Using public office for personal gain. That’s how I’d describe it in a nutshell. And even Taverner is guilty.
I love this show, but I might have actually audibly groaned during the scene at the rally before Nate was about to give his speech where the top bad guy talks his way past security with just the lamest of excuses and in a completely unconvincing manner.
It’s funny, I thought of him as Nate too while we watched.
He’s a wonder kid.
Yeah, the bad guys’ evil plan is less impressive when it’s predicated on everyone else being complete idiots.
Thank you! Honestly, I don’t see how the plan was supposed to destabilize anything, or why anyone would GAS over the head of MI5 being shit while jogging. This seems like run of the mill “shit happens” to me.
It’s within an order of magnitude of Butters’ plan, as Professor Chaos, to drown the world by leaving a garden hose running. Spoiler altert: it didn’t work.
Overall, the season was fine, but the formula is becoming too predictable. Have a fairly straight forward “crisis” situation introduced early on, then somewhere around the end of episode 4 introduce a “twist” that throws everything off kilter and ramps up the stakes. Here, the twist wasn’t all that much of a twist, and as I said the stakes didn’t strike me as being all that high.
ETA: Honestly, I was waiting/hoping for the twist to be that this whole cookie-cutter destabilization plan is obviously stupid and Lamb is just endorsing it while he positions the pieces to face what’s really going on so he can have a good laugh over his minions thinking that something as minor as an average day of London traffic and a mayoral candidate or two meeting untimely ends (but in one case at least, hardly unfortunate—here I refer to the White Supremacist candidate) could really destabilize a whole nation if you just blow up some penguins on top of it. Flipping ridiculous!
I donno, sounds like it would get a lot of press.
Never mind, got the plot points confused.
Hmmm…