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[26th June , 2008|02:39 pm]

[	Tags	\|	doctors who, i r fangurl, spooks	]
[	Music	\|	Ian Hunter: Once Bitten Twice Shy	]

I have now seen Spooks episode 5 of series 5, called "The Message".

Whaa!

That's pretty much my whole reaction, summed up.

I was spoiled for two things: that Ruth leaves after taking the flack for a murder and that she and Harry finally, finally kiss. I was most annoyed about the second spoiler, but it was from the photo in the first paragraph of the wikipedia article on Ruth, which I looked up only to get to Nicola Walker's imdb page.

How and why she leaves was too bad a spoiler in terms of watching it, because it's Spooks and they do it so well. There was much more to the why than any spoiler could hope to encompass, so I was very pleased watching it play out. Although Whaa!

I am intrigued and I am pleased (because I was uncertain where they were going with it) that the fight Harry's been having with the Oliver and other intelligence people is now explicit. Ruth wasn't just protecting Harry and his position, but the integrity he fights for. He's the only one who can fight them, as he was quite clearly aware of when he threatened Oliver with appearing to go rogue. When Harry's friend died and Harry never even knew he was sick and they were all fighting over the tell-all book he wrote - just the idea of which was enough to make people made - the guy left it to Harry.

I love the tension and tentativeness and unresolution between Ruth and Harry. It's one of my favouritist flavours of fictional relationship, so it has made me very happy for a couple of seasons, now. And it was resolved very well, I thought. At least, I got to be squeeful about it. Also Whaa!

I ♥ Ruth so much. She's gorgeous and smart and her confidence and her approach to the spying stuff, and she's complete awesome. (Oh, can we have Ruth/Donna Noble now please? Or Ruth/Toshiko? Or Ruth/Giles?(This last idea come from remembering

ffutures's The Man Who Looked Liked Peter Salter))

In almost completely unrelated fannishness, I think that I am much more a Doctor/Donna 'shipper than a Doctor/Anyone else 'shipper because I fancy Catherine Tate much more than I fancy the other actors/characters. At least she's not (quite) old enough to be my mother. Unlike Sela Ward, who is, in fact, older than my mother.

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