Collateral Damage
Jan. 15th, 2006 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ankhOver on OS I voted 'Good'. [changed vote from 'Excellent' This ep does no rewatch well]
BenB and the actor playing his father most impressed me but everyone did well. I found the story interesting though the 'lead guy gets the alien babe' made me groan - I guess it's one of those 'rite of passage' things all characters have to go through. Hopefully we won't have to see it again for a while. Like others have said, the guy playing Mitchell's dad was a perfect choice both for his acting as well as his
physical likeness to BenB. I'm hoping we see him again, as someone that's still alive and well rather than in flashbacks. Mitchell has needed some filling out as a character and this was a good story in which to shine. BenB get to show us a little of what he can do as an actor rather than the action hero. We got to see Mitchell's stubborn nature, where it came from (his dad's accident linking nicely to Mitchell's own accident pre-Avalon), that Mitchell won't take the easy and tempting path to save his own skin but would rather take a personal risk in order to find out the truth. I thought the others did a good job of making it clear they were there for him and I loved their total belief in his innocence despite the evidence saying otherwise.
Storywise, I liked that they didn't try to make the audience believe Mitchell had done the deed but instead made it about a fight to prove his innocence. I do feel the Emissary probably knew who really murdered the scientist and his 'shifty bugger' behaviour was due to that rather than any direct involvement in the murder. I do think he was the person behind the framing of Mitchell. I can easily imagine he was the person who found the ex-husband murderer and convinced him to plant the false memories for the good of the project. I like the fact it's a possibility but we don't know for sure, sometimes people do get away with Bad Things.
BenB and the actor playing his father most impressed me but everyone did well. I found the story interesting though the 'lead guy gets the alien babe' made me groan - I guess it's one of those 'rite of passage' things all characters have to go through. Hopefully we won't have to see it again for a while. Like others have said, the guy playing Mitchell's dad was a perfect choice both for his acting as well as his
physical likeness to BenB. I'm hoping we see him again, as someone that's still alive and well rather than in flashbacks. Mitchell has needed some filling out as a character and this was a good story in which to shine. BenB get to show us a little of what he can do as an actor rather than the action hero. We got to see Mitchell's stubborn nature, where it came from (his dad's accident linking nicely to Mitchell's own accident pre-Avalon), that Mitchell won't take the easy and tempting path to save his own skin but would rather take a personal risk in order to find out the truth. I thought the others did a good job of making it clear they were there for him and I loved their total belief in his innocence despite the evidence saying otherwise.
Storywise, I liked that they didn't try to make the audience believe Mitchell had done the deed but instead made it about a fight to prove his innocence. I do feel the Emissary probably knew who really murdered the scientist and his 'shifty bugger' behaviour was due to that rather than any direct involvement in the murder. I do think he was the person behind the framing of Mitchell. I can easily imagine he was the person who found the ex-husband murderer and convinced him to plant the false memories for the good of the project. I like the fact it's a possibility but we don't know for sure, sometimes people do get away with Bad Things.