Anna

[A Cousin]

(28-06-2010 03:23 AM)JHyde Wrote:  I think Anna was more used as a plot device, less of someone we were supposed to care about. I think they made her attached to Adam because it was a good way of showing how a spook uses people and their feelings to achieve their means. Except, of course, Adam ended up liking her too. Or at least felt attached, in an almost obsessive, self destructive way.

Agreed. I think that by that point Adam's already tenuous ability to connect with human beings on an individual basis was nil. The Anna character is a different spin on the Everyman character device Spooks tends to do so well, but this one was not an unknowing participant. Anna brought it all on herself. She did what she did for the excitement and no other reason. Adam knew that too. I found her annoying like I find Flaubert's Emma Bovary annoying: its not the artistry that annoys me, I thought she was well acted, its the character and the choices they make that I don't like!