After the truly awful Immortal Sins which still bothers me to this day. I tuned into this weeks episode with the wish that it would be better than the previous episode but to be honest it wouldn’t be hard. Now the previous episode spent the entire episode laying down the groundwork about how this Angelo that Jack was getting close to was the one that could answer everything about this miracle. Well getting into this episode we go to where Angelo is and he was unconscious and almost dying. Well I’m certainly glad that I sat through all that c**p to get through to this moment to be effectively told that the person who could know what’s going on wont say a word. In fact won’t even open his eyes. Thankyou RTD for confirming what I have suspected for weeks. That you are trying to kill your creation by filling it with as much BS as it is possible for people to take over 10 weeks. The only thing of worth that he did was die which being a show where you can’t die is quite a big thing yet it is dealt with in a rather odd thing.
Once you get past the rather hap hazard way that the story starts then you can get into the episode properly. Wayne Knight returns which was fun and all through his time he was thoroughly brilliant and it seemed like he was going to be quite involved with the episode but then he decided to blow himself (and others) up. So his involvement (like Angelo’s) was limited at best. We were thankfully saved by the story which is a lot better than the previous week and doesn’t feel like padding as much. The concern moves from people running out of food as they were at the beginning of the series to the stock market and how they are all poo pooing themselves. It seems the natural progression and seems quite fitting considering the economical uncertainty at the moment. There seems to be a 24 theme entering the show. With the CIA returning to feature more prominently than they have done it means we have a character in the CIA that turns out to be working against everyone trying to do their job. I know that this isnt original and it was probably done before 24 but I have to say that it adds that much needed injection of drama which will hopefully not be abandoned in the final two episodes because the actress that was involved did a darn good job.
This episode finally sees the return of Bill Pullman. I was over the moon to see him back because I knew that we were going to be treated to some wonderful scenes and he didn’t disappoint. The relationship between Oswald Danes and Jilly Kitzinger has always been strained but this time it broke down as Oswald struck Jilly and this comes after a strangely uncomfortable scene where Oswald wants a girl who’s “legal”. Bill Pullman does a brilliant job in this episode however for the first time I find myself writing that he doesn’t steal the show in an episode that he’s in. That particular honour belongs to John De Lancie who to many was Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation. In every scene he was brilliant and did the ultimate good thing by kicking Gwen out of America and pretty much out of the good side of the story.
The ending of the episode was very well played because Jack has been shot in quite a serious way and its left to Esther to cry and wonder what’s going to do next. I have to say that despite how cross I was that they basically wiped out the meaning of Angelo, I was still impressed with this episode and thought it was more like Torchwood than we have had for a couple of weeks. Hopefully the final two episodes will give us a satisfactory conclusion but I’m not going to build up hope. Ultimately when the story was on Jack, Rex and Oswald I was enjoying myself, when it was on Gwen, I was enjoying myself less. Now she is back to Wales this means that she can do more bleating on about her Dad and bore us to tears. Joy!
Once you get past the rather hap hazard way that the story starts then you can get into the episode properly. Wayne Knight returns which was fun and all through his time he was thoroughly brilliant and it seemed like he was going to be quite involved with the episode but then he decided to blow himself (and others) up. So his involvement (like Angelo’s) was limited at best. We were thankfully saved by the story which is a lot better than the previous week and doesn’t feel like padding as much. The concern moves from people running out of food as they were at the beginning of the series to the stock market and how they are all poo pooing themselves. It seems the natural progression and seems quite fitting considering the economical uncertainty at the moment. There seems to be a 24 theme entering the show. With the CIA returning to feature more prominently than they have done it means we have a character in the CIA that turns out to be working against everyone trying to do their job. I know that this isnt original and it was probably done before 24 but I have to say that it adds that much needed injection of drama which will hopefully not be abandoned in the final two episodes because the actress that was involved did a darn good job.
This episode finally sees the return of Bill Pullman. I was over the moon to see him back because I knew that we were going to be treated to some wonderful scenes and he didn’t disappoint. The relationship between Oswald Danes and Jilly Kitzinger has always been strained but this time it broke down as Oswald struck Jilly and this comes after a strangely uncomfortable scene where Oswald wants a girl who’s “legal”. Bill Pullman does a brilliant job in this episode however for the first time I find myself writing that he doesn’t steal the show in an episode that he’s in. That particular honour belongs to John De Lancie who to many was Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation. In every scene he was brilliant and did the ultimate good thing by kicking Gwen out of America and pretty much out of the good side of the story.
The ending of the episode was very well played because Jack has been shot in quite a serious way and its left to Esther to cry and wonder what’s going to do next. I have to say that despite how cross I was that they basically wiped out the meaning of Angelo, I was still impressed with this episode and thought it was more like Torchwood than we have had for a couple of weeks. Hopefully the final two episodes will give us a satisfactory conclusion but I’m not going to build up hope. Ultimately when the story was on Jack, Rex and Oswald I was enjoying myself, when it was on Gwen, I was enjoying myself less. Now she is back to Wales this means that she can do more bleating on about her Dad and bore us to tears. Joy!
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