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Arduinna ([personal profile] arduinna) wrote 2011-04-07 06:49 am (UTC)

Yeah, exactly - there's just something so badly off about it, it pretty much has to be an AU. Road Not Taken makes more sense than any others I can think of.

And it really is a skeevy one; hopefully not in every episode (dear god, I hope not), but they are all over the body-swap thing. In one utterly horrifying ep, the mission commander (the guy who took over the administrator's body) transferred into Telford's body (Lou Diamond Philips) to report in to Jack, and while in Telford's body went to see his own (ex-?) wife, told her what was going on, and started having sex with her -- and as they were hot and heavy, the switch reversed and it was Telford back in his own body, having sex with a stranger. And instead of realizing how unbelievably awful and creepy (and hello, rapey) this was, the writers went for having Telford show up at this woman's door with flowers (hopeful flowers, not apology flowers) at the end of the ep.

Which is to say, I advise against watching the show, pretty much.

(Also, they use vocals on the sound track. Like, regular songs. It's wrong. ...*kof* /petty)

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