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**Nitrus** · 23-10-2009, 05:11 PM

Series 5 for me has always been the series where eveything changed.. with various characters departing and various characters joining, it felt like a lot of things changed, not only with storylines but with the way the show was shot.

Then again, it wasn't until Series 6 that the threaded storylines were brought in..

What do you think?

RoninExec · (This post was last modified: 23-10-2009 07:18 PM by Nitrus.)

Just watched first episode of S7, which confirms what I had stated otherwise : Spooks has become by Series 5 -as confirmed in S7- a Hollywood TV Show copycat, in the unbearable likes of "24" or James Bond.
But a least James never tried to be credible in the first place!

Spoiler: show

**Kazters** · 27-06-2010, 04:07 PM

i think that s 5 starts a terrible line of very bad luck for section D each ep after s5 someone seems to get beaten, kidnaped, poisoned and killled even malcom

SweetTea · 24-01-2012, 09:59 PM

I just finished a re-watch of Series 5 and what I noticed was that in almost every episode there is someone from within the government that is either working against them or out-right screwing them over. Here's a list:

Episode 1 & 2: Michael Collingwood, MI-6
Episode 3: No one
Episode 4: James Allen, Foreign Secretary
Episode 5: Oliver Mace, Chairman of the JIC
Episode 6 & 7: Neil Sternin, MI-6
Episode 8: Charles Lee, chief legal counsel for Downing Street
Episode 9: John Russell, MI-6
Episode 10: Janet Wheeler, Science Advisor to the PM

I haven't been making notes on other series as to how often the foe is someone from within, but it really struck me with this series. Now I'm curious enough that I want to go back and remind myself of how much this happened in the other series.