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08/07/2002: Witchblade
I watched Monday's Witchblade ep, Veritas (spoilers follow)...
I think I can really do without Witchblade turning into The X-Files. I won't even start with my rant about how J.F.K. seems to be cast as a sort of messiah figure, who would have made American politics all better had he just not been killed. Not that this belief is uncommon in US tv series and movies, though personally I don't think it fits the facts. But that wasn't really why I was vaguely disappointed with this ep. I just don't think the series storyline benefits from introducing an extremely powerful secret conspiracy that has been orchestrating all kinds of stuff for decades. I mean, why not let Vorschlag industries simply be a powerful (and somewhat evil) multi-national corporation and keep the conspiracies - beyond the (supernatural) Witchlade related ones - to a believable and more local level, like the dirty cops and their White Bulls organization in the first season? There is crime, there is supernatural stuff, there is Vorschlag industries influence, why make it about the Kennedy assassination and secret government conspiracies? What's next, aliens and invading black helicopters? Less would have been more, IMO. At least the evil guys have taste enough to smoke cigars not cigarettes, unlike their X-Files counterparts.
But there was good stuff in the episode as well. I liked the interaction between Gabriel and Sara (though why they are the first to find the film, when both the bad guys and the crime scene investigators have examined the area before, made me go "huh?"); I liked Danny starting to get suspicious about Jake, and all his unexplained informants and his close ties to the Feds. And I'm wondering how many more tricks the Witchblade can do, I don't think we've seen this blue blinding light effect before. I'd have liked to see more of Nottingham, though.
