When we last left Whit, Connie, Eugene, and Matthew they were on the trail of the person responsible for the city's clock's complications and for leaving flowers and a wedding veil near that clock. But we were all fooled, because it turned out that it was all an elaborate ruse to get the town of Odyssey focused on the clock tower while the bad guys did bad things in another part of town. Yep, there we have "Clock Tower," part two.
This episode went in a different direction from last week--what started off as more of a personal, "romantic" mystery turned into a story about stalking and robbery. You know, I don't think we've ever had a bank robbery on AIO. Sure, there was that Amos guy on that gold mine video, but we all know the Odyssey cartoons don't count for anything. It wasn't particularly exciting to hear a computer/ cleaning nerd and his father casually break into the bank--not as great of a climax as could've been presented to us.
Of all the characters in this episode, I think Eugene was used the best. He really should work with comptuers more, since that's what he's best at. He moved the show along well. Whit and Connie were okay, but I didn't like the part with the two talking on their separate phone at the exact same time--it sounded very scripted and uncomfortable.
Andrew may have been somewhat obvious as the villain of the two-parter, but the bank manager wasn't as obvious. In my opinion, both of them were boring characters. Andrew was only memorable because he was an obsessive stalker who belongs on CSI, not AIO. I guess stalking is more unique than robbery or murder for an AIO mystery, but it still was definitely on the creepy side.
The message of this show was really weak. That might have been okay if the story or characters were strong, but they weren't so much. Okay, so "sin will find you out" and "every moment has consequences"--those are nice little messages, but they seem more like an afterthought than anything. They weren't really reinforced or obvious in the story itself. It was a pity that we didn't get to hear the reconciliation between Alicia, Wendy, and Michael, but that love story was treated as something unnecessary to the show after such a big deal was made out of it last week.
So, my prediction was right: I didn't actually enjoy this show so much. Part One was good, but part two just couldn't deliver. The storyline wasn't bad, but the way the story was scripted (and perhaps acted out) was flawed. I almost ended up not caring by the time the second break came around. It's not one of AIO's finest mysteries (although in comparison with other recent ones, it isn't bad)--it just could've been better.
Part 1: 8/10
Part 2: 5/10
Both Parts: 6/10
2 comments:
The whole ruse to get the people of Odyssey to the clock tower was too complicated.
Yes, everything just seemed to fall in place for the bad guys, despite the fact that their scheme was so complicated that something really should've gone wrong! There was so much thought behind their plan that I found it kinda difficult to keep up with everything. The only way Whit figured it out was because he's unnaturally smart (and I heard he knows that AIO writers personally, too ;-) ).
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