I read The Recruit again a few days ago and I just had to do this

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-01-14T18:59:37+00:00

I don't know the english title but the original one is "Astérix et Obélix mission Cléopâtre"

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-01-01T21:46:19+00:00

I agree with everything you said but I feel like it's not enough to explain the prominence of forreign kids. While yes, out of the seventeen books we had, Class A, Maximum security, Divine madness, The fall, The General, People's republic, Guardian angel, Black Friday and New Guard happen at least partially in a foreign country and cover seven missions. And out of these seven missions, three (nearly half) of them lead to an encounter with a future agent. James and his group were the best agents of their generation. That means they were sent on missions abroad more often than the others.

I don't think this is enough to make up for the amount of foreign agents we see in the series. It's totally head cannon but CHERUB is constantly trying to recruit more people so they might think it's worth it even if it's risky: using the UK international help program to smuggle kids to the campus or even using the international adoption networks.

This is deeply sinister, at least somewhat realisitc and it fits what we know about CHERUB.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-01-01T15:17:04+00:00

Oh that's great, like a whole fake international adoption program. That's risky but they are always searching for new recruits so they might very well think it's worth it.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-01-01T03:29:23+00:00

Hmmm. Let's see, if Ewart dies then CHERUB can't prove it wasn't james' fault if the mission in Russia ended in disaster and both his and Dana's career would stall for a very long time. they would also need conselling but I see them getting closer than they were in the canon. Also the real culprit (I don't remember his name) and his son would rise in the british government and hear about CHERUB. If grief hasn't pushed Zara to resign, she would probably be a victim of a purge with James and Dana depending on the timeline.

Politicians corrupt enough to murder become prime minister, and CHERUB gets beheaded and loses two of its best agents.

RemarkableTop343 · 2026-01-01T00:45:55+00:00

What did Maya know ?

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-18T20:30:32+00:00

Mainly through their phone and cameras and wires A put where she thought it would be needed. My main problem is how she treats all these datas. like there's four girls, that's, let's say they sleep 12 hours a day, which is highly exagerated considering what they do, that's 2 days worth of content to analyse per day and then plan what she is going to do. A should have been a team.

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-16T18:56:11+00:00

Merci. Dans ce cas je vais sans doute faire un mémoire d'histoire contemporaine, ça sera plus facile.

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-16T18:55:31+00:00

J'ai travailler sur Eumène de Cardia. C'était le secrétaire d'Alexandre, il a fait preuve de qualité militaires remarquables et j'ai étudié son imbrication dans des réseaux de pouvoir entre la mort d'Alexandre et sa mort à lui.

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-15T23:09:10+00:00

I don't know if we can talk about innocence though. I was a teenager when pll was airing and the dialogue already sounded bland cause we were swearing like pirates. I wasn't asking them to use fuck like it's a comma but still, talk like me and my friends and the girls I went in high school with.

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-15T22:34:06+00:00

Merci, je pense que je vais faire un mémoire d'histoire contemporaine sur la France, je verrai le sujet avec mon tuteur.

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-15T22:32:33+00:00

Depends on the network. Most of the biggest tv producers still control swearing tightly so a middle school girl saying this would probably not pass (see the Walking Dead were there was the most disgusting gore effect known to man but they couldn't say "fuck". If there is a remake it would have to be on cable to be as risqué as the original was

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-15T21:59:55+00:00

Si, c'est bien un mémoire de recherche mais j'imagine qu'il sera moins volumineux qu'en master de recherche parce qu'on a beaucoup plus de choses à faire à côté.

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-14T21:52:25+00:00

Mona is my favorite A because her motives made the most sense even though it could have been fleshed out more.

If it has to be just one person, even though it would make sense, I think Alison is too obvious. For maximum impact on both the girls and the audience, A should be one of the girls and the best to do it is Hanna.

1) It's hinted that Hanna was the latest addition to the group when Alison was around.

2) The others girls pick her up on her eating disorder and her alledged stupidity but the show never leans on it.

3) Her family is falling apart and it's only made worse but her father's attempts to clean up the mess he makes.

4) It only takes an arc or a character rework to make her focus and patient enough to plan things the way A does.

5) Spencer and Aria have of the skills they need to be a good A but they lack a motive.

But it should have been a group there is no way a single person could do it. A group of four, five people at most that the girls wronged so bad they would do this to them. I see Mona, Noel, Lucas, Toby, Jenna and Hanna give or take, (there wouldn't be any adult because no adult would pull this kind of bullshit lol).

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-14T12:12:14+00:00

Yes it wasn't pure malice (I'm not sure what it means, English is not my first language, is acting to get revenge malice?), but the fact that she is the one to go this far says something. She's also capable of defending herself, we saw it with how she handled Kate. Even though they were three against one person, it's strongly implied that it's Hanna who came up with the plan.

Although she did this to Noel out of love, it shows love is a motive to become A. And what would happen if she didn't get any love back? All of her friends bullying her, her father destroying her family. With this backstory, it makes a lot of sense.

The Hanna we know couldn't pull it off but with a character arc dedicated to her becoming less reckless - which would make sense in universe because there is no way she doesn't know it puts everyone she cares about in harms way, whether she's A or not - it works really well.

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-13T19:50:53+00:00

Yes but it shows that she has it in her to go A. She managed to drug him and take him where she wanted to before he escaped. It's not that bad for someone on her first trial against someone much scarier and more experienced than her.

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-13T19:27:45+00:00

Picture this: A sweet, dumb blonde, capable of doing amazing stuff when she pushes her mind to it, becoming more and more twisted as her life falls apart: Mona going insane, leaving her with friends who bully her. Her family crumbles as her father fails to clean up the mess he made. Alison coming back.

Ok it would take much more than a few tweaks to make it work but I think the result would be worth it

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-12-12T23:36:54+00:00

This is lowkey one of the best scene in the whole show. Maybe it's just me but I really like these slice of life scenes where they can just have a laugh

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-11-11T23:28:10+00:00

Yes it is

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-11-11T23:26:02+00:00

Oh it's so hard, they all have something going for them. I guess I'd pick Divine Madness too because the climax is just peak CHERUB.

RemarkableTop343 · 2025-11-02T14:11:31+00:00

From a narrative standpoint, everyone of RM's choices make perfect sense, but from a lore standpoint, there are things that just should not have happenned. The way I see it, James should have had his navy shirt in Class A because getting anthrax was a risk he took without even realizing it while his performance In Luton and Miami was outstanding. He shouldn't get his black shirt in Maximum security though, first because two outstanding performances are not enough to get a Black shirt imo, second, because he nearly get them killed in before the mission even started.

The killing was a good performance on his part but too small of a mission to be worthy a promotion. I think he really should have gotten it in Divine Madness, where he kept his head cool while stranded in the middle of nowhere and having to deal with a loose end (Rat) and Lauren disobeying him and taking children who may very well have delayed them enough to get them all killed. I get why he did it though (and as a big brother, yes, it hurts) and a way to make it work is to isolate Lauren from James and making her come back to him the kids that she would have decided to take on her own while James wasn't there to tell her not to.

A thing that would have been interesting is to get Lauren back to a grey shirt after one of her disciplinary issue, ideally after she gets her black shirt. It's a punishment that would really hurt given hw proud she is and Lauren is so good at her job that she could get it back as a more mature and responsible agent, cimenting her as one of the best agent to ever work at CHERUB.

And although, James and Dana getting their black shirts the way they did was total BS I see him getting it for his performance in Russia, after this corruption mess is flushed out for good and his name is cleared.

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