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Spooks
Posted: 09 Dec 2008, 10:57
by malifex
Did anyone else spot all the Sisterhood references in last night's episode of 'Spooks'?
For those of you who didn't see it, the Russian 'number station' (a particular radio frequency for transmitting coded information) was broadcasting 'random' phrases and numbers. Only they weren't random. They were 'Finland Red, Egypt White', '2 5 0 0 0 2 5' and 'Rain from Heaven'. The latter turned out to be the code to initiate a nuclear attack on London.
Didn't spot who wrote it, but obviously a fan!
S
Posted: 09 Dec 2008, 11:04
by Quiff Boy
unless they are genuine codes and eldritch is MI6?
our man under the volcano indeed
Posted: 09 Dec 2008, 11:25
by Silver_Owl
I was just about to start a thrtead myself.
I wasn't watching it - I had my headphones on - but just heard them talking about the above.
I did wonder myself.
Perhaps it was written by an Andrew Taylor
Attrocity Exhibition
Posted: 09 Dec 2008, 11:33
by road_kill
Writer: Neil Cross
this Neil Cross,
perchance?
Re: Attrocity Exhibition
Posted: 09 Dec 2008, 11:49
by Silver_Owl
Interesting.
Who was the guy who wrote the article about goff for the Guardian and posted here? That wasn't him was it?
Re: Attrocity Exhibition
Posted: 09 Dec 2008, 11:57
by Quiff Boy
hmmm
claims to have once been lead singer in a band called the Atrocity Exhibition. As there is no surviving evidence of his musical career we must take his word that the band ‘achieved mediocrity just before the end’,
the boy's got form
Posted: 09 Dec 2008, 12:13
by dinky daisy
Atrocity Exhibition is a Ballard book, one of the favorites of... Eldo.
Sisters are a very bookish band, told you before.
Check the review:
Heartland by Neil Cross
My stepfather, the weirdly lovable dog-beater
By Patrick Hussey
It's all conspiracy.[/i]
Posted: 09 Dec 2008, 12:46
by malifex
Mr. Cross is certainly looking like the likely culprit.
A couple of characters also paraphrased the line 'What once was lost can never be found'.
He's a tinker, isn't he?
S
Posted: 09 Dec 2008, 12:48
by Quiff Boy
malifex wrote:Mr. Cross is certainly looking like the likely culprit.
A couple of characters also paraphrased the line 'What once was lost can never be found'.
He's a tinker, isn't he?
S
well, if you could you would, wouldn't you?
Posted: 10 Dec 2008, 00:27
by silentNate
I saw this in the Gruaniad review, never watched show personally...
Posted: 10 Dec 2008, 10:26
by CyberAndy
Surely this programme was our Christmas 'Gift' in the TV schedules ...
Posted: 10 Dec 2008, 10:50
by CyberAndy
The episode is repeated on bbc1 10.50pm Sunday 14th December
Posted: 10 Dec 2008, 13:37
by Quiff Boy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/ ... television
Series seven of Spooks (BBC1) went out with a bang - literally - although not as big a bang as it could have been. A bunch of Russians, disaffected since perestroika, have set a nuclear device to go off in Grosvenor Square. Time ticks towards armageddon. But Connie the traitor makes amends for her treason and defuses the nuclear part of the device. Sadly, the explosive bit of the bomb can't be defused, and so Connie herself is diffused, all over the inside of an old London Underground tunnel.
The person I feel most sorry for is the Russian "sleeper" who has been hanging around in this country, in Faversham in Kent, since the 1980s, waiting for word to come from Moscow.
Three words actually: "rain from heaven". Rain from heaven means he has to dig up the bomb, take it to Grosvenor Square, and set it off. But one of Harry's lot puts a bullet through his head as he sits on the park bench, waiting to fulfil his life's purpose. Twenty-five years in Faversham, for nothing. I once spent a few weeks in Faversham, picking hops, and that was enough.
It's very sleepy, even for a sleeper.
It's nice to see MI5 locking horns with the Russians again. Maybe the Spooks people just got bored with Islamic terrorism, so they did what they had to do: they restarted the cold war. A bold move, but an admirable one.
Posted: 10 Dec 2008, 14:19
by markfiend
Is the mention of Faversham anything to do with Leeds' own Fav? I know that
has been known to hang out in there...
Posted: 10 Dec 2008, 14:46
by lachert
you can download it here if you want:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E889NI2Y
Posted: 10 Dec 2008, 14:47
by streamline
I'm pretty sure that previous episodes have included other references....
Floodland and First and Last and Always I seem to remember cropping up either as names or in dialogue.
Lets wait until the next season when the world is taken to the edge of war by a cat called Spiggy!
Posted: 10 Dec 2008, 15:03
by Karst
Or Eldrtich himself might make an appearance as a....
Posted: 10 Dec 2008, 16:35
by Silver_Owl
streamline wrote:I'm pretty sure that previous episodes have included other references....
Floodland and First and Last and Always I seem to remember cropping up either as names or in dialogue.
Lets wait until the next season when the world is taken to the edge of war by a cat called Spiggy!
The same dude wrote an episode in series 5...so it could be that one.
Posted: 11 Dec 2008, 17:57
by christophe
Karst wrote:Or Eldrtich himself might make an appearance as a....
corpse?
Posted: 11 Dec 2008, 21:20
by 25men
Julius Caesar - As Portia said, “The quality of mercy is not strain’d, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.�
"Mediocre Writers Borrow; Great Writers Steal" - T.S. Eliot
Posted: 19 Dec 2008, 21:44
by Maisey
On the train on the way home from seeing New Model Army the other day a man in the suit gives me a funny look, then looks away. Happens a couples of times before he taps me on the shoulder - I expect to hear "Can you turn your music down, or something along those lines...
Him: "Excuse me, but do you watch Spooks by any chance?"
Me: "No...but I think I know what you're getting at - Sisters yeah?"
Him: "Not quite, actually a more obscure LP by 'The Sisterhood'"
Me: "Oh I see, you're a fan!"
Conversation ensued. Turned out he was a big NMA fan from years ago as well!
Posted: 19 Dec 2008, 22:31
by psichonaut
Heartland has many qualities, not least the poetry of its language and the gentle evocation of a late 1970s childhood
what's his avatar and his nickname?
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Re: Attrocity Exhibition
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 02:31
by IwearRibbons
Posted: 14 Jan 2011, 19:02
by ribbons69
His memoir was called "Heartland"
Posted: 16 Feb 2012, 21:03
by A_H
25men wrote:Julius Caesar - As Portia said, “The quality of mercy is not strain’d, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.�
"Mediocre Writers Borrow; Great Writers Steal" - T.S. Eliot
Quite right. Except: wrong Portia. The Quality of Mercy speech is made by the Merchant of Venice one.
(btw, sorry to resurrect such a long-dead thread, but the Spooks thing had been bugging me for months...)