This Friday on Odyssey 5 ep 07: Rapture

This ep was a refreshing return after last week's flock of waa waas.

Let me start with the new layer of intrigue introduced in this ep, The Cadre. Whoever or whatever they are, they're bound to be tied to the core of the larger plot of the series. Possibly more likely suspects than the Sentients for blowing up the world. After all, the old man certainly got Chuck's attention with the Bright Sky reference dropped almost as if speaking code around his daughter, who looks to me like a suspected Cadre individual. The new flight director most certainly is involved with them.

Perhaps Kurt let his feelings for Angela cause him to overestimate her ability to BS the shrinks, or perhaps he thought it easier than it was due to his lifelong experience doing so. But she clearly isn't as adept at it as he is. The NASA shrink seeing through her is bound to complicate things, especially what with him being tied to The Cadre as well.

Now at least one sentient knows about the end of the world, and about the mission and the Odyssey crew. All it needed was a stoner nerd in the right place at the right time. Should be interesting to see how that plays out.

Sarah may have only resembled that "... by proxy" business at the start of the series, but it looks like the shoe is starting to fit her. She's headed to change husbands the second time around just as certainly as she did the first time, only now with a new layer of culpability on her part.

She really crossed the line with the stolen prescription pad trying her own ill-advised experimentation on her own kid with a dangerous (according to the list of known side-effects)drug. She's losing it if she hasn't lost it already.

And speaking of dangerous drugs, the main plot of the ep seemed like a story into which to set the other developments I mentioned above. Good story, though.

And since every TV show or movie has to have it's bit of BS throw in, this one would be the bleed-down technique to save the kids and Kurt's disturbing proficiency to reliably slit the brachial artery with a small incision from an old pocket knife on the first try.

My favorite episode yet. I'll give it a solid 9 which would have been a 10 if not for the tired old Sarah drama dragging on.

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Rapture..... Another good episode it is really going to be disappointing when we don't get this wrapped up. I think that Bob has summed this one up right on point.
I will just add that, Yeah I'm getting really tired of Sara's gig. I have come to the conclusion that she herself if going to kill the kid this time around by all her efforts to save him.
So the sentient is trying to escape the either of cyberspace and used a poor dim witted teenager to accomplish this. It never fails to amaze me how easily young folks will just take or put anything in their bodies.
I liked the scene with Taggert and the old pilot very informative, so the cadre whoever they are have been trying to shut down manned space flight forever. I agree with bob I think the daughter had to lock him up to keep Taggert away.
The Angela thing with psych guy...not sure what that was all about. And then there is my buddy Neil. Taking the drug for the greater good. My question is, how did kurt get it back into it's orange powder state? Did he centrifuge the blood somehow?
The one thing a missed in this episode was my Man Chuck didn't have his everlasting gobbstopper cigar in his mouth this episode. He has been carrying that thing around everywhere just like his jacket.
All in all a very good episode again. I give it an 8 on the o5 scale.

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Definitely an episode that makes me ask a lot of questions.
We learn about the Cadre but it's unclear exactly what they are up to. They want to stop manned flight, we got that. Is there a reason to not have anyone in space? Why not have an insider (Cadre) as an astronaut.
Are we to assume that the Cadre 'took out' the old astronaut. Did he know about it and try to let Taggart with the 'moon disease' stuff?
I'm guessing that the Sentient was trying to get a human host and miscalculated how nasty the drug would be. But did Deckard ever link back to the Sentient? Doe's the Sentient know about the end of the world or did it die with Deckard?
Is the Sentient a single being?

I look forward to the remaining episodes and hope they start to answer the great number of unknowns.

I'll give this one a 7.

Rapture:

Wow what a drug they were taking talk about blowing your mind. So they got the formula off the laptop they took from the Indian guy with the shotgun I get that part. But how or where did they have it made that was the part I struggled with. Neil was pretty brave to take it no way I would have done that. Did anyone else notice that Chuck didn’t have his Astronaut jacket on for a few scenes this episode? He looked good all dressed up in a coat and tie. The NASA chick is she part of this cadre thing we got introduced to this episode. If the cadre is in on this Alien plot what are they going to get out of it besides blown up. Are they going to be raptured at the end before the world goes toast before our very eyes? Darn we almost learned a little from the old Astronaut I wanted to know what they found out on the Moon and what they brought back.

Well going to give this episode a six on the O5 scale. Good episode I have enjoyed them all so far. Deep down inside I know none I none of our questions will be answered.

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Hello, everybody. Sorry for being so late to write. Due to my new and heavy workload, now I can only watch and post my reviews on Sundays.

I don't know if it was because I'm tired, or just tired of getting more questions without real answers, but the fact is that I had trouble focusing on this one and felt time pass more slowly this time. Probably not the show's fault, but at the same time, it missed that "wow" factor I felt with the premise opened in the pilot.

Now I fully believe that season 1 was meant to be a season in which questions were raised, and that could even perhaps stretch over the second season, for us to find more of a resolution on subsequent seasons with the climax (the Odyssey mission all over again) at the end of season 5. At least that's the way I envision it would work.

This show is from 2002 (not 2005 like I'd originally thought) about the time they were beginning to experiment with long-arc stories and continued mythologies. Now shows tend to answer at least some fundamental questions early to keep audience interested, and develop shorter story-arcs along with the main mythology to provide some early resolution.

About the episode itself, we can now focus on an important entity: the Cadre. It's interesting that they almost certainly composed of humans, not sentients, so that makes me woder what these people have to do with the sentients' and synthetics' plans, if they are good or evil or whatever. And the way sentients keep trying to "get out" in the real world (this time through the mind of teenagers), I bet they will eventually manage to do it. Funny because I thought they had synthetics to be their physical extension among humans. Maybe sentints and synthetics aren't exactly on the same page?

One last thing. Won't somebody, perhaps the Seeker himself or Dr. Travelor come and put that Corey kid out of his misery already? That brat is an anchor for Sarah. According to the previous episode, the mysterious timeless being posed emotional challenges to see how the Odyssey crew would lose focus from their mission because of smaller personal and emotional issues. Well, it seems Sarah is the only one still doing it; that kid is holding her back!

Well, well, I thought I wouldn't have much to write, but it seems once I get started I can't stop it. Just a writer's thing I guess.

A fine episode. I give it an 7 in the Odyssey scale.