My Own Worst Enemy: "That Is Not My Son" 11/11 - Grading & Discussion
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For such an average show they always seem to hook me with something to make me come back the next week.
seeing next week's preview, I have to see if Henry's wife is a spy too.
I hope not.
There are getting to be to many people in this "spy program".
For such an average show they always seem to hook me with something to make me come back the next week.
seeing next week's preview, I have to see if Henry's wife is a spy too.
I hope not.
There are getting to be to many people in this "spy program".
Re: My Own Worst Enemy: "That Is Not My Son" 11/11 - Grading & Discuss
The premise is interesting at first, but seriously flawed. I suppose if you got captured and were "turned off," you couldn't divulge information if you don't know it, but getting tortured and killed over something you don't know (but your alter ego does) would certainly suck.
But regarding the Henry/Edward broken chip, why keep him in the field if he's broken? Edward can easily adapt to Henry's life, but Henry certainly can't become superspy superkiller if called upon and is a liability.
Maybe it would make more sense if Henry were real and Edward was the programming.
The premise is interesting at first, but seriously flawed. I suppose if you got captured and were "turned off," you couldn't divulge information if you don't know it, but getting tortured and killed over something you don't know (but your alter ego does) would certainly suck.
But regarding the Henry/Edward broken chip, why keep him in the field if he's broken? Edward can easily adapt to Henry's life, but Henry certainly can't become superspy superkiller if called upon and is a liability.
Maybe it would make more sense if Henry were real and Edward was the programming.
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I see the flaws you are talking about to be sure but the struggle between the two really interests me.
On a totally seperate note is it me or does Saffron Burrows, who I've always considered SUPER hot, look way diferent than you have seen her in other shows and such? he still looks good but she looked super hot in her recent stint on Boston Legal but not quite as much here.
I see the flaws you are talking about to be sure but the struggle between the two really interests me.
On a totally seperate note is it me or does Saffron Burrows, who I've always considered SUPER hot, look way diferent than you have seen her in other shows and such? he still looks good but she looked super hot in her recent stint on Boston Legal but not quite as much here.
Re: My Own Worst Enemy: "That Is Not My Son" 11/11 - Grading & Discuss
News came out today that NBC has canceled this show. Apparently they had originally commissioned 9 episodes and will not be ordering any more. And it is up in the air whether they will use the remaining unaired episodes. Lipstick Jungle also got the axe today (no loss there for me).
News came out today that NBC has canceled this show. Apparently they had originally commissioned 9 episodes and will not be ordering any more. And it is up in the air whether they will use the remaining unaired episodes. Lipstick Jungle also got the axe today (no loss there for me).
Re: My Own Worst Enemy: "That Is Not My Son" 11/11 - Grading & Discuss
Next week's episode was the one where he questions if his wife is also a spy!!!
If they burn the remaining episodes off, it might like what they did with Boomtown -- air them during the weekends during the Christmas holiday timeframe and not tell anyone that they're airing.
Next week's episode was the one where he questions if his wife is also a spy!!!
If they burn the remaining episodes off, it might like what they did with Boomtown -- air them during the weekends during the Christmas holiday timeframe and not tell anyone that they're airing.
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Below average. The logic has always been iffy, but this tears it. If the plan for broken spies is to wipe out the agent, then Henry has been an idiot for trying to protect psycho Edward up till now. And the audience has been idiots for assuming that Henry has been in danger (I'd never have been worried one iota about Edward being wiped off the face of the earth).
But really, the writers are at fault for making the audience idiots by withholding this info till now. And the reason they withheld it is because they made it up for this episode when they realized they'd written themselves into a corner forty minutes before they were due to turn in the script. Really, it's that obvious of a bandaid - oh, let's invent some micro-whozits to get us out of a jam. Even VOY at its worst would never have stooped that low. WHAT! SHITTY! WRITING!!!
The gutsier move would be to wipe out Nice Ellen and keep Nasty Paula - establishing the far more sensible rule that the civilian gets wiped and the far-more-valuable agent survives - thus making Henry's survival dependent on the destruction of a nice lady with a happy family that has now been utterly destroyed. But we can't have something that tragic to deal with, so let's go for the cop-out instead, even if it involves logic so tortured that even Dick Cheney would blanche.
Man oh man and people complain about Heroes' swiss-cheese writing. This episode was just an insult. Christian Slater deserves better than this. Too bad, because the basic premise of a guy whose alter ego is both his real self and a psycho is a pretty good one. They needed to rethink it totally from the start and maybe just lose the spy angle.
Not at all sad to see this one cancelled. I wouldn't have stuck with it very long anyway.
Below average. The logic has always been iffy, but this tears it. If the plan for broken spies is to wipe out the agent, then Henry has been an idiot for trying to protect psycho Edward up till now. And the audience has been idiots for assuming that Henry has been in danger (I'd never have been worried one iota about Edward being wiped off the face of the earth).
But really, the writers are at fault for making the audience idiots by withholding this info till now. And the reason they withheld it is because they made it up for this episode when they realized they'd written themselves into a corner forty minutes before they were due to turn in the script. Really, it's that obvious of a bandaid - oh, let's invent some micro-whozits to get us out of a jam. Even VOY at its worst would never have stooped that low. WHAT! SHITTY! WRITING!!!
The gutsier move would be to wipe out Nice Ellen and keep Nasty Paula - establishing the far more sensible rule that the civilian gets wiped and the far-more-valuable agent survives - thus making Henry's survival dependent on the destruction of a nice lady with a happy family that has now been utterly destroyed. But we can't have something that tragic to deal with, so let's go for the cop-out instead, even if it involves logic so tortured that even Dick Cheney would blanche.
Man oh man and people complain about Heroes' swiss-cheese writing. This episode was just an insult. Christian Slater deserves better than this. Too bad, because the basic premise of a guy whose alter ego is both his real self and a psycho is a pretty good one. They needed to rethink it totally from the start and maybe just lose the spy angle.
Not at all sad to see this one cancelled. I wouldn't have stuck with it very long anyway.
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