Final Spooks 10

Bit old hat now... but final Spooks series starts on Sunday, and its a rather poor 6 episodes long. Which, either means the BBC can't be arsed anymore, or that they've blown the budget on some awesome Al Qaeda Olympic dirty bomb thingy. Whatever happens, Harry's going to get it.

Buggered if i can remember much about series 9. Wasn't it all about Lucas trying to clear his arse?Is Lucas dead Is that bird with the massive big eyes still in it/alive? What about Hemione Norris

I think i actually started to fancy Ruth a bit by the end, god forbid

El Jarvo wrote:

mahusive eyes

El Jarvo wrote:

The main lead in the new series is some bird from True Blood, but I'll be buggered if I can remember her from said show.

A quick google reveals it's this chick

"Sexy True Blood star Lara Pulver is to get her teeth into Spooks.

Lara, who plays Sookie Stackhouse's fairy godmother Claudine Crane in the bayou vampire series, will take over as the new head of the covert spy team.

She'll be replacing Sophia Myles, who played Beth Bailey, when the tenth run of the MI5 thriller from the Beeb hits screens in the Autumn.

Lara's character, we're told, will be "ambitious, hungry and determined to make her mark" - something she perfected as the treacherous Isabella in BBC1's Robin Hood."

Um, vaguely recall her in True Blood "Sookie's Fairy godmother" ?

Ermmm.. she didnt get killed i dont think. Whole series was poor except for the last one, in which Lucas jumped off a building.

Sophia Myles used to be a good actress, dunno what went wrong there; presumably she'll be bumped off in between series or in the first episode.

There was a rough alky bloke introduced in last one of series 9, who looked like he could be an interesting character; not sure if he's a runner of not.

Hermione Norris i think copped it in a bomb in the series before. Perhaps they'll bring Tom back in or summat. Or Keeley Hawes.

The finale with Harry and Lucas on the roof, as you say the implication was that Lucas jumped but I can't remember if we saw his body or not.

As much as I'd like to see Harry and Ruth walk hand in hand into the sunset at the end, I expect they'll just get blown to smithereens...

Beth always seemed a bit...hmm... lower league. nPower League One. Or Blue Square Premier

I liked Spooks but just reading this thread.i realised how much ive lost the plot with it,anyway,im more of an NCIS man these days

Shug wrote: Rumour is that the penultimate scene is Adam in the shower and Zoe is in bed and wakes up saying it was just a dream. The last scene involves Ruth sucking off Harry whilst terrorists let off a dirty bomb.

From the Guardian guide last weekend

" **As we get ready for the final series, here are some of the hard-won lessons that a decade of Spooks has taught us."Harry will never dieThere is one major perk of being an MI5 section boss: the complete absence of death in your job description. Harry seems cursed to gaze mournfully at Ruth across the grid forever, or until she is blown up by baddies at any rate.All other members of section D will die …Harry's staff are not so fortunate, disposed of in ratings-winning fashion by deep fat fryers, explosions, hanging, gunshots gone awry, gunshots on target and bra-underwires. Of the original Section D recruits, only Malcolm is neither dead, nor in hiding, nor bonkers. But some might come back to lifeHello Ros! Ruth! Tom! Lucas North (in an extremely complicated way)! You look so well for someone who's meant to have spent so long underground. Literally underground.Politicians are almost always stupid/corrupt/in need of a firm handFew of them are up to much good. Some of them need a special medicated whisky. All of them must be patronised furiously by Harry in an oak-panelled room. If he keeps his gloves on, it's going to be worse than usual.Big glass offices with brilliant views of London are available almost exclusively for rent by evil organisationsSee also: subterranean lairs.Cometh the hour, cometh the geekEven the most secure system can be cracked by a Spook with an iPhone and some eye-popping dialogue consisting of mainly made-up jargon. Oddly they can't seem to prevent MI5's mainframe being compromised every few weeks by terrorists/teenagers/some people who went on the internet once.Spooks vetting systems may need an overhaulIt's easy to see how FSB-mole Connie slipped through the net: she dazzled all with her dry brilliance. But Lucas actually just pretended to be a dead person for 15 years. And nobody in the security services noticed.If you're not having a breakdown, you're not doing your job properlyThe more torturous the better. Tends to work best if it renders you unable to make a decision at the precise moment the entire nation is depending on you.Pained expression for entire series mandatory. Ditto bad camera FX.Home is always an unaffordable swankpadDanny and Zoe's surprisingly cool apartment, Ros's super-tasteful flat, Lucas's lovely kitchen and Ruth's period property. Spooks always live in houses entirely beyond their financial reach, but that raise no eyebrows. Save those of the viewers, obviously.There is no such thing as a plot twist too manyIf you get to the end of an episode and there isn't a large section that makes no sense whatsoever, quickly chuck in a double-bluff, mysterious phonecall and entirely nonsensical cliffhanger. Or blow everyone up. Apart from Harry."

johnny wrote: A quick google reveals it's this chick

5'4"

El Jarvo wrote:

I'd tried really hard to forget the deep-fat-fryer. Proper nasty. :(

I watched that again recently... Lisa Faulkner wasnt it? Still happens totally out of the blue.