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My best friend, Mum, brother and I went and saw Spectre on it's opening night for Australia last night. I had managed to:

a) Avoid Sam Smith's theme song
b) Avoid major trailors
c) Avoid pretty much everything about the plot

Though I was excited, my excitement was tempered with typical Bond viewing cynicism. After all, Skyfall and Casino Royale are exceptions to the Bond film rule. I left Spectre neither shaken nor stirred. It was distinctly average. Nothing more, nothing less. Perhaps I shouldn't have re-watched Casino Royale, Skyfall and Goldeneye just before going, given all three are in my top 5 Bond list, but there we are.

Thoughts under the cut.

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Just in time for the film and all (ha ha... ha, ha!)

Anyway, I need to re-watch s5-7 for the second half of my fic Where All The Lost Spooks Go because tbh I'd forgotten a lot, especially 5-6. I'm going to leave space in the comments for my mini reviews and if others want to comment on an episode, please do!

I am commenting post Ruth leaving as I didn't start to record thoughts on the blog until now! Whoops :P Feel free to comment wherever though.

Whoops. I did write eleventh hour fic as I promised squint13 When I get back I will consider taking Missy fic requests because she is enormously fun to write for and because back in the day all I did was write Master/Lucy/Doctor fic.

Title: Missed Me?
Characters: Missy, Osgood, 12th Doctor, Clara (Ps: Love ff.net deigning to allow multiple character categories now. Much easier)
Genre: Drama/Horror
Spoilers: For Death in Heaven
Word Count: 2100 words approx.
Notes: This is a oneshot character study more than anything else. I hope someone enjoys it...

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OK, I admit that I kind of scared myself with how messed up this one is...

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I have one thing to say.

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Whelp. We're getting started this month nightbulbs, novindalf, twcardiff and everyone else keen to go back to the start when cats and hairdryers and Malcolm and Zoe were a thing... sorta.

That's right. July is the month of Tom, Danny and Zoe, the deep fat fryer, hard nosed Tessa and Harry being a great character. Let's go... Spooks s1 in July starts NOW!

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I remembered my photobucket password just to make this update.



That's right. July is the start of my s1-8 Spooks re-watch. Bring along your Spooks bingo cards, your feels, oh no Tom not the ocean! tag, your relief as you love Harry again, your license to mock, squee because spygran and Ros and forks and vodka in tea cups (or did I just make that up?). We watch a series a month. The schedule will look like this:

July: s1
August: s2
September: s3
October: s4

Hiatus because I am away for 2 months in America and don't want to miss out on the fun of re-living s5 and 6 plus Christmas etc yada yada.

Febuary: s5
March: s6
April: s7
May: s8

I am open to how I run this - whether I allocate episodes to weeks or just make a thread at the start of the month for each episode that stays open for the whole month? Let me know in the comments.

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So I watched two more...

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I had a bit of a day at work yesterday so what better way to relax than with episodes of Foyle's War? Now I know that some didn't like the transition to The Cold War and the move from straight out policeman to MI5 operative, but I find it really interesting. It's like an early Spooks/Foyle cross-over with loads of research. I actually even liked Sam's new husband, Adam, and his story of being an early post war Labor MP and the pressures that put on Sam (also though I like Max Brown, he never worked with Weeks for me). I like that the whole proceedings are gloomy looking and cynical and world weary. It feels realistic after the pomp of V Day.

I watched Sunflower. It was the best of the three by far, perhaps even one of the best episodes ever of Foyle's War and that ending!

Thoughts?

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Title: Where All The Lost Spooks Go
Fandom: Spooks
Characters: Ruth/Tom/Zoe, set just after 5.5
Word Count: 2100 words approx.
Rating: PG
Notes: Chapter Three- Ruth finds herself in Santiago with Tom to meet some more old faces.
Previous Chapters

By Plane or by Sea

Oh Captain, I will Follow

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So basically I nabbed lost_spook meme and adapted it because I don't have five fandoms. I used the website she provided to get 5 poems, and used the fifth line of each poem to write a 50 word Spooks drabble.

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Well that was fun. Comments are love as always.

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