Spooks/MI-5 5x05-5x07
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*sobs*
Ruth!
*sobs more*
I am glad she is not dead. But... oh. Oh Ruth.
I should have known -- I should have known the writers weren't going to move on the Ruth/Harry relationship unless they were going to bring pain. And I have been fearing for Ruth and Harry for quite some time, so this wasn't a surprise. But I hadn't expected the development of the Ruth/Harry relationship to directly lead to something like this. Harry, unwilling to let Ruth go down, and Ruth, echoing her own words back in 5x03, not being able to stand Harry being undermined.
Just... oh, Ruth.
I'm fairly sure now that this is the ep. that made most people dislike Ros? I wanted to shake Ros, but I continue to enjoy her presence on the show and her steeliness and her unwillingness to apologize.
But Ruth. Oh man. I feel like the show just lost its heart. And Adam and Zaf finally letting her do it, helping her do it, and Harry, standing by, unable to anything once the cogs were set in motion. And I can't bear that her name will be that of a turncoat.
I wonder who the real turncoat is? It seems to easy to make it Ros, and I don't know if Zaf and Jo have been there long enough to. Please don't make it Malcolm! And I can't see it being Adam at all.
Wah!
5x06-5x07
Whoa. Huh. I had thought Sally was going to be the new Ruth, and I was liking her too. I miss Ruth still; I couldn't help but think that things would have gone differently if she had been there. She would have been suspicious, or talked to Harry, or something. Harry's memories of Ruth at her desk killed me.
I still want more of Zaf. I can't believe they haven't done anything with him in almost two years on the show.
I hate hate hate hate the Jenny arc. Argh! It hits on one of my annoyance buttons, which is spy/civilian relationships, which are nearly never done well. Particularly when the spy is a guy and the civilian is a girl. Usually, she sits at home, waits and looks anxious, and then nurtures him when he is hurt. It drives me crazy. I suspect I would like it better if it were a female spy; the Zoe/Will relationship didn't bug me nearly as much. It also feels sloppy of Adam, telling her about his job and about Fiona dying in his arms and sleeping with his employee (that last bit bugs me a lot as well). Also, I had an extreme girlcrush on Fiona (I am, however, very glad that the show is still showing the effects of her death nearly a season after). I don't know. It's the sloppiness that bothers me a lot, that, and the similarity to Tom's relationships as well. And it feels a little out of character for Adam, though I think it can be in character as well, given his nightmares and that she was basically threatening to take Wes away.
I guess I just expect Adam to be smoother than that, even though it's clear he is extremely fucked up in the head.
Continuing to love Ros on the show -- I loved her little exchanges with Malcolm, along with her smoothness even when under pressure, and I nearly laughed when she gave those men (and presumably Malcolm?) an eyeful.
And Juliet is back! Whoo! I missed her; I hadn't realized how much. I love her conversations with Harry, particularly now that there aren't any Ruth/Harry conversations any more (woe).
And oh, the end. The threat of blackmail, the shadiness, Juliet always walking that thin, thin line, and everyone at fault, as always.
*sobs*
Ruth!
*sobs more*
I am glad she is not dead. But... oh. Oh Ruth.
I should have known -- I should have known the writers weren't going to move on the Ruth/Harry relationship unless they were going to bring pain. And I have been fearing for Ruth and Harry for quite some time, so this wasn't a surprise. But I hadn't expected the development of the Ruth/Harry relationship to directly lead to something like this. Harry, unwilling to let Ruth go down, and Ruth, echoing her own words back in 5x03, not being able to stand Harry being undermined.
Just... oh, Ruth.
I'm fairly sure now that this is the ep. that made most people dislike Ros? I wanted to shake Ros, but I continue to enjoy her presence on the show and her steeliness and her unwillingness to apologize.
But Ruth. Oh man. I feel like the show just lost its heart. And Adam and Zaf finally letting her do it, helping her do it, and Harry, standing by, unable to anything once the cogs were set in motion. And I can't bear that her name will be that of a turncoat.
I wonder who the real turncoat is? It seems to easy to make it Ros, and I don't know if Zaf and Jo have been there long enough to. Please don't make it Malcolm! And I can't see it being Adam at all.
Wah!
5x06-5x07
Whoa. Huh. I had thought Sally was going to be the new Ruth, and I was liking her too. I miss Ruth still; I couldn't help but think that things would have gone differently if she had been there. She would have been suspicious, or talked to Harry, or something. Harry's memories of Ruth at her desk killed me.
I still want more of Zaf. I can't believe they haven't done anything with him in almost two years on the show.
I hate hate hate hate the Jenny arc. Argh! It hits on one of my annoyance buttons, which is spy/civilian relationships, which are nearly never done well. Particularly when the spy is a guy and the civilian is a girl. Usually, she sits at home, waits and looks anxious, and then nurtures him when he is hurt. It drives me crazy. I suspect I would like it better if it were a female spy; the Zoe/Will relationship didn't bug me nearly as much. It also feels sloppy of Adam, telling her about his job and about Fiona dying in his arms and sleeping with his employee (that last bit bugs me a lot as well). Also, I had an extreme girlcrush on Fiona (I am, however, very glad that the show is still showing the effects of her death nearly a season after). I don't know. It's the sloppiness that bothers me a lot, that, and the similarity to Tom's relationships as well. And it feels a little out of character for Adam, though I think it can be in character as well, given his nightmares and that she was basically threatening to take Wes away.
I guess I just expect Adam to be smoother than that, even though it's clear he is extremely fucked up in the head.
Continuing to love Ros on the show -- I loved her little exchanges with Malcolm, along with her smoothness even when under pressure, and I nearly laughed when she gave those men (and presumably Malcolm?) an eyeful.
And Juliet is back! Whoo! I missed her; I hadn't realized how much. I love her conversations with Harry, particularly now that there aren't any Ruth/Harry conversations any more (woe).
And oh, the end. The threat of blackmail, the shadiness, Juliet always walking that thin, thin line, and everyone at fault, as always.
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Sat, Jun. 23rd, 2007 07:38 pm (UTC)At least this way I can imagine that in some future date Harry will retire, track Ruth down, and they will live happily ever after in Paris.
I had big problems with the Jenny subplot too: in character at all only because Adam was completely out of his mind at the time, and also, annoying. Other than that, I like his breakdown arc, and that reverberations from Fiona's death and Adam getting shot in 4x10 continue to echo forward.
Ros is fabulous. I love watching her.
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Mon, Jun. 25th, 2007 04:55 pm (UTC)I couldn't follow much of the plot either, but I had just assumed that it was my general inability to follow complex plots. But I am pathetically grateful for Ruth not being dead. I think I would still be mourning if they had killed her off.
Now I want Harry/Ruth future-fic.
Looking forward to more Ros! Though not so much with the Jenny...