[spoilers] Recurring Themes in Season 8

[JHyde]

It was actually that episode that got me thinking about this. The difference is, I think, that our heroes have never executed people on camera in the name of justice.

They've circumvented the democratic process, placed many an illegal phone tap or bug, tortured the innocent along with the guilty and brought about the deaths of some who really didn't make dodgey decisions to put themselves in harm's way. But they never staged a showtrial with jury by SMS.

Having said that, I really did feel a twinge of sympathy at various points in 8.3 for those bandits. I also wondered why they were French - was it to make them *less* sympathetic?!

Peter Firth said in The Daily Record some weeks back that

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Nightingale is an organization dedicated to eradicating terrorism. That the ends of this group might be noble but the means by which they achieve them certainly isn't. He also hoped to hell the events of this season never come to pass.

I think these last 3 episodes will get much nastier than what we've seen so far.

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OK, I went hunting and found the exact quote:

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"I know they've written about things in the past which have gone on to happen but I hope this series' storyline never really happens. It's too horrifying although it's utterly plausible.

"It's about an organisation dedicated to eradicating terrorism from the first world.

"It's a good plan and it would work but it's not what any right thinking person would want to see as a solution."