This Friday on Odyssey 5 ep 08: L.D.U.-7

Well I am becoming increasingly frustrated with how the show is going. More twists every week with little follow up on previous threads. We did revisit the artificials this week in the way of Fisher Newton's story. It now appears the computer code is using the artificials to be it's physical form on the planet is that right? I think that's what I heard about the building thing. I didn't really understand the whole using the prisoners to study aggression thing. Why do they need to study anything and why does it need to be aggression? why not love or humor? I did enjoy the ridiculous outfit Taggert was wearing and I also enjoyed the little buck roger nameing.
So has Angela been written out of the next few episodes? They have sent her off to the space station for 2 months. I hope not I kind of like her. We had a reprieve from the dieing kid story, thank you O5. I really didn't get a whole lot out of this episode and I have never been to interested in the Brother story.
So all in it was ok, I'll give it a 5 on the O5 scale.

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This Friday on Odyssey 5 epp 08: L.D.U.-7

I didn’t see much point to this one I keep watching the timer wondering when it would end. Thank God it did what was the point of this one? Just to let us know they are making living building that come equipped with aliens that can walk through walls. How can team O5 defeat this? Why did they let them roam wild the whole episode once inside they should have put them in the clear cages and shocked them until they told all they know. That’s how you do it. What a housing boom we could have if we had the technology to build houses like that. I got nothing on this one if the remaining episodes are like this I can see whey Showtime canceled it. Well it leaves me hoping for better episodes. Bring back the blonde I miss seeing her.

Four on the O5 Scale…………………………

Nice stand-alone ep. No new plot developments, just a display that a sentient can produce a living synthetic building capable of morphing with humanoid synthetics made with it.

The only thing we humans have on synthetics in the aggression department is that we get passionate about it. So for one to be experimenting with us to study our aggression is truly frightening.

Perhaps a bit of a dystopian sub-plot in showing what corporate-owned prisons can get away with.

All in all, enjoyable on it's own. Not every episode has to move some greater plot line forward, as this was a series that the makers expected to last more than the one season that it did, not a mini-series. I liked it worth a 7.

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I learned with Community's Abed that a bottle episode is a cheap episode usually shot in one scenery with the purpose of saving money. I think this was exactly the case. They even saved in extras, because we saw very few people, and they even saved in the main cast, sending Angela to the ISS for two months and having a main plot with just three of the Fab5. I even think there must've been some serious actress problem there and Tamara Craign Thomas simply was no longer available. If that continues, I don't know how they would finish up her story decently.

This time the bottle episode bought us the sci-fi version of a haunted house, which reminded me a little of those cheap SyFy movies. The episode then had a claustrophobic feel, and that psychological torture was beginning to affect me like the prisoners as I watched the whole thing. It wasn't a very comfortable viewing.

The prison itself looked so futuristic and unreal that I couldn't place something like that in today's society, but in an oppressive futuristic one instead. And I guess the whole building buckling, turning into liquid and then collapsing would've made the front pages for weeks, but maybe the whole building was in a very secluded area and they avoided the publicity.

The purpose of this experiment was unclear to me. The question that arises again is, where does that all fit in the big picture. But I've already come to terms with the fact we won't get answers, just more questions, so it's just a matter of enjoying individual episodes from now on.

As for the other plot, Neil's brother's story is slowing staggering to where we know it's going to end, which is the man giving up being an astronaut again. I mean, he gave up before, and hasn't become a different person. To me it's obvious he doesn't have what it takes.

Not the show's brightest moment. I give it a 5 in the Odyssey scale.

This was an interesting episode in itself but a disappointment for the series. I thought the mystery and suspense was good. It didn't add any information to the overall theme except that synthetics can be entire buildings along with 'humanoids'. The interesting thing was that the humanoids didn't exist by themselves. When the building was powered down, they ceased to exist. And why would they have a real human as the 'caretaker'. That didn't make any sense.
If you wanted to study evil and aggression, why would you use shock therapy? There would be a number of other ways to evaluate why these 'killers' were the way they were.
I hope that this series doesn't continue to wander.
I'll give this one a 6.