It's been eight years since I watched an episode of this show. Barack Obama was President, David Cameron was Prime Minister, Brexit hadn't been voted on and I had never heard of The Last of Us. We have also lost Lance Reddick to heart disease.
Anyway, I intend to resume watching this, especially as I am approaching the end of Star Trek with a plan for a fortnightly post.
As this show is from the same production company as Alias and shares a bunch of behind the scenes personnel - such as Shauna Duggins, who did some of the stunt doubling for Anna Torv here, comparisons between the two are inevitable.
Sydney Bristow and Olivia Dunham could have a fascinating lunch together.
Anyway, this one involves people's brains liquefying after they click on a pop-up and watch some weird video. In 2009, most of us already knew not to engage with strange pop-ups...
So, onto my points on this:
- I bet that wasn't the only time the effects people have been asked for liquified brains on something.
- What could Walter Bishop, who remains gloriously on his own track, need $2,000 of baboon semen for? I don't need answers on a postcard, thank you.
- Ah, how the internet has changed...
- This is a rather convoluted way of murdering someone that relies on the target clicking the pop-up.
- Does Olivia not have a portable siren in her car? If not, she should get one?
- Olivia, Olivia, Olivia... looking bad is better than looking dead!
- I see Olivia Dunham shares Sydney Bristow's penchant for being distracted by a computer screen enough for someone to get the drop on her.
- I've managed to remember some of the key names even after eight years away. Not all though.
- Where did the killer get all the money for those computers? Massive Dynamic, perhaps?
- The scene between Walter and his lab assistant's mother is a great use of height differences in demonstrating power imbalances, if I may say so myself.
Conclusion
An enjoyable episode, but occasionally goes a bit too far for suspension of disbelief to work.
7/10
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