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*** Possible Spooks 9 Ros Myers Spoilers ahead! ***
Spooks 9 is powering ahead in such fine form that, like Adam before her, you almost forget that Ros Myers is gone. But whenever I catch a glimpse of my favourite Spook online or while I’m scouring my hard drive looking for images for Spooks Fan Blog posts, I remember; Oh God I miss Ros! And the dream I had the other night might (embarrassingly) reinforce this point.
One morning over a week ago I woke up a little upset, with sad eyes and tears welled up in them. In the dream I’d been crying. Do you ever wake up in a semi-conscious state where the line between reality and your dream world is blurred? In the dream my sister had died, and when I woke in this half dream/half real life state, I was thinking “oh my god my sister has died, my sister!”. As I began to realise full consciousness I suddenly thought “hold on, I don’t have a sister! What the hell was I dreaming about, who was my sister?” Well, my “sister” was Ros Myers. I’d dreamt that Ros Myers, my sister, had died, and I was completely distraught. Upon piecing this picture together, I sat up in my bed with a sense of relief (that my sister had in fact not died because I don’t have one!) and so bemused by my dream grief for Ros that I shook my head and laughed.
So I’ve had a series of dreams recently about funerals, grief and death – what does it all mean? Today I realised that it’s the anniversary of a friend’s passing this month, and I had a phone call to make… to “a sister”. Whether intended or not, thanks for the reminder, Ros.
[SPOILERS] Ros Myers and Spooks 9
This post contains season 8 spoilers. If you haven’t seen series eight of Spooks and want to avoid some big time spoilers, I strongly advise that you turn away NOW. Go here and look at a pretty picture instead. If you have seen season eight, episode 8.8 in particular, read on…
Series nine of Spooks will soon be upon us (if it wasn’t for a bung ankle I’d be jumping up and down on the spot with excitement, really), and this means we will soon be learning the fate of our beloved Ros Myers and the spunky new home secretary. The final scenes of 8.8 suggests that the odds for Ros’s survival are not good. As the countdown to S9 continues, my trepidation grows.
As I’ve mentioned previously, I freakin’ love Ros Myers. I realise that all the Lucas lovin’ on this blog might imply otherwise, but she is in fact my favourite character on the show (well, most days of the week at least). So I am anticipating her departure quite keenly. It has already been widely reported that Hermonie Norris is leaving Spooks. This much we know for sure. How her character, Ros Myers, will be departing the Grid however remains a closely guarded secret.
Anyone who’s been watching Spooks from the beginning will have become accustomed to key characters leaving the show, and will also know that each time this occurs Spooks always manages to soldier on in fine fashion (ie, season seven was so brilliant and the new character (Lucas North) so intriguing that I barely noticed Adam Carter was no longer around!).
So, I know Ros will be leaving the Grid, this I have come to terms with, and I know the show will continue to excite and enthrall without her, but how Ros will be leaving is causing me some concern. Basically, I DON’T WANT ROS TO DIE! I want this kick arse lady to live. In truth, it’s more than a want. It’s a need. I’m undeniably desperate for Ros to survive.
Why? Need I explain! Obviously one never wants any of the good guys on Spooks to die, but it could also be that like Ros before me in 8.6, I have some displacement going on. I’ve been watching a lot of TV recently in which key characters have died and I’m a bit worn out by it all. Since a close friend of mine died in tragic circumstances a few years ago I’m much more sensitive to the depiction of death and grief on screen than I was in the past. I’ve become quite attached to Ros and I’m curious about how I will respond if she dies…. if!
In the final scenes of 8.8 we watched Ros struggle to drag the Home Sec to safety. As the edit cuts back and forth between the chaos outside the hotel and Ros, it’s strongly implied that Ros hasn’t made it too far from the room where the bombs are located. So when we see the point of explosion in the final scenes, it looks like Ros and the Home Sec were well within the blast zone and are goners (Incidentally I love that Lucas was hightailing it back to the hotel for Ros even though he was hopelessly out of time and running into extreme danger. That’s loyalty. Someone buy that man a box of donuts!).
Obviously there’s a pretty high death rate among senior officers on the Grid, and Spooks has a strong history of killing off a character early on in each new series. So on this basis one could be forgiven for thinking that Ros will not make it. However, if you look at the blast zone in the above screencap, it is conceivable that Ros managed to haul the Home Sec to the opposite end of the hotel (screen left). Although I don’t think we ought to read too much into a CGI explosion pasted onto a building, it is one possible way that she could survive. I’m inclined to think that Ros going up in smoke is just a bit too obvious for Spooks. There must be another explanation!
What you do think will be Ros’s fate? Will she survive the bomb? How will she depart the show? Will Ros be one of the lucky few who get out of section D alive?
I’m a lean mean screen capping machine
The great Spooks screen cap shortage of 2010 (well, the past decade really) will soon be coming to an end. I’m pleased to report that I am now kitted out with all the software I need to screencap at will. I’m so excited! (Too excited, actually, I really should get out more). Today I am announcing that the Spooks Fan Blog will be setting up a Spooks Screencap Gallery in the near future. Obviously it will take some time to cap every episode from every season. But it simply has to be done! If only I could quit my job and screen cap all day long. To celebrate this occasion, and to demonstrate the SFB’s new found capping capacity, here is our favourite lady in leather:
(Apologies to Lucas North, your days of dominating this blog are over!).
