After being wowed by the first night, I had hoped for something just a *little* better.
In their promotional material they seemed as though they were as jaded with much of the Triangle conspiracy material as they, the producers, were. However, after 2 nights of wonderful build-up, O'Bannon, Devlin and Singer took their eyes off the target and shifted their focus from the Bermuda Triangle to the myth of the Philadelphia Experiment.
Meh! And then they wasted Lou Diamond Philips in a side-story, that felt like padding. If they wanted to put forward a notion of alternate-reality and subtle changes, they ought to have done that with one of the other principals, and not just isolated LDP in his own little microcosm.
What many viewers, and I'm sure most people who came to Rockne through 'Farscape' were probably hoping for was something as inventive and experimental as that show had been, even if this episode echoed Farscape's 'A Human Raction'. Many of us Farscape fans were just plain disappointed.
The plot would have been much tighter if they had remained with the economy of the principals and placed greater emphasis on the mystery of the Triangle, rather than try to throw in the kitchen sink of wormholes and other gobblety-gook. Time-travel and alternate-reality stories are all about as threadbare as the last 'Star Trek:TNG' episode that used them.
None of the actors can really be blamed here, as their efforts were all solid. They only suffered from a weak script. O'Bannon - or the SciFi Channel ought to have passed the script under the noses of O'Bannon's old workmates David Kemper and Richard Manning. They could have helped steer this production into a rock-solid effort, worth more than just the forgettable effort that appeared here.
In their promotional material they seemed as though they were as jaded with much of the Triangle conspiracy material as they, the producers, were. However, after 2 nights of wonderful build-up, O'Bannon, Devlin and Singer took their eyes off the target and shifted their focus from the Bermuda Triangle to the myth of the Philadelphia Experiment.
Meh! And then they wasted Lou Diamond Philips in a side-story, that felt like padding. If they wanted to put forward a notion of alternate-reality and subtle changes, they ought to have done that with one of the other principals, and not just isolated LDP in his own little microcosm.
What many viewers, and I'm sure most people who came to Rockne through 'Farscape' were probably hoping for was something as inventive and experimental as that show had been, even if this episode echoed Farscape's 'A Human Raction'. Many of us Farscape fans were just plain disappointed.
The plot would have been much tighter if they had remained with the economy of the principals and placed greater emphasis on the mystery of the Triangle, rather than try to throw in the kitchen sink of wormholes and other gobblety-gook. Time-travel and alternate-reality stories are all about as threadbare as the last 'Star Trek:TNG' episode that used them.
None of the actors can really be blamed here, as their efforts were all solid. They only suffered from a weak script. O'Bannon - or the SciFi Channel ought to have passed the script under the noses of O'Bannon's old workmates David Kemper and Richard Manning. They could have helped steer this production into a rock-solid effort, worth more than just the forgettable effort that appeared here.