Episode 8 Discussion

[boppers08]

Wow, wow, wow...this episode was so great!!! I am really hoping this is not the end for Ros because I just loved her character in series 7 and 8. Ugh, I feel so sad just thinking she and the HS may not have made it!

I loved the banter/friendship between Tariq and Ruth. I agree with what someone else said that when Ruth went with Tareq to look at the football scores, I thought Harry gave a bit of a curious/jealous glance at Ruth. There's nothing that adds more delicious tension to a budding romance than a little perceived competition (real or imagined). And when I say "competition," I mean that Harry would be jealous of Ruth's time with Tareq or the fact that she'd share something with Tareq and not with Harry, and I don't mean "competition" in the Ruth/Tareq-having-an-affair sense.

Lucas and Sarah...I never found their relationship believable. I kept watching this whole series for some evidence of their love for each other, and it just never came to be for me. Regardless, in this episode I could believe Sarah loved Lucas when she wouldn't kill him, and I think Lucas had equally strong feelings for her based on him not shooting her and also his reaction to her death. I like what someone else said about him hoping until the end to turn her even though he claimed to have been "disgusted" by her (or something to that effect).

And as much as Sarah irritated me throughout the whole series, I didn't find her accent as awful as previous episodes, and I'm an American. The Boston accent was still horrible, but when she wasn't trying to put the Beantown inflection in her words, she didn't sound too bad.

I was SO HAPPY to see Russell Price get his comeuppance. What a slimeball! I really believed Ros when she said she would let the both of them walk out if he gave her the room #, and I was glad to see that she had been lying!

So again back to Ros...please don't let this be the end of her! And I will keep checking back to see if BBC has released confirmation on Series 9. And even then...it's painful to think that we'll have to until next fall to watch it - ugh!!!

Sorry if I've rambled. I'm not as eloquent as other posters. I love reading what other people have to say more than expressing my opinion - ha