Found some extra time Friday night and yesterday afternoon and got caught up.
Kim is right. Four years is a long time to wait. If World War II had been fought by bureaucrats, we'd all be speaking German now.
Aber jetzt spreche ich Deutsch! Actually, madp, if you believe an awful lot of "B" movies, the fact that the Nazis lost means about half the population of Brazil
really does speak German. At least in private. This goes along with my theory that only about 17 people on the
Titanic actually died--the rest were time travelers who popped out at the last minute.
But I agree with Kim on that point, and also the one about leading a real life once in a while, to remember what you're fighting for.
I watched this episode while eating lunch, and had just pulled the leftovers out of the microwave and sat down as Steele was delivering lunch to Ruby. Not the most appetizing mealtime entertainment, but it could have been much worse. I changed my mind at the last minute, but very nearly had hot dogs.
The whole marriage thing didn't ring true. Her sister wants to rush into a marriage with this guy she just met and doesn't know anything about, and no one suggests that it would be a good idea to wait maybe at least a couple of months? I was thinking she, her fiance and her mother were all Hive, but no. And if the agent's job was to become her boyfriend, why would he not retain some semblance of professionalism and
not marry her? I can't think of anything else that he could do that would be worse in terms of compromising his assignment. And nobody at Majestic stopped him? And what kind of assignment was that anyway? They want to keep an eye on Kim, so they target the sister she hardly ever sees and has practically no contact with? But I guess the writers figured the marriage angle was the only way to get Kim to abandon John and go to Denver. Could have done better there.
The handling of the Lonnie Zamora incident was very well done. I think they showed us the edited version at the beginning because it made a better quick teaser for the episode and kept it from being repetitive later when Zamora was interviewed.
They're back to weaving together more incidents and conspiracy theories, which I think is the best part of this series. Last week, they tried to pull the Alaska earthquake into the grand scheme, but did a rather poor job of it. Too bad. But I'm not going to try to go back to that one.
Now, I've enjoyed the fun they're having here, pulling together all of the conspiracy theories, but Friday night I watched a PBS show about NASA's connection to the "ancient aliens" theory. Same kind of stuff that we see here (NASA picked the lunar landing sites to align with the stars in Orion's belt because that had some significance for an Egyptian god who was really an alien, and they were looking for alien technology that had been left behind on the bases that the ETs had established in their cities on the far side of the moon, etc.), but these guys were serious. Not sure if it was more a matter of being funny or sad.
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11 years ago
Aber jetzt spreche ich Deutsch! Actually, madp, if you believe an awful lot of "B" movies, the fact that the Nazis lost means about half the population of Brazil really does speak German. At least in private. This goes along with my theory that only about 17 people on the Titanic actually died--the rest were time travelers who popped out at the last minute.
If half of us speak German, I was left out of the loop! And by the way the whole "we'd all be speaking German now" is another old line from B movies and, I imagine, Fox News presenters. It's just fun to get in the whole B-movie mood to comment these TV shows. The fact is, if World War I had been fought by bureaucrats everywhere, probably we'd all been saved from the WWII ordeal, and now we'd all be speaking whatever we damn please. But then we wouldn't have Captain America... I don't know if that would be worth it.
I didn't know the Zamora incident was real. But I kept wondering if there were man-made flying saucers, where are they now? At some point they would have become some NASA prototype, then later a shuttle and that would certainly affect the whole commercial airline industry.
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