Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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''We have a guy who has to push a button every 108 minutes, for no clear reason — and no one is questioning us on this! That never ceases to amaze us.''
It's one of the things I hate most this season. It annoys me that the writers don't even seem to know what happens if the button isn't pushed. It just means there's no plan.
It annoys me that the writers don't even seem to know what happens if the button isn't pushed.
I think they know. Why do you think they don't?
and no one is questioning us on this!
Uh.....
I think they know. Why do you think they don't?
They don't inspire much confidence that they do. Aside from them saying in the meeting with ABC when asked what happens:
"That's a good question,'' they said. ''We think it would be interesting to find out.''
they've also been less than confident about the number mystery ever being solved, and didn't Fury say something like they have no friggin' idea where they're going with things?
didn't Fury say something like they have no friggin' idea where they're going with things?
Oh.
If he said that, then I stand corrected and in your corner of annoyance.
I'm not sure if he did. I vaguely remember some kerfuffle along those lines, and I don't think he said it about anything specific like what the button's about. It's just this overall feeling I'm getting from the writer's camp, and it may be totally off.
I'm confident that they have a vauge idea of where things are going, and what the button does. I'm also confident that they're deliberately being noncommittal about it until they absolutely have to, in case they have a better idea later.
I think the whole button thing was a psychological experiment in the first place, so it doesn't do anything, and because of that, the writers know what it does--nothing.
I'm afraid of that too. What a great pay-off to a season+ worth of suspense. Like finding a patch of dirt under the hatch.
Fury did say they had no plan.
In fact, the plan they said they had has been contradicted so far as the non-supernatural explanations go--how can they pull that out? Answer--they won't, because they don't have an explanation for the numbers, period.