Posted on 05/05/2005 6:32:08 AM PDT by genefromjersey
No. It's Henry. But he now prefers "Hawk".
Thanks for posting this review. I wanted to watch this, but alas, I have to work when it comes on. Doesn't
sound like I'm missing much.
To tell the truth I'm completely lost and I haven't missed an episode. I got lost on which baby is which and whose mother of what mother they're looking for. I get the general storyline but this show was done very badly IMHO
You can watch it when it gets to Netflix.
You can watch it all at once without commercial interruption.
I've watched all sorts of television series. 5 years of Bab5, three years of 24, Dragonfly, etc.
I thought I was the only one completely confused by this show. I was excited when it came on, and had high hopes for it. Unfortunately, it seems that it has been highjacked by nutty Hollywierd types and has fallen away from the Bible completely. Except every once in a while seeing a cross.
Hennery Hawk is an awful pest
Never gives a rooster
A moment's rest...
Any hope I held that the show would be worth watching dissipated during the first episode. So why have I continued to even semi-watch it? It gives me a break from Hannity & Colmes.
The title refers to the awakening of the characters to revelations about their own spiritual lives, as well as the "end of days"; it is meant to broaden audience interest beyond those scripturally literate, and also to let us know that it is not intended to be a literal cinematic interpretation of the Revelation of John.
Darm, I missed this last night. I think it gets repeated on Bravo later in the week, doesn't it?
Yep.
If you think this show is confusing, never, ever watch "Carnivale" on HBO. "Revelations" is a cakewalk in comparison.
SD
I done told you last week that the boy, Hawk, is the Professor's ex-wife's step-son. That is, Dr. Massey had a wife. Then they got divorced. Then she married a man who was also divorced. She had a daughter, Lucy. He had a son, Hawk. Lucy got abducted by Satanists and killed cause she would not cooperate to be their "sacrifice."
Now Hawk got abducted to fulfill the role. In this episode, he was given the choice of doing it himself or letting the Satanists take his not-yet-born half sibling.
(The sibling would be from Hawk's biological mother and some unspecified partner. Not Dr. Massey's ex-wife and Hawk's biological father.)
BUT,the Mother Superior,perspicaceous as usual,senses something is wrong,and calls the Nutty Professor for help. (People do a lot of "sensing" in this plot,by the way.Now me: I'd dial 911 if I thought the rent-a-cops had gone bad; but,then again,my senses are not that sensitive-if you sense what I mean.)
She "senses" something is wrong cause the Satanists had flowers delivered to Olivia, by name. She is the coma girl who no one is supposed to know is there. Obviously, this is a clue that doesn't require ESP to sense that someone is on to them.
You would dial 911 to get help protecting the coma girl you aren't supposed to have from Satanists?
SD
It's been re-running on USA sometimes, too.
SD
This is the problem I have with this program...TOO MANY CHARACTERS! It is a failure of the writer, because it seems like every time there is a twist in the plot, new characters are introduced.
Well, I thank you for the clarification, so that when I watch the re-run later in the week I will be able to explain it to my husband.
I don't know if there is a step-father. Hawk obviously has a mother and you are right that she has only been introduced in order to show her deeply pregnant and to provide Hawk with a dilemma.
This is the problem I have with this program...TOO MANY CHARACTERS! It is a failure of the writer, because it seems like every time there is a twist in the plot, new characters are introduced.
To some extent a complex story must involve many characters and we have limited time to get to know them. But to some extent it is a failure in writing to introduce a character just to tug at heartstrings or to move a plot point.
I like that TV is trying to do some more involved stories. Formulaic sitcoms and cop dramas get old. I like to thank NBC for trying to do something different. It's not the best show ever, but it is interesting enough to keep me watching through its 6 episodes. Where they go from there remains to be seen.
SD
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