Episode 3 Discussion

[Sidney Reilly]

Ok, finally caught up with S8E3 last night, I did’nt think it was their greatest episode but then again neither was it a really bad one (no such thing really), there was a lot more that I enjoyed than didn’t enjoy. Harry and Ruth….well, it’s certainly building, “It was either that or a basket of muffins” what a corker line and I agree with Harry it’s certainly good to see Ruth back on the grid, she knew all the guys entering the hotel on the cctv and just roots around and digs up that info that the team needs, how did they ever survive without her? I felt that Ros’s role limited her to moody looks at the young girl but the finish with Jo just blew me away, it really was an OMG moment. However, Ros would have been trained to head shoot the guy to stop him pressing the button as a shot to the torso may well stop the heart it won’t stop all motor action to the hands which you need to stop someone pressing a button. But I am glad that they did’nt finish Jo with a hole in her forehead it would have been “sick and wrong (quoting my daughter there). I think the final scene with Harry one side of the glass and Ruth crying on the other side was done to pace out their relationship throughout the series as there are quite a few episodes to go (but not nearly enough imho), and many thanks to femaleBertieWooster for the brilliant picture on the Harry’s like Batman thread. Half way through I did wonder if the group that the Home Sec. referred to at the end of S8E2 could have been behind this and I wonder just where they will pop up again (this could be Harry’s nemesis that I suggested in the Harry’s like Batman thread, apologies for referring to my own post ). You just have to love the Americans, they threaten with an air strike when a couple of CS gas canisters down the lift shaft would have done just as well and I was seriously worried for the nursery six doors down as they probably would have missed the hotel and bombed that instead (then again it’s best you deal with the under 5’s al qaeda cells as early as possible). There was one thing that the writers seriously let themselves down with though, the internet feed. I know they were bouncing it off of five servers a second and if the grid tried to hack in they could have crashed it but….. it could’nt have been a wireless connection as they were in an underground room surrounded on all sides by sixteen inches of re-enforced concrete and even if they did get a wireless signal then a jammer placed above the room would have scuttled it. If it was a hard wired connection then Jo or Lucas could have dealt with it using their Government issue swiss army knife (the bomb disposal wire cutting tool would have done a grand job). All in all I thought it was quite a fast paced episode and I enjoyed it (the terrorist snogging scene was a little bit overdone though), the internet voting was a lovely touch although in the subsequent trials I’m pretty sure people would have just been voting for the entertainment value of seeing another billionaire getting executed rather than the issues at hand, as gratuitous violence will always be the big winner with todays society. The episode 4 trailer has me waiting for Friday night with baited breath 25hrs 30mins and counting...