Rising (The Red Series returns to get Max, but they are the real ones in danger)
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Rising (The Red Series returns to get Max, but they are the real ones in danger)
"She was designed to be the perfect soldier. She was trained as a weapon. But then she escaped. They came after her, and she knew they would never stop looking. She was lucky...a few months later, terrorists set off an electro-magnetic pulse that fried all the computers. The U.S. went from superpower to third-world country overnight. It was easy to disappear. Now she has an unlikely ally. Logan Cale, underground cyber-journalist and crusader. He wants to save the world, or what's left of it. She just wants to find the others like her. Together...who knows?"
After losing another member, due to the time limit on his body, the Red Series adds a new recruit. The recruit implants a metal device into his neck, which gives him the power that the other recruits have. The RS intend to track Max down by finding out who called her last, on the pager she dropped while fighting them.
Meanwhile, Original Cindy gets a new job at an insurance company. The RS finds out she was the one who called Max last and trash her apartment. They follow her to Crash (the bar) that night. The RS almost gets the jump on Max, but she esapes, killing one of them in the process. Max and Logan take the body to Sebastian, who discovers his implant and has it removed. Sebastian also tells them that the current RS wouldn't benefit from Max's genes, since the leader of the RS actually plans on using Max as a breeder for their future soldiers, and not as a supplement for the current ones.
The next night, the RS holds Cindy at gunpoint and forces her to call Max, but she relays a secret message warning Max that there's trouble. Max knows that she can't fight the RS and survive, so she uses the implant from the recruit to boost her stamina. Max kills one of the RS, but their leader gets the drop on her. She gets him to tell her about his real plans, and the other RS recruit, who overheard the news, kills him, before dying himself. Max nearly dies from the overload of the implant, but Logan and a stunned Cindy short-circuit it before it kills her. The next morning, Max tells Cindy the whole story. Cindy backs her up, like the true best friend she is. Later, Cindy gets her job back at Jam Pony.
That night, Logan surprises Max. Max has been transfusing blood to Logan since he began feeling his legs again. It's her Manticore blood that has begun to heal him. Logan gets out of his wheelchair and stands in front of Max, though not for long. Later that night, Logan and Max take a motorcycle ride together in celebration.
THOUGHTS
-Good episode, lots of solid stuff in here.
-I loved the way they extended the opening teaser to open the episode. Really nice surprise.
-The great continuity continues. Cindy mentions Mr. Sidha...um, whatever, from a few eps back.
Some Trek "stuff" I noticed in this ep:
-A Quantum Scan on a pager?
-The drill = Borg Assimilation.
-The RS = Borg Drones.
-And the whole "uneasy allies" thing with the RS and their leader reminded me of the whole Dominion/Cardassian thing (Dukat vs Weyoun) in "A Call To Arms" (and beyond) of DS9.
-Walter is "Mr. Multiples"? WALTER?
-Great scene when Logan tries to stand. They even got Bling in the episode (...for about a minute!).
-After the surgeon takes the damaged implant out of the recruit's neck, it recombines back into the drill shape. Did this scene remind anyone else of Neo's "bug" implant in "The Matrix"?
-It also reminded me of the shape-shifting key Odo got in DS9.
-I teared up when Max started crying. I don't know, I just can't stand to see a girl cry!
-Finally, although the commercials as far back as a month ago showed Logan standing for Max, I was still moved when it happened.
FAVORITE QUOTE
"Like being a girl isn't hard enough, now I have to be mommy to these guys?"
-Max, after Sebastian tells her what Johannessen is scheming.
NITS
-Like I said before...a Quantum Scan on a pager?
-Impossibe jump by Max onto the truck.
-When the truck stops, why don't the Red Series men keep running after Max?
-Impossible flip-kick by Max in the fight scene.
-"James Bond villain" syndrome by the RS leader at the end of the episode. Why didn't he just shoot Max instead of chit-chatting with her about his whole plan?
-Convenient that Max starting convulsing AFTER the fight rather than during it!
-So the insurance building is heavily damaged in the fight. What happens to Cindy as a result? Apparently, nothing!
By Brian Lombard on Wednesday, February 14, 2001 - 6:01 am: Why does Walter keep leaving town? Both times Kendra mentioned him in previous episodes, she referred to him as being "in town." Police conventions perhaps?
When Max confesses to Original Cindy, OC says that she had no idea. Shouldn't she have had some clue? Max did take out a 300 pound prison warden in "Flushed," which OC was present for.
Normal seems to have completely forgotten that just last week Original Cindy put her life on the line for him. He was treating her just as poorly as he ever did.
I too liked that they changed the teaser a little, to give the viewers a recap of "Red." However, since they were changing it anyway, they should have changed the year to 2020. When Normal went on his date with the she-male a few weeks back, he identified that as the current year. But the teaser still said 2019.
By Merat on Saturday, February 17, 2001 - 1:13 am: Ok, Original Cindy says that she had no idea. However, didn't she already tell her and Kendra this, but they didn't believe her?
By Rodney Hrvatin on Thursday, March 27, 2003 - 11:23 pm:Half expected to see in the thoughts column- "Max after the implant- wow!" given that statements appearance in earlier boards!
good ep but had to groan when logan stood up. I was going "Awww man- can't they leave him a cripple? SHow him coping with this disability" But oh no- we can't have THAT now can we?
Normal seems to have completely forgotten that just last week Original Cindy put her life on the line for him. He was treating her just as poorly as he ever did.- Brian Lombard
I guess his short term memory arrives on Tuesday as well (10 cool points for the people who spot THAT reference!)
By ScottN on Friday, March 28, 2003 - 1:15 pm: I know the ref, but J.C. MacKenzie's IMDB bio doesn't show him being in ST:Generations.
By LUIGI NOVI on Friday, March 28, 2003 - 4:02 pm:That wasn't J.C. MacKenzie. Captain Harriman was played by John Ruck, who played Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and costarred in Spin City.
By ScottN on Friday, March 28, 2003 - 4:23 pm: I know that, but Normal is played by J.C.MacKenzie. I don't know *what* Rodney's thinking of...
By Rodney Hrvatin on Friday, March 28, 2003 - 10:25 pm: Oops-my bad!
They look very much alike.
I shall beat myself incredibly for that oopsie moment.
YOu still get your 10 cool points anyway.
By LUIGI NOVI on Friday, March 28, 2003 - 10:59 pm: I was talking to Rodney, Scott.