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30 Hour Dead Zone Marathon!


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Ground Rules 1) Start marathon at 7pm EST, end it when all of Season One and Two have been played. (Probably around 1am Thursday morning)
2) Watch at least one episode per hour, meaning I can take no longer a break than 15 minutes per hour.
3) I have to post at least one episode commentary at the top of each hour.
4) Diet Pepsi amounts are marathon totals, not per hour.

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Episode Commentary Key:

Visions: Prolonged marathons tend to cause hallucinations - er - visions.

Moron of the EP award: Who was the dumbest bastard in this ep?

General Remarks: What I thought of the ep, in general.

Offscreen Activity: The writers have a tendency to have things happen offscreen. Let's track it!

Timeline Notes: The Dead Zone time/space continuity is all jacked up. Let's see if watching everything in order in a row gives a new perspective!

Funny line of the ep: TEE HEE!


2.3 "Ascent"
Ounces of Diet Pepsi: 98
Visions: Too hungry, having visions only of dashing to make myself breakfast without missing anything.
Moron of the EP award: Death. I thought you were supposed to be all knowing, chump? Better luck next time! Neil Gaiman did you better! (and hotter)

General Remarks: This is Walt's "Dinner With Dana." Plenty of good character development for an interesting character. Will we ever get this treatment for Purdy or Sarah? We do with Bruce in "Zion." This ep also has a very "Flatliners" feel to it. Which is a compliment.
Enjoy Li'l Johnny in this ep. If memory serves, we don't see him again for almost a dozen eps.
I really love how they reshot scenes from "Descent" using Johnny in place of Walt. Very cool, adds a new perspective to those scenes.
Even more cool to see Walt's point of view on what happened in the pilot, scenes we didn't get at the time.
Purdy seems to really care about whether or not Johnny dies in this ep.
Does Walt remember what Johnny told him? The great debate.

Offscreen Activity: Actually, we get to see some stuff we didn't see before, like Walt and Sarah talking about Johnny waking up. Mucho cool.

Timeline Notes: So Sarah had time to toss a bucket of ice on Johnny once a week for a month, but she still started dating Walt early enough in her pregnancy that no one ever suspected Li'l Johnny wasn't his?
Furthermore, does anyone really believe the doctors will give up and then Sarah will lose all hope that Johnny will wake AND that Sarah will have run through the grieving process long enough to be ready for another relationship ... all before she starts to show her pregnancy? It just doesn't add up. Throw in Vera, and everyone seems to have given up Johnny REALLY quickly.
Johnny says to Walt that it has only been a few weeks since he made love to Sarah. So this has to be the middle of the summer of 2002, right?

Funny line of the ep: "John, you wouldn't believe the dreams I've been having. About you and me." - Walt to Johnny after he wakes from the coma. ROTF


2.4 "The Outsider"
Ounces of Diet Pepsi: 104
Visions: The sun is out and my mind is clear. I can stay awake for another week! WOO HOO!!!
Moron of the EP award: Drug CEO. I'll give YOU five seconds to testify before Congress, punk!

General Remarks: Are there any limits to Johnny's powers? Touching a TV gives him the future of a company? Doesn't stop this from being an awesome episode. I really like the Johnny/Purdy exchange where Johnny almost lets his Armageddon vision slip. Would anything have changed if Johnny had told Purdy here at this spot?
I'm tired of people sprouting some bogus name and asking if that person is behind a practical joke when they don't believe something. This has been done in hundreds of movies, TV shows, and novels. "Harry Baltz! Harry Baltz put you up to this, didn't he?" Um, no.
How cool is Dana? She'll sleep with you, doesn't mind if you hose another woman and the side, and will even fix you sandwiches right after discussing that sticky business with you! WOO HOO!!!! She is a GODDESS!!

Offscreen Activity: Johnny and Dana have slept together more than once, and have apparently stopping doing it, all without our knowledge until now. We're the fans, not the press, we shouldn't have been kept in the dark!

