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As I mentioned before I'm watching Spooks series 3. I'm in episode 4 and I have to say that episodes 2 and 3 are especially good! I was really really impressed!!!
I'm also trying to write some Hermione/Cedric fic... so all that inspired me to make some icons (just a few): Cedric Diggory, Adam Carter, a couple I didn't finished the other day from Cambridge Spies and one I've wanted to make for a long time now: the boys of Coupling playing Reservoir Dogs ;)

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Not hotlinking. Resources at my userinfo. Comments and credits are really nice ;)

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Oh, Rupert Penry-Jones is SO HOT in "Spooks." I MUST get my hands on this somehow.

Also, the CS icons are LOVELY (and you should post 'em on toby-daily too, you know?) I love the cigarette smoking. Hee!

He IS really HOT in Spooks. I have always found him gorgeous (since I saw him in Cambridge Spies) but I have to admit he is fantastic as Adam Carter. You really should get the series!!

I can't help but making Cambridge Spies icons! I don't get to have four actors I really like all together in an UK miniseries, you know!

Glad you like the icons (I posted them in toby-daily).

Sadly, the seasons of "Spookes" with Rupert Penry-Jones are not available from Netflix here :( Bleah! So I will have to wait for a while, I think. As for "Cambridge Spies", I think part of why I didn't like him as much as the others was the character - Maclean seemed like the weakest of the four. I mean, I think he did a good job with the part, just that the part was less sympathetic than Burgess, for example, who really thought he was doing good things - I never understood quite why Maclean became a spy in the first place.

Now I want to watch the whole series again. Heh!

And thanks much for posting the icons! They are, as I said, lovely!

Maybe that was what attracted me about Maclean. As I see it... he did it more because he wanted to follow his friend, Philby in this case, and later on felt as lost and Burgess was... don't really now how to express it.
It can be that I like the Maclean I think he was and not the one that actually is shown in the miniseries... I just recall how he suffers when his father is dying and Philby is pushing him to make a choice (he obviously does have the beliefs Philby has but he doesn't have his passion). I like to think about Maclean as the guy behind the guy... he was going to be there for Philby because for him their friendship was important and it was based not just in that relationship but also in their common beliefs. In the moment the become four he is also there for the other two, especially Burgess and more toward the end. That's is why he is hurting so much when he starts feeling jealous of Philby and his wife (with good reasons later, anyway)... I'm not sure it makes sense all I'm saying.
Yes, he is the weakest in beliefs but I think he follows them because he feels their passion and because he value their friendships... just an opinion (maybe he just let's himself go for a better thing to do, but I just can't think those were his motives, that's all).

I think you're right that he seemed to be more of a follower - so stronger personalities like Philby and Burgess could sway him one way or the other. And then when he was too far gone to leave "the game", he realized what happened (I"m only speaking about the movie here, mind you - I think IRL they were all quite different characters from how they were portrayed ...)

Anyway, of course, I very much love the entire series, but it's mostly Toby for me in "Cambridge Spies." ;)

For me are both of them. I love Toby because he makes a great Philby, all charismatic and so sure of what he's doing... I discovered Rupert in CS so it's kind of special for me ;)

I'm sure these four men were quite different in real life, of course!

Oh my.

*is dead*

These are amaaaaazing. I love natural colors and sharp crisp images, and these definitely fit the bill. Oh, Adam is so hot in these (Rupert is lovely in all of the icons he's in, but Adam...wow). They're all fantastic. I'm just going to stare awhile, if you don't mind. :D (btw, my copy of Cambridge Spies arrived today! Yay!)

Rupert looks so fantastically hot in Spooks that I didn't feel like covering all the images with colors all the time in the icons... He is gorgeous there!
I'm really impressed of his work in Spooks. I really love the man and I think he is very good actor, but I had second thoughts about him taking Matthew MacFadyen's place in the series. I was wrong and I'm so happy I was! Adam is a fantastic character and I think I love him more than Tom (runs to hide). He has the happy side Tom didn't have but is absolutely professional at the same time. His teasing with Ruth is really good.
I probably will talk more about the series when I finish with series 3 or when I have watched more episodes. I'm enjoying every bit of them!

He has the happy side Tom didn't have but is absolutely professional at the same time. His teasing with Ruth is really good.

