In the second episode of the series, I had hoped for something to reward me for my return. Instead, I got a convoluted plot line told from the middle. Sometimes this works, but in this case, I did not feel any concern for the other people on the plane who might be injured because I hadn't met any of them when the danger started. Plus, it was not an easy story to follow in that one moment, everything would be fine, and the next we would be at a different point in time (with no certainty about the time differentiation), with Chance (Mark Valley) and Winston (Chi McBride) in a fight with unidentified enemies.
And unlike in the pilot, those fights were choppy, using the modern technique of allowing the camera to do most of the work. Considering the fights in the premiere were what captured my attention in the first place, this development was disappointing to say the least.
I'm not going to get into how silly I thought the notion of turning an airplane upside down is. Not a small plane, mind you, a very large one! Why not just climb to the altitude needed? Is that really going to be more difficult than flipping the plane? And what happened to the guy who got shot? We just forgot about him, so why was he there in the first place?
This episode was missing cohesiveness, which was sad and a little annoying, but regardless, there was still no draw. "Why should I watch this again next week?" I ask myself, "What am I excited about seeing happen?" And the answer is nothing.
The show is perfectly adequate, and I may watch it again if I'm bored and it happens to be on, but from what I have observed in these first two episodes, why bother when there is so much else that is fantastic on to watch instead.
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