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I was disappointed by this episode. OK, so we got some good info on Hawkins, and I love that character, but did we need a flashback episode for that? After all, there wasn't much new info given about any of the other characters that we didn't already know or couldn't infer.
Despite the empty "revelations" this episode provided about Jake, we still don't know any more about him now than we did before.
I guess I felt like, after last week's re-cap episode, that I had to sit through 45 minutes of flashback to get 15 minutes of new story that pushed the plot a few tiny steps toward getting back into the current timeline of this show. And what we saw of Hawkins could have been provided without the now-cliched flashback episode.
By contrast, the Heroes flashback episode was much more cleverly done. I was hoping for something more like that.
A few quick nitpicks:
-- Hawkins' wife just gives up fighting him ("I'm too tired to fight you now," she says) after being locked in a truck for hours with this guy, who she has a restaining order on.
-- Hawkins' family sees the mushroom cloud and (at least his wife) remembers that he just said that "tomorrow a lot of things are gonna change," and the kids certainly know he drove them across the country for no apparent reason. Yet we haven't seen any evidence so far in the show that the family suspects he knew something about the bombs or was behind it all. Sure they seem to think he's up to something, but they haven't seemed to think he had prior knowledge that the country was going to blow up, much less that he was in on the plot. What gives?
-- And apparently his wife and the kids didn't try to escape or overpower him sometime during the trip. How long does it take to drive from D.C. to Kansas? And how many food/potty stops does that equal?
-- All the above points add up to the fact that Hawkins' family is a plot device, not actual characters. I'm disappointed in that.
-- Hawkins puts pushpins in the map only after hearing a radio report about the blasts, yet the girl in his apartment used his computer to view a list of all the intended targets. Sure, he could have been waiting for confirmation on those targets that were actually hit rather than just what the intended targets were, but it still seems like a stretch to me.
-- Jake left San Diego about 10-12 hours before the bombs dropped and still had a few hours to spend in Jericho. How long does it take to drive from California to Kansas?
Despite the empty "revelations" this episode provided about Jake, we still don't know any more about him now than we did before.
I guess I felt like, after last week's re-cap episode, that I had to sit through 45 minutes of flashback to get 15 minutes of new story that pushed the plot a few tiny steps toward getting back into the current timeline of this show. And what we saw of Hawkins could have been provided without the now-cliched flashback episode.
By contrast, the Heroes flashback episode was much more cleverly done. I was hoping for something more like that.
A few quick nitpicks:
-- Hawkins' wife just gives up fighting him ("I'm too tired to fight you now," she says) after being locked in a truck for hours with this guy, who she has a restaining order on.
-- Hawkins' family sees the mushroom cloud and (at least his wife) remembers that he just said that "tomorrow a lot of things are gonna change," and the kids certainly know he drove them across the country for no apparent reason. Yet we haven't seen any evidence so far in the show that the family suspects he knew something about the bombs or was behind it all. Sure they seem to think he's up to something, but they haven't seemed to think he had prior knowledge that the country was going to blow up, much less that he was in on the plot. What gives?
-- And apparently his wife and the kids didn't try to escape or overpower him sometime during the trip. How long does it take to drive from D.C. to Kansas? And how many food/potty stops does that equal?
-- All the above points add up to the fact that Hawkins' family is a plot device, not actual characters. I'm disappointed in that.
-- Hawkins puts pushpins in the map only after hearing a radio report about the blasts, yet the girl in his apartment used his computer to view a list of all the intended targets. Sure, he could have been waiting for confirmation on those targets that were actually hit rather than just what the intended targets were, but it still seems like a stretch to me.
-- Jake left San Diego about 10-12 hours before the bombs dropped and still had a few hours to spend in Jericho. How long does it take to drive from California to Kansas?
