Spooks

[mandragora]

Jesus fucking Christ.

Cutting for spoilers

Colin! Oh, Colin. I cried.

What's so scary is that it really doesn't require a huge leap of the imagination in the current climate to see this happening.

Am off to BBC3 to see part 2 in 25 minutes.

Comments

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

argh. what? what???

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

Sure you want to be spoiled?

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

Damn yes. It'll be ages before I can catch up with Spooks I still got to watch propelry the whole of last season.

*begs*

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

Okay, well the story is that there's a plot between MI6 and members of the Cabinet to destabilise the Government so that 'Those Who Know Best' can step in and take power in order to protect us Little People against all those terrible threats out there.

Colin finds something out that is part of the evil plot, and is intercepted by two members of MI6. Who take him away, supposedly for a 'chat' with their superior, but then they stop off in some woods and Colin Knows, so he makes a break for it, but he's a computer geek, not a field agent and the agents catch him, and he's all scratched and beaten-up from his flight and he's begging them not to hurt him, saying that he's weak and just a little person.

But the bastards hang him from a tree.

It was just awful to watch. Awful.

Then there was a very emotional scene after MI5 has found out that Colin has been murdered. Martin wants immediate vengeance because Colin was his best friend and he shouts at Harry. But Adam tells him that they can't react like MI6 want them to react and must pretend to smile. Martin asks whether Adam could have smiled at those who killed Fiona, and Adam says yes, but there are tears in both of their eyes. It was very well done.

[phantomas.livejournal.com]

...............omg!

*sniffs*
thank you.
They don't pull their punches, do they?
Wow.

[the4ts.livejournal.com]

I know! How could they hang him though? Surely a shot to the head would have been quicker and kinder? But hanging! I presume it wouldn't have been the carefully calculated hanging that should, theoretically, break your neck quickly. That's up there with being burnt alive as one of my all-time god-awful ways to die. It's going to play a prominent part in my dreams, I just know it...

It really hit and hurt me too :(

I do love Spooks, though! British TV at its best.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

They certainly didn't pull any punches in this episode.

Colin. Sniffle.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

No, that hanging looks as if Colin slowly strangled to death because the drop wasn't long enough to break his neck.

But yes, it was bloody good telly.

[cyberducks.livejournal.com]

I can't stand to watch that show - they have killed off too many characters I cared about...

[kaynyne.livejournal.com]

It was a horrible way for Colin to die. He obviously knew from the moment they picked him up that he was doomed, but why allow him to escape, then track him down like an animal before hanging him? Very cruel and cold. And I agree, nothing seemed that far fetched it couldn't happen these days.
They do love to kick you in the guts with this show, don't they?

[treehavn.livejournal.com]

I haven't watched Spooks in years, but I caught that ep last night and immediately decided I had to stay up and watch the next part (even though it was terribly late and I am too old). Blimey! As you said, not such a wild leap in terms of crafting a realistic plot, especially when lots of the crowd scenes in the second part were actually real life footage.

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I posted to spooky_doings, which as usual is buzzing with the new stuff. I'm devastated and it was creepy too. I wrote a fic for the Spooks request ficathon last year and it slashed Malcolm and Colin - I'm now going to have to do an update elegy or something ...Plus I was (along with others) shipping Ruth and Harry and now Juliet's in on the act. I reckon they've got a mole on LJ.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

Well, they didn't kill all of the regular characters...*g*

That's British telly for you. No one is safe.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

They certainly do, and they certainly succeeded with Colin. I think it was even worse than Danny, who at least knew the risks and was a field agent.

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

It was a very good episode, wasn't it? And the next one looks good, as well. Spooks has been a bit uneven at times, but the new series has started with a bang. Um, literally. *winces*

[mandragora1.livejournal.com]

*g* I somehow doubt that the Beeb checks out LJ.

It's canon that Malcolm and Colin are good friends, and of course that means they're going to end up being slashed... It's pretty much inevitable that someone somewhere is going to slash two good male friends, because it's fun.

And they've been setting up Ruth and Harry since the least series, so it's not exactly a surprise that things are moving forward on that front. I mean, they couldn't have Ruth pining away forever. Well, they could, but it being TV it's more dramatic having some romantic overtures.