Why I can't be a spoiler-phobe
Oct. 21st, 2005 11:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznettiLast night I got a message from BH, who had just finished watching the most recent episode of Spooks. "Oh my God," he cries. "They killed Fiona! Those bastards!" We do this to each other whenever there's a character death in a show we both watch, although I'm not downloading Spooks at the moment.
Anyway, I burst out laughing when I got the message. Geek love! We also say, "My coffee, your coffee, my coffee, your coffee," whenever one of us picks up the other's cup of coffee in the morning.
I suppose at some point I may start downloading Spooks, as I doubt he's been taping them for me. I've just never managed to get attached to the show -- I had too much cordial disinterest in the main characters of the first two seasons.
Anyway, I burst out laughing when I got the message. Geek love! We also say, "My coffee, your coffee, my coffee, your coffee," whenever one of us picks up the other's cup of coffee in the morning.
I suppose at some point I may start downloading Spooks, as I doubt he's been taping them for me. I've just never managed to get attached to the show -- I had too much cordial disinterest in the main characters of the first two seasons.
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Date: 2005-10-21 08:21 pm (UTC)Here in the U.S. "Spooks" aired (or still airs, I'm not sure) on a cable network called A&E. It's part of a basic cable package that anyone who has cable can get.
Anyway, when it crossed the Pond, the series was renamed "MI-5," because in the U.S., a "spook" is a derogatory name for a black/African-American person.
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Date: 2005-10-22 12:43 am (UTC)FYI, I hear that the A&E versions of the episodes tend to be cut down rather drastically, because BBC shows can take a full hour, but of course and "hourlong" American show these days is around 43 minutes, and A&E need *some* room for commercials. I tried to watch another UK favorite, Waking the Dead (either on A&E or on BBC-A, I can't remember) and had to give up in sorrow as all my favorite bits had been cut.
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Date: 2005-10-24 05:57 am (UTC)Download is my friend, and I'm liking season 4 a lot so far.
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Date: 2005-10-24 10:50 am (UTC)