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December 11, 2008
Spooks Series 7
I also found myself wondering if Spooks was speculative fiction. Spooks Code 9 was supposed to be the Science Fiction version, but all they really did was set it in the future so that they could excuse the many deviations from reality. Nothing was really said or done in Code 9 that made me think it was SF. Yet, even though Spooks uses no outlandish SF tropes it does pose some very near future questions and then decides what happens (admittedly this usually involves the good guys winning whilst one of them dies, but at least they play it out). Some examples of recent Spooks plots:
- A virulent virus gets loose in London.
- A tactical nuke is loose in London. (It's normally London that gets it.)
- A Russian sub launches a DOD attack on the UK interweb.
Maybe these are just techno-thriller plots? I'm not sure. I've never been good with defining genre boundaries. My temptation is to dislike anything that sounds like "Fantasy", classify anything rubbish as a "uninformed SF wannabe" (or "Fantasy") and group anything I like into "Science Fiction"! Well, kind of. Perhaps I can learn to be a bit more objective.
Whatever I classify it as, Spooks was entertaining Television, with some great present day fictional plots, and it resonated with my years of reading Spy novels when I was younger.
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