This is exactly one of the things that I love best about Adam. Although I do think there are problems with his character as I mentioned below. I love that the same guy who sat with Carmen Joyce is also the same guy who jokes with Ruth. And the same guy who goes home to a wife and child.

Tom was always filled with so much angst and sometimes I thought it was even painful for him to smile! I adore Tom, so I can say this. :) His angst is partly why I love him so much.

You're right.
They are simply different characters. I love Tom for his struggling to get a personal life, for the angst you mention (absolutely love the episode where he gets shot and tries to hide it from Ellie, the one where Anthony Stewart Head plays Tom's mentor, and the one where the doctor from Deep Space 9 has also a part. They are probably my favorite from series 1 and 2). I never liked the CIA woman so those moments between she and Tom for me were a big 'no, no, no!'

Adam started great in series 3. As I mention below the first 4 episodes are fantastic in my opinion. The one with Ian McDiarmid was heartbreaking and it also was the next one with Danny and the librarian... *snif* both so so sad! Let's see how the rest goes because I know Danny and Zoe have to leave and I haven't read spoilers about it so...

(btw, my copy of Cambridge Spies arrived today! Yay!)

YAY! Can't wait to hear what you think!

These are lovely and stylish!

I really should re-watch "Cambridge spies"!

Thank you!
You should rewatch it. It's always worth the time you spend watching it!!

And also watch Spooks if you can!

There should be a new season of "Spooks" this year i guess, but i am still hankering after Tom and just can't get into Rupert-love somehow, though your and winterspel's posts about him make me think!

While I really like Rupert's Adam on Spooks, I sometimes think that I like the Adam in my head more than the Adama that they wrote for the show, because there are definitely some problems. At

spooky_doings someone raised this issue about his character here.

It's only a pity that the writers didn't do a better job.

I read part of what you pointed out... okay. I have to say that I'm going to star watching episode 3.5 and the first four episodes of series 3 were splendid! I really enjoyed them... it seems I'm close to the change... don't know what I'll think about it yet... will tell you... I'm pretty sure I like more the Adam I'm creating in my head from what I'm watching. (you know the worst thing... that I've seen the end of series 4 (yes the last thing aired!), and now I so need to know what happens next!!!)

If this was the only example of bad writing, I could be fine about it but it is not... more series suffer from that illness LOL.

Adam is very interesting character. I think i prefered season 1 and 2 because there were extremely important questions raised and the way Tom's soul was opened to us. My favourite ever author is Dostoevsky and i just so partial when thing in the books and films turn out to be what i consider Dostoyevsky way and something in the Spooks 1 and 2 was that way - never simple, tragic and grim. I felt less of it and more of "spy story" in the seasons 3 and 4.

You're right, seasons 1 and 2 are different from 3 and 4... but I think that was the right thing to do. If Adam was too similar to Tom, the change would have failed and the series would have lost viewers. They needed a different character, also interesting but in another way. I love Adam because he isn't Tom, because what I loved in Tom it was Tom's only. Adam is another person with another problems and with other methods to solve things and that is also what I love about him. Don't know if all this makes sense LOL!

alexandral, that was exactly what happened to me. I really love Tom and I wasn't ready to see how Adam came to be part of the team (even being played by Rupert who I absolutely adore)... I needed time. I have the episodes but I just needed to start watching when I felt like it. The time arrived thought and I'm enjoying it very much! Adam is different to Tom but I really like his style ;)

You see, i haven't seen Rupert anywhere prior to "Spooks 3".

I have seen quite few episodes from season 3 and not many at all from season 4, but i guess i feel that the whole style of "Spooks" changed since Tom's exit. I have re-watched season 1 recently and felt this change. I loved seasons 1 and 2 because they were dark and broody and rising questions about loyalty and limits of person's endurance and extends to which we should go to defend the "good course".

It could be just my feeling, but i tought that seasons 1 and 2 concentrated more on Spooks themselves, and seasons 3 and 4 on stories.

The thing i loved about seasons 3 and 4 was how Harry developed. He is fantastic!

Took numero 11. Something about boys smoking... ;)

Twelve is great. I'm taking it. Thanks.

Rupert Penry-Jones is ridiculously good-looking. Mwah. I'm just getting into Spooks too! Taking #5,6,8, and 9. Will credit when used :)

Using #5, thank you!

Your icons are wonderful. Snagged two, will credit you. Thanks! :)

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