Am I the only one that can not accept Dualla as a tough prison girl from the hood?
It was a pretty slow episode, so the only significant bits I can think of not on your list:
[spoiler]It seems that Joe, when he first came to The Village/Town/Program, was offered the same choice as Janet to shoot his neighbor and go free. Joe shot the guy and thusly(?) was recruited into the program and ending his self-identification as a priest.
Blackham(obnoxious sales guy) accidentally wanders outside of The Invisible Fence, realizes he’s free to run away, then realizes he’s got nothing to run to. He chooses to go back and talks to the camera, saying he chose to stay and that should mean something.
Joe apparently dies on the table/flatlines. From the preview, it appears he will be coming back to the town next week, but with total amnesia and a very bad attitude.
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I think Kandyse has done a better job acting as a prison girl than she ever did as Dualla.
Ah, great – I thank you for the summary!
Wow, pretty important thing to miss about Joe. Your first paragraph, I mean. Though the later one is interesting too, though not very important is a SFish show. 
Heck, look at Tori!
This week’s episode was awful, awful, awful.
They’re trying too hard, or something. Some of the dialog was embarrassing, and the whole thing with Joe on the bed was lame. I was going to see it through to the end, but it may have lost me this week.
Possible spoiler for the 8/7 episode so some space
I think that’s enough.
Nope, it wasn’t, so here’s some more:
Anyway, the last second reveal that the village is apparently in, um, whatever South American the reporters went to – wouldn’t that mean the seasons are reversed, from the POV of the North American hostages? Why hasn’t anyone noticed or commented on that?
Sort of along the same lines, but should/shouldn’t they have noticed the sun’s path in the sky was different?
Along the same lines as my previous post…
Talked it over with a guy who’s better than me at celestial stuff. He points out that North Americans are used to the sun making an arc (of various depths) in the southern sky from east to west. In the Southern Hemisphere the sun makes an arc in the northern sky from east to west. To someone transplanted, their initial assumption will be that the part of the sky the sun is arcing in (dreadfully expressed, sorry) the NORTH, and thus their brain will insist that the sun is suddenly rising in the west and setting in the east. IOW, this is such a glaring change it should have struck them all on the first sunny day.
Also, he reminded me that they will be seeing a different night sky. Now, none of them are astronomers – and I’m certainly not – but when I’m out at night I often look around to spot the Big Dipper at least (or Orion in winter) and having the familiar constellations out of sight should be another thing that is noticed by the kidnappees.
This is a spoiler thread, so I’m going to dispense with spoiler tags. An earlier episode specifically mentioned seeing constellations from the Northern Hemisphere. Though most of South America is in the Southern Hemisphere, there are vast areas in the North, too; parts of Ecuador and Brazil, most of Colombia, and all of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. Did they ever say where in South America they were headed? Though they did show a border crossing today, so they could have traveled far from where they started. I still think it would be a significantly different path for the sun through the sky, but that would at least mitigate the major problems.
Glad to see a thread on this show. It’s entertaining, especially during the summer when you don’t normally have anything but reruns. It’s sort of like The Prisoner mixed with Lost, but unlike Lost things actually happen and NBC promises all will be revealed by the end of summer. Sounds good to me.
I wasn’t really invested in Joe, and the white room/dream sequences sucked. But he is becoming a more interesting character after seeing he was a priest. I completely missed the fact that he shot someone to become part of the program.
I don’t particularly like any of the characters, but the premise is interesting enough.
I guess car salesman guy will become part of the program now? Haven’t seen Saturday’s episode yet, it’s on the Tivo for tonight.
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I’ve been waiting for the “shot” where they show reporter guy find the town since the opening couple of episodes. My wife and I kept saying this whole episode, “Oh, so this looks like the one where they will stumble into the town.” Then, predictably, the episode ends showing it. I hope they didn’t think we’d be shocked by that.
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Yeah, so what country are they in? Was this explained?
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What kind of incompetent program is this? They get mad at the “Night Watch” guy for things, but they haven’t even sent a replacement for Tom yet?
Anyone else still expecting(pleading) for a major twist? I mean, it better not just be a world-wide controlling program that builds leaders and so forth.
Whoever wrote the teacup dropping scene ought to be shot… Like it’s not enough the people are running an evil organization manipulating the entire planet, experimenting with people, killing people left and right… they also have to be assholes to the employees.
Yes, the employees have been convinced they’re working for the greater good. How much pain and suffering and evil deeds do you let go before you decide you’re working for evil people? I’m guessing we’ll see another side to the blue man group, or more dissention in the ranks like Joe.
From what the Director and the bitchy British middle manager were saying, the replacement had been dispatched but had not arrived as expected. That was why they were expecting the Night Manger to work outside his paygrade. I would have thought that the Director would have been more concerned by that wrinkle.
From tvrage.com’s summary of Episode 13:
Meanwhile, Kat and Renbe explore a duplicate abandoned town and find out a whole lot more than they bargained for.
This is my main problem with the show. I don’t like anybody.
In fact, the bad guys seem downright ordinary compared to the horrible main characters.
And I think that reporter guy is a slimy creepy weirdo. He reminds me of Det. Goren from Criminal Intent and every time I see him I want to shower off the grime.
Man NBC is screwing with us. Firstly, there was no episode last Saturday, I thought Tivo screwed up. Then:
"NBC is cutting its “Persons Unknown” run short by one episode.
Said installment, “Seven Sacrifices,” however will turn up online, a network spokesperson has confirmed to the site exclusively.
“Persons Unknown” returns next Saturday, August 21 at 8:00/7:00c with its 10th episode (“Identity”). That week, episode 11 (the aforementioned “Seven Sacrifices”) will make its online debut before the show signs off with its two-hour finale (“And Then There Was One”; “Shadows in the Cave”) on Saturday, August 28 starting at 8:00/7:00c."
Well, that sucks for those of us who don’t have high speed internet.
On the brighter side, appparently the series will be out on DVD in September, so I can Netflix it.
So…they are basically skipping an episode for anyone that can’t stream it?
Yeah, real nice, NBC.
That’s it for me. I was sticking with this show not because it was really any good, but because i just wanted to see how they would wrap it up. But if they’re going to treat their audience like shit, i’ll just dump it altogether. It’s not good enough for me to go out of my way.
If anyone still cares (and I can’t really argue with the feelings expressed above), the missing Episode 11 (Seven Sacrifices) is now up and available on Hulu.
I just watched it. Some stuff happens, but nothing crucial. I can post a spoiler-boxed plot summary, with the important bullet points, if anyone’s interested.
Yes, a spoiler would be great!
We gave up after two episodes…so just a quick wrap up will save me LOTS of time, and I am only mildly curious anyway, as the plot quickly turned into a mess.