How did you rate Season 10?

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I can't gather my thoughts decisively on the season as a whole yet, it's too fresh/raw, so forgive me.

Right now I can say that there have been some fabulous moments in it and indisputably superb performances by PF, NW and SRB. Some great one liners. Not to mention some beautiful shooting and symbology. The music/score was also really well done. From the actors point of view, I can see how they think it's been the best so far, particularly NW - she came of age.

Despite a promising start, I never really warmed to Erin but Callum was a better device - not a patch on past techies, but had some good lines. (Actually, if you've read any of Sam Vincent's tweets, I'm guessing he's modelled the character on himself.)

At times the series did lack strong threats of the week, in fact the weakest of all the seasons. Plus they fed us too much key information about the arc too early on, lessening the big reveal at the end. Having said that, at times I was truly riveted. Overall it opened well, faltered a bit in ep3 & 4, picked up in 5 & 6 until the last 10 mins. I did like the wall of rememberence but I can't yet reconcile the route they chose to end the entire show. This is the last one!!

Today I've been very critical because I am insanely disappointed with the ending for many reasons and not just because

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of the H&R thing and Ruth's death which still seems pointless except to shock us.

. Too many lost opportunities for a more advanced plot. I disliked how they made Harry so dense at times in the last ep (he wasn't on the ball in that bunker now was he? And come on, the Harry we know would've jumped in front of her.)

(24-10-2011 01:53 PM)Kazters Wrote:  my only grumble is its left open for s11!

And this is the problem I'm having with how it panned out. It wasn't a definitive ending as promised IMO. It was an ending that has been done before - to end a season NOT a 10 year series.

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shock death of an officer, someone Harry cares for, he carries on in misery, at great personal cost like the trooper he is. Like he did in S6, 7 8 and 9.

The door is too wide open for another series, what's to stop it picking up as it did in other seasons? And this is especially true for the school of thought that Harry carrying on despite it all is 'true spooks'. But perhaps that was their real intention....

I may feel differently over time, but for now - these are my (disappointed) ramblings.