Timeline Notes: Stillson is Vice President in 2009. Not good.
Johnny tells Berke that he had his accident "about 7 years ago." So we're close to September 1 2002 now?

Funny line of the ep: "Yeah, I just hope the kid who washes the glass is gay." -Johnny, when asked by Dana if he saw anything after touching Claire's glass.


2.5 "Precipitate"
Ounces of Diet Pepsi: 110
We're going to do something a little different with this ep. Since this is the funniest DZ ep I've seen in three seasons, this entire post will be devoted to funny moments.
The J-Lo jokes are even funnier now than when this aired.
Johnny has another car accident, so the first thing he says to Bruce is "Tell me it's not 2009." To be serious for a second, if we use the 6 year measurement of his first coma, which is only logical, Johnny's saying it's now 2003. So the midterm elections are over? But the next ep is "Scars" which is a very election oriented so we know that Stillson and Walt have not been elected yet. But also know that 2002 IS an election year, and that previous eps talking about the election were set in 2002.
Dr. Gibson cracks me up.
I guess we know that this ep burns up 28 days, eh? (I just can't turn it off)
I'm with Johnny, oysters are sooo nasty! Especially not with oatmeal! (but who eats oysters for breakfast?)
I'll tell you something else that is NOT happening. Johnny dressed in hot red robes and towels!
"I can tell, you have that ... glow about you." - Bruce's deadpan response to Johnny announcing his pregnancy.
Bruce offering to trade his blood for the names of Johnny's donors was hysterical.
The nurse was funny throughout. Great 'tude!
"Oh believe me, you don't want my blood. I'm pregnant." - Johnny

Johnny: "Or it could be a lonely guy."
Police Woman: "A lonely guy?"
Johnny: "Yeah, a lonely guy, like a guy who doesn't have a girlfriend."
Policewoman: "Yes sir, I understand, a lonely guy."

Johnny: "Now, (the pregnant woman) wears a silk blouse with a whimsical little giraffe print on it, in tones of, like, russet and tan. It's a shell, really, with an irresistible little jewel necklace, covered by a nut brown cardigan, tan slacks, and a brown loafer, size seven."
Policewoman: "Whimsical giraffes."
Johnny: "Whimsical giraffes."

Bruce (pointing at Johnny): "Officer, you may not have heard of-."
Policewoman: "I've heard. My sister thinks you're cute. Last year she was into the alligator hunter guy."

Johnny (as police woman walks away) : "I'm not sure she's fully invested."

Bruce (looking for fat man in a bad tie) : "Define bad ties. They all look bad to me. There's a whole lotta bad ties in here."

The messenger biker is also really funny.

The skull shirt is a really great touch for the bruiser. I love the way the bruiser rolled Johnny and Bruce.

(During the long frozen scene, everything is stopped dead except for the fountain behind Johnny. That water continues to run normally.

Whoa that biker is HOT!!
The coda with Johnny and Bruce is warm and amusing. What a fantastic episode!


2.6 "Scars"
Ounces of Diet Pepsi: 114
Visions: Does a dancing spider monkey count?
Moron of the EP award: Hair Face (Sonny) Come on, you can look into his eyes and see that no one is home. Not only that, the people who used to be home didn't even leave a forwarding address.

General Remarks: One thing I really like about this ep is that it demonstrates that Johnny can't ignore some of his visions. As Bruce said, Johnny's not allowed to ignore his visions like this.
Nice callback to Belk and Culling, the drug company from "The Outsider."
Stillson was great in this ep, but Hair Face was annoying as usual. What a low rent PUNK! >:-#

Offscreen Activity: Not a whole lot this ep other than Sarah's initial talks with Stillson.

Timeline Notes: Johnny states he's been sitting in his basement for two months, doing nothing. So we're only two months from "Destiny."

Funny line of the ep: "I'm not nervous. I'm psyched." - Johnny "Psyched?" - Bruce


Previous Marathons: 24

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