Re: "Masters of Science Fiction" - Not That Masterful

In article <1mobb31ckr9dib3mgedohh54f3dtulhdj6@xxxxxxx>,
shawn <nanoflower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 06:51:05 -0700, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

In article <MPG.211f8faa8cfd881398af39@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sun, 5 Aug 2007 07:25:01 -0500 from Dowell <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>:
About the office.......the door only opens or closes when the doc presses
the button on the magic white touch pad built into the top of her desk,
right? Right. Ok, then.....how does she close the door when she leaves?
Hit the button and make a run for it? Never mind. Jim

I too found the episode disappointing, but I think you're too hard on
this specific point.

It was the President's "safe room", right? So the President (or
whoever has the right codes) would open the door via an outside
control panel. But once someone is inside, they can set the room to
be opened only from the inside. The protocol of leaving would include
returning control to the outside panel.

The larger question is why the questioning was taking place in that
room.

I didn't understand the end (but I was dozing on and off by the time it
got there). Didn't they have their breakthrough, and all their
questions answered? If so, why are they continuing the questioning?
Not that I didn't see the ending coming a mile away, mind you; I still
didn't understand it.

I was a bit confused by the ending too. I can Waterston returning to
his condition, but why bother with the questioning. The voice over
suggests that it was just so he would remember what he had done and
suffer due to the memories but only the Davis character seemed driven
enough to do the work just so Waterston's would remember. Though given
his position it's natural that they would want to see him healed. So
maybe that's the real reason that the process keeps going.

Yeah. It's unclear as if they want to cure or torture him. Also it may
come under the heading of "we haven't got a hell of a lot else to do" :)

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