The episode was fantastic. This episode illustrated what I love most about this show; it's a delicate balance between character-driven story lines and awesomely cool guns and glory shots.
The only way to really draw the viewer in is to make them care about these guest characters. It's not enough to love the mains and know a lot about them. We have to be, at the very least, interested in the stories of the characters we've never seen before and will never see again.
Flashpoint does this really well, and I think it did it magnificently in this episode as well. Ed very nearly killed me at the end when he talked Daniel down by exposing his own inner turmoil. Great stuff.
And it's Canadian. So...you know...that's awesome!
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Date: 2009-01-24 04:05 am (UTC)The only way to really draw the viewer in is to make them care about these guest characters. It's not enough to love the mains and know a lot about them. We have to be, at the very least, interested in the stories of the characters we've never seen before and will never see again.
Flashpoint does this really well, and I think it did it magnificently in this episode as well. Ed very nearly killed me at the end when he talked Daniel down by exposing his own inner turmoil. Great stuff.
And it's Canadian. So...you know...that's awesome!