Reviews

Hemingway must have been on a bender when he cranked out this yarn. It's got everything that a thirty-year-running soap opera could squeeze into two hours. The only thing recognizable (spoiler alert) is the end: Farewell to arm. Still, I'll give it five stars since I was convincingly suckered into wasting nearly two hours of my life hoping that a story would unfold.

Same old same old. A continuation of the fraud that for so many years spearheaded reality television's repackaging of the Spiritualism scams a hundred years earlier. This yarn takes place in a perfect venue, a rural country home with a reputation for (spoiler) apparently an evil old lady who dies from broken hip injuries and (spoiler) and a suicidal young man who met his untimely end in a jump from second story jump. The video proving it all (spoiler) a poorly doctored video of an apparition crossing through a child's nursery. Sadly, itlooks like we can look for another ten years if this garbage.

This episode fails miserably as it attempts to analyze the cause of the crash of Air France flight AF477 . It's conclusion is that the cause is related to heavy reliance of computer automation. The fact is there were three air data systems onboard the aircraft, all produced by Thule. All of them failed (their pitot tubes froze over) resulting in a faulty true air speed measurement. This was a known design flaw which had been corrected in Thule's competitor.

Unfortunately, AF chose to equip their aircraft using all Thule air data systems. This is a fundamental mistake. When redundancy is required it is always best to have dissimilar designs in place. This prevents common design flaws from allowing erroneous sensor data from being used.

Why Air France chose do this and when the JAA allowed it is a mystery but there may have been a number of reasons. Cost is one. Another is the fact that Thule was a European company and their competitor was an American company. We may never know for certain but one thing is certain: It wasn't reliance on automation that downed AF447.

Television interviews with supposed Amish women with perfectly plucked eye brows and coiffured hair. An evil doll that possesses a small child. All of the elements of an entertaining fake story that pegs the bulls**t meter.

Hard to say what happened but what's clear is they haven't found anything. Sad to see that the History Channel has devolved to the point of turning this schlock into a recurring reality show.

It's a mystery who writes this garbage. I think the final stomach turner for me is when Riker, masquerading as one of the locals on the planet. executes a fireman's carriage on a wounded Federation researcher. instead of immediately beaming off to the ship, he waits carries the guy for several minutes, drawing the undesired attention of the locals. Poor writing, poor direction, and a sign of the collapse of yet another spawn of Star Trek.

Probably the only failings in this story are the authoritarian role of the captain, a typical failing of this juggernaut as the series winds down, and the demotion of Seven of Nine, arguably the best character, to the role of babysitter.

There is a powerful scene where the doctor is telling Chakotay that the captain, after being injured by an alien, may never regain consciousness. At the end of the scene (30 seconds later) the doctor tells Chakotay that the captain wants to talk to him. Poor writing. Lazy editing. A sign that the series was on the downswing.

Poorly acted, poorly directed horror yarn with a script straight off the folds of a stack of Starbuck's napkins. There's only one memorable scene. It's a bed scene. One of the actresses rolls over and turns her back on her partner/love interest/whatever then tells him: "I'm tired... I just want to go to sleep..." It was a moment of honestly that I shared because it was at about this time that I nodded off.