Series 9 Episode 3 discussion

[vmydogwillow]

This season is so much better than last season. Lots of action and there is never any fear of showing a little violence. The SC story line was horrible and destructive. Also, it cannot be said enough times how horrible her accents were. Kevin Costner's "British" accent in Robin Hood was better than SC's accents. I’d like to thank the writers for making the Russians the bad guys this season. The CIA really took a hit last season.

Someone pointed out, and I think it is true, that Beth is a great replacement for Jo. If you expect her to be Ros, you will be disappointed. Lucas is more like Ros. His voice is so low and gravely--he's using his Guy voice. Beth is growing on me week to week and she is a good partner for Lucas for work purposes only. Loved the scene where she shot Viktor. I am glad that this show does not feel the need to have models as the spies. However, I think both Beth and Ruth deserve makeovers in the clothes department. It looks like Ruth might wear a lighter color in episode 4 and Beth's blue sweater was almost electric compared to the rest of her clothing.

I hope we get to see more of Dmitri and Tariq. Tariq needs to get out of the office once in a while.

Seems like there was some movement in the H/R saga. It must be difficult for Ruth to get past all the things that have happened in the past with Harry. Clearly, she has strong feelings for him, but he allowed the death of her partner and would have allowed the death of his son (except for Malcolm). I hope they work things out.

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I thought that somewhere on this board someone thought Malcolm was coming back for an episode.

That would be nice.

There are some really clever and well thought out ideas about Lucas/Maya/Vaughan in these discussions. Love his house with the yard and pond. What happened to the first place he had in series 7 with the older woman giving him treats and spying on him? And that place in series 8 was just horrible.

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In the Digital Spy article, RA said that Maya is the love of Lucas' live and "they do rekindle something and it starts to burn but before it gets a chance to really ignite, there's another character who throws water over it." In that article, they also say that Vaughan has a hook in Lucas controlling him and using Maya as a means of control. He's already lied to her again and she's going to find out. Noticed on http://www.imdb.com that Laila is only in 6 episodes, 2-7. Everyone else is listed for all 8 episodes.