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!