For some reason, body switch programs can be almost as confusing as time travel stories. They force you to adjust your thinking about the characters you're watching right in front of you. I thought Major Brothers was too overwrought right out of the gate with the guilt he harbored over letting one of his men die in an icy crevasse at their outpost in Greenland. But why he felt he needed to blow up the entire installation they were working at was needlessly extreme to say the least. It might have been more effective if the story had him hallucinating the ghost of the fallen soldier instead of an abominable snowman-like creature, but that's what we got. With Sally Kellerman joining Harry Guardino and Gary Merrill as part of the cast, you had a pretty fair amount of talent on hand, and enough clues offered for Kellerman's character to figure out what was going on after the mind/body switch took place. But my biggest takeaway from the episode had to do with the name assigned to the military base where the story took place. Nicknamed Pont TABU, that stood for Total Abandonment of Better Understanding. That would actually be a pretty good description of where the country finds itself today.
Review of The Human Factor
