Bob the Mercenary
01-12-2009, 07:23 PM
After Keifer's DWI and jailtime I had high hopes, but Redemption really left a sour taste and I wasn't really wow'ed by episode one last night. I mean, you expect me to believe that every major piece of U.S. infrastructure is connected through a single network and the only safeguard against cyber-attacks is a firewall which can be thwarted not by a sophisticated exploiting program/fuzzer or worm, but by a physical machine. There is a limit to which I will allow my disbelief to be suspended, this leaps over it.
Also, overacting all around, except by Sutherland, and the President is acting too...presidenty. She's one patriotic soliloquy away from just stripping her clothes off and rapping herself in an American flag. The bald guy who lost his son to an apparent suicide overplays his character in the same way Hayden Christensen overplayed Anakin Skywalker, and that FBI computer analyst has already confirmed himself as not the inside man. He's continuing the trend that started in one of the later seasons of playing a character so obviously an asshole that he is meant to be a red herring and lead people to believe he is the traitor when he really isn't.
Even with all of these gripes, I'll still most likely be gripped to the screen as I have been for all six other seasons. I've heard good things about tonight's two hour second episode so we'll see.
Also, overacting all around, except by Sutherland, and the President is acting too...presidenty. She's one patriotic soliloquy away from just stripping her clothes off and rapping herself in an American flag. The bald guy who lost his son to an apparent suicide overplays his character in the same way Hayden Christensen overplayed Anakin Skywalker, and that FBI computer analyst has already confirmed himself as not the inside man. He's continuing the trend that started in one of the later seasons of playing a character so obviously an asshole that he is meant to be a red herring and lead people to believe he is the traitor when he really isn't.
Even with all of these gripes, I'll still most likely be gripped to the screen as I have been for all six other seasons. I've heard good things about tonight's two hour second episode so we'll see.