Series 9 Episode 8 discussion

[femaleBertieWooster]

(09-11-2010 09:24 AM)fusey007 Wrote:  So here is my first post on the forums...

On first appearance I was extremely let down by the finale, especially with there being no trademark Spooks twist at the end. But then maybe the 'twist' is that there is no twist? certainly a diffent route to previous season finales.
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For all the speculation of Maya having greater involvement she turned out to be a bit of a nothing character, but honourable in her actions of luring John-Lucas into the trap.
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Alec should be really be in a position to take over as section chief, despite his acomplished record of spotting 'liars'. surely a role in internal afairs is vastly different to that of a field agent?

They should have saved the big twist, Vaughn's "dreamed you were a hero and woke up a killer," for the last episode. They would still have to massage some other ideas to make it work for the character of Lucas/John.

It was a very good explanation that he was not really that in love with Maya, just wanted to turn back time, mentioned by someone in the early pages of this thread. That needed to be more front and center for my money.

Re Alec: Very appealing character, the name bringing up memories of Alec Leamus from The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Alec Guinness as Smiley. I instantly thought the new Harry as did a few others here.