He already has the semi-evil medical personnel role on lock and has the best condescending smile on television. He is really good at playing the morally questionable. Quite honestly when I saw him I knew this show had the potential to be great. So are we soon to have troves of wayward plane passengers roaming the streets looking for someone or something to save? In Saanvi’s case, she saves Cal by allowing time for her research to develop into clinical trials and being the voice of compassion against fellow researcher Joel de le Fuetne who you might remember in the sometimes brilliant Hemlock Grove. The powers our passengers have seemed to be limited to when they are close to danger at the moment. Why are they all connected and who blew up the plane? Did it explode because it was out of alignment with its own dimension which does not bode well for our passengers or did a higher power destroy it before it could be investigated? The plane called everyone together to watch it explode save Cal who was in bed asleep but awoke just as the explosion occurred. Does everyone hear their own voice or does the voice of the others sound like say Fran Drescher and Owen Wilson? If the others hear something other than their own voices what the heck does that mean? Are they communicating with someone other than another version of themselves like Michaela is? The Stone’s are hearing voices to save little kids from being kidnapped and run over but what are the voices telling everyone else? Are they also being instructed to save lives, or just buy a lottery ticket? We would prefer the latter in a scenario where it happens to us. Albeit that ability right now seems to be solely focused on strange voices and really bad headaches. Someone shut up Neil deGrasse Tyson, I am sure I am going to butcher the science but there seems to be a pretty serious multiple universe vibe happening and I think it’s more than a little likely that our plane traveled in and out of another dimension bringing back the ability to communicate with other times and places.
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Namely, where did the plane go? All the voices in Michaela’s head coupled with Ben also hearing “something” now leads me to believe some kind of rip in the space/time continuum occurred(yes I’m going there already) and the voices are just Ben and Michaela’s other selves telling them how to right wrongs in their own timeline. Speaking of the planes backstory we have some questions.
It is a classic example of how a show can embrace smaller stories to engage the audience. Even with the exclusion of most of the planes backstory, I was still left with more than a few strings to pull. It also made me so much more curious about the remainder of the passengers than I would have been if perfunctory glimpses of their problems and stories had been introduced. Focusing on just four characters instead of the whole plane allowed for an in-depth look at the devastation absence has on the lives of siblings Michaela and Ben Stone, played by Melissa Roxburgh and Josh Dallas respectfully. Ben’s cancer-ridden son Cal(Jack Messina) and pharmaceutical genius Saanvi(Parveen Kaur) help provide this emotional foundation. Manifest does the same thing in remarkable fashion in the first hour. At the end of the day smoke monsters, bunkers and Faraday Cages mattered less than Charlie’s drowning and Michael’s redemptive arch as a father. Lost always succeeded because of its characters. That’s an intriguing thought all on its own but throw in a past or a future self, inceptioning your current self to save the lives of the ones you love, and now you may have a hit. The real question last night was how would your life look five and a half years in the future with you removed from it? The devastation you would feel watching everyone move on without you must be soul-crushing. The parallels to Lost are plenty, but there are just as many differences to set it apart moving forward. The slick thriller from executive producers Jeff Rake, Jack Rapke and Robert Zemeckis gave us tons to get obsessed about and a literal plane’s worth of people to wonder about as it slowly unraveled its secrets.
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