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There actually being two gripes I have about this FIRST episode, though one main one stood out to me that I considered totally absurd.
Namely concerning that the FBI discovered a BOMB in a packed out round shaped room/hall. At about just before 39 mins of the episode, take a look for yourselves.
There being around ten rows of chairs from the back wall exit to around the centre line on the hall. (The other half side being mainly empty with a podium for speaking against the opposite side to the exit).
The bomb itself was located under one of the chairs a tad few rows of chairs back from the centre line of the hall, and we could see all the people the other side of the bomb nearer the exit cleared out of the place instantly.
This of cause left the rest who were also making their way out of the room. The BOMB gets discovered and all in the room hear that there is a bomb BUT even with a FBI agent kneeling over the bomb, taking her time unzipping the holdall the bomb was in, then getting out her laptop to look at diagrams.
You could see streams & streams of people without much haste coming directly withing just 3 feet or so past the bomb. The place would have all ready by then been emptied.
NO WAY is anyone going to physically get near a bomb even if the slightly shorter distance to the exit would take them within a few feet of the bomb. It'd just never happen.
EVEN if it was right at the exit, hardly anyone would go past it, so at around 40% in to the room you would have found that a more CIRCULAR motion of travel would have occurred around the bomb.
With some even running in panic the 180 degrees opposite direction to where the bomb was located towards the wall of the hall, even to the far side of the hall the furthest distance from the exit, then almost flat against the wall shimmying around the sides of the hall towards the exit.
NO WAY is anyone going to stream directly past a bomb that may go off at any second, tens of people did, loads of them, we could see none of them were even looking at the bomb, not a glance at it. Recap & take a look at that preposterous scene.
Two points in that room would have been looked at, the bomb and the exit, until someone was well past the bomb. And even then some would likely have glanced back. It is just an unlikely scene, would never happen as depicted.
DICK WOLFE slipped up there even with all his experience. As he did for my 2nd gripe which is it was all TOO RUSHED. It just went from one lead in the investigation to another. Supposed to have been over a 48 hour time span, yet even with a night time scene it all seemed as if it was all done and dusted within a few hours.
Far too rushed, giving the viewer little time to get on top of the quickly evolving script. It went from one guy to another to another to this to that, there was no down time in it all, just too fast paced. It should have been as it was the first episode an opening 90 minute TV movie type episode, but they decided to cut it all down and crammed it in to not even half that. It was a 43 minute episode.
Found out at the end btw that it was a Dick Wolfe production, I never knew that from the start. So it is bound to be his usual formula of a TV series. The same old same old rehashed stuff with just different faces.
Yes there was some action in it, the bombing scenes stood out as being spectacular. The sort of thing sadly that would inspire bombers to bomb places. But the dumbness of the bomb in the hall scene and the too fast pace let it all down. Not really for me. Maybe other episode redeem the failures of this one. Who knows.
There actually being two gripes I have about this FIRST episode, though one main one stood out to me that I considered totally absurd.
Namely concerning that the FBI discovered a BOMB in a packed out round shaped room/hall. At about just before 39 mins of the episode, take a look for yourselves.
There being around ten rows of chairs from the back wall exit to around the centre line on the hall. (The other half side being mainly empty with a podium for speaking against the opposite side to the exit).
The bomb itself was located under one of the chairs a tad few rows of chairs back from the centre line of the hall, and we could see all the people the other side of the bomb nearer the exit cleared out of the place instantly.
This of cause left the rest who were also making their way out of the room. The BOMB gets discovered and all in the room hear that there is a bomb BUT even with a FBI agent kneeling over the bomb, taking her time unzipping the holdall the bomb was in, then getting out her laptop to look at diagrams.
You could see streams & streams of people without much haste coming directly withing just 3 feet or so past the bomb. The place would have all ready by then been emptied.
NO WAY is anyone going to physically get near a bomb even if the slightly shorter distance to the exit would take them within a few feet of the bomb. It'd just never happen.
EVEN if it was right at the exit, hardly anyone would go past it, so at around 40% in to the room you would have found that a more CIRCULAR motion of travel would have occurred around the bomb.
With some even running in panic the 180 degrees opposite direction to where the bomb was located towards the wall of the hall, even to the far side of the hall the furthest distance from the exit, then almost flat against the wall shimmying around the sides of the hall towards the exit.
NO WAY is anyone going to stream directly past a bomb that may go off at any second, tens of people did, loads of them, we could see none of them were even looking at the bomb, not a glance at it. Recap & take a look at that preposterous scene.
Two points in that room would have been looked at, the bomb and the exit, until someone was well past the bomb. And even then some would likely have glanced back. It is just an unlikely scene, would never happen as depicted.
DICK WOLFE slipped up there even with all his experience. As he did for my 2nd gripe which is it was all TOO RUSHED. It just went from one lead in the investigation to another. Supposed to have been over a 48 hour time span, yet even with a night time scene it all seemed as if it was all done and dusted within a few hours.
Far too rushed, giving the viewer little time to get on top of the quickly evolving script. It went from one guy to another to another to this to that, there was no down time in it all, just too fast paced. It should have been as it was the first episode an opening 90 minute TV movie type episode, but they decided to cut it all down and crammed it in to not even half that. It was a 43 minute episode.
Found out at the end btw that it was a Dick Wolfe production, I never knew that from the start. So it is bound to be his usual formula of a TV series. The same old same old rehashed stuff with just different faces.
Yes there was some action in it, the bombing scenes stood out as being spectacular. The sort of thing sadly that would inspire bombers to bomb places. But the dumbness of the bomb in the hall scene and the too fast pace let it all down. Not really for me. Maybe other episode redeem the failures of this one. Who knows.