Kudos to continuity. I was wondering if Lydecker would recognize Max's voice from the previous episode, and sure enough he did. Good job Lydecker. That speech he gave at the AA meeting was also pretty funny.
I thought this was a pretty good episode. I found a few nits though.
Would a knife in the heart cause INSTANT death?
Obviously things change between now and then but I'm pretty sure that rogue US military units are impossible.
Lydecker's old buddy calls him a spook. He's not a spook. Special Operations would be about the closest thing to what he does.
When Max and Zack escape from the military base they also manage to get their coats back. Wasn't it nice of the bad guys to leave them nearby?
I missed the explanation for this one, if there was one: Lydecker goes to AA meetings just to tell people off?
I got the sense of some foreshadowing as well. I would imagine we haven't seen the last of Brinn.
Lydecker's a recovering alcoholic. He went cold turkey, and thinks the 12-step program is a bunch of bull. He said it made him feel good about himself to see how small other people could be when faced with the same problem.
Would a knife in the heart cause INSTANT death?
IANAD (I am not a doctor), but it would cause massive bleeding, possibly cause major arhythmia, fibrillation, etc... He'd bleed out into his chest cavity in an EXTREMELY short time.
Oh, and Lydecker is a spook. He is definitely NOT special ops. Take it from someone who knows what Special Ops is and does.
I'll take your word for it but Lydecker's job seems like a strange one. I don't know much about the chain of command in the US Military (and I learned most of what I know from Tom Clancy) but Lydecker seems to be in a very weird position. He's apparently still in charge of the program that created Max and the others. He can order other soldiers around, even if they're not his to order! He goes to conferences to secretly represent US military interests (I think) and he has the power to call in troops, helicopters, et cetera. He also seems to have plenty of training himself. That suggests some sort of Special Ops guy rather than a spy. After all, James Bond is a fiction of the media. AFAIK, real spies, whether they're military or not, don't go around blowing people away. So what exactly is Lydecker?
On the knife in the heart thing, I remember seeing a TV show once that was amusing in a perverse sort of way. It was one of those Rescue 911 shows and it had a segment about a guy who was stabbed in the heart and survived. He had to be transported to the hospital with the knife still stuck in his chest. Perhaps it's just television's tendency to hurry things up (like people getting strangled, which invariable kills within 30 seconds on TV) and in reality the bad general should have sat there suffering for several horrible minutes before dying. OTOH, it's an opportunity for Dark Angel's producers to bring the guy back because a knife in the heart isn't necessarily fatal. Then again, perhaps Lydecker carries a supply of poisoned knives around with him...
There are certain things I'm not allowed to discuss, but from what I can say...
Special Ops does get to play around with the latest in tech. But, SO wouldn't be doing anything hare-brained like Manticore. That's why I'm saying that he isn't SO.
Out of curiosity, and since we're on the subject of Lydecker, after 12 odd kids escaped, including Max, Zach, Brynne, how did he retain control? Did he kiss some major butt, blame it on a subordinate, or has he spent the last ten years working up from his demotion? Or was he the only one qualified? Or have I completely missed something?I need to watch the pilot again, but if one of you can save me the trouble: Didn't somebody say, of the 12 that ran away, 3 died, 7 were wounded and captured, 2 unaccounted for? As in, Max and Zach were the only ones who made it out? So where did Brynne come from? What did I miss or not remember correctly?The Zach/Logan exchanges in this ep were marvelous.
I think it was that 22 ran away, 3 died, and 7 were wounded and captured. So 12 GOT away.
Y'know, that would make a LOT more sense! Thanks. (That message up there should have paragraphing; it's the spell-checker's fault.)
This is the second week in a row where the other bikers have had nothing to do with the main plot or the main characters. They just seem to be there as time filler.
What says that Lydecker couldn´t have a history within in the SpecOps (his capablities suggests something like that anyway).
Problably has he been put at Manticore because of his age, to old to be active on the field, but perfect to lead the creation and training of supersoldiers.