Last episodes
Gayle Feyrer (agile@crl.com)
Thu, 5 Feb 1998 09:05:32 -0800 (PST)
Personally, I think the next to last episode is one of the
best ones in the series, and much stronger that the last one. Since Neil
is fighting so fiercely to retain his job in the next to last ep, it
feels off kilter to me that he's so self-destructive in the last one.
There's no believable way he'd keep his job defying the entire power
structure like that. It plays into a self-destructive theme, but Neil's
life was the service, at least his view of it, so the last ep has this
over the top feeling to me. Also, dramatically, I think death scenes
should be framed to wrench you - like Laura's, or Blake's in Blakes 7.
We get that long sequence of the cars, then whacko, Willie is shot, cut
to Neil's plane in take off. Very frustrating ep for me.
Gayle