Monday, November 14, 2011

"The Glass Hand" is Ridiculous

I don't get it. I just don't get it. After all that guy had to go through to complete his 'Brain' and save humanity and find out who he is, he just gets the equivilant of a back-hand by the people whom he tried to save. Ridiculous. The guy, whose name I forget, kills all these weird alien people so he can protect his hand along with the secret it holds. He gets trapped in a building with a woman who unluckily decided to stay and work late. She falls for him in the twenty minutes she knows him (also ridiculous) and when she finds out he's a robot, boom. All feelings of love are gone and she runs home to her abusive husband who is *obviously* the better choice then a nice guy (** means sarcasm, by the way). Anyways, the guy completes his hand and kills all the rest of the aliens by pulling off their medallions which are keeping them in this time and breaking the mirror to stop them coming through. He then asks the hand to tell him where the human race is hidden, since they all disappeared in the war with said aliens, and the hand tells him that they are stored on a copper wire inside him. And, he's also a robot whom the humans made to believe that he was actually human. They guy ends up alone and sad and it just ends with him wandering off to wait until the war so he can save humanity. He reminds me of Marvin the clinically depressed robot from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. At the end of the show, the guy probably has the same outlook on life as Marvin does.

Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Wiley Aliens In "Outer Limits"

The show starts off with a fighter pilot being taken into a prison thing of the alien species that Earth is at war with. Inside the prison cell he his tossed into is another human-a female cadet. She says she's been in there for about three months and that her instructor who was there with her has already died. The fighter pilot, whose name escapes me, tries to break out of the cell by cutting the air vent bars in the ceiling with a shard of the rock that the cell is made out of. Supposedly, its harder than diamond, but that's not important. As he's cutting the bars to escape, the aliens have been taking the female cadet, Bree I think her name was, and graphing their skin onto hers to turn her into one of them. This makes the pilot speed up his efforts a bit and he finally breaks through the bars and is able to climb into the ventalation shaft. All this happens when she is being taken away for the skin graphs. He tries to attack the alien that is in the process of the skin graphing (not sure what the process is called) with the rock shard he used to cut the bars, but the alien turns it on him and cuts off his hand.  He wakes up sometime later and discovers that Bree is about halfway alienified (alienized? I don't know). They decide that it would be better for him to kill Bree instead of her being turned into the enemy, but he can't do it. It seems that she has lost all hope, but to restore her faith, the pilot tells him of the millitary's plan to hide behind the Sun and attack from behind. An alien comes in and Bree reveals that the aliens aren't changing her from human into them, they're changing her back. The episode then ends with the pilot in the corner of the cell screaming something along the lines of 'NOOOOOOO!'. The episode was good overall but it confused me a bit. It had all of the elements of sci-fi including the fustrating ambiguous ending. It had a good story line, and a wonderful twist at the end. Overall, a very good episode.