ABC
(Season 1, Episode 5)
I like what the writers are doing to us in this show. Just when we think they’re leaning heavily in one direction with what’s going on with Sam, they throw us for a loop big time. If you go back and look at that long list of possibilities Sam was working on for his situation, there’s a lot of places we haven’t even touched upon yet.
I’m not sure where they were going with the little girl who died and how, until she died, she kept appearing to Sam in ways that seemed significant to him. She’s dead, so it’s not as though she grows up to affect him later in life. if she starts to make more appearances — like the man pictured above — we’ll all start thinking Sam’s having an Eli Stone moment, doing the work of God.
Speaking of God, we find that Sam’s not a believer, yet his visions bring him back to prayer by the end of the episode. Though most of what Sam experienced says he’s indeed dead and passing on between planes of existence, I’d still give coma the topmost likely cause. Once again we heard the hospital sounds, even paddles being charged.
A couple of minor things frustrated me in this episode. First was Sam’s reaction to seeing Clams. He briefly speaks to him as though Clams should remember him. Shouldn’t he be over that by now? Second was the old man in the church. It was so frustrating that Sam didn’t run after the guy and pry him for even more information. Instead, he stood there and smiled as he and the little girl walked out of the church.
Then, of course, we have Brother Love Butter. What I found so funny about this was that, sometimes when I hear Whoopi on The View, she sounds like a freakin’ man! At first I thought they were playing fun at that, but the real explanation made a lot more sense. This show does a fantastic job of reminding us what times were like in the early ’70s, even with Sam correcting himself in saying “blacks” instead of “African Americans.”
Best scene of the series so far: Sam rapping Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” for his captors. If his rhyme was a drug he’d sell it by the gram, yo!
Quote of the episode:
Hunt: “Nobody hurts little girls in my kingdom. And it is my kingdom. Huntlandia. Home of the blueberry crepe … where little kids are off-limits.”
Songs from this episode:
Three Dog Night – “Black and White”
Vanilla Ice – “Ice Ice Baby”
Clacked by Keith McDuffee 
on Nov 06, 2008 @ 23:00 EST5EDT
“A couple of minor things frustrated me in this episode. First was Sam’s reaction to seeing Clams. He briefly speaks to him as though Clams should remember him. Shouldn’t he be over that by now?”
So, if you saw your father figure as a young guy you wouldn’t be shocked either?
He may be used to being in the past, but it doesn’t mean he isn’t going to be amazed by seeing an old friend in his youth.
Wow, these episode was amaizing, now im really invested in the show (and more confused if that is possible:)
Yeah, i don’t like either when he acts like people of the past should recognaise him, he should be more toon up about his situation. In another hand, he has never tried too hard to hide the fact that he is from the future, so…
I thought that the old man in the end was some kind of an angel in his way to heaven, just because he was going with the little girl (and because he make Sam reconnect with god again). Anyway what ever he might be, i really like these one.