This Friday on Odyssey 5 ep 03: Astronaut Dreams

Another very good episode. I have been very pleased with the show so far. I found the Sara and Angela story kind of neat. For whatever reason it never occurred to me that you might want to try and stop bad things from happening (other than the world blowing up) I was glad the little girl made it.
Wouldn't Sara going live on the air and saying that guy was the suspect have caused mega problems for them as well as collateral problems for the entire group at some point in time? Very dangerous game they are playing.
The Taggert thing with the satellite was peculiar to me, I don't understand why he threw the scrambler under the stairs when he had a clear path getting out of the building during a chaotic situation. No one ever indicated there was a search of all people leaving the building though you might be able to assume one since it was a bomb threat but that's a stretch for me.
The Kurt sideline was also interesting using the infrared to detect the cold blooded super dudes. The only problem i saw there was....infrared doesn't see through glass but hey it was a minor issue. It's starting to look to me that Taggerts boss lady is on the wrong side though I'm really not sure what side is wrong at this point.
All in all I like the way the show is building and the episodes have gone by fast. I give this one an 8 on the 05 scale.

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I liked the way this episode kept developing the mythology, and at the same time presented an interesting case of the week. So we have a little more information about the sentients, and at the same time we saw how our heroes dealt with the issue knowing about the future. And again, knowing the future is not really enough, because the future is fluid, and changes occur very easily.

Chuck, Sarah and Angela took great risks and almost jeopardized their careers is the process. Chuck was about to blow it, literally, but didn't have to. And I swore Sarah was going to get so involved in the crime that her reputation would've been ruined, especially when she announced that the police had identified Mathew Pollard as a suspect, when that information was false. I can't believe, in fact, that that didn't have any further consequences. Or at least she would have been reprimanded at the TV station for refusing to report the crime. And Hodges, the new mission control, now has evidence that someone sabotaged the mission and that might just as well come back and bite Chuck in the behind somehow. I just think things came out too neatly for Sarah in the end.

Things also came out too well for Neal, even though he forgot his girlfriend's birthday and failed miserably to explain why he's so changed. That girl must really love him to forgive him so easily. By the way something tells me she'll play a bigger role in the series as it develops. I just don't like it very much when a high school kid is such a computer genius that he can solve anything the other characters need, but we can't forget he's actually a grown man and an astronaut in disguise. Will he enter the space program and make it official already?

I wish they had given Kurt a bit more to do, but I'm liking Kurt's taste in women more and more. Again thanks to his lascivious habits, we see great boobs again. Thanks cable TV!

All in all a nice episode, I give it an 8 in the Odyssey scale.

Now Kurt is the one who seems a little outwardly paranoid of the ALFs, but in an appropriate way. Leave it up to him and his connections in the scientific community to figure out that the ALFs are cold-blooded and use an IR heat-vision camera to screen for them. But really, by the time she's naked at your place it's a little too late if she had been one.

What's Chuck in for now? The new flight director who inexplicable don't like him has found his little sabotage equipment.

How many "second chances" could Neil possible get with that girl before she dumps him?

I liked the storyline of Sarah and Angela saving the child, but that subplot does seem a little full of holes. Only they knew the description of the guy and then came up with a composite drawing after the cops found inconsistencies between their accounts of how they got the information they were reporting. At best no credibility or at worst suspect themselves.

Then, Sarah went on TV putting words into the mouths of the police to scare the guy out. Those ladies would have been detained for sure.

Just a personal nitpick, but an egregious scientific error was made in this sci-fi episode: An ion engine doesn't thrust away a spacecraft more abruptly than a combustion rocket. It does so more gradually. Ion engines put out very tiny amounts of thrust. They can make a spacecraft go faster in the long run because they put out that tiny thrust for a very long time and in outer space that means a very long period of very gradual acceleration until by the end of it they are zipping along at a good percentage of the speed of light.

That scientific error cost it a point from me and I'll only give it a 6 instead of a 7. The ep did, however, give more information about the ALFs and also hold my interest well.

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This Friday on Odyssey 5 epp 03: Astronaut Dream

Sorry for the late post haven’t felt well this weekend. Doing much better now. Another good episode this week we had three stories going on this week. Enjoyed the ladies having a major role this week, good job saving the little girl. What they did at the police station would of place them on the list persons of interest. At a minimum they should have at least gone over there story before going in. If they hadn’t fallen asleep they would have seen the blue card drive by as he went to the second target. The satellite story was O.K. but why did our good leader drop the two devices. You would have thought in the panic they wouldn’t have searched anybody. But I’m sure what he left behind would be worked into one of the later episodes. Glad he didn’t have to use the shuttle to bring down the satellite that would have surely ended his great career. Neil is our new Will Robinson he seems to know a lot for 17/21 year old. If he doesn’t know what to do he has a high school buddy that will. Our lady killer now has figured out how to pick out the AFL forms with his handy dandy IR camera. I kept trying to figure out who made it. More than likely a Flir product. At least he was smart enough to check out his chic friend you never know when they will plant someone in our gang of five. I already suspect the waitress.

Six on the O5 scale.......................

Well, we all seem to be in agreement that the Sara and Andrea portion is a little unbelievable, so if all of us think that, what in the world were the writers thinking?

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Time to announce the next episode, isn't it?