This is a bit before the show starts, got a bit sidetracked at the IMDb website, there was a trailer there for the movie Eargon which starts December 15th in theaters! I love anything to do with Dragons, my favorite of all is the Pern books, if you have never read, and you love dragons, these are a MUST! well, gotta go watch the show, be back with my thoughts right after

9:00 pm edit

Well, I am beginning to believe the coup theory I have seen posted on a forum, if New York was left alone, but Denver, Atlanta, San Diego ( all towns of known installations or Federal Building locations) and Washington DC are gone, seems to make a lot of sense. When the two missiles were launched we see Hawkins on the laptop, talk ing to someone, and he asks “was it our target or theirs?” and the reply we see is “I’m compromised”.

The story after this, took a nose dive. I am sorry, but I think there is too much time being spent of “soap opera” type story line. If they ( the writers ) continue on this way, this might be the end of the show. I am sure I am no different from the other viewers, and I wait all week for five minutes of show.

The part of the show where Stanley is accused of stealing the pesticides, beside solidifying that Gracie is somewhat of a stingy person, did little for the story line.

At one point we watch as Hawkins daughter goes down to the basement,where Hawkins has his ‘office’, looking for her Dad. She knocks, once at the outer door, and when she gets no answer, she opens that door, and knocks on the second metal door. Getting no answer, she opens it, and goes inside. Here she discovers Hawkins guns, and more importantly the map showing the attacked cities, and his laptop. She opens the laptop, and there is Jakes face on the screen. She turns around to find her dad standing there, and when he takes her outside of the room, she confronts him about the fact that the laptop is still working. He tells her that its the kind that is protected from the EMP, and then says ” it is the kind the government gives out.” When she asks about the gun, he tells her its for shooting, and that she will need to know how to use it. Mom then comes down to see if there is trouble between them, Hawkins says they are just catching up, and its left at that. Later we see Dad teaching her outside how to use the gun, on music cd’s, sadly one of which is Vanilla Ice.( writers note – can we leave the poor guy alone now, its been over 15 years now already

Now on to the story of Mitch and his gang, we know that he and Jake have a history of violence, murder and who knows what else. They don’t like each other, and when Mitch takes the horses at his parents ranch, almost killing Jakes mom, well that makes things worse between them. After Gail decided to let Dale and the other kid get some “rehab” as she called it, and help with the corn harvest at Stanley’s farm , we see how the towns people have come together to help each other as well as Stanley. During the community gathering in the corn fields, we see Hawkins talking to his daughter and she asks , is Jake a good man or a bad man and Hawkins says there is no such man.

I do not like how this epidsode ended, leaving me wanting more story about the , well , story. Less soap opera, lets hear what is going on on the outside of Kansas, there are just too few clues for us. After all, this is about WWIII, right? But as I said in the beginning of my edit, I do think we are looking at a coup of some sort, Hawkins has been elevated out of my vault of suspicion of terrorist, but is he a part of this coup, if that is what it is? Lets do a show with the five W’s… who , what, where, when and WHY!

As I say after each show, if I have flubbed any points here, let me know.

rating for tonights show – 5 out of 10