This Friday on Odyssey 5 ep 06: The Choices We Make

Well, ep 4 hinted at a romantic history between Kurt and Angela, and now we see it revealed.

Hmm, they revisited the Earth blowing up, this time from ground level, and didn't show any gory details. Somehow, from a show that has naked ladies and naughty language I expected gory details as well.

Speaking of naked ladies, am I the only one disappointed not to see Tamara's goodies when Angela got up from Kurt's bed?

Definitely not loving this episode, though. All about emotional drama without the plot of the series figuring into it much at all. I would give it a big, fat goose egg of a rating on that account were it not for the tall, dark and timeless guest alien's assurances of it just being to get that stuff out of the way so the show could get on with the storyline.

That redeeming virtue got it up to a 4 in my book.

___
Cool is irrelevant. I'm over 40.

Well, a bit of mixed feelings about this episode. So, instead of developing the story and gving us some of the answers I'm sure we're all craving for, it focused oon the characters and some of their unresolved issues.

Before anything else I must ask, who writes these summaries for the episodes? It's nice to have an idea of what we're going to watch, but this time it was what I can call a spoiler. After all we only learn that it's "a mysterious being not bound by time investigating the Odyssey crew" at the end of the episode. That information is supposed to be an important part of the climax. Knowing that in advanced really made the first part of the episode drag endlessly, because while the characters wondered who the guy was, I already knew it.

After, that, however, I did find some moments touching, especially Kurt and Angela's story. I really thought Kurt would've considered much longer another course of action when Angela asked him in bed "What do you want?" but he was just way too ready to let bygones be bygones, and that the past belonged in the past.

The other stories were OK. Neil's and Chuck's just came out of nowhere, since they had never been mentioned before and never seemed to accept them (I expected something unresolved a little more related to what we know about them), and Sarah's is something we're already a bit tired of knowing about: yes, Corey will die of cancer. Still, it was interesting to see that she didn't abduct her son in a mad search for a cure in China, and chose to preserve her family, and the timeline, instead.

At the end of the episode, the "mysterious being" promised them those dilemmas would prepare them for bigger and more improtant issues ahead, and that is starting to bother me: the show promising great events in the future, a future that will almost certainly not come because the show was cancelled. Or maybe they are pulling a Lost here and opening plot doors that would never be closed anyway, even if the show had lasted five or six seasons.

An irregular episode. At least for something of character development, I give it a 6 in the Odyssey scale.

Well, I for the most part liked this episode. It's sappy and emotional I know but hey I kind of liked it. As far the description for the episode goes I pull them straight off of epguide. The discussion of spoiler has been brought up before but without knowing what the episode is it's hard to judge what is or isn't a spoiler.
I can certainly change the way I do them but have been doing them this way for sometime. I never even remembered it when I started watching the show but that's what being old does for you.
I am still finding all of the Neil stories to feel really forced, I am having a hard time accepting it. I agree with Mad that this is starting to have a Lost quality about it. Especially with all the visits from people of the past and what not. I too feel there is going to be way to much stuff to resolve by seasons end and foresee a huge cliff hanger that alas never gets resolved.
I also have to agree with Bob that I was a little disappointed not to get a peak at Angela's flotation devices when she stood up at Kurt's place.
The Chuck Taggert story I found very interesting but I'm sure anyone who had kind of a hard ass father was especially suseptable to that. The ending of this episode tore me up brother. Man, I was wiping tears....lol
All in all I found the episode enjoyable and give it a 8 on the O5 scale. It may have been my favorite one yet.

http://codenamestone.blogspot.com/

Just as a curiosity, last night I dreamt I had chuck's father's car and was afraid of driving in the rain. Later I did drive it in good weather, but then I found out it had pedals like a bicycle... These shows affect us in more ways than we imagine.

This Friday on Odyssey 5 epp 06: The Choices We Make

Cheated again this week and read all the blogs before writing mine. I really like this one but it’s not worth a ten by any means. It was a welcome change from chasing computer life forms, synthetic beings, and whatever they throw at us in future episodes. I did like the three separate story lines the love affair Kurt and Angela once had and what it could have been should have been, and the baby they could have had. Even with the different choices they could have taken the end result was the same. Will Angela and Kurt now be an item or will they go back to the way they were before this episode? Dr. Travelor was a great character showing everyone the choices they have made it kind of reminded me of the Ghost of Future Past. Sarah and her dying son I enjoyed this part too but they are starting to wear me down on the subject. Glad she didn’t run off the China to save his life when apparently this to can’t be changed. Chuck Yeager Taggart and his trusting jacket that I believe he sleeps and showers in. This was a touching story about a father and son relationship and how he got the chance to relive his past even though he knew his father would die. How we would all like a moment like this. Let’s not forget young Neil and his reliving the past and the dark secret he was holding all those years ago.

I’ll give this one a seven. Starting to like this show a lot it’s good but it’s not Firefly.

Sure is hot in the central part of the States. Madp would you please ship us some rain from South America we need it we are drying up in Texas these days.

Well, I'm late again.
I too am worried that this series is going to be like LOST. They open up story lines concerning individual characters but don't provide any information about the main story.
I didn't mind the episode but I was hoping for more.
I'll give it a 4 and hope that things pick up.

So is this traveler guy going to be a recurring character the rest of the way or just a one time wonder? Also I'm not sure I get the whole test thing. It was kind of like an emotional boot camp i guess for the inevitable war that is coming.
But if the guy knows about them and their mission, why not just tell them all that they need to know? And why can't he just stop the bad guys?

http://codenamestone.blogspot.com/