This Friday on 'Dark Skies' ep 18: 'To Prey in Darkness'

A little OT comment while we queue up this episode.

A couple of weeks back, I started looking into possibilities for the next series. One suggestion I found was Better Off Ted, which is not really suitable for this group (not much of an SF element to it), but is a moderately funny, Office-type show.

Anyway, I've been watching it and last evening (6/27/13) I watched an episode in which the company instituted a silly policy that would have ended up with them having to hire everyone in the world. They calculated that would happen on...drum roll, please..."Thursday, June 27, 2013".

I think I'll buy a lotto ticket today. If I hit, I'll buy each of you a "complete series" DVD set. I figure charmedwon will get Dark Skies, madp of course gets V*******!. Not sure about wlcebtg.

Dark Skies - 1x17 - To Prey In Darkness

- I'm glad Bach spelled it out that with 1965 technology the film couldn't be faked. Obviously everyone else was thinking of future youtube videos.

- So Kim did the ultimate sacrifice to stay with her baby and now she couldn't care less about the baby. Is that supposed to be ironic or just a stupid decision?

- Frank was a son o a bitch as an opponent, but now as a boss he's just too lenient. John is a terrible employee.

- It's always good to live in a house with high ceiling. You never know when you'll need the extra height to hang yourself.

- How does a Soviet agent get an American alias and gets to use it willy-nilly with the knowledge and support of a government agency?

- "What's important is victory for humanity." FINALLY Loengard sees the light, and it's not the ball of light. Halleluja!

- What is it with Juliet and bath towels? What a cheap ploy to increase ratings. And I totally approve of it.

- So both Majestic and the Hive want to keep the film from being made public. Wouldn't the fact that they both have a common goal make Frank question himself that maybe, just maybe, going public would be the best idea after all?

- I just noticed John is a real man in black now. He didn't use to wear black before.

- Kim is eeeeeeevil now! Somehow she became even more attractive. Yay for evil girls!

- "This is Master Control. We've got 10 minutes to air. A lot can happen in 10 minutes."

- I understand John's change of heart, I really do, but his lack of focus as a character is getting on my nerves. What does he want after all?

- John deputizing the old security guard was the dumbest possible move.

- Albano and Steele calmly discussing who would be a faster trigger. By the time it took them to sort that out, they could've killed one another several times.

- Kim and Juliet fighting was OK, but couldn't they have done it in a mud tank?

- John: "There's nothing worth living for." Sounds like "there's no point watching this show anymore."

Well, well, at this point the biggest problem with Dark Skies is John's despondency and lack of focus. What does he want? How can Majestic and the Hive want the same thing? Come on, one of them must be doing something terribly wrong. What's the point of all this after all? And then John and Juliet had a random moment of passion at the end. Too much too soon. OK, they were both a little crazy so what the hell, but surely that wouldn't bear any fruit in terms of a future relationship, if that's where they are heading. But the writers knew they just had two more episodes, so whatever had to happen should happen now because it was now or never. And I'm sure they knew at this point that the show was doomed. Still, even though the story was quite disjointed, I liked the noir atmosphere, like those old movies in which every gangster was bad, the femme fatale was bad and even the detective wasn't very good either. And the blackout and black and white segments also worked in that direction. But I'm afraid there's no more hope for Dark Skies, if there ever was any.

I give this one 5 episodes of Mr. Magoo.

This Friday on 'Dark Skies' ep 18: 'To Prey in Darkness'

Thought this episode took a step back just when I thought they were getting better we took two steps back. Maybe John is over Kim now new something had to happen between him and the Russian. It was only a matter of time who could blame him when she goes walking around in a towel. The Aliens and MJ12 are now working together on this tape even if it was shown on TV no one would believe them it’s been done before. Fox showed one years ago and it was almost laughable. The minute they showed the ship over Canada I knew what was about to happen, the light were going out on the east coast. The lady reporter who drank herself to death who was she supposed to be? Also who was the network executive and the upcoming anchor man? The only thing I have learned from Dark Skies is that everything that has happened to the US is because of the Aliens whether it’s good or bad.

Almost done just a few more to go.
Deal or dude? Leaning towards a dude.

Oh Magoo, you've done it again........Late to the party been in Reno on business.

As far as Madp and DT, Bring on your box sets of DS and UFO Watching them will kill the ganglion now living in my head.

on to the show, it has become tiresome again, I like it much better now than the first 4 weeks but the end is in sight and the stories are weary. Kim Sayers is now full blown hive and cares nothing about the poor steele baby. Now that we know the baby is the key there is no mention of it and what the hell happened to ganglion free gray?
Phil and Steele sounds like a good vegas magic show to me, they just yap at each other on the stairs, pull the f'ing trigger Phil where the hell are your stones. Does the Ganglion POW POW POW, I Guess it doesn't there Steelee boy. Phil one steele zero.

We can sacrifice Kim Sayers and kill the group.....Yes please.
John and Juliet kissing in a tree someone kill them both I plead.

All in all watchable again but shark jump aside I give this one 5 forgotten Grays on the DS scale.

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