Spooks Series 4!
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Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Jack Bauer vs Adam & Co. That I would LOVE to see 
Sir Belchalot
arenicola marina
O.k. programme if you're feeling brainless, I'm sure MI5 are a lot nastier in real life. The thing I hate is the trailer slogan - MI5 not 9 to 5 - about time they thought up a new one.
Larry O'Hara
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Sir Belchalot said:
MI5 WILL KILL YOU LIVE?
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
They are being shown, first, on BBC3 on Thursdays, I believe. That way digital viewers can post spoliers all over the web.
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spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Aha! We were all wrong about the mole!
Grovelling apologies to the trailer editors - they fooled us!
Grovelling apologies to the trailer editors - they fooled us!
Larry O'Hara
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No Surprises...
So the renegade CIA spook was acting as an individual, not as part of an organised 'strategy of tension'. Typical Spooks cop-out.
And the AR activist Forster cared nothing about any cause, really, only planting bombs--what utter bollocks.
Next week promises more of the same--although of one thing we can be sure, what MI5 really gets up to inside the Far Right won't be divulged.
Pass the sick bag. None of this to deny Spooks is entertaining, hilarious even. But malign propaganda it is too.
So the renegade CIA spook was acting as an individual, not as part of an organised 'strategy of tension'. Typical Spooks cop-out.
And the AR activist Forster cared nothing about any cause, really, only planting bombs--what utter bollocks.
Next week promises more of the same--although of one thing we can be sure, what MI5 really gets up to inside the Far Right won't be divulged.
Pass the sick bag. None of this to deny Spooks is entertaining, hilarious even. But malign propaganda it is too.
Larry O'Hara
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CyberRose said:
Perhaps I should clarify--I didn't mean 'pro-government' (although the Home Secretary comes across as a decent sort--obv. not Blunkett as a model), but pro-spook as in favouring MI5 especially. Eliza Manningham-Buller thinks so too, and has referred to it in at least one speech.
IMO, the intelligence agencies are 'relatively autonomous' actors within the state, formally subordinate to government, but never totally so. While some elements within each service may be pro-govt (eg the Scarlett clique in MI6) this is never wholly so. Therefore, the story-lines & propaganda of Spooks (as with security 'stories' in the media generally) I view through that prism--of relative autonomy/intra-agency & inter-agency rivalry.
Larry O'Hara
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trashpony said:
No, I do think it is hilarious. But then, previous series have led to a massive rise in applications to join Mi5, so in that sense the series has 'serious' effects.
FridgeMagnet
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I can't take it seriously after the first episode that I saw when I got back from the states was about some utter nonsense concerning "cracking the code for the entire internet". I can only suspend my disbelief so far.
Bugs was more realistic. Hell, Scooby Doo was more realistic.
Bugs was more realistic. Hell, Scooby Doo was more realistic.
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
Adam ripping his top off, phwoah *faints* Gorgeous, posh voice and a willingness to throw people off of buildings.
He may well be challenging Dr Jesse from Diagnosis Murder for the much coveted title of NBN's favourite TV totty
He may well be challenging Dr Jesse from Diagnosis Murder for the much coveted title of NBN's favourite TV totty
Larry O'Hara
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starfish said:
see posts 45 & 44
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
FridgeMagnet said:
It was actually quite realistic(ish) - some bloke had figured out how to break encryption in a trivial amount of time (highly unlikely I know) and so could theoretically listen in or disrupt anyone's communications.
I don't take it seriously either anyway, but when the bomb's ticking and the good looking people are running around, I get all excited
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Are you actually reading Larry's posts? Because he's said quite clearly that he thinks it quite enjoyable. That in no way affects the fact that it presents the role of MI5 in a hugely benign light.starfish said:
And as for the first statement, why take Birth of a Nation seriously, why take the Black and White minstral show seriously, Nazi propaganda films etc.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
It wasn't realistic at all! The internet just doesn't work like that. It was like saying "all vehicles are actually powered by gerbils and the baddie terrorist is threatening to release a gerbil virus - nobody will be able to move about!". It's hard to concentrate on a program when you're snorting and muttering "bollocks" all the time.Crispy said:It was actually quite realistic(ish) - some bloke had figured out how to break encryption in a trivial amount of time (highly unlikely I know) and so could theoretically listen in or disrupt anyone's communications.
I don't take it seriously either anyway, but when the bomb's ticking and the good looking people are running around, I get all excited
AverageJoe
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You know how when Army people watch a war film and say 'that doesn't happen like that', or medical people watch medical programs and go 'ohh, they've got that wrong'?
Well, I watched Spooks with someone who did the same thing.
Where's my tin foil hat?
Well, I watched Spooks with someone who did the same thing.
Where's my tin foil hat?
Spooks went decidedly downhill in the second part.
The academic line with the professor was so cliched.
Treat it like Without A Trace, ER, 24...entertainment...no more
The academic line with the professor was so cliched.
Treat it like Without A Trace, ER, 24...entertainment...no more
Spymaster said:
If it was Die Hard, more than one bomb would have went off and the terrorists would have been German
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