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Naivety · 07-09-2010, 07:51 PM

I have watched Spooks from the very beginning and have never missed an episode. Back when the first series started, nothing like it had ever been screened. It was new, edgy, intelligent drama and it has never lost that. It was the first time a programme used the split screen as far as I can remember and the focus was on plot rather than characters. Sadly, I think that the characters are becoming more important than the storylines now, but it has still managed to not become 'soapy'.

JohnSpook · 07-09-2010, 08:37 PM

I was 12 when the first series aired, and was (still am, to an extent) heavily into James Bond and spies etc. I remember watching 24 on BBC 2 in early 2002 and then Spooks trailers started appearing. There was a lot of promotional work done for it, and it just looked quite cool to a young me! I always got the names of the characters and their legend's mixed up in the first series! I've grown up with this show and 24, which sadly finished this year. Don't think I've missed an episode yet, and have got all the boxsets on dvd, just waiting 14 days until series 8 is out! Roll on series 9!

John

Jhokur · 08-09-2010, 03:59 AM

Recommended by Netflix due to the other titles in my queues - I watched all the series like a fiend! Definitely one of my top choices for shows.

watchstrap · 08-09-2010, 08:37 AM

(07-09-2010 08:37 PM)JohnSpook Wrote: I was 12 when the first series aired, and was (still am, to an extent) heavily into James Bond and spies etc. I remember watching 24 on BBC 2 in early 2002 and then Spooks trailers started appearing. There was a lot of promotional work done for it, and it just looked quite cool to a young me! I always got the names of the characters and their legend's mixed up in the first series! I've grown up with this show and 24, which sadly finished this year. Don't think I've missed an episode yet, and have got all the boxsets on dvd, just waiting 14 days until series 8 is out! Roll on series 9!

John

My daughter has just got into Spooks in the school summer hols and she is 10! She has read all the Alex Rider spy books so kept badgering me to watch it. She only watchs eps that I know the content of and she will only see S9 eps after we have already watched them. I was worried about the violence but she was 'stabbed' to death in a stage production recently, so assured me that she knows it's 'just acting'. Maybe too young for Spooks but she loves it and can't wait for S9 to start.
Funniest bit was when she hid behind her hands for any kissing, which she thought was all too YUK!! She loves Lucas...but not as much as that Robert bloke from Twilight. No taste!

rbs89 · 13-09-2010, 03:40 AM

(08-09-2010 08:37 AM)watchstrap Wrote: She loves Lucas...but not as much as that Robert bloke from Twilight. No taste!

the character's name is edward, but let's not labour that point Tongue

My cousins were also really young when they got into Spooks- i think they were 8/9, and they watched it with their older brother.

bccmee · 13-09-2010, 12:39 PM

Richard Armitage. 'Nuff said! Smile

**A Cousin** · 13-09-2010, 07:12 PM

(08-09-2010 08:37 AM)watchstrap Wrote: My daughter has just got into Spooks in the school summer hols and she is 10! She has read all the Alex Rider spy books so kept badgering me to watch it. She only watchs eps that I know the content of and she will only see S9 eps after we have already watched them. I was worried about the violence but she was 'stabbed' to death in a stage production recently, so assured me that she knows it's 'just acting'. Maybe too young for Spooks but she loves it and can't wait for S9 to start.
Funniest bit was when she hid behind her hands for any kissing, which she thought was all too YUK!! She loves Lucas...but not as much as that Robert bloke from Twilight. No taste!

True Confessions: My nine year old has watched with me. Danny was his first favorite - who can blame him? - but he likes Ros to because (as he puts it) "She's tough and brave and can really fight...for a girl." (Cue sex role stereotype conversation with Tom Boy mother. Big Grin

) He hasn't watched them all. I monitor it as well but it comes on TV at 10pm, after bedtime, so it isn't too hard for me to preview the episodes. Like his mom, he likes spy stories - Spy Kids is a favorite. His dad is an actor so he understands reality v. fantasy. He thought the S1 DVD was one of the coolest things he has ever seen the way the cover slips off to reveal hidden pictures.

**allieoop** · 20-09-2010, 09:27 PM

Caught an episode of S1 on PBS and immediately requested all back seasons from Netflix, and caught up through S6 in no time. Watched S7 as soon as the DVDs came out here in the US, and S8 online piecemeal (torture!!) about a month ago. Why oh why will they not release the DVDs sooner!!

Alex15 · 29-01-2011, 09:10 AM

I just love spy stories, have read all Alex Rider books! And I learn English at school, so watching Spooks is also a good way to pick up some language Wink

xzibit_m · 31-01-2011, 12:15 AM

i was a really big fan of robin hood on bbc, and after the 3rd series was aired, i started watching series 8 on tv when it was being broadcasted, because i knew that armitage was in it (he was great in robin hood) i got series 6 on dvd at christmas that same year, and then watched series 9 on tv after that. i bought myself series 7 and 8. after watching these i was really hooked so decided to buy series 5 (£4 on ebay) as S6 was myh favourite of the lot and wanted the prequel and a week ago series 1, and just ordered 2! so will have seen them in this order!! 8, 6, 9, 7, 8, 5 (again), 1, (and soon to be 2, 3, 4)

by the time S10 is on tv, it'll hopefully be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 rewatched and 10!!