[spoilers] Harry and Ruth. The Wonder Years.

[lwhite53]

(25-11-2010 10:20 PM)Tea Lady Wrote:  

(25-11-2010 09:52 PM)Kirayuki Wrote:  

(25-11-2010 06:41 PM)lwhite53 Wrote:  

(25-11-2010 06:12 PM)almh Wrote:  Sorry if I repeat what anyone else has said before (there are a lot of pages that I've missed reading through!) but I do think that the last episode of series 9 was beautifully ironic. Harry losing his job (possibly) to save Ruth's life, when in series 5 Ruth 'died' to save Harry's job. Beautiful, beautiful. I have to say, I did like that (perhaps unintentional) piece of irony.

Nice ironic parallel there. Hopefully, s10 will make it clear (to Ruth) that what Harry did in giving Albany away is exactly the same thing she did in giving Mani the location of the uranium, and it was for the same reason -- to save someone they cared about. Interesting that in both cases, the "weapon" wasn't viable (Albany was a fake and the uranium wasn't where Ruth said it was).

I hadn't thought about the Uranium parallel! How did i not see it!
Thanks for pointing that one out.

Not sure about that. Harry knew Albany was a fake from the start "so didn't mind" giving it up. Ruth on the other hand thought the Uranium was there. Ruth did not know, Harry had moved it, so not quite a parallel. If Harry had not moved it, Ruth could have been responsible for WW3. All Harry has done with giving away Albany, is ruin his career and make the UK's defences seem not as strong as they were once perceived to be.

Both actions were done for love but IMO, Ruth's action was potentially more devastating.

I agree with you. My general point was that she's angry at him for doing exactly the same thing she did. Somewhat hypocritical, imo.