Relic Hunter: Season 2, Episode 12M.I.A. (15 Jan. 2001)Sydney gets kidnapped, but by whom? Nigel, Claudia and Cate will have to go through the list of enemies Sydney has made in the past and deduce which of them is responsible. Cue flashbacks. Director:Julian Grant |
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It was an ordinary night of channel surfing. I came across the channel airing this episode. Since nothing else was on, and I had missed only the first five minutes of the episode, I decided to watch it - after all, one reviewer had given it the full 10/10 - the best of the best there could *ever* be. This had to be the TV equivalent of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
It was not. A lazily written, unoriginal plot is so thin the episode has to fill its running time with clips from past episodes clumsily shoehorned in. They are poor. In fact, *everything* is poor and not even unintentionally funny. You cannot believe how long the opening title sequence (I have seen some episodes in the past) and the end credits run - and that happens on *every* episode! A pitiful solution to pass as much running time as possible every week without spending any money on script, filming and other things the show-runners obviously considered an inconvenience in their hunt for as much profit out of as little expenses as possible. They even play the title music over a fight scene, in order to avoid having to pay someone to actually compose original music specifically for the scene.
This is dreadful. 2/10 - there are few things worse out there. But now, seeing how few people have rated these episodes, I have found a calling
- to watch the remaining 32 episodes and rate them. Once in a while,
one has to watch really bad TV to appreciate the really good TV even more.