Invasion 1.3: "Watershed"
Written by Shaun Cassidy and Becky Hartman Edwards
Directed by Michael Dinner
In which Jesse and Kira come across a submerged trailer and Jesse is attacked, which serves to reveal changes to Mariel, while Underlay tries to hide the truth from Larkin…
Like the first two episodes, I feel like this is dragging forward at the slowest pace possible. I still think this series helps to demonstrate the depth and methodical progress on “Lost”, because I’m not feeling it as much here. I love Shaun Cassidy’s work, especially “American Gothic”, but this isn’t grabbing me as much as I had hoped it would.
The mystery itself is still plodding along. Apparently the military is operating some cover-up of the whole alien incursion, and Underlay knows all about it. The implication is that Underlay would rather that Larkin had been forced to believe his explanations, which would make it seem like Underlay knows all about the military work and actually has been using the quarantine to keep it secret. So the military activity is apparently not a threat to the alien invasion, unless of course, it’s not the invasion that it seems to be.
It also seems as if the aliens are similar to terrestrial marine life (which makes sense, or they couldn’t survive in the same environment), and when they take over a host, that host’s blood chemistry changes dramatically. I’m waiting for Mariel to grow gills. Speaking of Mariel, sometimes she’s incredibly severe in her looks, but other times, she’s incredibly hot. Russell has very good taste in his women!
Stepping back to that whole situation with Larkin, I really have to wonder why Underlay would allow her to poke around so much. She’s certainly a threat to whatever goals he might have in mind, and unless he plans to get her “infected” sometime, it doesn’t make much sense. Never mind the fact that her job should be yanked any minute now, since her boss is one of the “possessed”.
Then again, the “possessed” don’t seem to be aware of what’s going on much of the time. Mariel still doesn’t seem to be as aware of her own nature as she was at the end of the pilot, though she seems to know better than to say too much about the weirdness. She also doesn’t seem to know how to act around Russell. That whole relationship is beyond complicated, and since the two of them can’t figure out if they still love each other or can’t stand each other, it’s hard to figure out what pushed them apart in the first place.
Two things really bothered me. First, the nature of those wounds, apparently caused by the wrong kind of encounter with the aliens, keeps changing. The wounds on Dave’s legs didn’t look like the wounds on Paxton in the previous episode at all, but now, that’s what we’re supposed to believe. Second, Dave is pretty dense if, as a conspiracy theorist, he can’t figure out what “two become one” might mean, beyond the obvious.
I liked Kira (who is going to be of the hotness when she gets older) and her odd relationship with everyone in this extended dysfunctional family. I also thought it was interesting that the skeleton might have been Underlay’s first wife. Either that, or the ring was the one that Mariel lost (Underlay made that comment about how Mariel keeps losing wedding rings). That’s something I’d be interesting in knowing more about. Hopefully, the pacing will pick up enough that I’ll still be excited enough to wait.
Writing: 1/2
Acting: 2/2
Direction: 2/2
Style: 1/4
Final Rating: 6/10
Directed by Michael Dinner
In which Jesse and Kira come across a submerged trailer and Jesse is attacked, which serves to reveal changes to Mariel, while Underlay tries to hide the truth from Larkin…
Like the first two episodes, I feel like this is dragging forward at the slowest pace possible. I still think this series helps to demonstrate the depth and methodical progress on “Lost”, because I’m not feeling it as much here. I love Shaun Cassidy’s work, especially “American Gothic”, but this isn’t grabbing me as much as I had hoped it would.
The mystery itself is still plodding along. Apparently the military is operating some cover-up of the whole alien incursion, and Underlay knows all about it. The implication is that Underlay would rather that Larkin had been forced to believe his explanations, which would make it seem like Underlay knows all about the military work and actually has been using the quarantine to keep it secret. So the military activity is apparently not a threat to the alien invasion, unless of course, it’s not the invasion that it seems to be.
It also seems as if the aliens are similar to terrestrial marine life (which makes sense, or they couldn’t survive in the same environment), and when they take over a host, that host’s blood chemistry changes dramatically. I’m waiting for Mariel to grow gills. Speaking of Mariel, sometimes she’s incredibly severe in her looks, but other times, she’s incredibly hot. Russell has very good taste in his women!
Stepping back to that whole situation with Larkin, I really have to wonder why Underlay would allow her to poke around so much. She’s certainly a threat to whatever goals he might have in mind, and unless he plans to get her “infected” sometime, it doesn’t make much sense. Never mind the fact that her job should be yanked any minute now, since her boss is one of the “possessed”.
Then again, the “possessed” don’t seem to be aware of what’s going on much of the time. Mariel still doesn’t seem to be as aware of her own nature as she was at the end of the pilot, though she seems to know better than to say too much about the weirdness. She also doesn’t seem to know how to act around Russell. That whole relationship is beyond complicated, and since the two of them can’t figure out if they still love each other or can’t stand each other, it’s hard to figure out what pushed them apart in the first place.
Two things really bothered me. First, the nature of those wounds, apparently caused by the wrong kind of encounter with the aliens, keeps changing. The wounds on Dave’s legs didn’t look like the wounds on Paxton in the previous episode at all, but now, that’s what we’re supposed to believe. Second, Dave is pretty dense if, as a conspiracy theorist, he can’t figure out what “two become one” might mean, beyond the obvious.
I liked Kira (who is going to be of the hotness when she gets older) and her odd relationship with everyone in this extended dysfunctional family. I also thought it was interesting that the skeleton might have been Underlay’s first wife. Either that, or the ring was the one that Mariel lost (Underlay made that comment about how Mariel keeps losing wedding rings). That’s something I’d be interesting in knowing more about. Hopefully, the pacing will pick up enough that I’ll still be excited enough to wait.
Writing: 1/2
Acting: 2/2
Direction: 2/2
Style: 1/4
Final Rating: 6/10
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