LimbleKite

Once upon a time Hollywood made a movie where the bad guy gets the drop on the good guy and just plain shoots him.

Just kidding! That never happens. Bad guys shoot on sight, just like this poor excuse for a movie. Bad guys shoot on sight at every twitch of the other side until they finally catch the good guy (or in this case, woman) with their pants down (so to speak) and suddenly it's: hands in the air, please. We come in peace.

Which of course gives the good woman time for the bad guys to walk right up within arm's reach where she can then wrestle the gun away and shoot them all.

Please Hollywood. We're tired of this. Okay, I'm tired of it. Can't speak for the whole world. But come on. And don't forget how the good guys are coming out through a hole in the wall and all the bad guys have their guns trained on that one point of exit, but the good guy just walks out with nobody seeing him and walks up behind a bad guy who obviously got bored trying not to get killed.

Can we say ridiculous? Absurd? Comic book level nonsense? Can we say drones that can't hit a jeep and fire machine guns instead of missiles? Can we say bad guys with atrocious aim and good guys who never miss?

Why yes we can! If you're making a Hollywood action movie these days, it's an actual requirement. Just like the head bad guy at the end has to make a speech before he kills the good guy so there's time for the last second rescue. And then of course the ending that introduces the sequel because there is nothing original any more, just the same tattered blueprint.

I can accept the plane travelling through time. I can accept the visions, the callings, how Cal travels again and returns older. All of that is fine and is what makes the series.

What I can't accept is that back on the ground in the real world the cops are a bunch of incompetent dunderheads.

Earlier in this season, they were chasing Michaela as she sought to get Henry to a safe place. First, the cops knew about Henry before Michaela did, before she had time to go back to the provisional HQ to let Vance know. Yet the cops didn't act on their info until Michaela grabbed Henry and got into her car. The cops sat on the info for a long time, apparently until several doughnut breaks were over. Then suddenly they go after a highly sought-after individual.

Plus, when the cops were chasing Michaela, they were right on her tail. She got away, but the cops never bothered to follow up with her license plate. Too much paperwork to find out who was helping a high-value target get away, it seems.

In this episode, after the bombs go off, Adrian and Angelina are still unaccounted for. Angelina is a murderer and a kidnapper, but instead of going back into the building to look for her and Adrian, everybody just leaves so Adrian can come out, get in his car, drive away, and find Angelina, who they also just let walk away.

This series is full of stuff like this. A lot of effort into the fantastical elements while the real life elements leave you wondering if the plane, in order to grant extra perception to the passengers, had to keep the divine ledgers balanced by removing basic common sense from the rest of the world.