| Rising | |||||
| Air Date: |
2/13/01 | ||||
| Episode Number: |
1:11 | ||||
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| Review: | Now, please don't rear your forks at my
throat. I kind of beg to differ. I honestly was impressed
by the caliber of the writing for this episode. It
actually had an overall theme of identity and how
oftentimes we can deceive ourselves and others to conceal
our true selves. However, we are unsuccessful in the end
because the truth ends up surfacing in spite of efforts
to forget about it. The theme was thoroughly executed
towards the end, except, in my opinion, it could have
been resolved in a different way. The emotional scene at
the end between Max and Original Cindy was poignantly
performed, but cheesy at best. Sorry. But the episode in
its entirety salvages itself from encumbering melodrama
and predictability with the unexpected turns and greatly
improved action sequences. I notice the improvement in
camera work, experimenting with different angles and
transitions in between scenes, and the lighting was not
so bombastic to the eye. The lighting actually fit the
overall mood and tone of the episode. Although the
editing during the scene when they were burning the other
Red alive in the beginning kind of bothered me with all
of the dissolves and superimposition. It should have been
conceived as primal, tribalistic, not fleeting and
surreal, using just the normal transition, something
blunt. All of these improvements made this a visually
entertaining and stimulating, yet dark episode.
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