This Friday on Odyssey 5 ep 02: The Shatterer

Epp 2, Nice follow up to the pilot, I found the whole thing very interesting and the time moved quickly. As far as the language is concerned I have seen several mentions of excess cussing. After the first 2 episodes I really haven't noticed anything I would consider excessive. All the language seems to be in place for the situation and the types of people we are dealing with (military / nasa folk).
I am having a hard time with the Neil thing, it seems like quite a stretch to go from bong water to tang in 5 years 4 if he is only a junior. I haven't found this to detracting from the story yet and probably won't just something I always seem to think in every episode so far.
The artifical life that jumped onto kurt's face scared the crud out of me, so Alien, and speaking of alien is it just me or did the Chandra's lover remind anyone else of Bishop or Ash. Man that woman was hard to take down, I think I would have taken a couple of shots at her head if I was wielding that shotgun.
I found the Inet twist interesting and made me curious as to how that hooks in with the thing in the tank. It would appear the tank thing is an artificial just like the girl was, now the question is how many of them are there.
Keep wondering if the seeker is involved with the earth blowing up but I keep coming up with the same answer...no, he would have no reason to send them back if he was involved, unless of course it was an accident and he was trying to rectify the mistake but then why not just tell them the whole story.
All in All a very good episode I give it a 7 on the O5 scale.

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Well, my "turn into a soap opera" concerns were greatly diminished by a single image in this ep: the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy reference in Chandra's screen saver. First sight of that even drew a laugh from me at an otherwise tense moment in the show.

If the ALFs can make their own superhuman "people," then why do they need to enslave a bunch of humans via hacking of gene therapy? Perhaps that was just to get the ball rolling, and now they're moving beyond it?

Interesting that Chuck's cowboy six-shooter put six .45 caliber holes through the ALF before Chandra did the job properly on his own "girlfriend" with a 12-gauge pump. Yes, Chuck, I would say you do need to rethink your choice of weapons.

Leave it up to Kurt to point out the disturbing point that perhaps it isn't the ALFs they need to worry about since they were also wiped out with the Earth. It should be very interesting indeed to see where this leads to.

Definitely a primo episode.

I wonder what Angela's gonna do to her Daddy for sullying her hard-earned good name with the other astronauts.

Considering that this show was from 2002, I wonder how long before that waitress calls the feds on them for making her wonder what they're up to all the time.

Since everyone else seems to be doing the "scale of 1 to 10" thing I don't like, I guess I'll join in fashion: I give this one a 9.

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Interesting followup to the pilot, as it's been pointed out already. Like Kurt, I was having some flashbacks about the sentients. In fact I first thought the gene therapy patients were not human, but instead were just manipulated. Let's see how the sentients and the patients connect exactly.

I remember now when I was watching Fringe last season or so, when they had the shapeshifters, I thought they had got the idea from Odyssey 5 (you know, artificial intelligent beings, passing as humans, with evil intentions), with the difference that in Odyssey 5 they developed the subject much better, since they showed the AIs developing from simple virtual beings to complex ones, while in Fringe they were ready already, with no evolutionary process.

In fact, in Fringe this was one of the least interesting aspects of that season, and I hope I can enjoy the more original idea on O5 (yeah, I know Alien is even older...) without thinking of Fringe's poor approach to the same problem.

Some curiosities involving actor Sebastian Roché, who plays Kurt Mendel. In Fringe he played a shapeshifter, and in Odyssey 5 he is fighting sentients, though he suggests they could be friendly after all. Also, and this has nothing to do with the show, he played angel Balthazar in Supernatural with just about the same personality as Kurt's. Somehow I think he often plays that kind of character.

About the episode itself, good attack to the central mythology (the AIs being an important part of it for sure), but not much in terms of character development yet. But I'm happy with both choices. This episode pointed at some interesting personal issues for the characters: Angela's father/daughter relationship, Chuck's relation with his son Mark, Neil and his girlfriend, and again Sarah and her son. We're still yet to see how those situations develop, and it's just too early to tell.

All in all a good episode but I feel there's better stuff to come. I give it a 7 in the Odyssey scale.

Re: This Friday on Odyssey 5 epp 02: The Shatterer

Another action packed episode this week. These artificial life forms are pretty tough characters she stood up to that 45 pretty well but it took the 12 gauge with no doubt slugs in it to do the job. Do the pieces continue to live? Is that why they were using the gene therapy slaves to burn the remains in the fire. I’m somewhat confused on the purpose of our gene therapy victims, why do we need a race of human slaves when you have the artificial life forms to do your dirty work. When the team of five meet up at the restaurant these scenes remind me of ”Dead Like Me” when they would receive their daily assignments. I did love the laptop scene reminds me of being at work when we would try to open up some of our personal laptops. Many times I would just like to beat on them. Our guy would have cracked the protection a lot quicker than the High School kids. I’ve seen his work. Why put all the protection in there if you want people to see your video diary.

Things I think I know artificial life forms now roam our internet, ALF creatures with super strength now roam the streets, and our gene therapy team do their best work while dreaming. What next who knows. It’s up to our Team of Five to save us from certain destruction.

Progress is being made Chandra didn’t kill himself at seminar.


Feeling good going to give this one a six.

I agree that this episode was a good follower to the pilot.
The questions are certainly plentiful.
I wonder if the Mark story is going to play out different than the first go around.
The aliens are definitely confusing. There is an artificial intelligence in the internet; NASA has an artificial intelligence program under development; there are super-hard-to-kill aliens living on earth; the gene therapy slaves are building some kind of life form. Could it be that they are burning the hard-to-kill remains?

I hope that they keep moving along with some answers and not just more questions. Don't get me wrong. I like a good mystery, but they can get very convoluted and present more questions than they answer.

I'm very interested in seeing how this series progresses.
I'll give this one a 7.