Persons Unknown
Jul 8, 2010 2:36:57 GMT -5
Post by creepy on Jul 8, 2010 2:36:57 GMT -5
So, I've started watching this Persons Unknown show. I started taping it when it started and am just now starting to burn through the episodes because I hate watching shows week to week. And I have questions. Forgive me if these have been answered in later episodes as I'm asking these questions as I watch the show.
Episode 1
If the cops have the surveillence tape of the kidnapping, how does that not become immediate news? Why does the news boss lady not know about it but the reporter got it from his source at the police station? Wouldn't this footage be released quickly as most of the kidnappings are solved, more or less, in the few days right after they happen?
How did the car salesman guy get down to the lobby and out the door if the elevator was not working? That could be easily explained by saying that he put a trashcan or something in the elevator door to prevent it from being used. But why did no one ask that to him?
Why don't these people just immediately sit down and talk about who they are to see if they have common ground? I know Alan Rucks charactor tried but was blown off by Joe and it seemed lke Joe was hiding the fact that he's either a criminal or CIA spook or something. His past would probably point fingers either way, which he probably doesn't want. But wouldn't that make him more suspicious in him not telling?
And if they don't trust each other, then wouldn't it make more sense to be open anyway so maybe the guilty mole would slip up on something, pointing the finger at them? And wouldn't it make more sense to know everything than nothing?
Why don't they search every building? Just go in and see what is in every nook and cranny.
If the marine guy's fortune cookie was only in chinese, why didn't they ask one of the chinese guys to translate it?
Why didn't they try to mess with the numbers to see if they mean something? Birthdays, dates, codes, lock sequences........
If I were there, I'd ask everyone to show the fortune cookie fortunes. Why would you trust anybody?
Is the car salesman the creepy guy from the amusment park episode of Roseanne, albeit a little older and chubbier?
Episode 2
Why don't they follow and hang out with the Chinese guys or the night hotel clerk? They have to go somewhere, right? What do they eat? Does the hotel clerk only eat at the chinese food place? Is everyones food being poisoned or altered? They have to ship the food in, don't they, especially after they said in the second episode that the food is "fresh."
The news boss saw the abduction, but doesn't care about that. She cares about a headless tranny or something.
Why would you drink any alcohol found there? And wouldn't it make sense to buckle down and try to find a way out? A clue? Why would you just plot to beat up the hotel clerk and do nothing else? I'd have no problem taking him hostage, but couldn't you do something more productive than sit around and get cloudy?
I don't like the lead chick in this. But she seems to be the main character with Joe being the eventual hero and I just know the Marine is going to die. The social worker chick has an outside chance of living, but no one else.
Alan Ruck in this reminds me of Ed Nortons character in The Score, just obviously not as a mentally handicapped person.
The chinese people just hang out all day prepping meals? Who hired them? Where do they get their supplies? Who pays them? Are they hostages working off a debt somehow? Why chinese? Is this a plot device or just coincidence?
Are they really abducted by the Chinese? The town looks a little to 50'sish for my taste.
Don't look for clothes, look for clues!
Don't hang out talking on the balcony, look for clues!
It looks like they are in the Pacific NW somewhere.
What if someone has a medical condition? Nobody has allergies/acid reflux/other medical problems? No addictions like cigarettes or painkillers or booze? These are just little things, but what if someone had to take heart meds or someone was addicted to uppers or something?
Who's the day clerk at the hotel?
How many people would kill Joe to go free? It's like that conundrum in the Dark Knight.
Why wouldn't you keep the gun?
Why would you ever take your gun off of the marine if you wanted to be in control of the situation, especially when he's that close?
Everyman for himself, so why would you wait for any of the others? To not be a dick, obviously, but in that real situation? At least they didn't wait too long, so it makes a little sense.
"Creating a distraction" by running into a room full of chinese guys with knives? Really?
The white light sends you back to the town? Good god. And you don't ask the hotel clerk where he was or where he went after he ran through to the woods?
So, you don't shoot Joe, but waste bullets and look at the camera and say they will pay if anyone gets hurt? Because you can't find your husband, owe someone 11,000$ and are estranged from your apparently rich mother. Good luck with that payback, lady.
Also, that reminds me, why don't they talk about why they are all there? And didn't the Alan Ruck character owe someone 11,000$? Coincidence?