dear 2016, you are teetering on 'officially fired'

[lyssie]

1. Really. Bowie and Rickman in one week? Was it too much to ask not to spread them out a bit?

2. I am officially caught up on Doctor Who. Points to me for not stopping until I'd made it all the way through. No points to me for taking so bloody long.

3. I have also, disturbingly, caught up entirely on Sherlock. I blame the bushy-haired tall

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[lost_spook]

I realized that Tom Quinn is still the Angstiest Spy Ever, but Adam definitely gives him a run for his title. And as a whole,

Adam's Angst never ends; it's terrible. At least Tom's is a story/character arc of beautiful destruction. Also, Lucas must surely be in the running too? (I mean, years of tortue! betrayal! whoops, what was 9.08, help?) Spooks men = so angsty. Except Harry. He tries, but always lapses into sarcasm.

I dunno, Ros and Ruth are the best, and Jo is pretty great but so are Zaf and Connie and Malcolm and Juliet and Tessa and Danny and Tom and Jools even Sam and probably people I have forgotten. Beth! I like Beth. She should have stayed. <3

(I'm rewatching S4 too. My rewatch has reached there and was going swimmingly until I hit some angst and slowed down. This rewatch could take some time if I procrastinate every time I reach an angsty episode, I fear...)

And as a whole, Harry's team really are the Worst, Most Obvious Spies.But we wouldn't have them any other way. Go, incompetent spies! (You will be

[lyssie]

1. First off, I caught your ETA at work the other day, and laughed like a hyena. I'm so glad to know that (and now I really really have to get the movie, since it's never been released over here). So thank you =D

[lyssie]

4. Back to not-ranting: one of the things I really do love (and continue to adore) about Spooks is the sheer variety of the women who are in it. Zoe, Juliet, Fiona, Jo, Ros, Connie, Ruth, Sam, Beth, Erin, Caulfield, Christine Dale... I know I'm missing some, but all of these women are so amazing (and so fallible, too) in their own ways and yet very different in others. And I do love them all, even if Connie broke my soul (OMG, the last run of episodes of season seven always has me in TEARS, because Ben. And Connie. And they are so so broken and ugh, I don't have the words

[lost_spook]

First off, I caught your ETA at work the other day, and laughed like a hyena. I'm so glad to know that (and now I really really have to get the movie, since it's never been released over here). So thank you =D

:-D If you think Section D have been incompetent in the series, the film takes it to a whole new level of what was anyone thinking??? But it does have Jennifer Ehle, which was nice. And Mace, actually, being surprisingly great, even though I don't know how he got out of disgrace to be there.

(Jools = snarky Hugh Laurie = awesome. Mace = Tim Mcinerny = pretty good, but yeah, slimy, character to hate. Blackadder confusion is understandable! You should clearly rewatch S1, because also Tessa is great in her special evil way. Jenny Agutter!)

Zoe, Juliet, Fiona, Jo, Ros, Connie, Ruth, Sam, Beth, Erin, Caulfield, Christine Dale... I know I'm missing some, but all of these women are so amazing*nods a lot

[lyssie]

I was very startled at Mace being quite good, myself (because it's Mace). otoh, he was still a slap-happy bastard, so it balanced out. (I also don't remember where he ended up, but he did start in '6, once upon a time, or so someone says at some point in an episode I was listening to).

I think I might actually need to do a proper re-watch rather than just my "MY FEELS" re-watch stuff where I gaze adoringly at Ros/Jo/Zoe/etc. (or not gaze, but listen, and especially Caulfield, because she is disturbingly awful and amazing at once. Terribly embarrassing how much the villains grow on me these days)

And it's funny that I was saying Adam's angst didn't bother me, because I just hit 5.9, and I wanted to beat him senseless for his "don't tell Harry I broke down last time, ok" bullshit. (also, it is very disconcerting to jump from season 8 where Lucas met up with his old torturer that one time to the episode where Adam meets his.) ARGH

[lost_spook]

Terribly embarrassing how much the villains grow on me these days)

Well, in Spooks in particular, there are some great female villains & also there's this constant questioning of how far away they are from the 'heroes' anyway. Tessa & Connie in particular, I think. I haven't ever rewatched Sarah Caulfield. I would probably enjoy her more knowing she was evil from the start, whereas pre-evil-reveal she was just random and annoying.

(Also you need to do a rewatch, because S6 did not have Zaf! S6 lost him very quickly and never found him again and it was the most rubbish thing until 9.08, because if someone's missing on TV, you expect some sort of close out, not, o btw they're dead, sorry. Horribly horribly dead, sorry. /o\)

It's still very unfair - I always prefer a closed fandom and Spooks was so much more mainstream than nearly anything else I go for, but even when you poke the comm with a stick, nobody moves.

[lyssie]

I feel that I had things I was going to say, and now it's been five days and I don't remember them (oh well, I did blather on quite a bit previous)

However, the big thing I'm discovering is that I'm completely eating my words about angst in the Male Spook Lead. Because re-watching 1/2 has led to adoration of Tom (or not adoration, but not annoying as I was expecting) whilst the re-listens at work continue to make me want to slap the crap out of Adam for not dealing with his crap and letting it get in the way (I don't care how believable a deconstruction of near-death/ptsd/grief that was, it was annnoying

[lost_spook]

I think the thing with Tom was annoying the first time round; on rewatches how much of it is actual this planned arc of character destruction makes it different. I haven't yet rewatched S5 or 6 to tell with Adam, but I will soon!

Jo mourning Zaf is my headcanon, too. And I don't think it just headcanon. In S7, she keeps seeing Zaf around, doesn't she? (I'm sure it was actually S7 and not S6, but now I'm doubting myself.)

S2 has two really duff episodes and they both involve child geniuses, so I don't know why they felt that was so good they should do it twice in one series. And the second one has Harry taking secret documents home with him. /o\ (Not good.)

Yay, Tessa. :-) (She actually does come back in S2 - I think more than once even?)

There's fic on AO3, too, but at the moment it always seems to be Ruth/Harry fluff or Lucas fic. Maybe I've given up too soon, though, just because of the measly amount of Zaf/Jo in the world!