.... which is a point I have made in other reviews.
You basically need to see a really poor iteration of the series to appreciate the good episodes.
So, for the record, and this is written in 2015 when I am watching the whole series sequentially, REGARDLESS of the fact that this was aired in Season 2 and features a "dead" regular (see all the prior reviews)...
If you judge this on its own it is STILL likely the worst episode in the series. The dialog is terrible. The story trots out every possession cliché since the Old Testament. It simply does not engage. I couldn't wait for it to be over.
Walter is given an "aside" off the top about what happened to some of the participants in his early experiments (they were paid off by the university and never had to work again, since they possibly could never work again anyway) and it is ironically the funniest throwaway line in the series.
You basically need to see a really poor iteration of the series to appreciate the good episodes.
So, for the record, and this is written in 2015 when I am watching the whole series sequentially, REGARDLESS of the fact that this was aired in Season 2 and features a "dead" regular (see all the prior reviews)...
If you judge this on its own it is STILL likely the worst episode in the series. The dialog is terrible. The story trots out every possession cliché since the Old Testament. It simply does not engage. I couldn't wait for it to be over.
Walter is given an "aside" off the top about what happened to some of the participants in his early experiments (they were paid off by the university and never had to work again, since they possibly could never work again anyway) and it is ironically the funniest throwaway line in the series.