Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Painkiller Jane - Thanks For The Memories

The writers painted themselves in a corner with this episode. It looked like they either ran out of money or realized too late that it was a bad plot so they used one of the most obvious escape routines in the book. You know, write yourself in a corner and then make it all a dream and that’s what they did.

By killing off everybody and having it so that you knew something was wrong when her boyfriend (who was living in her apartment with the little girl who pretends not to know her) , she doesn’t put up a fight and she goes and just leaves and start wandering the streets. I thought that was a little strange. Imagine if someone came to your house and you know it’s your house and they are there with somebody else. Would you just walk away and not ask any questions? Wouldn’t you call the police? I mean something is wrong with that but that’s they way they wrote this episode and then of course in the end you find out that it was all a dream.

Usually when writers do this they paint themselves in a corner that they can’t get out of so the obvious solution is to make everything a dream so then they can get back to normal.

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