The high school thing was so weird. If they had gone with something else (anything else) on the theme of being toyed with so the alien could experience death through the crew the episode would have been saved. The airplane wasn't great either, but at least it worked in the context of the gag of having a starship pilot have to crash an antique plane. Given Bortus` attitude towards death shared in the final scene, if that could have been shared before they actually made it to the Moclan morgue the scene would have had more impact. Talla's planet was a throwaway octopus scene. But the high school thing was just brutal.
The first episode, though, is a complete and total masterpiece. Everyone crushed it. Wicked script, wicked everything, really. It easily set a television record for most notes played by an orchestra in an hour.
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