First let me say that the Alice in the mirror is the creepiest freaking thing I’ve seen for a long time.
There was one tiny detail in last night’s show that helped me figure out why I enjoy this show so much and most other shows make me want to impatiently heave a brick through the screen. It was when Artie and Co. were trying to figure out how they were going to warn Pete that Myka was actually a creepy murdering psychotic Victorian in disguise, since Myka had the Farnsworthy. Claudia says, “Duh, he’s at a big hotel!” Artie goes :smack: and then they call the hotel and have Pete paged so they can give him the message.
Now in almost any other show, something random would happen to prevent Pete from getting that message. And then he’d go do something stupid, and something else just as random would happen to save him, and we’d bumble on that way all the way to the end credits, when Pete would miraculously figure it out in the last 5 seconds. The tension would come from him not knowing, and from the others trying to contact him and failing. That kind of cheap hackneyed suspense trick irritates me.
What really happened, however, was that Pete got the message. The tension then came from wondering what he was going to do about it. Obviously he was going to succeed (it’s the kind of show where the good guys win - I like that kind of show), but how? What will they do to save her? What are they willing to do?
This episode felt a bit rushed but it seems like the actors are finally settling into their characters, and the characters are getting used to each other. Artie is my favorite; he started out as your basic eccentric scientist but now he’s starting get close to the others, which is obviously scaring him (understandable, considering most of his other co-workers have died horribly).
I still haven’t worked out where Leena fits in to all this; she has free access to the warehouse, and houses and feeds everybody, and gives a hand where needed, and offers impromptu therapy, but she’s obviously not a Secret Service agent. Maybe she’s the warehouse’s Father Mulcahy. Or maybe she’s the love child of Artie and Mrs. Frederics.
I’ve been keeping my fingers crossed that they’ll continue making a show I want to watch and not devolve into an angst-ridden over-dramatic suckfest like everything else on TV (one of the criticisms on IMDB is that it’s not “serious” - why the hell does everything have to be “serious”?) and so far I’m not disappointed. It’s fun, it’s got cool stuff and interesting storylines, and Saul Rubinek totally rocks.
And I was glad to hear that Myka kept the ferret. I’d been wondering what they did with it.
