Messy Closure for MH370

Of course everybody has been talking about the Malaysian airliner which disappeared into thin air.  I saw this morning where one of the Aussie satellites had picked up images of things floating in the Indian Ocean.  The US did a fly over and said there was nothing there and, of course, no one believed us so they're all still sending air craft and ships to the area, which I find surprising.  Remember, we are the home of the NSA.  We have the best spy satellites circling the planet.  If anybody should know it's not part of the wreckage of MH370 it should be us, our eyes are everywhere.  Of course no one wants to believe us.  The whole world wants an ending.  They want closure.  Unfortunately, I suspect it's not going to be that easy.  There are too many unanswered questions.  This does not mean that nobody knows, somebody always knows, they're just not talking.

This closure thing I don't understand at all.  There are sad endings and then there are bad endings.  I don't think many people want to consider that this flight into nowhere might have one of those truly terrible endings.  If you ask, a vast majority of people will tell you the plane is at the bottom of the Indian Ocean.  They're positive it crashed, killing all on board.  Until there is concrete proof that is only an assumption.  For all we know the pilot may have been practicing simulated landings on uncharted islands.  He may have done scores of calculations on the survival rate of both he and the passengers on board.  We don't know, or if someone does they're aren't talking.  People want a black box so they can tick off the last seconds of the flight.  They want it to have crashed because for something else to have happened... well, that would be a truly terrible ending, wouldn't it?  That's an ending no one wants to consider.  They want the easy closure.

Perhaps we should start blaming aliens.  Of course, that's a fairly unrealistic approach, still it does provide an answer.  I'd seen something about a news report on CNN that mentioned a black hole - that, too, is a possibility even though it sounds very much like a premise for one of the Syfy Channels notoriously bad B movies.  Until there is an answer, any crazy concept, no matter how absurd, should be given at least some consideration.  For all we know the pilot and co-pilot may have handed the plane over to terrorists for a king's fortune, or they might have discovered the long, lost route to Shangri-la.  There may even be a James Bond super villain out there who has plans to take over the world.  The easy closure is to say it crashed into the sea.  Of course everyone and his brother will be trying to cash in on the mystery.  It would not surprise me if, when the truth comes out, this has a pretty messy closure, the kind of sad ending that breaks people's hearts. 

  

Niall Matter - still acting, some what

I see Niall Matter is back on the Syfy Channel again in a vehicle called "Primeval, New World."  I'd seen a few episodes of the original series on BBC America several years ago and it wasn't that bad, of course it wasn't really that good either.  The best description I can give for it is passable.  During that time Mr. Matter was introduced on "Eureka."  In his first episode I thought, this isn't bad, he's a bit of a rogue, he shakes things up.  Of course, the bubble head writers and producers had already lost sight of their target audience and so the rogue was lost.  Viewers ended up with the cute, non-threatening guy who paired up with Jo.  By that time, however, "Eureka" was already past the point of capsizing because of all of the top-heavy relationships.  Nothing could save it.

 

 

As for "Primeval, New World?"  Well, being the curious type I checked it out on line and it's actually a Canadian TV show that aired in 2012, so while not being old, it's not, as the Syfy Channel implies, new.  Also, there seems to have been some gap between the show's initial run and the last two episodes because "Primeval, New World" was cancelled.  So what does the Syfy Channel do if the show picks up an audience?  Restart production?  Or maybe it's just one of those summer replacement series which is only meant to fill time.  I don't know.  What I do know is Mr. Matter seems to be the only cast member from the doomed "Eureka" to still have some sort of acting career.

Steve Jinks makes it permanent

With last night's episode of Warehouse 13 Steve Jinks became a permanent member of what seems to be a slowly evolving ensemble cast for the SyFy show.  As the cast evolves, so it seems, does the show.  This is what the writers and producers attempted with the doomed Eureka, their problem was with all that extra talent the only thing they could think to do was focus on relationships; every body needed to banging somebody else, or that was all they could think about.  As a result it died a sad, lonely death.  This does not seem to be the case with Warehouse 13. where it seems they float "test" characters first before casting.  They floated Claudia for a while before she made the jump to permanent cast member, the first step in the show's evolution.  As a result you have minor characters who show up for a story arc ( like H. G. Wells) and then disappear and you have major characters who appear in every episode.

Welcome aboard buckaroo!

For years the linchpin for the SyFy Channel was the Stargate franchise.  It ran for years and had a number of incarnations long after the original was off the air.  Believe me, everybody wants to create the next Stargate, which is why I think the writers and producers have chosen to grow their show in a way where relationships, other then friendship, are not the focus of each and every episode.  They are working with mystery and intrigue.  Believe me, nothing builds an audience like mystery and intrigue.  One of the most famously watched episodes on television was the "Who shot JR" episode of Dallas.  The audience was not tuning in to see cast members fantasize about banging one another.  They were watching because they wanted that damn mystery solved.  This is the smart way to evolve.  This, I suspect, is what they're doing with Warehouse 13.