Plot-holes

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(24-01-2011 01:23 PM)HellsBells Wrote:  The fact Albany could never be real I think you perhaps have to allow, there have been a few 'big' scenarios in Spooks that would never work in the real world.

Ha ha ha! You are far too lenient and lovely

The Albany thing annoyed me because it is so obviously unworkable. The fact that we are asked to believe that the British government spent years researching and trialing the thing AND that the Chinese government committed so much money and manpower to its capture AND that Ruth reacted to news of its (alleged) properties in the way she did AND that Harry went so out of his way to secure it, when it could never work and would never have made it out of a laborartory discussion session, extend the prospect of too many suspensions of disbelief for me to be able to swallow this one. If the script wanted to hang the outcome of the Albany crisis on a question of jeopardy for humanity at large, why not work up an idea which represents actual jeopardy? It's not as if there are not enough real examples of human ingenuity taking this rather unfortunate turn.

Somewhat bizzarely, I will allow the cars and the medical equipment and the fantastic array of portable IT equipment on the basis that the Chinese secret service helped out there. But the too-obviously compromised premise of Albany is not getting past my radar!