Series 10 - Episode 6 Discussion

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(24-10-2011 06:27 AM)khandy Wrote:  Oh dear I am disappointed on so many levels. Disappointed that the series is over to start with Ten years is long time. Disappointed because I have found the whole of this last series to be really weak and tired and so it is sad that for me at least it ended this way. I have gone over why I thought that and I suppose that because of all the deaths in last three series so many new characters were introduced and I found I didn't care about them because I didn't know them.

I have to say I have never been a Harry Ruth shipper but I know thousands are. This whole last series seems to have been for the Harry and Ruth Fans. I was disappointed for them that they didn't get their happy ending. Also why did nobody attempt basic CPR the adrenaline thing was just plain stupid almost like the writers knowing that sometimes as part of ressucitation adrenaline is used so why don't we throw that it. Just plain lazy.

So I shall miss Spooks but it deserved a better exit than this soap style ending.

They couldn't have done CPR or she would have even bled out faster. Ruth's lung was knicked and deflated, making it hard to breath and she was bleeding out internally (into the chest cavity and probably into the lungs as well). Trying to do chest compressions would have only sped up the process. If they'd been closer to the heart of London and within immediate reach of ambulance attendants and a hospital, it MAY have been possible for a surgeon to get in to repair the damage fast enough but they would have had to be right there. With 14 min out for the medivac helicopter, there's no way, not even with the shot of adrenaline.

As sad as I am about Ruth's death, and as much of a HR fan as I am, I thought it was a fitting end; i never expected them to have their happily ever after. I'm a realist and pragmatist to see that that doesn't really happen in Spooks. The only ones (of the old guard, so to speak) that are alive are: Harry (still head of Section D because right now, that's probably all he has left, aside from his daughter, Catherine), Tom (quickly decommissioned in S3 after renegade acts, and since possibly being a deniable gov't asset - no real happy 'ending' life for him), Zoe (still alive but permanently exiled; she did sort of have a 'happy' life as she married that photographer [name escapes me]), Malcolm (retired from the Service, still looking after his Mum). Beth was decommissioned. Tessa (decomissioned in S1 for running false agents and pocketing money), Sam (either she was decomissioned at end of S3 after Danny's death or she was moved elsewhere in the services).

Dead Spooks: Helen, Danny, Fiona, Colin, Zaf, Adam, Jo, Roz, Lucas, Ben, Tariq, Ruth (drawing a blank if Connie was killed - I can't remember). Needless to say, Spooks does not do happy endings for long as much as we sometimes wish they might.