a show like this lives and dies on relevancy.
in this episode, the show takes on several relevant political topics in a desperate attempt to predict what will be relevant when the episode is aired. they wish to appear prescient, and just as any fisherman working with dynamite, they hit several marks, but never one precisely. they just blow the best plot point out of the water, only hoping they reap the fish they hope to be remembered for catching in the flotsam resulting from the blast.
there is an obvious solution to the story's main objective, and there is no reason to imagine they will not reveal it in the denouement; but they go an entirely different, entirely neutral, safe path. the solution is bold, but stupid based upon past situations involving similar variables, logic -- and reality.
this episode had the potential to be great...to inspire reality, but it fell far short of the mark.
in this episode, the show takes on several relevant political topics in a desperate attempt to predict what will be relevant when the episode is aired. they wish to appear prescient, and just as any fisherman working with dynamite, they hit several marks, but never one precisely. they just blow the best plot point out of the water, only hoping they reap the fish they hope to be remembered for catching in the flotsam resulting from the blast.
there is an obvious solution to the story's main objective, and there is no reason to imagine they will not reveal it in the denouement; but they go an entirely different, entirely neutral, safe path. the solution is bold, but stupid based upon past situations involving similar variables, logic -- and reality.
this episode had the potential to be great...to inspire reality, but it fell far short of the mark.
