This Friday on Odyssey 5 ep 10: Kitten

Sounds mysterious……..

The board has suddenly come to life………..

This time I wanted to come ahead of everyone else! A nice, entertaining episode. Even though I had very soon figured out Neil was talking to a sentient (either because of the show's predictability or because I think I'd already seen this one), I felt some excitement to follow Neil's misadventure trying to get rid of his digital stalker.

I just wish I knew more about computing to understand what exactly would be really possible to have happened with 2002 computers, Windows 2000 and slower Internet connections. But then the episode was not for experts, it was to entertain ordinady folks. Anyway I had a good laugh seeing all pictures in Neil's computer being viewed with Paint.

I wonder when Neil is going to invite the twins to oficially join the O5 team. I mean, at some point they must've figured out they were not dealing with an ordinary human intelligence, and are bound to believe in the existence of sentients. I just wonder what excuse they gave to the school after having destroyed, I mean, stolen, its valuable computer property. But that part was all swept under the rug.

So Angela's still alive and part of the show after all? I was starting to doubt it. I'm glad she's back.

Sarah's story felt worn and tired. I think they could have a new development in it, like Corey really developing cancer, and Paul asking her to come back and changing his mind about the divorce, or Sarah using Sentients' technology to cure Corey, but whatever happens in that story line will hardly interest me anymore. Oh, well at least they didn't show Marc, whom I also don't like

And it seems Kurt is gathering quite a collection of sentients/synthetics memorabilia in his lair. I wonder what consequence would actually come out of that, but I don't see that happening because this show doesn't have the habit of revisiting the story doors it keeps opening with so many standalone episodes thinly connected to one another with sentients and synthetics hints.

All in all, an entertaining 45 minutes. I give it a 7 in the Odyssey scale.

I'm not even going to talk about Sarah and her little boy anymore. That's a dead end distraction from the story, and an annoying one at that.

Sentients sure do make scary psycho stalkers. I don't know how a computer could affect an electric can opener made of an electric motor and mechanical parts, including the mechanical button switch, or steer it's vibration-sliding into the dishwater, but that scene reminded me of Maximum Overdrive.

All in all, I really liked this ep. Neil's computer-nerd friends should be a regular part of things, as should Kurt's lab guy with the '70s style. All three of those guys have already seen too much that couldn't be explained away without something really fantastic and hard to believe.

Kurt must be a Trekkie. I could swear I remember Spock once using that same "Compute the value of pi," command to keep an alien-possessed computer busy.

They must have chilled that anti-freeze in a freezer to bring about the effect it did, but it still seems to me that were it getting into the computer enough to reach and cool the CPU then shouldn't it have shorted out some delicate semiconductors? Oh well, suspension of disbelief.

I don't know what Kurt's fascination with such stuff is, but first he's growing a synthetic embryo, now stashing away the jury-rigged server with Kitten trapped in it. I would have destroyed the thing. If he ever powers it back up with a connection to the internet or to any other machine that will later connect to the net, then "she" is going to go Maximum Overdrive on everyone in a fit of rage.

I can only hope he's up to something with that stuff that none of the others could have thought up.

Loved this ep. I'll give it an 8 if not a 9.

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Here we go, Well an interesting episode. I loved the little code names that were made up to talk with space station girl. It is nice to see Angela back, I like her.
I had a real problem with Neil not knowing Kitten was a sentient. You would think as much as the 05 crew has seen since they came back it wouldn't take them long to suspect something was a tad askew. I did laugh my rump off when kitten went off on Neils friend. It reminded me of the time I left my wife at the rest stop in Florida accidentally. That's how she greeted me when I came back some 5 minutes later.
That was some kind of computer the school put together. Don't think I ever remember a mother board tomahawked into the top of the computer case like that. Those beings may be sentient but they aint to bright, allowing themselves to be trapped in that computer, and speaking of that, what the hell is Kurt up to?
How the heck did Kitten get that can opener to jump into the sink? Also, old captain chuck didn't seem to upset when Neil couldn't get through to 911.
The other thing was, Kitten seemed to be able to see everything but had no clue she was about to be trapped. Oh well a lot complaining but in reality I liked the episode pretty good.
All in all I give it a 7 on the O5 scale.

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This Friday on Odyssey 5 epp 10: Kitten

What up with this kitten program who is writing this code? So much of our story is going over my head. Is it the people who are trying to destroy the planet? Seems unlikely since the program keeps asking what or who is Odyssey 5. Somebody out their bring me up to speed. As far as the story it keeping me focused and glued to my easy chair for 42 minutes. Is anyone else getting tired of Sarah trying to save her son so I get it lets focus on saving the world? The writer are beating me down with this story line I know she loves and want to protect her son but this is not really what the show is about. Was this device the teacher had in the class room the new super internet it looked to me like an old motherboard with stuff piled on it. All you have to do is super cool it and you can trap a computer chick. God only knows how the anti freeze could help what was cooling down the T web or whatever they called. Kitten was a pretty bright program until they tricked her to into trying to solve pi. That’s an old one been done before several times.

On the bright side I have now moved the can opener away from the sink just to be safe.

Good episode giving this one an 8 on the O5 scale.