Spooks: Season 7 wind up
After Adam died, I honestly didn't have much interest in Spooks this season. Richard Armitage was yummy, granted, but I kept finding my attention wandering during the episodes.
This happens to me sometimes, when I've stuck to a show very closely and then something has caused me to lose interest. If it's a current show, I find the best approach is to let a few episodes pass and then wait until I have a bunch on tape ready to watch. Then I wait until boredom sets in (in this case, the boredom was induced by an X-Files season 9 marathon) and watch as many episodes as I have ready to go.
For Spooks, since it was only an 8 episode run, I ended up with the last four to watch. It turned out to be a good approach in this case, because the ongoing mysteries started to come to a head and I found it easier to go from episode to episode rather than watching one then moving on to a different show. Also, the first episode I started this approach on had Ros going into a bank under cover and I started to see the first signs of UST with Lucas. And herein lies the key: give me a couple to obsess over and I'll start becoming interested. It's an off shoot of being a fan-fiction writer, you always watch character interaction so closely just in case you can get an idea for a story that someone else hasn't already had.
In the end, it wasn't just the UST that had me interested. I got caught up in the drama, I remembered what I love about them being spies, how cool it is when they pick pockets and shadow people and use gadgets to get them out of sticky situations. So in all, it was another good season and I'm looking forward to the next one.
This happens to me sometimes, when I've stuck to a show very closely and then something has caused me to lose interest. If it's a current show, I find the best approach is to let a few episodes pass and then wait until I have a bunch on tape ready to watch. Then I wait until boredom sets in (in this case, the boredom was induced by an X-Files season 9 marathon) and watch as many episodes as I have ready to go.
For Spooks, since it was only an 8 episode run, I ended up with the last four to watch. It turned out to be a good approach in this case, because the ongoing mysteries started to come to a head and I found it easier to go from episode to episode rather than watching one then moving on to a different show. Also, the first episode I started this approach on had Ros going into a bank under cover and I started to see the first signs of UST with Lucas. And herein lies the key: give me a couple to obsess over and I'll start becoming interested. It's an off shoot of being a fan-fiction writer, you always watch character interaction so closely just in case you can get an idea for a story that someone else hasn't already had.
In the end, it wasn't just the UST that had me interested. I got caught up in the drama, I remembered what I love about them being spies, how cool it is when they pick pockets and shadow people and use gadgets to get them out of sticky situations. So in all, it was another good season and I'm looking forward to the next one.
