It's true and it's kind of not cool. Seriously. How hard is it to write non white characters for a change?
Man I swear Hestia8 had the same fic idea! Like no joke!
Haha I would never ship Ruth/Towers but it could be fun ;)
Where was Dimitri's moment eh? Cleaning up bodies? MOAR DIMITRI I SAY. I liked Harry last week but this week he got nasty and I didn't like it. Someone over at Vicky Frost's blog wrote this in the comments and this sums up things well for me imo:
The bit I didn't like was the burning of the asset. Didn't like it morally and didn't like it in terms of character consistency.
Sometimes Harry is a beacon of integrity (facing down British coup attempts and dodgy apparatchiks) at others he is given the role of amoral spymaster and doing things like betraying assets in favour of shabby deals with the Russians.
My brother would agree and I think I do too. But see I think we can ask for quality. We might not get it, but that's no reason to stop expecting it. It's the BBC. They are funded by the British people and they therefore have every right to expect quality... and if they don't get it, axe the program and start a new one.
I think Spooks was good for s1-4 and 7 but everything else was either extremely silly, frustrating or poorly filmed/badly acted. Harsh but that's my opinion :P
And I complain. I always complain. I'm a vocal one. That's what history and politics does to you ;)
Dammit I'd typed a whole comment and LJ refused to post it! :/
Man I swear Hestia8 had the same fic idea! Like no joke! Really? How funny! Did she write it?
I'm too lazy to re-type it all, basically I was saying I understand you re asking for quality, but as I was watching 10.2 I was trying to imagine what I'd think if it was my first Spooks episode and I would probably have been thinking "That's great, I want to see every episode of this show". They'll never match the quality of series 7, but it's still good and better than most shows. The Spooks fandom is one of the most elitist and demanding fandoms I've been in. Not that I mind, I'm an elitist myself. Also, being French I probably tend to be less harsh than you are, because our shows are so bad that the worst episode of Spooks is TV!Haven in comparison. And bad acting? Apart from Sarah and Maya, the actors are all pretty good imo!
I don't think she ever did... I think she just talked about it :P
I agree re elite fandom lol! It's kinda interesting compared to say Doctor Who. My personal feeling on that is that this is because Spooks takes itself so seriously and has done from the beginning.
Man I swear Hestia8 had the same fic idea! Like no joke!
Haha I would never ship Ruth/Towers but it could be fun ;)
Where was Dimitri's moment eh? Cleaning up bodies? MOAR DIMITRI I SAY. I liked Harry last week but this week he got nasty and I didn't like it. Someone over at Vicky Frost's blog wrote this in the comments and this sums up things well for me imo:
The bit I didn't like was the burning of the asset. Didn't like it morally and didn't like it in terms of character consistency.
Sometimes Harry is a beacon of integrity (facing down British coup attempts and dodgy apparatchiks) at others he is given the role of amoral spymaster and doing things like betraying assets in favour of shabby deals with the Russians.
My brother would agree and I think I do too. But see I think we can ask for quality. We might not get it, but that's no reason to stop expecting it. It's the BBC. They are funded by the British people and they therefore have every right to expect quality... and if they don't get it, axe the program and start a new one.
I think Spooks was good for s1-4 and 7 but everything else was either extremely silly, frustrating or poorly filmed/badly acted. Harsh but that's my opinion :P
And I complain. I always complain. I'm a vocal one. That's what history and politics does to you ;)
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Man I swear Hestia8 had the same fic idea! Like no joke!
Really? How funny! Did she write it?
I'm too lazy to re-type it all, basically I was saying I understand you re asking for quality, but as I was watching 10.2 I was trying to imagine what I'd think if it was my first Spooks episode and I would probably have been thinking "That's great, I want to see every episode of this show". They'll never match the quality of series 7, but it's still good and better than most shows. The Spooks fandom is one of the most elitist and demanding fandoms I've been in. Not that I mind, I'm an elitist myself.
Also, being French I probably tend to be less harsh than you are, because our shows are so bad that the worst episode of Spooks is TV!Haven in comparison. And bad acting? Apart from Sarah and Maya, the actors are all pretty good imo!
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I don't think she ever did... I think she just talked about it :P
I agree re elite fandom lol! It's kinda interesting compared to say Doctor Who. My personal feeling on that is that this is because Spooks takes itself so seriously and has done from the beginning.
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