This week’s episode did some reasonably good work with the Olive and Danny story.
A grown man should be able to catch up with a 9-year old boy once they’re out of the crowd, and it distracted me that Cal was able to stay so far ahead of his Dad (I have experience with that kind of situation) especially since Cal didn’t seem to be running all out anyway (and how fast can a kid who has cancer and is getting treatment run, anyway).
Cal seemed completely healthy in this episode.
He seems to be at the center of this mystery. Does he know more than he’s saying?
It’s confusing that the preview shows him sick in the next episode. I hope they don’t constantly use Cal to advance the story.
Did anyone else have flashbacks when Ben was chasing Cal around the subway?
All I know is when I start really liking it, it will be canceled
I dont watch too many hour long shows, investing that much time each week and then it gets canceled, waste of time.
I stick to Sitcoms. Only wasting 30 minutes
Interesting episode. Cal lives or dies depending on the fate of a passenger in a medical experiment.
It seems a bit early to introduce such a powerful organization. Even Vance is in the dark. How can some former passengers take on a organization that the NSA doesn’t know about?
I’m not sure where this is going or how these regular people can fight this group. I hope they keep it a little bit believable.
What bugs me is the passengers have to avoid the NSA and this new group.
That seems like impossible odds to overcome.
The TV writing cracks me up sometimes.
The security guy confronts them: “This is a restricted area. Didn’t you see the sign?” So now mentally rewind to the beginning of that scene:
[Not Shown] They drive past a “Restricted Area.” sign.
[They pull up to a large building with a security checkpoint booth.]
“We’ve been at this for hours. How much longer are we going to do this?”
Gee, I dunno how much longer we’re going to be at this. But we did just drive past a “Restricted Area” sign, and now we’re at a farmhouse that inexplicably has a security booth and a boom gate. So I’m going to go out on a limb and say “not hours.”
For most of the episode, I thought it was silly and that I probably wouldn’t watch it any more, until the very end. At that point, I thought, “THIS could be a very interesting twist.”
See ya next week.
Typically network shows in their first season in the Fall will order something like 13 episodes, as an initial investment, and then if the ratings are good, they will order the final “back nine” or so to fill out the season. If not, a mid season replacement will take it’s place. In very rare cases, if it was on the bubble but had loud fans, it may get some sort of wrap up. Which, I’m surprised isn’t a standard deal, as I would think whatever it cost to make an extra episode or special to create closure would be more than made up by being able to sell a DVD set or stream which doesn’t end abruptly.
Your reply reminds me that I read the network ordered 3 more episodes of Manifest for this season (which would be 16 total) and now looking on IMDb I see it lists 18 episodes.
No longer is it a 13-episode first season ending right before New Year’s, but now will stretch well into 2019. This also means that they didn’t have a coherent 13-episode story to tell for this first season; it’s more of the same typical network show stuff where they continually throw stuff at a wall to see what sticks.
Reading that they ordered 3 more episodes and then seeing now on IMDb that they actually ordered 5 more episodes to get to 18 total has soured me on the show a bit. I feel like we’ll already be into later-season Lost territory by February. “Okay guys, we need ideas for these episodes. I hear Matthew Fox has tattoos…”
I hope the ratings don’t drop after The Voice ends in a few but weeks. That’s an important lead in.
Wife: You came back from the dead on a magic time-traveling airplane. I’ll believe anything you say.
Husband explains what’s going on.
Wife: I don’t believe you.
:smack:
But what really bothers me about this show is that the magic airplane in question is a Boeing 737-200. That is a seriously old model; it was rolled out in 1967 and the last one delivered in 1988. As of July 2018 only 58 of this model were still in service; five years ago there weren’t that many more.
Yes, that was annoying! That whole trope annoys me: Person A begs Person B to tell them what’s going on, assuring Person B that they will believe them no matter how crazy they think they sound, and when Person B finally comes clean Person A is like “you’re mad!” Every. Time.
Some of the acting started bugging me for the first time this episode: the folks playing Grace, Michaela, and Jared. Maybe it was just the writing. Or maybe the premise is starting to bug me a little.
Then maybe the writers could do something smart like have a character wonder out loud if that could have been a factor.
Could that have been a budget thing? There were a lot of shots of the plane on the tarmac. Maybe they pulled one out of an airplane junkyard or something?
Yeah, that was stupid.
Yeah the interplay between Grace & Ben, and Michaela & Jared is starting to get stupid.
AKA “fake conflict”: the bane of dramatic writing.
I missed the last episode and am considering just looking for a site with a synopsis. I’m still interested in how the story will be resolved (IF it will be resolved) but am less patient with the so-so acting and lackluster writing.
I’d guess that’s exactly it–the production is using an old plane because it was cheaper to rent (or buy).
I was under the impression that all shots of the plane were CGI; they certainly were when it was in the air. I didn’t look too closely when the plane was on the ground, it bothered me so much. I was only reminded in the latest episode because they showed the model number on a news segment in the background. At least they got that part right.
I was pretty hyped up for this series after seeing previews all summer. In the beginning, I was all in, as of this week I decided I’m out. It’s one of the shows that I DVR and when I saw it on my list of recordings last night, I felt like it was becoming homework for me. Like, “I HAVE to watch Manifest now”. Not excited or interested anymore.
Especially given the circumstances of the show.
Wife: What you are saying is madness and is impossible.
Husband: Did you miss the part where I was gone for 5 1/2 years and haven’t aged a day?