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Layout at Glen Canyon Kaboom! (spoilers)

posted 10 years ago by batvette
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So what's up with the stupid blasting sequence at the end? The explosions are just random all over the mountain? Is that really how they build dams? And gotta love the way some are tiny little ones that blow up the side of a mountain, the next is a little one that doesn't even knock down a girl.
What got me furious was how both the men in the car, and the girl on foot, are moving along right in the path of where the next explosion would be. Hey, stupid TV show characters: Wouldn't it have been a much better plan to stop in your tracks and stay in a spot that has already been detonated?

Yeah I know it's just a TV show but this is one of the most outlandish things I've ever seen on TV.

I know you are but what am I?

[–] lynxrufus 10 years ago

Yea, the scene makes absolutely no sense. At least it's entertaining.

It may be a scene that was cut from 'Plan 9 From Outer Space'

[–] batvette 10 years ago

I guess it just shows the uneven nature of the show. Some episodes are fantastic, (like "Legacy for Lucia") and some are really hard to follow if not just ridiculous.

I know you are but what am I?

[–] lynxrufus 10 years ago

Route 66 is indeed very uneven. I think it's a result of nearly every episode being written by Sterling Silliphant, who seems a kind of erratic genius. He's not tied to a formula. He's willing to experiment. Some experiments turn out very well; others fail. He had to have been under considerable time pressure to write so many scripts in so little time, so it's not surprising that some scripts are not as good as others. What's surprising is that so many are as good as they are. There are several Route 66 episodes I would call masterpieces. At the other extreme, a few episodes I consider truly horrible. "Layout At Glenn Canyon" is neither. It's not bad. It's just kind of average.

[–] violachild2002 10 years ago

We should do a list. top ten best, top ten worst. Looking forward to seeing the Glen Canyon ep.

[–] lynxrufus 10 years ago

I have my own list in which I rank all 114 episodes. There's a thread in this forum (started about 18 months ago) titled "Favorite episodes." The episodes people praised in that thread are good ones. My list has changed a little (but not much). The ones I said 18 months ago that I like, I still like. I've come to appreciate some episodes more than I did at first, so I have a few more favorites now. I try to control the impulse to say a lot about episodes I don't like.

[–] violachild2002 10 years ago

Isn't it 116 eps? I'll wait until I see season 1 and 2 before I make final comments, but I'll check out your list then. The Swan Bed is on Monday, and I'm looking forward to it.

[–] lynxrufus 10 years ago

There are 116 episodes but 2 two parters, thus 114 unique titles.

[–] violachild2002 10 years ago

Thanks.

[–] violachild2002 10 years ago

They must have spent a lot of time working on getting locations and setting up among a dangerous work site, all which is excellent. I did find the huge mob of predatory males descending on the lone campsite of the models quite disturbing. Also, the model dancing with the miners could have turned into The Accused pretty quickly.
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[–] batvette 10 years ago

LOL, I think you'd thus be appalled at the episode I just watched, "like a motherless child" where Sylvia Sidney plays sort of an aging mother-madame of a travelling "chorus girl" crew. (that seems to be what they called saloon girls?)

Anyway she supervised girls that went town to town making stopovers at taverns where they took in a percentage of the profits of gambling. The girls were there to bring in more gamblers. (this was in Nevada)

Buzz knocked himself a step down the respect ladder for me by being a naive meathead, though the episode hit home as Sylvia's character was so much like a girl I used to know, who was rather prude and chaste when sober, and ready to take bids to see who would take her to a hotel room when she drank- and abhorred having anyone who knew her as the prior, see her as the latter.

Buzz, who thought she was the nice motherly type, attacked Todd when Todd took her to the tavern to reveal the truth. As if any of it was Todd's doing.

I know you are but what am I?

[–] batvette 10 years ago

Perhaps I should clarify, the episode as a whole really wasn't that bad, it had an engaging story. What I took issue with was the scenario of trying to avoid getting blown up by a series of timed, planted charges... by driving right into the places where charges had not been detonated yet. Not to mention said charges being strong enough to roll over a car, then not harm you when you're standing right next to one.
It was one of those things like in horror movies they're about to do the worst thing possible and you're shouting "no,no, NO! Don't do THAT you idiot!".

Anytime you have to shout at the screen like that, unless it was intentional... not good.

I know you are but what am I?

[–] lynxrufus 10 years ago

I agree. "Layout at Glen Canyon" is not a bad episode.