My TV Musings

I take issue with a couple of things from this show (I know, I sometimes take things too seriously):

Stillson had to decide whether or not to destroy the spaceship because Johnny’s prediction clearly showed many people being killed when the spaceship was destroyed on re-entry and he had to weigh the lives of the crew (who would have died anyway) versus the lives of the unknowing innocents on the ground. I thought it was a valid position to take whether he had been the one to take it or whether Johnny had. I felt we were supposed to think it an evil idea just because Stillson was the one considering it. I noticed that the orders would ultimately have been given by the President, not by Stillson himself, so he would not have been alone in complicity. Such is the weight of responsibility born by those in high office.

Why do adults feel it is necessary to make promises to children? Things happen and it’s not always possible to follow through. The stuff on which promises should be made are things that one can rely on: “I will always love you”, “there will always be someone to take care of you” and then make sure those things are taken care of even if you won’t be around. This came up last week with Kyle XY when the dad had promised his teenage son a brand new car when he got his license. Bad idea! Kids that age should either work for their own vehicle or gain it based on merit (straight A’s, following house rules, etc.) but never just because they passed their driver’s exam. Even promising his wife that he would return from a potentially dangerous situation of going into space was iffy. But without these melodramatic moments I guess television would suffer.

And how did the crew end up surviving? I thought they said they would run out of air before they could fix the flap even if they knew it required it. Well I guess not, because they survived. I thought it was clever to move the satellite into their field of vision and use the lights on it to convey messages via morse code.

I was glad that Johnny took note of Stillson’s not taking personal responsibility for saving the crew, and perhaps Stillson IS changing for the better. Of course, we can’t have that entirely because we need some kind of bad guy to hate!

I think it’s kind of neat that Johnny can repay Walt for all the years he was in a coma and Walt stepped up and fathered J.J. Now Johnny has a chance to be a father figure to Walt’s little girl, Hope.

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