We have a cure! Dr. Scott is dead! Well, but the USA makes sense again! Let's go to Asia!
If we hadn't had enough with Russians, Latin Americans and Europeans... well, there is a place the show still hasn't gone to... Asia! And what can we do with Asia? Be as silly as possible and make everything out of your images of what Asia may look like, instead of what it may actually be. People that have complained about Orientalism and similar in the West, would have a blast with this season's story-lines and depictions. I wonder, if this show is still watched in like fifty years, how people would look on the plot developments and cultures' depictions.
Forget about the incredible risible party in Vietnam, where the 'rich and powerful' mingle with the 'locals' to share the 'cure'. We also have the Hong Kong meeting of Asian leaders (Japan is having problems and can't come), where there is a theory going around that China's new leader, Peng, is keeping the cure to gain control of the region and be its new leader. We get Bridget Regan's Sasha speaking a hundred languages (which is an acceptable excuse for her character to be there and meet Chandler again; let's forget about whatever happened between them because Sasha would have been really young) and comments about tigers and wolves fighting (Lau Hu vs Wolf is going to be one of the showdown's of the season, no doubt). It all makes for a convoluted mess that one has to hope is understood as fiction from everyone involved (in the show and in front of the screen)
Ironically (not really), all these images and descriptions are around a very entertaining, I-will-not-let-you-breathe plot with lots of actions, shady characters and great use of the locations to raise the stakes. The dinner, with Chandler vs Peng, makes for a very entertaining moment. And then we get a new 'enemy', which the show teases may be Peng's people, but that whoever understand some of those languages Sasha speaks, will see through. To summarize, "The Scott Effect" will be a good time for fans of the show.
If we hadn't had enough with Russians, Latin Americans and Europeans... well, there is a place the show still hasn't gone to... Asia! And what can we do with Asia? Be as silly as possible and make everything out of your images of what Asia may look like, instead of what it may actually be. People that have complained about Orientalism and similar in the West, would have a blast with this season's story-lines and depictions. I wonder, if this show is still watched in like fifty years, how people would look on the plot developments and cultures' depictions.
Forget about the incredible risible party in Vietnam, where the 'rich and powerful' mingle with the 'locals' to share the 'cure'. We also have the Hong Kong meeting of Asian leaders (Japan is having problems and can't come), where there is a theory going around that China's new leader, Peng, is keeping the cure to gain control of the region and be its new leader. We get Bridget Regan's Sasha speaking a hundred languages (which is an acceptable excuse for her character to be there and meet Chandler again; let's forget about whatever happened between them because Sasha would have been really young) and comments about tigers and wolves fighting (Lau Hu vs Wolf is going to be one of the showdown's of the season, no doubt). It all makes for a convoluted mess that one has to hope is understood as fiction from everyone involved (in the show and in front of the screen)
Ironically (not really), all these images and descriptions are around a very entertaining, I-will-not-let-you-breathe plot with lots of actions, shady characters and great use of the locations to raise the stakes. The dinner, with Chandler vs Peng, makes for a very entertaining moment. And then we get a new 'enemy', which the show teases may be Peng's people, but that whoever understand some of those languages Sasha speaks, will see through. To summarize, "The Scott Effect" will be a good time for fans of the show.