This first episode of the second season is a war story. \u00a0James Embry is a World War II American bomber pilot.\u00a0 He wakes up on the desert floor next to his B-25 bomber named King Nine.\u00a0 He has problems remembering the exact sequence of events but he remembers that there was a bombing mission over Italy that was supposed to return to the North African base but they had crashed in the Sahara Desert.\u00a0 None of them had parachuted away so they should all have been around the plane dead or alive.\u00a0 But Embry can\u2019t find any sign of his crew.\u00a0 After running around and searching in and outside of the plane for most of the show he finds the grave of one of the crew members.\u00a0 When he looks back at the plane, he thinks he can see the crew but when he runs back to them, they disappear.\u00a0 He starts to become incoherent and imagines that maybe he\u2019s dead.\u00a0 He spots some planes in the sky but realizes that they are modern jet aircraft and didn\u2019t exist in 1943 when the plane crashed.\u00a0 Now he becomes almost catatonic and lays on the ground crying.<\/p>\n
Next scene is in a hospital where a doctor and a psychiatrist are discussing how Embry was walking down the street in 1960 when he read a newspaper that had a headline about the King Nine being discovered crashed in the Sahara.\u00a0 The psychiatrist states that Embry was reacting to the guilt he must have felt because he was not able to fly when that last mission in his plane crashed.\u00a0 When Embry awakens, he discusses his dream with the doctors and they tell him that it is reasonable for him to be powerfully affected by the news of the discovery of the wreck.\u00a0 He tells them that it felt incredibly real.\u00a0 When the nurse comes back with Embry\u2019s clothes that were taken from him when he was admitted.\u00a0 Removing his shoes from the box a very large quantity of sand falls out.<\/p>\n
Okay, so I get it that the trauma of war time loss is an important subject that can be explored and used as the basis of a sf&f story.\u00a0 But this episode is way, way too thin.\u00a0 Robert Cummings is a decent actor and very likable but to watch him walking around talking to himself and ranting and raving is not entertaining.\u00a0 It\u2019s actually quite annoying.\u00a0 I can\u2019t give this a good mark.\u00a0 It\u2019s a D-.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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