Duncan Mulholland (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} binar) wrote,@ 2008-08-11 22:51:00 |
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Spooks : Code 9
Where do we start...
"For queen, For Country, For kicks" is the programs slogan....
I'm kicking myself now for actually watching all 60 minuets of it when my first thoughts were only compounded into complete rightness by every passing second...
Yes, it's CBBC's with WMDs....
I'll explain shall I...
The year is something after 2012, but exact date never verified...
Very small nuclear device goes off in London, inside the Olympics...
Bomb is small....
so small infact that 5 minuets later the program explains that the whole of london has to be evacuated and relocated with MASSIVE amounts of effort.
Yet some how this bomb manages to "Wipe Out" MI5 to the piont where they have to employ college dropouts and petty criminals.
I'm sorry, but small enough to not kill the majority of the citys population but big enough to "WIPE OUT" MI5....
did evey member of MI5 decide to go to the olympics on the same day? did they get now office digs on the olympic site perhaps? if so, then think about this....
London is only 1 of the citys in the UK. MI5 has a pressence in EVERY CITY and major town.... what about all those thousands of MI5 agents? What about the few thousand MI5 agents who work for GCHQ in Cheltenham....
WAY out of the range of the bomb.....
Ok, fuck it.. I'm loosing the will to live re-living this episode.... google "spooks+code 9+shit" and you'll get the gist of how crap it was...
so crap in fact that after wasting 60 minuets watching it I am loathed to waste any more time on it, even if that time is spent extolling how crap and unrealistic it was.
(It's not meant to be realistic! its fantasy action drama! cry the fans...)
even drama should be realistic... that's the beauty of spooks, or at least the early ones.. Spooks code 9 might as well have had the members of the fantastic 4 and a spy who could read minds and it would have had the same level of realism...)
The extent of realism, common sense and logic you have to ignore in order to believe the plot lines is unfathomable....
case in point..... somebody hires a hit man to assassinate the PM in the first episode.... this assassin is 15 years old.....
I rest my case.
It tried to push the boundary's by saying consider for the next few minuets that the following could take place.... and then it makes no effort to prove that any of it can realistically happen, or provide any supporting frame work to support what it says that cannot be shaken to pieces with one casual nod at logic, reality or common sense..
Where do we start...
"For queen, For Country, For kicks" is the programs slogan....
I'm kicking myself now for actually watching all 60 minuets of it when my first thoughts were only compounded into complete rightness by every passing second...
Yes, it's CBBC's with WMDs....
I'll explain shall I...
The year is something after 2012, but exact date never verified...
Very small nuclear device goes off in London, inside the Olympics...
Bomb is small....
so small infact that 5 minuets later the program explains that the whole of london has to be evacuated and relocated with MASSIVE amounts of effort.
Yet some how this bomb manages to "Wipe Out" MI5 to the piont where they have to employ college dropouts and petty criminals.
I'm sorry, but small enough to not kill the majority of the citys population but big enough to "WIPE OUT" MI5....
did evey member of MI5 decide to go to the olympics on the same day? did they get now office digs on the olympic site perhaps? if so, then think about this....
London is only 1 of the citys in the UK. MI5 has a pressence in EVERY CITY and major town.... what about all those thousands of MI5 agents? What about the few thousand MI5 agents who work for GCHQ in Cheltenham....
WAY out of the range of the bomb.....
Ok, fuck it.. I'm loosing the will to live re-living this episode.... google "spooks+code 9+shit" and you'll get the gist of how crap it was...
so crap in fact that after wasting 60 minuets watching it I am loathed to waste any more time on it, even if that time is spent extolling how crap and unrealistic it was.
(It's not meant to be realistic! its fantasy action drama! cry the fans...)
even drama should be realistic... that's the beauty of spooks, or at least the early ones.. Spooks code 9 might as well have had the members of the fantastic 4 and a spy who could read minds and it would have had the same level of realism...)
The extent of realism, common sense and logic you have to ignore in order to believe the plot lines is unfathomable....
case in point..... somebody hires a hit man to assassinate the PM in the first episode.... this assassin is 15 years old.....
I rest my case.
It tried to push the boundary's by saying consider for the next few minuets that the following could take place.... and then it makes no effort to prove that any of it can realistically happen, or provide any supporting frame work to support what it says that cannot be shaken to pieces with one casual nod at logic, reality or common sense..
