Posted on 05/05/2005 6:32:08 AM PDT by genefromjersey
REVELATIONS - HOUR 4
(It Only Felt Like 4 Hours of Dreck !)
( Our understanding of this story was bolstered by the sudden appearance of a semi-lucid plot summary in the TV guide.)
The Professor's "son" was kidnapped by Satanists last week. This week,he is still a captive-BUT-he has been "demoted" to step-son.
Hawk (That's actually his name !) is taken into the mountains of New Hampshire by his Satan-worshipping captors.His captors reveal to him the fact his mother is pregnant (Funny: I didn't even know she was off the pill ! Oh,well.)
The captors tell Hawk he is free to leave-BUT-if he does so,his mother's unborn child will be stolen.
Hawk gulps-none too bravely-and says he'll stick around.
Just then,a State Trooper pulls up,and,sensing something is awry-with no pastrami in sight-begins questioning the captors.
The male captor-no doubt incensed by the officer's lack of sensitivity,and his display of male patriarchal authority-beats the trooper's head in with a tire iron.
Hawk gulps some more. ( I did too:the beating went on for a VERY long time !)
Suddenly.....................we are back at Harvard with the Nutty Professor.He is summoned to the campus by his bearded colleague (portrayed with a certain lack of enthusiasm by Rhys Davis).There is SOMETHING in the sky !!
The mystery object-first detected by a space satellite-is something HUGE,and it keeps getting bigger.By the time the commercial break ends,it can be seen with the naked eye !
Bearded professor says it's like a star in the EAST. Nutty Professor rubs his chin thoughtfully, and says: "Yes.But if you are in the Middle East,it will look like a star in the WEST !"
While we are still pondering that conundrum,we are whisked to Canada with the Flying Nun. (Her name is really Sister Jo,by the way.)
The good sister interviews a European refugee woman, who says she was raped by Demons. The poor woman is pregnant,and her sonogram shows she is carrying something that looks like You-Know-Who : Ol' Scratch hisself !!
Meanwhile, the Nutty Professor has succeeded in tracking down one of the former satanists,and is running down leads on where his (recently demoted) stepson, Hawk might be.
Speaking of satanists,Nash T. Bassard is arraigned on charges of kidnapping,torturing, and murdering the Nutty Professor's daughter.
His court appearance is televised,and for unfathomable reasons beamed into the prison where Bassard is detained.His merry antics ( a BIT of over-acting there) in court delight the inmates,who have all become devoted satanists.
Ooops !! We're back to poor little Hawk,who, we have learned,is a virgin.His satanist captors push him off a cliff-into the freezing water-then fish him out. ( I think they may be "un-baptizing" him,but the theological details are a bit unclear.)
Whoa ! The convent where the Brain-Dead Girl is being hidden has been found by the Satanists. They have "infiltrated" the security force, by killing off at least one guard and taking his place.
BUT,the Mother Superior,perspicaceous as usual,senses something is wrong,and calls the Nutty Professor for help.
(People do a lot of "sensing" in this plot,by the way.Now me: I'd dial 911 if I thought the rent-a-cops had gone bad; but,then again,my senses are not that sensitive-if you sense what I mean.)
As noted, this episode lasted an hour-but it felt like four !
Dave,it sounds as if this program is beginning to make sense to you !
Man, you are in DEEP TROUBLE !!
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all that in one hour?
what is this anyway- sounds like a fun show
Agreed. I'm usually fairly good at figuring things out, but this mess makes no sense at all. It would take repeated viewings to finally put the pieces together, and then you'd probably end up dissapointed.
I don't have a clue who half the main characters are!
It's a (Lord help us !) 6 hour mini-series on NBC.
Plot is murky-barely comprehensible;dialogue is often hard to understand because of "dramatic" voice lowering, and Brit/Irish/Scots accents; but- there is plenty of meaningless action,and revelation of important plot elements in a "Oh,I thought you KNEW that already" fashion.
This,as you might imagine, is why I've been making fun of it for these 4 weeks.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one.
The plot is pretty dumb but still entertaining. Just two more installments to go.
I will keep watching this as well, simply because although it is hard to follow, it is interesting, which can't be said about much on the networks.
As I mentioned earlier, if you really want interesting yet incomprehensible check out HBO's Carnivale. The first season is on DVD. There's a bit of nudity and language (one of the carnival acts is a peepshow), but it is absolutely fabulous in terms of characters and scenery.
It's a tale of the "Creature of Light" and the "Creature of Darkness" and their doings in the 1930s. One is a simple farmboy who hooks up with a traveling carnival. The other is a preacher.
SD
Perhaps it's a parody of life.
I've always felt that a man would learn and know more in the last twenty seconds of his life than all the years before.
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