Plot-holes

[A Cousin]

(14-04-2011 12:43 PM)BravoNine Wrote:  When your whole central storyline is hinged on a plausible character change this dramatic, you have to explain more clearly than simple few quick gloss-overs. Oh yes they touched on his reasons briefly, but the story was more about "what" he did than "why" or "how" he was doing it, which is just as important as the "what", and maybe if the show was a soap opera, it would be okay, but for a drama that boasts its ability to be realistic, it failed at doing its job.

Ya know, I don't agree with that last statement. Spooks has done nothing but market itself as, and I quote, "high octane hokum." It hasn't been even marginally "realistic" since S2 when they lost their ex-MI5 consultant. Sure, every now and again they hit kinda close to the mark politically or they sort of surprise even themselves by projecting a specific event and golly-gee, it happens! In the end. Theater is about ordinary people put in extraordinary circumstances. The circumstances of MI5 have always been extraordinary!

As for the MI5 vetting process presented in S9, does it make sense in the real world? I hope not! Is Spooks the real world? I hope not! I allow it because I accept that an extraordinary character like Lucas found a way to wiggle through the cracks. I've seen it happen in my life although on a much much much smaller scale. Its an option. A highly improbable, but possible, option. So I jumped the hole.

Thinking about the Harry/Ruth proposal, I like think of that more as plot-chasm than a plot-hole. It's bridgeable because we already had a lot of back story for both characters. And while it may have been an eentsy-teensy bit of a pander to the fans (IMO, of course) it wasn't out of the realm of possibility. As others have said, it drew a line under their history and said, OK, we start from here.

All three of the focus characters in S9 - Harry, Ruth and Lucas - had a bit of a reset in S9.

(14-04-2011 12:43 PM)BravoNine Wrote:  Needless to say, the Spooks writers this series failed.

Hahaha, as my 10 year old would say, "Epic fail!" Although I don't agree categorically. Most of S9 was very successful for me. Unfortunately the one part that did not work for me morphed into the main plot line. When Lucas became the threat of the week, it lost me.