5 thoughts on “Ep 8: Speed”

  1. This episode was great, the tension was palpable, and my ears were on the edge of their seat the whole time. I can’t wait for Speed 2: The Third Crash. Keep up the good work! You are all the best.

  2. So, you asked for comments from anybody who heard the episode before seeing the movie, and here’s what I think:

    First, the whole postscript with the bus didn’t add much to the movie. I mean, the jumping over the gap was pretty neat, and I WOULD have liked it if Joz actually got something to do, but compared to the main part of the movie with the elevator, it was pretty boring. Not having the two main characters interact at all during that postscript was dumb, as was the whole thing with going over to a mad bomber’s house. The soft entry was obviously the right choice if you were going to go in, but going in at all was idiotic. Why did they even think that he was going to be there?

    I mean, figuring out who the guy was could have been useful if they were in Criminal Minds and could profile him, but they never established the characters as profilers, so it was pretty pointless. They got that he was an ex-bomb-squad guy who was probably on disability for losing a finger and mad about not getting a good pension, but that was all the information that was useful — figuring out the guy’s name didn’t give them any actionable intelligence.

    And frankly, yeah, the “have everybody hang onto a fire hose” plan got half the people killed, but it was nonetheless a better plan than the one they came up with in the movie. Going to another building, pulling a winch over and clipping it on? Why did they even think that would possibly work in the first place?

    Total deaths and destruction in the game: five members of the public, an elevator and elevator shaft. That’s bad, but the movie had four members of the public, seven police officers including a PC, two buses, a train, a train tunnel, and many, many cars belonging to members of the public. If there was a magical way for Mac to look into the alternate world of the movie, Jack and Harry would have still gotten the medals of valor. Heck, they probably did. They didn’t kill anyone: they came up with a plan that saved half the hostages and captured the terrorists. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than the movie characters did.

  3. Going through the whole backlog (new listener). This was epic! *Please* do the Speed 1.5 you hinted at. I want Jocelyn as Bullock, and I am all for her bungling the role and just doing her usual thing. Even if everyone explodes in the first 10 minutes 🙂

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