleep because there is way too much adrenaline coursing through my system.
There is so much incoherent love for these episodes, despite some qualms about the largeness of the plot. This show usually stays small and contained, but when they decide to go big, they really don't hold back. And they do it so freaking well.
I cheered for Jo in the episode; when she faked the sleepy voice and then kneed the attackers and knocked them out, I yelled "Good girl!" at the screen (it's so good I live alone, I yell way too much at the TV nowadays). I love her being competent and having good reaction times now and how she puts her own motivations for staying with her job into her talks with Rowan. By the way, I was very proud of him too for what he said on TV.
And Zaf! Usually I'm not that emotional about the villains of this show, but by the time it got to the end, I cheered when Zaf took a baseball bat to that bastard who killed Colin and punched the civil liberties woman in the face and pulled the race card on Zaf. Only I wanted Zaf to hit him a whole lot more. Ditto with Adam and Collingworth.
I was completely incoherent in my head when Collingworth started throwing gasoline on everything; the show had me so on the edge that I honestly can't even remember calculating probabilities of Harry dying or being maimed or injured as well.
And just because it's my LJ and I can, I yell at the guys in their stupid cabal and Jensen: YOU FUCKING BASTARDS! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU SO MUCH!
I also yelled at the show when there were the snippets of all the bloggers protesting; why all the white men? Where were the women and the people of color? I mean, they did get two clips in of women, but none of minorities, until civil liberties woman showed up on screen. Also, I totally cheered when the bloggers came out to protest because why yes, I overidentify and see some disturbing parallels.
Speaking of disturbing parallels, I really doubt that the writers/directors meant to do this, but the long shot of the London skyline with the two huge towers of smoke rising up? Yikes.
Actually, maybe it wasn't that unintentional, given the plot with the airplanes.
I think I didn't like Ros that much, largely because she was in the credits and I figured this was their way of getting her in. So there wasn't much tension in her scenes.
Also, on a more petty note, I don't want the show to throw anything romantic at Adam because a) I am personally biased because I liked Fiona a lot and b) judging from the character details they're putting in, it feels completely out of character for Adam. I really don't think they will, given the small but constant mentions of Fiona (Adam looking at her picture on his desk killed me).
And dude! Ruth and Harry! Ruth completely freaking out in her quiet, Ruth-like way over Harry's disappearance! Juliet actually commenting on it! No pain for Ruth, please? I don't think I could bear it right now. And man, it hurt to see the team so understaffed near the end, with Harry out and Fiona gone and Colin (sob) gone and Jo out in the field.
And oh, how could I forget Juliet? I really like her, and seeing the car door crashing into her hurt so much. I love how she can sit there in her hospital bed, paralyzed, and talk to Harry about what should happen to each of the men planning the coup, and how she wouldn't let Meyers get away.
Gah. Just... *flails wildly*
I am SO GLAD I didn't have to wait a whole year between S4 and this. Because wow!
Every single time I think they can't get to me emotionally anymore because they've played all their cards, they do it again, bigger and better and even more heartbreaking and nervewracking than before. I was so scared for the major players, the field agents, that I forgot about Malcolm and Colin and the smaller side roles who have nevertheless won me over, and that just broke my heart.
Oh, Colin. Of course it was Hitchhiker's Guide. It hurts just to think of him and Malcolm in the S4 finale, digging a hole through the wall and trying to think of an explanation for it.
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Wed, Dec. 6th, 2006 03:31 pm (UTC)I was outraged, I tell you.
Roz has grown on me: despite the way they introduced her, she's fully as cold-hearted and pragmatic as Adam, and I expect that's why they don't get along that well.
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Wed, Dec. 6th, 2006 10:22 pm (UTC)I nearly cried again this morning, thinking of how scared he was.
despite the way they introduced her, she's fully as cold-hearted and pragmatic as Adam, and I expect that's why they don't get along that well.
Oh good. Given that that pushes all of my buttons and that it doesn't sound like the show is doing anything stupid relationship-wise, I will probably end up loving her.
Then again, I've ended up loving pretty much everyone on this show.
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Wed, Dec. 6th, 2006 05:01 pm (UTC)Colin's death was really hard. But at the same time so real.
Ros kind of grows on me through S5, but I still don't like her.
S5 proves to be just as good as any of the others, especially with each individual episode, and they even have a two-parter in there with a great finale as always.
I only wish they had longer seasons. Though the stress of each episode might kill me!
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Wed, Dec. 6th, 2006 10:23 pm (UTC)I don't think I could take 22 hours of Spooks in a season! They'd kill me! I mean, it would be good, but still.
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Wed, Dec. 6th, 2006 05:21 pm (UTC)I am up to (halfway through) 5x08! But I may never, ever catch up with my blogging!
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Wed, Dec. 6th, 2006 10:24 pm (UTC)Well, that and the immediate need to flail and fall over and talk in excessive capital letters after the cliffhangers and emotional roller coasters.
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Wed, Dec. 6th, 2006 05:30 pm (UTC)Colin's death was so brutal, I felt like someone punched me in the stomach. The worst thing is, I wasn't expecting it. I mean, I expect this show to ruthlessly kill of field agents, but Colin wasn't trained for this, and he was just a scared geek like the rest of of us, and when he ran, he ran spaz-tastically, all gangly limbs and panicked breaths, and he dropped his glasses and he tried to be so brave at the end, and those fucking BASTARDS hanged him like he was nothing.
*big breath*
Then the tension kept amping up and up and I was petrified that more people would die and oh, Juliet. And poor, poor Malcolm, grief-stricken and lashing out at Adam. Oh, my heart.
Roz improves as you watch on. I rather like the actress for her steeliness.
I've watched up to 5x05. I better catch up; no doubt they pulled off yet another doozy of a finale.
WORD on how this show can take you over, despite the long, long breaks between seasons. I'm continuously mystified as to why it doesn't have a bigger fandom, when substandard British import like Torchwood already has a big following.
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Wed, Dec. 6th, 2006 10:26 pm (UTC)I know, he was so geeky and was doing crosswords and he wasn't even supposed to be there. I hate those two men so much, and I don't usually hate the villains on this show.
*cries more*
I am a bit scared to catch up on S5, largely because if I don't have the opening of S6 after the inevitable cliff-hanger of a finale, I may just keel over and die of stress!
I'm now trying to pimp this to Yoon and Rachel, muhahaha.
I LOVE this show
Tue, Dec. 19th, 2006 01:35 am (UTC)oh my fucking god why aren't there more people watching this show?
==> Tell me about it!
I'm living in London, so luckily, I could have been watching recent seasons without delaying. But people outside this island don't know about this brilliant show very much. (You might guess I'm not Briton
or any other English as first language person from my English)
Almost no one knows this show, and dashing Adam-in-pinstripe-suit!
I mean, bloody hell, people! This show is soooooo good! Watch it!
I'm glad to find your blog....
Re: I LOVE this show
Tue, Dec. 19th, 2006 04:34 am (UTC)