stewart4us

I have been looking for this series without success ever since it first played on television until now. I never saw more than 10 or 12 episodes when it originally played, but I was absolutely crazy about it at the time. I watched the entire series in a binge, planning to go back and start again at the beginning and watch it more detail oriented the second time. Unfortunately, I really really wish that I had not found the last episode. It left me feeling absolutely sick to my stomach. That one episode devalued the entire series for me. I would cheerfully have given it 10 out of 10 stars for pure enjoyment until then. Instead I am giving it 4 stars out of 10, and seriously considering giving it only one. Whatever other people thought, I enjoyed the actors and I thought that the acting overall was perfectly acceptable. I like the plots and enjoy the overall feel of the series.

The whole theme of the series is that honesty and integrity would always triumph in the end. And then they copped out and went out on a complete and total denial of that premise. Please don't preach me a moral for 3 years, and then totally make it a lie in the very last episode.

It is my understanding, whether it is true or not, that Simon MacCorkindale had a great deal of control over the content of the series. Well, Simon, thanks for nothing. I'm sure that after I get over the shock that I will go back and watch the series again probably many times. But I will never cease to be disappointed that you sold out so completely at the end.

I usually assume that if the critics in their "wisdom" say that a movie is bad, I'm likely to love it--and that was certainly true in this particular instance. I regret its relatively poor showing at the box office. I guess that other people listened. "The Island" was a choice for me because of the moral and ethical issues involved--of course, Ewan McGregor never hurts--so I was determined to check it out. I think that they dealt with the question realistically--if the technology becomes available, it WILL happen. Where there is money, people will use it to their own advantage, no matter the cost to others. I'm not a Michael Bay fan, so I didn't really need all the crashes and mayhem, but at least it wasn't tremendously gory. I very much liked the sly humor that kept it from being depressing, especially the encounter between Lincoln and Tom. The naive attraction between the leads was cute, and Jordan's aggressiveness when they discovered sex was priceless. In fact I very much liked the fact that the Jordan beat Lincoln in a fight and saved him when he was being beat up, as well. Also, the payoff at the end, while not totally unexpected, did satisfy my need for justice. There were some not quite understood points--like: they were given memory imprints of childhood and growing up, but they had never seen a baby or a child? Say what?? And how come Lincoln knew how (and where) to swipe the credit card to get the information booth to work? Sure, he had Tom's memories popping up, but seems like that would just include the major things--like Latin and flying... If that wasn't the case, then there's that baby question again... Hey, NO movie is perfect.