Series 9 Rumours & Speculation

[BravoNine]

(16-07-2010 05:11 PM)A Cousin Wrote:  

(16-07-2010 02:29 PM)BravoNine Wrote:  What are they trying to do, clean the Grid again of old timers and fill it with newbies?

Sure. Why not? Its happened before.

Series 3 Spoiler: show

S3: Out - Tom, Zoe, Danny, Sam; In - Adam, Zaf, Fiona.

And it worked out just fine! I have always been able to learn to love again. That is part of what keeps the show fresh. I only wish that they had spent some time in S8 to introduce a new character rather than a general influx in S9. Hopefully, they will draw it out over the full series and not introduce all of them in the first ep.

However, as much as I "appreciate" RA's "talents" and would like to see that character develop much further, I am not sure I would feel the same if Harry were the one on the line though, but PF has made it pretty clear that he is in until its dying breath - no pun intended. (OK, maybe just a little. )

I don't mind them bringing in new fresh blood, actually I would welcome that. But there is transition, and then there is an exodus. There is balance, then there is let's kill the old and bring in the new.

I just don't want it to be a mass flood of newbies coming in and the established cast being thrown aside. The way Spooks has brought in newbies has been very well done and the transition as worked well, they were able to kind of draw it out and give sometime for the newbies to develope before old ones go, the one I remember was a nice transition with Adam to Lucas. And at least there was still some old timers around to kinda direct the transition, it's not just all newbies in one episode and old ones gone in a blink.

Although I do feel the need to mention that before, those character transitions are kind of nice and spread out throughout the whole season, normally one or two characters killed, a few new ones brought in. This time worries me because apparently 5 new cast members are joining, that's more newbies brought in than I have seen before. But also I guess maybe not all 5 of them will be operatives, we know Max Brown and Sophia Myles are definite ones, as for the other 3 are still kinda unknown, so maybe they are techie people or government people.

I don't mind them bringing in the new characters at all, I just hope they will write them in as well as they had written in the new characters before in the past. New blood certainly keeps a show like Spooks fresh, and I love that about the show, I want them to write it good.

And as for the whole Lucas situation, again, I don't want it to be a whole "we got newbies, let's make Lucas the bad guy", that would certainly not endear me to the new characters. I mean, I know Harry, Ruth, and Tariq are still around, but those characters don't really change as much like the field operatives like Ros and Lucas do, and with good reasons, but bringing in new field agents, I do want to see some good character development, not just some crazy action hero.

And to be honest, I don't even mind a whole Lucas Is A Traitor storyline as long as they write it well, as long as they give a good and plausible reason for his betrayal.

So really, in the end, the situation with the new cast and the Lucas storylines is all down to the writing. If the writing is good, then I would have no problem with the changes. But the worse that could happen is if the writers don't write the transitions well.

So basically, it's all up to the writers.