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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 4492231" data-attributes="member: 2477">I'm not sure I understood correctly, I didn't care for this ep, so I should watch the others, at least 1 of the three being worse than the one I didn't like? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />See, my main issue is one of rationality. I don't know if you ever watched King of Queens, but it's on during the day so I watch it, and it's okay. Eventually though, the father-in-laws antics are not "amusing", they're offensive.That's how I feel about this show, it depends on this "mysteriousness" of "fringe science", meanwhile the guy that understands it doesn't evoke any empathy, nor does he try to provide an understanding of it in those around him. "Trust me" doesn't work after a while.Now, I missed the other episodes, so I'm sure they have at least some basic "son has to help father" vibe or something, but it's too thin in this episode. When you meet a man that reads minds, after having been tortured by somebody using a machine that reads other peoples minds through genetics/ psychometry, whatever....Well, a rational main character would demand answers, and a sympathetic "mentor" would provide SOMETHING.Instead, he says "there's things you don't understand".In XFiles, they were investigating things togethor, whereas this show, there's a guy that knows a lot of it apparently and just doesn't feel like explaining it.Again, maybe the formula works better in the first three episodes, where there is a device and such, but in this episode it just didn't click.The other part of it is the actor's chemistry, or lack thereof. If Lead Guy felt connected to Father or Father felt connected to Lead Guy, maybe it would have worked. Both seemed to be acting in isolation though, and Lead Girl felt totally outside.I didn't watch the other shows because it was against Eureka. I watched this one since it was after House. If around mid-season, folks rave enough about it, I may watch all the eps in sequence at once, it's much more fun that way and easier to gloss over the failed episodes, since you're not thinking about it for a week. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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