Fear Itself - ''Skin and Bones''

[steve614]

I can't believe a thread hadn't already been started.
Has interest waned that much?

Finally an episode with no weird unexpected twist. Pretty straight forward.
The afflicted guy was creepy. Obviously skinny (maybe too skinny), but the make up really accentuated that.
Really creepy.
Shouldn't people know by now that the only effective shot is a *head* shot? :rolleyes::D

[atrac]

Easily some of the most eerie and chilling casting since Julian Beck (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065191/) was cast as "Kane" in "Poltergeist II: The Other Side."

Wow, and gruesome too. Having to eat the man whom you are in love with and who is the father of your children to save their lives. That's really some pretty heavy stuff there.

The old indian's Canadian accent was virtually identical to Michael Hogan's (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0389581/) (Colonial Tigh) from BSG. ;)

[TiVotion]

Well, they finally produced an episode like I've been waiting for all along...one in which the actual "twist" is the monster doesn't kill everyone, and the good guy(s) survives. Up til now, I've always expected everyone to be dead by the end of the episode. Guess you don't need a plot twist when the twist is someone actually lives and the monster dies.

They did manage to fool me by doing that. Early on I said, everyone's going to die, starting with the old Native American guy. Well, they did get him first. This episode reminded me a lot of the first one with the cannibal sisters. Story-wise, I didn't expect the wife to actually chop the guy up on command, I figured she'd stall. I don't think that anyone under those circumstances would really be able to go through with that. That was a bit gruesome, even without the direct visuals.

I thought I recognized the actress from somewhere, but I couldn't place her. Turns out Molly Hagan was in "Some Kind of Wonderful" back in 1987 (loved that movie), and that's where I remembered her face. She was also on Seinfeld in the "Conversion" episode, which I never realized either, and she's been in a ton of other stuff.

[jstack]

Is this show worth getting into?

[Bierboy]

Is this show worth getting into?

No.....especially if it takes this many eps to get to a "good" one.

[MickeS]

I can't believe a thread hadn't already been started.
Has interest waned that much?
No, my TiVo is broken and I didn't think of until today that I could watch it on NBC.com. :D ;)

Finally an episode with no weird unexpected twist. Pretty straight forward.
Yeah, that was the best thing about the episode.

Having to eat the man whom you are in love with and who is the father of your children to save their lives. That's really some pretty heavy stuff there.
While this show has held back on the actual visual gore, they have at least not held back on the ideas. That WAS pretty gruesome, even if it happened mostly off screen.
Well, they finally produced an episode like I've been waiting for all along...one in which the actual "twist" is the monster doesn't kill everyone, and the good guy(s) survives. Up til now, I've always expected everyone to be dead by the end of the episode. Guess you don't need a plot twist when the twist is someone actually lives and the monster dies.
I generally like the "good guys lose" endings, but this show has done it consistently... that's not good either. Finally a win for the good guys, sort of. Yay. :)


I thought I recognized the actress from somewhere, but I couldn't place her. Turns out Molly Hagan was in "Some Kind of Wonderful" back in 1987 (loved that movie), and that's where I remembered her face. She was also on Seinfeld in the "Conversion" episode, which I never realized either, and she's been in a ton of other stuff.

THANK YOU! I kept wondering where I had seen her face, I knew it was recently. I watched the Seinfeld episode "The Conversion" just a few days ago, that's where I had seen her!

I noticed this episode was co-written by Moriarty from AICN. He did a couple of the Masters of Horror episodes too. I haven't seen that series, but it seems like it's pretty much the same people behind both this and that series. DOesn't really make me want to run out and get it. :)

[mattack]

Well, they finally produced an episode like I've been waiting for all along...one in which the actual "twist" is the monster doesn't kill everyone, and the good guy(s) survives.

I thought when he first licked his wife's arm, that was REALLY creepy.

...so I may have misinterpreted something. It sure seemed to me at the very end, they had a lingering shot on the mom, with some sort of distinctive sound effect. I thought that they were implying that the monster had moved to the mom (or maybe the kids -- that's what I expected would happen all along).

[danterner]

I thought when he first licked his wife's arm, that was REALLY creepy.

...so I may have misinterpreted something. It sure seemed to me at the very end, they had a lingering shot on the mom, with some sort of distinctive sound effect. I thought that they were implying that the monster had moved to the mom (or maybe the kids -- that's what I expected would happen all along).

I don't think you misinterpreted it - I think you got it exactly right. The lingering shot showed the slow change of expression in her face. The sound was the howling "windigo wind" sound. It directly yet subtly indicated that mom's wounds in the kitchen had been fatal. She had eaten the human flesh beforehand, while in a hopeless situation. Just like what happened to her husband in the cave. I don't know that the windigo passed to her, but she definitely was no longer herself. When she said "the kids are mine!" she wasn't fighting for them, she was fighting over them. It definitely was not a happy ending where the good guys won. Those kids are toast. This was by far my favorite episode of the series.