Series 9 Episode 8 discussion

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(07-01-2011 03:04 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  If I'm honest though, that would have felt too familiar to me, in both an Adam and Ros kind of way. Execution: Helen, Danny and Colin. Shot: Jo and Fiona. Torture: Zaf. Decommissioned: Tom and Tessa. Gone underground: Ruth and Zoe. Retired: Malcolm. Transferred: Sam. What's left but suicide? I thought it interesting (up until the "Lucas. North. Is dead." line) that the singularly most heroic of them all was the one who wasn't in the end.

I kinda like the idea if they just put Lucas in the loony bin, maybe at least in that way it shows just how much of what he sacrificed and what he went through for his team and country in the end was destroying him from the inside. The psychological and emotional ramifications of everything he had suffered to cause him to go down this "un-heroic" path would have made a much more interesting story than someone who is just evil and pretended to be someone else.

The concept of the most heroic was the one who wasn't in the end is a great concept, but the writers did not execute it in a way that made a sensible storyline, at least not to me.

(07-01-2011 03:04 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  

(06-01-2011 09:47 PM)binkie Wrote:  This is one of those times I regret the fact that Spooks is in the wrong genre for the parallel universe or timeslip explanation / get-out clause!

But it would make for a completely fun and FUBAR Dr. Who crossover episode, don't you think? Maybe Matt Smith regenerates into Lucas North? But I digress....

Not a bad idea! I'm still waiting for that alien invasion for MI5 to deal with!

Maybe it wasn't Lucas who died, maybe he just ran off in his TARDIS!