2.1 had some truly shocking editing and continuity errors. Not the best impression to give with the first ep of a new series, but at least they sorted it out a bit better for the later episodes in S2.
I get the feeling that a lot of 2.1 was forcing characters or circumstances into unrealistic positions in order to set up some of the big action sequences. Connor leaving Abby led to the dramatic chase through the centre to get to her before the raptor did, and the whole debacle with the gun was clearly just a flimsy excuse to have the motorbike chase. As you say, it could be that bad editing made things look a lot worse than they were in the original script, but there were just such a lot of problems with the entire episode, I'm surprised no one picked it up before the ep went out, unless they were running *very* close to the deadline at that point, maybe.
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Date: 2009-02-25 01:26 pm (UTC)I get the feeling that a lot of 2.1 was forcing characters or circumstances into unrealistic positions in order to set up some of the big action sequences. Connor leaving Abby led to the dramatic chase through the centre to get to her before the raptor did, and the whole debacle with the gun was clearly just a flimsy excuse to have the motorbike chase. As you say, it could be that bad editing made things look a lot worse than they were in the original script, but there were just such a lot of problems with the entire episode, I'm surprised no one picked it up before the ep went out, unless they were running *very* close to the deadline at that point, maybe.