Series 10 - Episode 6 Discussion

[DogSoSmall]

(26-10-2011 09:31 AM)JHyde Wrote:  

(26-10-2011 08:31 AM)DogSoSmall Wrote:  One final (? ) thought. There are clearly two groups here. The first (the grownups/cynics) who can appreciate the artistry, acting, camerawork, even the fittingness of the plot, and rejoice in it. The second (the children/imaginitive dreamers) who have lived it, even if only for an hour a week. For them, Ruth died and Harry was left staring at a bleak future. That is unbearably sad. I wonder which group is really paying the cast and crew of Spooks the highest compliment?

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Dog So Small, I have not been throwing around comments making personal statements about how I characterise people who disagree with me on the ending. I have stated that I sympathise with the position that others hold on this while making my feelings clear about the ending which I loved.

You have painted yourself into a corner as the injured party here. Please do not throw flame at all of us who love the ending by labelling us as 'cynical'. This is grossly untrue of myself and certainly other members who feel this way.

You are no better than anyone who you might feel has slighted you by making such a statement. I await your apology.

I apologise unreservedly, as I did not mean this post as you have taken it. My goodness, I am having such trouble in expressing myself - it must be the grief! I don't consider myself to be an injured party at all. I am not injured by comments made on here that disagree with me, but equally if someone tells me I am one thing I have the right to respond to that, just as you have done here. When I said "grown-ups/cynics" the / was supposed to be an or. It was also supposed to be very much tongue in cheek, and a way of acknowledging that I realise my approach might seem more immature, but also of trying to say that it is not necessarily a bad thing to be able to lose yourself in a moment to such an extent that it becomes real in your imagination. It then makes it much harder to see the positive in death and despair. I have probably equally offended people who now think I have labelled them as childish. I was just trying to clarify to myself why there have been two such different reactions, and why I am unable to swap from one to the other, no matter how much I want to.

I was also trying to finish on a positive note by saying that both reactions are actually a compliment to the makers of Spooks in some way or another.