Series 9 Episode 2 discussion

[RedShoesGirl]

there were some fundamental flaws with episode 2 that made no sense. first we see MI5 agents in the hotel, talking on phones or earpieces about the basic operation. all of those details would have been gone over in a pre-op briefing. niggly little thing but that bothered me.

i am not fond of the beth character. but then i didn't like ros either. when harry told lucas he had trusted ros implicitly, he seems to have forgotten she betrayed MI-5 with yalta. plus when we first saw her, she was involved in some national coup! i never figured out why she was allowed on board and given access to so many secrets. so it seemed weird they wouldn't trust beth after one mistake. well, i wouldn't have trusted her either, but then i would have never trusted ros!

the whole maya thing, as i said before, just came out of nowhere. this great love, but we never heard of her? so that aspect of episode 2 was flawed. there were also moments of dialogue that were just plain bad writing. i noticed it this evening when i was rewatching the episode but forgot to write a note to myself.

in the mansion, lucas pulls a sim card from a cell phone and replaces it with another. didn't anyone think that maybe the wife would notice the photos were all gone?

in the hotel at the beginning, a guard is scanning beth for electronic devices. but beth gives him a very sensual look. i just thought "what???." i noticed that the first time i watched the episode.

so these are all little things, but they add up.

i watched all the episodes of spooks in a fairly short span of time and many of them after the death of adam carter — a real hero — just all run together.

i do like the continuing pathos of harry and ruth even in such brief moments like on the phone at night.

series 9 didn't seem very well coordinated and this episode was part of the problem.