rsadtler
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I run hot and cold with this series. The good ones are exceptional, the weaker ones are an utter waste of 46 minutes. This is one of the best.
If you are a straight male, your first watch will leave one singularly overriding impression: the physical perfection of Sophia Shinas (the titular Valerie 23.) Subsequent views (and first views for those not enslaved by their glands) will treat you to a dive into several themes: isolation, what is "life," jealousy, the ethics of AI, and a brief detour into the ethics of dating your patients. For me, as a semi-shut in, the biggest theme of all is bigotry.
Frank, played by the great Bill Sadler, is an embitterred paraplegic, handed the perfect companion, yet he can not put aside his preconceptions, and see her for herself. Then he takes up with his physical therapist (Nancy Allen). The rejection makes Valerie jealous, which makes her a LOT less perfect.
Good story, GREAT cast (I've been a hard core Bill Sadler fan since his villainous Col. Stewart in Die Hard II), and one of the highlights of the series!
If you are a straight male, your first watch will leave one singularly overriding impression: the physical perfection of Sophia Shinas (the titular Valerie 23.) Subsequent views (and first views for those not enslaved by their glands) will treat you to a dive into several themes: isolation, what is "life," jealousy, the ethics of AI, and a brief detour into the ethics of dating your patients. For me, as a semi-shut in, the biggest theme of all is bigotry.
Frank, played by the great Bill Sadler, is an embitterred paraplegic, handed the perfect companion, yet he can not put aside his preconceptions, and see her for herself. Then he takes up with his physical therapist (Nancy Allen). The rejection makes Valerie jealous, which makes her a LOT less perfect.
Good story, GREAT cast (I've been a hard core Bill Sadler fan since his villainous Col. Stewart in Die Hard II), and one of the highlights of the series!
This is one of the best episodes of the series. It is fully deserving of a ten. I took away one star, not for ANY fault of the episode itself, but because the powers-that-be were too stupid to end on this note.
There is a deleted scene at the very end (available on the home video releases) with Nick, Hank, and Wu walking down the front stairs, talking about forgetting. The perfect end to the series would have been to leave the scene in, and place a vanity card after it, saying something to the effect of, "We at Grimm will never forget you, our fans." Then the vanity card that they DID use in the finale, with "Thank You" in however many different languages.
Instead, they ran us around in a circle with that STUPID three-parter. Now that Grimm is in syndication, I skip the first two, and only tune in for the last two minutes of the third. That ending was pointless. This one would have been poignant. Such a lost opportunity.
But a truly GREAT moment on it's own merits!
There is a deleted scene at the very end (available on the home video releases) with Nick, Hank, and Wu walking down the front stairs, talking about forgetting. The perfect end to the series would have been to leave the scene in, and place a vanity card after it, saying something to the effect of, "We at Grimm will never forget you, our fans." Then the vanity card that they DID use in the finale, with "Thank You" in however many different languages.
Instead, they ran us around in a circle with that STUPID three-parter. Now that Grimm is in syndication, I skip the first two, and only tune in for the last two minutes of the third. That ending was pointless. This one would have been poignant. Such a lost opportunity.
But a truly GREAT moment on it's own merits!
