Originally posted by Zhariak
Way way too fast...
Technically they could have gotten away with it if they made it a two hour episode and took things slower, but wow that happened too fast.
Spoiler:
OMG SOLDIER COMES IN WITH SIGNS OF ANTHRAX! Lets put him in a regular room, with a regular doctor - not quarantine him.
OMG A MASS CONTAGION IS OUTBREAKING
OMG HOW WILL WE FIX THIS?
OMG - "ALIEN DNA!"
OMG - CONTAGION IS GLOBAL WORLD WIDE
OMG NO SIGNS OF ALIEN DNA ANY MORE!? DA FUQ!
OMG JUST NEED MORE BLOOD!
OMG THERE IT IS!
OMG WE FOUND A CURE!
OMG THE WORLD IS SAVED!
... how could they extract her DNA, create a cure from it, then - MASS PRODUCE IT - to save people? You could save maybe 1% of the infected people before they all die with how fast the contagion is spreading.
Remember when we ran out of flu vaccines in Alberta 2-3 years ago and how there was a mass shortage? Did this show REALLY think that "just use Scullys DNA as the panacea to save the planet" was a good enough explanation?
Fuck, this show squandered this season. You have 6 episodes - 6 episodes to tell a fucking story.
Episode 1 - set the stage that there were no aliens - it was all humans who reverse engineered the technology. At first i HATED this twist... but then it grew on me the more I thought about it.
Episode 2 - SHOULD have been the soldier comes in with signs of Anthrax - he should have been put into quarantine - then it should have been a build up from there of the diease spreading to various groups - police, more military etc - have them chase down the cause, only for episode 4 for them to realize WTF is up. Episode 5 should have been "the cure" episode and how they can fix it, as people are dying.
Episode 6 should have been finding a way to distribute it world wide - maybe resulting in using the chem trails they talked about.
But hooking somebody up to an IV is the only way? Un-fucking-believable
Anyway that is my rant haha