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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quartermoon" data-source="post: 1249684" data-attributes="member: 243">Disclaimer: I love this show!!!!!The first season had that awesome moment when the female assassin blew herself out of the doorway of the doomed plane at the end of the first episode.  That scene made me stand up and shout.The second season had the jaw dropping line “I’m gonna need a hacksaw” at the end of the second or third episode--again, a moment that just felt outrageously shocking and cool.I guess they were trying for that with the Jack shooting up scene in this season’s first episode, but it didn’t have the same impact.  Maybe because he did the “good” thing and tossed away the needle...I don’t know.  Just not a WOW for me so much.  Am I getting jaded?  Or is there another scene that made you stand up and shout?Also, does anybody else think the writers are getting a bit lazy, or something?  Meaning, there seem to be a lot of contrived situations, obviously designed to keep the plot moving (as opposed to being well set up and believable).  I’m talking about 1.) The kid escaping from the mall--its supposedly sealed off and swarming with cops, but he just runs out an exit.  2) Jack, our hero who is so amazingly smart and tough, saying “We’ll just have to fight our way through the prisoners” (lame plan!) and then getting beaten and caught so quickly/easily. 3) Well, sorry boys, but the whole thing with Kim suddenly being a computer wiz.  I mean, she was a NANNY three years ago--and never seemed to have what TV Guide calls “a working brain”.  I suppose they can’t just drop her, but please.That being said, I loved the scene where Tony gets shot, love the fact that Michelle is now in charge (tho I suspect it won’t last--she’s going to bolt for the hospital, I’m afraid), loved the scene where they seal off the kid’s apartment and chain saw through the door, loved the Russian roulette session at the prison, and even gained new respect for dumb infected kid when he figured out the right thing to do was to kill himself (remember, the virus is not infectious in a dead host!).  Too bad his girlfriend stopped him.So far the storyline with the President isn’t too interesting, but I have hopes things will pick up.  I hope they take up the assassination attempt from last season’s finale somehow--it seems to be too glossed over at this point (except for a reason for the Prez to have a new woman in his life).</blockquote>

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