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TIME: 42 min.
DISTANCE: 5.5 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 253.1 mi.
DISTRACTION: The Dead Zone, "The Siege"
SHIRE RECKONING: We've crossed the Great East Road. Go us!
I liked the beginning of this episode, with the undercutting of the bank robbery clichés: it's hard to rob a bank in a small town where you've lived all your life. And big props to Stephen E. Miller as the bank robber. Otherwise . . . meh. Predictable every step of the way, and although I can understand why they didn't show the cause-and-effect path from Choice A in the present to Outcome B in the future (especially as choices and outcomes started mounting up), it felt a little bit like cheating--like a hand-wave.
The inclusion of the kid in this episode bugged me because it had a Chekhov's gun feel to it: Sarah hands kid off to Johnny, Johnny hands kid off to Dana (and, really, is Dana Bright anyone to be trusted with a small child?). Kid subsequently disappears from episode, and I swear, the whole time I was waiting for someone to say, "Dana, where's Johnny?" and Dana to be all, "I left him over there," and the kid to have run into the bank to find his mother. But, no, he just got invisibly handed over to somebody else whom the sheriff apparently conjured out of his stetson or something. This is not, of course, an important detail, but it's sloppy storytelling, and thus it bugs me.
DISTANCE: 5.5 mi.
TOTAL DISTANCE: 253.1 mi.
DISTRACTION: The Dead Zone, "The Siege"
SHIRE RECKONING: We've crossed the Great East Road. Go us!
I liked the beginning of this episode, with the undercutting of the bank robbery clichés: it's hard to rob a bank in a small town where you've lived all your life. And big props to Stephen E. Miller as the bank robber. Otherwise . . . meh. Predictable every step of the way, and although I can understand why they didn't show the cause-and-effect path from Choice A in the present to Outcome B in the future (especially as choices and outcomes started mounting up), it felt a little bit like cheating--like a hand-wave.
The inclusion of the kid in this episode bugged me because it had a Chekhov's gun feel to it: Sarah hands kid off to Johnny, Johnny hands kid off to Dana (and, really, is Dana Bright anyone to be trusted with a small child?). Kid subsequently disappears from episode, and I swear, the whole time I was waiting for someone to say, "Dana, where's Johnny?" and Dana to be all, "I left him over there," and the kid to have run into the bank to find his mother. But, no, he just got invisibly handed over to somebody else whom the sheriff apparently conjured out of his stetson or something. This is not, of course, an important detail, but it's sloppy storytelling, and thus it bugs me.
