This season of the show is extremely messy with too little good episodes in it. This one is one of the good ones, for sure. But still flawed, like really flawed. They managed to create a great tention in the scene with breaking though and keep it up during the whole episode, so it's actually possible not to notice bad decisions the writers made. But the more I was thinking about Quiet Riot, the more questions I had.
I guess it's better to make two parts of my review.
And first one is a good stuff aside from mentioned intense atmosphere which is probably the main good thing. First of all, I was glad to see the whole team coming up with the ideas on how to execute the impossible. Michael being the genius, trying to think about every single detail and making something extremely difficult to come to the reality, with show actually explaining it all to us, is something I really miss this season. Everyone worked as a real team where each member knew his part. And the parts, where things were going wrong, out of control, really made me feel for characters and be concerned. I was involved in the process as a vievew, and it hasn't happened a lot recently. The whole scene with getting Scylla was made well aside from one questionable decision I'll mention a bit later. Secondly, I liked it that we finally saw Gretchen playing her own games in order to be the winner of the situation. I'm glad they made her traitor of the Company as well as the traitor of everyone else. T-Bag even for a second thinking about the chance to leave it all behind and make some legal money was also a nice touch. Even more, all the characters from Michael's team felt right here and behaved the way where the vievew can understand their points of view, their reasons to do things.
Second part is everything that I didn't like. And that's a lot. Firstly, why was Gretchen so sure the General was about to bring his card with him? It's not like he wanted to have a chat about it with her. Why was he actually gonna do it in the first place? It just doesn't make sense and feels so forced. Also the General himself starts to feel less and less as a smart and frightening leader. I even start to wonder, how is it possible he managed to achieve so much and stay on top for so long? Secondly, why did Michael need to the one breaking though glass? I believe Alex, for instance, could've managed it. And it wouldve made much more sense since Michael is the one who could've collapsed any minute. His condition is too unstable to rely on it, and we've seen it even during the plan discussion. The tension they tried to make with his some sort of seizure just didn't work. It was far more dangerous to let him in than to let someone without that big experience in engineering, but also without the possibily to just die right there any minute do it. Third thing I want to mention is the whole thing with Michael's surgery. I know, they're all in great danger to be turned in, but wasn't it possible for them to at least try to convince that doctor to perform it later? I haven't seen anyone of them actually tried to explain the importance of what was going on. Maybe I missed it somewhere along the lines, but it still kinda bothers me. I also didn't expect Self and that his agent to be so naive. Going alone right into the trap. It's not like they had much of the support from other agents but both Gretchen and T-Bag are extremely dangerous. So yeah, them going into a trap was too obvious to everyone except for these two. Can't believe Self didn't even try to figure out who was calling him, especially after his agent revealed to him that she was suspicious to T-Bag. And another questionable decision is that another sensor that let turn in the camera. Let me get this straight. It was a nice twist and it was good that Michael didn't think about it. But it doesn't change the fact that the principle the sensor works is a bit off. Like why can't it always be turned on and have someone to keep an eye on it? And, to make sure it all is safe, just keep the alarm system that was when it all was activated. It would've been much more secure and would've made more sense. I mean, if he needed something he could've just turned it off any second.
Taking all my pros and cons into consideration, I still was pretty confused on how to rate the episode. Among all the first 11 episodes, this one was probably one of the best, at least when it comes to atmosphere. At the same time, if you start to think about what just happened, there are so many questions. I give it 6 because some of the the characters are still good, the story itself is finally came somewhere, I'm still wondering what Sara is about to do, stakes are getting at least a bit higher and yeah, this episode created an intrigue and made me want a little to see another episode.
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