{ build yourself a levée, girl, when the waters run high. }

[delga]

Gosh, the sky is purple right now. I could swim in it, it's been so beautiful today.

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Yesterday I rewatched Spooks, 4x01, and remembered - yo, I loved this episode! I was capping Zaf, but then I ended up capping everyone. So: picspam! \o/

Zaf is rather wonderful in this episode. I feel like I missed a lot of the nuances of season 4 because I didn't see a lot of it until the summer after it aired, and I had a pretty heavy fixation on Fiona Carter. So a lot of the good stuff passed me by (witness: Zafar!)

One thing I didn't miss was how superb Ruth was in this episode. (Field work! In a field! Lols, hestia8, I remember you loved that as much as I did.) I loved her playing that pompous bastard like a fiddle (I also loved the Homeric quote, natch; even I was all, ACHILLES, MOFO). She was beautiful, too, with her hand gestures and then her quiet, desperate grief for Danny.

"Do I look like a torturer to you?"

[...] "I have nothing to live for."
"There's always something to live for."

Oh, Zaf. All those reaction shots are re: the bomb in the train station. Seeing Colin and Malcolm on screen together made me ache.

"Come on, this is round 2. Where's your fighting spirit?" (Oh, Ruth; here face here kills me.

Goddamn, I love Juliet. I love to hate her a lot of the time, but there was something so spry and sharp about her right at the start. It was so wonderful to see. And of course, her mention of Russia suggests that she in all likelihood knew Connie? Which is something I must explore (because Connie = MARVELLOUS). (This is why there are so many Alias crossovers in this fandom, yo.)

Gratuitous Fiona scene! To remind us that Adam Carter will NOT be fucking Martine McCutcheon because he is married, with son, and in love. (Goshdarn, I loved Olga Sosnovska, too. She's lovely in this scene.)

Haha, also: Zaf's car. He's so cheeky and yet so sincere. I loved him, and I wish he'd be all miraculously alive, because if Juliet can get her legs back, why can't we Rambaldi Zaf up?

Lols at Martine McCutcheon who I genuinely loved in this episode (I have a weird bias against her for no discernible reason); woeface for Zaf, as victim to the Ego that is Adam Carter, often was made to look silly so that Carter could play hero. I liked Carter here in S4, but on the rewatch there's that oh-so unsubtle line - "I won't let this happen again" - where he takes it on himself again to do whatever. I know that Danny wasn't perfect by any stretch but Tom never made him look incompetent. I guess that's what I dislike about Adam's entrance: other people seemed to lose credibility. (That's why I enjoy every scene where Ros snaps at him to put his balls back in place, because: hell yes.)

That said, I did like Adam a lot in this episode. I wish I'd capped the early funeral scenes because when everyone comes out they're all looking sharp in black suits and ties. /shallow

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Dropped The Flatmate off at the station and then immediately felt like crap. Am better now; am still packing, crikey. Mostly because I keep playing with the Spooks caps, lols. Glutton, punishment.