Becker, remember, has inherited the rubbish security from series 2 where they didn’t have many (any?) soldiers. So points for trying to improve it, I suppose (gosh, check me, not taking the opportunity to call him dumb as a box of rocks – oh, no, wait, there we go).
While I loved that Jenny did finally go ‘oh, fuck this noise, I’d like to make it into my thirties, thanks’ (because I’d been waiting for *someone* to), the fact that it was Jenny made me very sad.
The whole thing with St Pancras was bizarre, but there is this thing we tend to have on British tv where Government Organisation A (for argument’s sake, the ARC) never call in B (call it MI5 – Helen must count as a terrorist by now), C (the police – unless they’re there for comic relief or to be obstructive), or in this case, D (British Transport Police – the big London stations have their own police presence). And so you end up in this universe with a bizarrely low level of police officers etc.
However also take into account that since St Pancras was refurbished as it got the channel tunnel rail link, it now is all nice and shiny and has the longest champagne bar in Europe or something, and so TV people can’t keep away from it (there was an episode of the last series of Spooks that also featured much running around St Pancras, and the good guys only had about three people then as well…)
I wonder if ARC security is so bad because they just aren’t very good strategists – maybe Helen was such a big perceived threat (from alternate series 1) that they went all out to stop her but didn’t think of her using proxies? (or, sensible security = no episode).
Maybe the ARC is full? Although tbh who knows what’s going on in that building?
Danny’s Gary Stu tendencies are really, really annoying, and why they put him in charge, I don’t know. Why isn’t Abby in charge, ffs? (I would guess the answer is some variation on the nonsense that is ‘boys can’t identify with girl leads’)
When has any medical thing on this show ever made sense? Ever?
Like I said above, I’d been waiting for someone to think that actually, this was all very exciting but they’d rather not be in constant fear of getting eaten, so while I was sad to lose her, I’d rather she walked away than that she got killed.
Discussion:
1. Because doing anything sensible would involve introducing another character and they can’t be bothered. And also part of the mythology of the show – which they don’t do very well imo – is that their work rules their lives. Why he couldn’t live with someone else from the ARC, however, I don’t know (and it would have been easy to get humour from that!)
1a. For quite a lot of people in Greater London, ‘in town’ means ‘in Central London’ (I do this myself a lot – it’s odd, when you think about it). I think that the ARC is supposed to be somewhere in the Home Counties/greater London, so it would make sense for someone who went up to Central London to meet with ministers etc a lot to have a place (or if they were that rich, the rest of his family probably use it as well). And I would imagine his family home is somewhere else in Greater London/home counties. It’s plausible, although it does increase my estimation of Lester’s wealth somewhat (I always thought it was a shame they dropped the Sir after the first series – you can explain away a multitude of sins with aristocracy).
2. Who the hell knows? And the problem with applying BH’s explanation is – why would Abby care? And also, how does he not know when Abby and Connor have been living together for about two years? (unfortunately, my assumption is that this entire storyline is there ‘because it’s funny’, to which I would say: not that funny).
3. Helen will find something else to do, because she’s that good. (ha, got the explanation in there again! It’s totally all-purpose!)
4. Probably. The budget must be horrific even before the wages. Although, thinking about it, no, not when you look at where Abby and Connor live – trust me, that’s total TV accommodation because they couldn’t afford anything like that in real SE England.
5. I assumed they’d put it back somewhere in between episodes/seasons – shame there wasn’t a reference.
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Date: 2009-06-17 04:38 pm (UTC)While I loved that Jenny did finally go ‘oh, fuck this noise, I’d like to make it into my thirties, thanks’ (because I’d been waiting for *someone* to), the fact that it was Jenny made me very sad.
The whole thing with St Pancras was bizarre, but there is this thing we tend to have on British tv where Government Organisation A (for argument’s sake, the ARC) never call in B (call it MI5 – Helen must count as a terrorist by now), C (the police – unless they’re there for comic relief or to be obstructive), or in this case, D (British Transport Police – the big London stations have their own police presence). And so you end up in this universe with a bizarrely low level of police officers etc.
However also take into account that since St Pancras was refurbished as it got the channel tunnel rail link, it now is all nice and shiny and has the longest champagne bar in Europe or something, and so TV people can’t keep away from it (there was an episode of the last series of Spooks that also featured much running around St Pancras, and the good guys only had about three people then as well…)
I wonder if ARC security is so bad because they just aren’t very good strategists – maybe Helen was such a big perceived threat (from alternate series 1) that they went all out to stop her but didn’t think of her using proxies? (or, sensible security = no episode).
Maybe the ARC is full? Although tbh who knows what’s going on in that building?
Danny’s Gary Stu tendencies are really, really annoying, and why they put him in charge, I don’t know. Why isn’t Abby in charge, ffs? (I would guess the answer is some variation on the nonsense that is ‘boys can’t identify with girl leads’)
When has any medical thing on this show ever made sense? Ever?
Like I said above, I’d been waiting for someone to think that actually, this was all very exciting but they’d rather not be in constant fear of getting eaten, so while I was sad to lose her, I’d rather she walked away than that she got killed.
Discussion:
1. Because doing anything sensible would involve introducing another character and they can’t be bothered. And also part of the mythology of the show – which they don’t do very well imo – is that their work rules their lives. Why he couldn’t live with someone else from the ARC, however, I don’t know (and it would have been easy to get humour from that!)
1a. For quite a lot of people in Greater London, ‘in town’ means ‘in Central London’ (I do this myself a lot – it’s odd, when you think about it). I think that the ARC is supposed to be somewhere in the Home Counties/greater London, so it would make sense for someone who went up to Central London to meet with ministers etc a lot to have a place (or if they were that rich, the rest of his family probably use it as well). And I would imagine his family home is somewhere else in Greater London/home counties. It’s plausible, although it does increase my estimation of Lester’s wealth somewhat (I always thought it was a shame they dropped the Sir after the first series – you can explain away a multitude of sins with aristocracy).
2. Who the hell knows? And the problem with applying BH’s explanation is – why would Abby care? And also, how does he not know when Abby and Connor have been living together for about two years? (unfortunately, my assumption is that this entire storyline is there ‘because it’s funny’, to which I would say: not that funny).
3. Helen will find something else to do, because she’s that good. (ha, got the explanation in there again! It’s totally all-purpose!)
4. Probably. The budget must be horrific even before the wages. Although, thinking about it, no, not when you look at where Abby and Connor live – trust me, that’s total TV accommodation because they couldn’t afford anything like that in real SE England.
5. I assumed they’d put it back somewhere in between episodes/seasons – shame there wasn’t a reference.
6. I have no idea.