Persons Unknown raps up – not too shabby
Over the weekend NBC aired the last of it’s mini-series series Persons Unknown. The big ending was, well, lacking in one big way. Just what the hell was the ‘program’? Why do it? What was the point of the organization behind it? Some not for profit/charity group? Do you have a bad taste in your mouth? It’s called, ‘that’s it, you little shit’, and you just had a big helping of it.
This show was never meant to be a single season mini-series. It was clearly meant to test the waters and determine if it had legs to be picked up for a spring or next summer slot. Because of that, those that were into it, I being one, never really got the ending we were looking for. Nothing really got explained in the final episode that we didn’t already know.
We have known for weeks that a big secretive organization kidnapped them and was training them to join their ranks. So it’s really no big surprise when they are taken to level 2 on some derelict ship. They are in training and what do you do with people that are in training? You train them.
It’s also clear that the big organization wasn’t necessarily the bad guys. They actually never killed anyone. The daughter of the ambassador – alive. The people in the body bags that the moron boyfriend cut the thumbs off – all alive. All members of the town – all alive. Clearly big evil organizations don’t go around trying their best to make sure people stay alive. Just not in their mission statement.
It was neat to see Robert Picardo in a guest spot though. The long white Raiden like hair was kinda weird but whatever. The council bit was a bit old really. Warehouse 13 does it with their Regents and its a theme we’ve seen many times. Enough with the councils already. Can we please get mainstream scifi to swing back to the single antagonist super evil guys already? I miss a good bad guy, Scorpius being one of the last true great ones.
Other than that I did enjoy the episode, even though I just spent a few hundred words trashing it. But honestly, i’m trashing it because I want to see more. What’s going to happen in level 2. Why is Joe stuck forever in level 1? How many towns are there that they do this? Just what is the purpose of the plan?
Maybe i’m suffering from Lost-ism of getting way too few answers for years of build up. Persons Unknown only had one season but they did manage to rack up quite a few questions. Will we see another season next summer? Doubtful. Though you never can tell with TV. If there were enough fellow geeks to watch it, who knows. Am I insulting geeks by saying that? Was it geeky enough? Eh, whatever. I’m off to watch Haven.
