A Watcher gets killed in "the zone." Joe wonders if a man, Canaan, is an immortal and asks Duncan if he could check it out. The watcher is also a reporter. It seems he was reporting on "the zone" and Canaan's sudden rise in politics. All the watchers seem to have regular jobs in addition to being a watcher. It seems odd that The Watchers would have had a reporter as a watcher. You'd think that would be the last kind of person they would want.
Mac is reluctant to get involved, telling Joe to get the police or check it themselves. Joe makes excuses and Mac relents. Busy body Charlie can't mind his own business when he hears that Mac is going to the zone. Mac tells him to stay out of it, but he goes anyway.
Canaan is a very bad stereotype in so many different ways.
Mac determines that Canaan is not an immortal. Just a thug that has become political and operates out of "the zone" like a gang leader. Mac was supposed to drop it once he figured out that the guy wasn't an immortal. But now he decides the guy is evil and he needs to be stopped. The conversation with Joe made Mac sound like he was the great pure savior coming to save the poor folks. I wish they edited out the conversation, and Mac decided to stop Canaan without saying what his motivation was. He just sounded so Mary Sue.
I liked seeing Mac get out of the freezer and later beat up Canaan. I know the point is after the humiliation the people are no longer afraid and will stand up to him. But I didn't see anyone stand up to him when Mac and Charlie were fighting him and his thugs. They just walked away in disgust. The writers should have written it so that the people were the ones that actually fought back.
The episode was kind of weak. Even the flashback wasn't that great. I gave it a 6/10
Mac is reluctant to get involved, telling Joe to get the police or check it themselves. Joe makes excuses and Mac relents. Busy body Charlie can't mind his own business when he hears that Mac is going to the zone. Mac tells him to stay out of it, but he goes anyway.
Canaan is a very bad stereotype in so many different ways.
Mac determines that Canaan is not an immortal. Just a thug that has become political and operates out of "the zone" like a gang leader. Mac was supposed to drop it once he figured out that the guy wasn't an immortal. But now he decides the guy is evil and he needs to be stopped. The conversation with Joe made Mac sound like he was the great pure savior coming to save the poor folks. I wish they edited out the conversation, and Mac decided to stop Canaan without saying what his motivation was. He just sounded so Mary Sue.
I liked seeing Mac get out of the freezer and later beat up Canaan. I know the point is after the humiliation the people are no longer afraid and will stand up to him. But I didn't see anyone stand up to him when Mac and Charlie were fighting him and his thugs. They just walked away in disgust. The writers should have written it so that the people were the ones that actually fought back.
The episode was kind of weak. Even the flashback wasn't that great. I gave it a 6/10