The funny part was that it didn't actually say "Star Trek" - the theater guy took his ladder inside the theater after writing
"STAR TRE " - you can even see him climb down off of the ladder!
Plus, I loved at Parker2's pronunciation of 'automaton' when complaining about being stuck on the base all the time. He pronounced it "auto - maton" (auto like a car), instead of
"autom - aton" (autom like atomic)!
Did the sign guy fold up the ladder? I thought he was just going back for the "K".
I can't believe I missed the bit with the movie! there was 3 ST fans in the room, and
*none* of us saw it! AGGH!
This was a pretty good show, even though I sort of groaned at the whole thing with
the evil/good twins. that is so overused it's unbelievable, although I suppose you
could argue that they were paying a homage to ST: TOS. I've come to the tentative
conclusion that, as sci-fi goes, this is more like ID4 than, say, 2001. not that I'm
dissing either, I just think that they are discussing totally diferent things. 2001 is
very cerebral, which is great. ID4 was *not* very scientifically correct, but, hey, it
was
Didn't notice the Star Trek movie sign.
But didja notice how when Parker is cloned
(for want of a better word)the first time BOTH
Parkers are wearing the orange flightsuit,but
the second time it occurs Evil Frank is wearing
the orange flightsuit but Good Frank is wearing
a blue jumpsuit!!
Gotta love those modifications of Ballard's,
not only do they clone Parker twice,but the
second time they are considerate enough to do
it in such a manner that we can tell the good
guy from the bad guy!:)
Loved the ep, but...:) I'm not completley sure of which day it is at the end when "dark" Frank backsteps, but, previously, the modifications had only been done (& not completed) minutes before the backstep. If we weren't at day 7 at the end of the ep.,then those mods shouldn't have been done yet. Of course, this all goes back to the "would the mods really be done, if Frank always erases the need for the back step" issue. But, seriously folks, I'd say this show has fewer "technobabble script-hole patches" than Trek, especially recent incarnations(V'ger being the queen of TSHPs.)Sorry if there's a better term, I'm a neophyte Picker. Much thanks to Matt for doing this board and for being so timely w/ it. Hopefully, the number of fans will increase. I'll have to review my tape to catch that ST marque.
My point about this being more like ID4 was best highlighted by one of Parker's lines,
"so we got cloned, or split, or...sumpthin'." Exactly. I suppose it's certainly arguable
that 7 Days has less problems than ST, but, then, it hasn't been on for very long, has
it? :-)
The whole time-travel thing hurts my skull, and I'm *not* an expert (unless reading
Heinlein and Diane Duane makes you an expert! :-) but it seems to me that the
creators are operating on a single-universe assumption. Otherwise the whole thing
becomes *WAY* too complicated. Of course, unless (and even if!) you believe in
predestiny and/or God, all evidence points to the conclusion that time travel in a
single-universe setup is impossible.
IMCO, the whole issue of time-travel has been raised by a massive international
conspiracy between organized religion and the drug industry. Think about it. How
many scientists have sat up nights and drawn equations and argued with other
scientists about time travel before finally giving up and saying, "oh, to heck with it.
Let's just leave it up to this God guy, take two aspirin, and head to bed." My guess
would be: 47.
PS.If you didn't get that, and you consider yourself a sci-fi fan, all I can say is...I
pity you. Oh, and I have nothing against organized religions. In fact, I belong to one.
:-) Christos Anesti!
What I thought was strange was how at the end the clone of Parke's clone came out of the sphere in casual clothes and not in the suit like the first one did in the last episode.
I thought that the good clone thwacked the baddie, knocking him out of the sphere's hatch, and then followed, pulling the spacesuit off in the process. Isn't there a shot of him pulling off the suit?
I re-watched that scene last night...
When the bad Parker flies backwards out of the sphere, good Parker quickly pulls his orange suit off. It's pretty quick and tough to see because of the smoke, but he definetly de-suits before coming out of the sphere. (Just another way for the creators to distinguish the Parkers for us... Good guy in blue, bad guy in red [I mean... orange!])
Next week - Parker falls for a double-agent and makes Olga jealous.
Week after that - Olga's husband works for the Russian Backstep Team and comes back from the future to destroy the American team.
BTW, this info comes from UPN's 7 DAYS page at www.upn.com.
Despite the fact that I had not noticed much of a dichotomy between the "good" and "evil" Parkers, considering they both displayed somewhat identical personalities (i.e., obnoxious, conniving, etc.), I found myself quite impressed by how they had the "good" Parker murdered by his anti-self and then resurrected during the "bad" Parker's descension into the past. I admit, I could not have written a better conclusion. And cogitate this for a moment. The "bad" Parker slain himself and was in turn slain by his own hostile intention towards the "good" Parker, who unconsciously yearned to see his anti-self die. Technically, Lt. Frank Parker killed himself twice. Talk about double homicide. Or would that be double suicide?
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