I'm not really spoiling anything but I mark it anyway...
I loathe episodes like this. It has been done to death to the point it's beyond cliché. Every series of Star Trek (excluding perhaps the original, it's been awhile since I've seen the original series) has this cliché episode. Every series of Stargate has this episode; fantasy shows have this episode. Comic series have this episode and the only one I found tolerable was the one done for "Legion" and I'm not even a fan of that show. I stopped watching that show in the second season; it was so boring to watch but they did the premise of this overly-used-beyond-cliché trope very well. Props to them.
The previous episode was tolerable but then this episode just dropped me back to the first. And, while subsequent episodes put a light on why they made that episode like it is, it still doesn't change my view of it. When this episode opened up at first I was like, "Are they changing genres to horror now?" Of course the previous episode did have the 'Aliens" rip-off (instead of out of the chest it was out of the back of the neck) - I mean, how many films are they going to rip off? So far I got them ripping off "Pitch Black", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Aliens", and "Sophie's Choice". Yes! "Sophie's Choice" - the doctor telling the story of an ancestor of his escaping Armenia and that ancestor leaving one her children behind to die - that's "Sophie's Choice". Loosely paraphrased but still...same difference. Now, it's an overdone TV episode written to death by so many TV shows in the past.
I hate this show. I keep watching for some reason. Reminds me of "The 100". Dislike that show, too, but I keep watching it. It's not the "it's so bad it's good" it's more like "it's so bad that it has the potential to be good but just won't be but I'll keep watching until I believe it could be." Whooo...that was a mouthful.
On to the next. Maybe it'll make me gouge out my eyes but I'll still have my ears.
I loathe episodes like this. It has been done to death to the point it's beyond cliché. Every series of Star Trek (excluding perhaps the original, it's been awhile since I've seen the original series) has this cliché episode. Every series of Stargate has this episode; fantasy shows have this episode. Comic series have this episode and the only one I found tolerable was the one done for "Legion" and I'm not even a fan of that show. I stopped watching that show in the second season; it was so boring to watch but they did the premise of this overly-used-beyond-cliché trope very well. Props to them.
The previous episode was tolerable but then this episode just dropped me back to the first. And, while subsequent episodes put a light on why they made that episode like it is, it still doesn't change my view of it. When this episode opened up at first I was like, "Are they changing genres to horror now?" Of course the previous episode did have the 'Aliens" rip-off (instead of out of the chest it was out of the back of the neck) - I mean, how many films are they going to rip off? So far I got them ripping off "Pitch Black", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Aliens", and "Sophie's Choice". Yes! "Sophie's Choice" - the doctor telling the story of an ancestor of his escaping Armenia and that ancestor leaving one her children behind to die - that's "Sophie's Choice". Loosely paraphrased but still...same difference. Now, it's an overdone TV episode written to death by so many TV shows in the past.
I hate this show. I keep watching for some reason. Reminds me of "The 100". Dislike that show, too, but I keep watching it. It's not the "it's so bad it's good" it's more like "it's so bad that it has the potential to be good but just won't be but I'll keep watching until I believe it could be." Whooo...that was a mouthful.
On to the next. Maybe it'll make me gouge out my eyes but I'll still have my ears.