The Strain - has anyone seen this?
It's a new twist on the Vampire by Guillermo Del Toro and airing on FX
It's interesting, but oh boy do they have so many loose threads dangling that just seeming get ignored for no good reason.
*Spoilers* for all episodes up till #4So a Plane lands and everyone on it is seemingly dead. The CDC intervenes and can't decide a cause of death. Other agencies want this to go away, so someone leaks an "official" document claiming it was CO2 poisoning or something, which effectively kicks the CDC off the case...
Before they evac all the bodies off the plane (like 2 hrs after it landed) 4 people "wake up" from being dead of "unknown causes". These 4 people are initially quarantined, but after the CDC is officially removed from the case, they are released into the wild against CDC's will.
NOw during this whole debacle, an old man who knows something about what is going on tried to warn the CDC members on site of what was going on and how to deal with it, but he was dismissed as crazy and ushered away (arrested for some reason I can't recall at this moment). Also the head of one of the investigative departments was attacked by a "vampire" in the halls of the airport loading bay, where he was alone, and then had his head smashed in... This is just kinda glossed over. No real investigation as to how, why or who.
They also locate a giant box full of dirt in the bay, which by the time they figure may be important, has already disappeared. It was caught on film... super speed lifter away in less than a second. Camera could only see a blur.
So this is where all the loose threads dangle for no reason.
All the dead bodies are at the morgue with the medical examiner, where he finds something odd about them, and is told to dig deeper and report back later. All of these bodies eventually "wake up" and eat him or something. and then they all just WALK OUT OF THE HOSPITAL UNSEEN.... some have been already examined, which means they have open incisions or have organs exposed... WTF?
they disappear into the night, never to be heard from again (yet). No one is looking for the medical examiner, they only found his glasses. No calls are made, no reports filed. NO ONE IS INFORMED THAT several dozen bodies have disappeared from the morgue and the medical examiner has not been heard from since... WTF!?
One of the concerned parents of a child that was considered "dead" on the plane called the CDC guy to thank him for sending his "dead" daughter home.
"you mean they released her body to you...?"
"NO, I mean she is here, alive, home again"...
Granted. he does go and check the house out, finds a bathtub full of some pink slop and no one home even though the door to the house was kinda open/unlocked... but he leaves because he has somewhere else to be. Tells no one to follow up on that house. It's just kinda forgotten about for now.
One of the survivors isn't feeling good and is convinced to come back to quarantine where he is being examined. Some weird things are happening to him, but CDC does not report this stuff and immediately re-quarantine the other 3 people. Nope. I think they mention it, but do nothing about it.
One of the other 3 "survivors" has his penis fall off.... that's after he lost some teeth and all his hair. No need to see a doctor though. Actually, he wasn't even trippin' to be honest. Just kinda accepted it for what it was...
Another "survivor" knew something was very wrong and even send his wife and children away... but no, leave the dog.... he ate the dog, and then locked himself in the shed so he couldn't eat anyone/thing else. His heavily religious wife shows back up to the house the next day to check on him, sees his hair all over the pillow, takes out some religious artifacts and says a prayer or something... then follows a blood trail that leads her to the dead disemboweled dog next to the shed... and then her vampiric husband chained in the shed. He tries to attack her, and then warns her to run and never come back, but just like any white lady in a scary situation, she freezes and just stands there terrified, but just barely out of reach. (I was waiting for her to trip, fall, and get eaten...)
She finally snaps out of it, closes and locks her hubby back in the shed and buries the dog next to the shed. This is moments before the neighbor comes over to complain about the "dog" making too much noise... so she shoves him in the shed with her husband and locks the door... WTF!?
quite the turn around from devout religious type, to sacrificing your neighbor by get this, offering him the opportunity to punish your "dog" in the shed making all that noise because you don't have the heart... Wow. Ok.
Back to the survivor that turned himself back in... he disappeared from his hospital bed, and they track him to the basement. Here he attacks them with his tentacle fangs (the vampirism in this show is like a parasite worm that feeds and infects with more parasitic worms). They end up killing him, and the female agent suggest that they listen to the old man (they previous deemed crazy) and cut off the heads and burn the bodies, but first male CDC says "we must dissect". They find that the body is no longer human and has been invaded by a giant parasitic host. see pics below
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http://abload.de/img/strain6p5pgm.gifso NOW he remembers (2 days/episodes later?) that the concerned parent who's house was unlocked, empty and had a weird pink goo in the bathtub had called and said something about his dead daughter being alive. so they rush back to the house to find the little girl in the basement. she attacks them with the tentacle fang just before the old man burst in and lops the head off the kid and then saves them from the turned dad as well... now the CDC woman can't handle that they had to a little girl (who was so obviously not human anymore - as shown in the previous scene where she was all for lopping off heads and burning bodies) and states that she would rather contract the disease than kill the monsters.... really!? WTF?
and there is more going on, (like a hacker who in the span of just a few hours was able to shut down all social networking sites and bring all internet traffic to a crawl so that the evil corporation of the show could cover their tracks) but really... I really want to LOVE this show, but it's so nonsensical. It's more of a guilty pleasure for now, but they really need a proof reader to bring the red pen to the script and make some of this **** make better sense. Not nearly as bad as Netflix's Hemlock Grove, but I expected better.... and this is based off his own book. it's a damn shame really.
I'll continue to watch, but this should be so much better.
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