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« on: November 21, 2009, 09:56:42 AM »
When I got my tapes in 2002, and reached this episode, it was fascinating to me. It seemed completely appropriate after the success of 1897 to step up the scale of the story from just dangers to Collinsport, to dangers to the world. I had no memory at all of any of this from childhood. DS seemed to be transcending itself, or exceeding itself. I had to strain to try to understand what these new beings were-- from the lines, it seemed equally possible that they were from the extremely distant past, the extremely distant future, or even another planet. In fact the past seemed least likely to me then.
[spoiler]The problew isn't in the premise or in how the story started, but in the lack of a payoff. If you keep throwing suspense at the viewer and don't deliver anything later, you're breaking a contract with the viewer.[/spoiler]