Kidnapped (S01E12) "Acknowledgement"

[dswallow]

I feel sorry for anybody that was watching Kidnapped but hasn't followed through on the crappy-resolution online broadcasts. The story's been great. I loved how it was Conrad who shot the last guy holding Leo at gunpoint, too. I can't wait to see exactly how the reason for all this plays out. I'm pretty sure I know where that's going, but someone really needed to have significant resources to pull this off, and that's what I'm curious about.

[rcobourn]

Stupid NBC server is saying "Video not found" :/

[dswallow]

Stupid NBC server is saying "Video not found" :/
They're all available as torrents; just crappy resolution/frame rates.

[GadgetFreak]

Stupid NBC server is saying "Video not found" :/

I had the same problem. Within the NBC Kidnapped boards, someone pointed me here:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/nickhalloway/episodes.htm

The last 8 episodes are posted there. Easier than torrents, but I don't know how long they will be there.

[GadgetFreak]

I felt a lot better about the way this was wrapped up compared to "vanished". I'll refrain from further comment until there is a thread on episode 13, other than to echo Doug's comment that it is indeed worth your time to watch the online episodes if you enjoyed this show.

[terpfan1980]

I really enjoyed the series. The ending was a bit predictable, probably because they had to wrap it within 13 episodes which made things wrap up more quickly than originally expected, but it was still very good.

The NBC online broadcasts weren't bad to me. Not great, but not bad. I'd still like to re-watch it all later, but admittedly having now seen it I probably won't go out of my way to do so.

I do still wish it had been left on the air though, where I could see it all in HiDef. :( Stupid NBC for saying they'd finish it on Saturday nites and then not following through on that to completion.

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Meanwhile, I'll say here something I mentioned to another fan that was watching it... after the fact, it seems like it would have done better as a mini-series, or say two movies of the week over a two week span.

I think what turned off a lot of people was the idea of having to follow it through and not getting a different cast of characters, different victims, etc., over the course of their watching. Viewers in the U.S. are, generalizing here, idiots. We don't take well to not getting answers right away. Instant gratification and satisfaction is the key. It's why Without A Trace does well, why Cold Case does well, why Law and Order does well, etc. It's why shows like Murder One failed. Why Vanished failed. Why Kidnapped failed, etc.

It is a testament to how compelling some shows (LOST, Prison Break, Heroes as examples) have to be in order not to lose the audience and have them turning away to something else (such as any of the CSI shows that over-populate the schedule).

If Kidnapped had been part of the old Mystery Movie of the Week wheel type thing that NBC did back in the dark ages of broadcast TV (60's, 70's and 80's), and each episode ran 2 - 4 hours tops, I think we'd have gotten pretty decent shows that weren't forced into one hour resolutions, but still wrapped up quickly enough that people would have kept watching.

[GadgetFreak]

I don't remember what the ratings were for Murder One in Season 1 vs. Season 2, but they were good enough in Season 1 to get renewed. Wasn't part of the problem that people identified with the cast (including the suspect) in season 1 and weren't receptive to a new client/case in season 2?

Kidnapped may have run into the same problems -- if they had done well enough to finish out season 1, season 2 would not have had Timothy Hutton or Dana Delaney in it.

[Dante101]

I had the same problem. Within the NBC Kidnapped boards, someone pointed me here:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/nickhalloway/episodes.htm

The last 8 episodes are posted there. Easier than torrents, but I don't know how long they will be there.

So NBC.com has "Episode 112 - Resolution*(Day 13)" as the most recent episode (and gives it the byline "the final chapter"). This is the final episode, correct? Because they mark the pilot as episode 100, and the next episode as 101 - which would make episode 112 the 13th episode.

So am I wrong, or is 112 the final episode? Is everything wrapped up, storywise?

TIA