The Hollow Men

POSTED BY: Schism
UPDATED: Friday, January 22, 2010 16:15
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SCHISM

Saturday, January 16, 2010 2:13 AM

SPOILERS

Once I got over the shock of Boyd as the big bad, the more hollow and empty it felt.

Hence the title, I guess.

I doubt his true identity was planned from the start...

Anyway, great ep, but what a low budget ending.

Cliche running away from the explosion shot, two seconds later cut to an intact building with nary a bit of smoke.

Shame about Mellie though. But that's what I love about Joss and his chosen writers - they take everything that you know won't happen in typical network shows and do it until it hurts.

ECGORDON

Saturday, January 16, 2010 2:35 AM

And you saw the ending of the episode when? It's in a commercial break right now with about twenty minutes to go.

LITTLEBIRD

Saturday, January 16, 2010 12:11 PM

The preview for the next episode looks interesting.
Takes place in 2020.

Check out this site on the Rossum Corporation. Someone is sure having fun with this.

www.rossumcorporation.com/

Debra

CYBERSNARK

Saturday, January 16, 2010 3:26 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Schism:
two seconds later cut to an intact building with nary a bit of smoke.

To be fair, that's probably fairly accurate to what an explosion (from a few pounds of plastique and a grenade) in a fortified underground laboratory would look like from outside. This wasn't a pocket nuke --hell, none of the characters brought in explosives from outside, so they probably just raided the nearest weapons locker and improvised.

I'm still waiting to see how Alpha factors back in. He can build his own Chair, and he may be brilliant enough to reconstruct a remote-imprint system. His Joker-esque style of anarchy would also lend itself to using the phone lines as a vector (as we learned in Epitaph One) --who else would want to create an entire nation of psychotic kill-bots with no clear target or mission parametres?

I can easily see Adelle's group becoming an anti-Rossum, dedicated to locating, suppressing, and/or destroying the tech wherever it appears. And I'm sure Topher could use Echo's biochemistry to synthesize a vaccine --basically Boyd's plan, but now intended to save everyone. Make any kind of wipe/imprinting impossible, and destroy the Dollhouses for good.

All Ballard and the others have to do is delay the inevitable apocalypse (with Alpha as the mission-critical Big Bad) long enough for Topher to save the world.

Basically Terminator, but with dolls instead of metal.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

ECGORDON

Saturday, January 16, 2010 3:49 PM

Topher can design a cyborg that looks like Bennett and send her back in time to kill Clyde Randolph before he invents imprinting technology.

ECGORDON

Saturday, January 16, 2010 4:41 PM

Schism did call the shots correctly on the episode, but I'm still curious how he (she?) saw it before it finished broadcasting. Did it air in Canada or elsewhere before it did here?

CYBERSNARK

Saturday, January 16, 2010 4:47 PM

It airs at 8:00 on Global in Canada (as opposed to apparently 9:00 everywhere else).

(Medium also airs at 9, so I too try to catch the early show.)

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

SCHISM

Saturday, January 16, 2010 5:20 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
Schism did call the shots correctly on the episode, but I'm still curious how he (she?) saw it before it finished broadcasting. Did it air in Canada or elsewhere before it did here?

*ahem*

I'm a HE.
:p

And a Canadian HE at that!

Sure the bomb didn't have to destroy the whole building, but that scene came off as poor.
The horribly cliche 'running down the all from the explosion' scene, and half a second later she's outside, like she just rounded the corner from certain death and then everything's rosy.

ECGORDON

Saturday, January 16, 2010 6:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Schism:
Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
Schism did call the shots correctly on the episode, but I'm still curious how he (she?) saw it before it finished broadcasting. Did it air in Canada or elsewhere before it did here?

*ahem*

I'm a HE.
:p

And a Canadian HE at that!

Sure the bomb didn't have to destroy the whole building, but that scene came off as poor.
The horribly cliche 'running down the all from the explosion' scene, and half a second later she's outside, like she just rounded the corner from certain death and then everything's rosy.

I agree that the final scene was a bit "all's well" after the explosion, but I also agree that we wouldn't necessarily have seen the effects from the underground explosion. It seems likely there was an intervening scene deleted.

As for not knowing if you are a he or a she, it's hard to tell without some evidence of man-parts.

I've suggested several times that everyone needs to add some information to their profile page to help others know to whom they are conversing.

SCHISM

Sunday, January 17, 2010 2:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
Quote:
Originally posted by Schism:
Quote:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
Schism did call the shots correctly on the episode, but I'm still curious how he (she?) saw it before it finished broadcasting. Did it air in Canada or elsewhere before it did here?

*ahem*

I'm a HE.
:p

And a Canadian HE at that!

Sure the bomb didn't have to destroy the whole building, but that scene came off as poor.
The horribly cliche 'running down the all from the explosion' scene, and half a second later she's outside, like she just rounded the corner from certain death and then everything's rosy.

I agree that the final scene was a bit "all's well" after the explosion, but I also agree that we wouldn't necessarily have seen the effects from the underground explosion. It seems likely there was an intervening scene deleted.

As for not knowing if you are a he or a she, it's hard to tell without some evidence of man-parts.

I've suggested several times that everyone needs to add some information to their profile page to help others know to whom they are conversing.

How's this?

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I'm a boy!

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