Red Eye, told over an adrenaline-filled six parts, is set between an all-night plane flight from London to Beijing and the corridors of power within Whitehall.
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Watched till the keywords "white privilege", what a brain rot.
by WilliamDrakeMcGregor posted 9 months ago
Question about the overall plot..
I am not very versed at air travel, but even above 20.000 feet, isn't there some way to eject the bomb from the plane over the ocean?
Is there no safe way to open an area without the decompression to cause catastrophic damage to the plane?
by onthebox95 posted 9 months ago
We're enjoying this one as much as the first series. Good plot and good acting. For easy TV meal viewing, this is a grab-and-go.
by WilliamDrakeMcGregor posted 9 months ago
Damn, I really hate it when they choose show titles that don't fit the story in the next season anymore.
Season two has as much to do with a Red Eye flight as Nathan Fillion is still playing a Rookie in Season 8 of The Rookie :)
Apart from that the writing has just as many plot-holes as Season 1, so not much has changed.
The characters are good and the action is decent, gonna keep watching for some reason :)
Episode 01+02 You would think that you need higher level of security othen than "diplomatic courier" to access the office of the Ambassador ?!
by ockerspock posted 2 years ago
For the benefit of Bananijoe "Red Eye" is usually in this context a term used for overnight travel, originating in USA I believe and originally referring to overnight rail journeys. Likely coined due to passengers arriving tired due to lack of any/enough sleep.
by mrverene posted 2 years ago
I found it middling throughout but fine at 6 eps. Kind of loses a bit of the thriller aspect when most of the characters aren't particularly likeable.
by Bananijoe posted 2 years ago
^^ i mostly agree, but still think the E01 holds the worst spript-screw-ups and many issues that you describe could be "accepted", well more-or-less :-)
But, yes when starting to "explain" things and "getting the upper hand", it lost appeal and logic - but the THRILL was gripping me - only lost its tough in E06... well!
.. and still have no clue - what "Redeye" is supposed to mean :D
That the DCI did not validate the marshal is my main issue after E01, the script made her "trust" a guy the in that situation no DCI would ever trust!
Yeah, the "we overwhelmed the assassins" logic and we "kidnap" a plane and the whole Ministry+CIA setup, did not sit well with me - at all :D
... and the whole Rogue-CIA script well - obviously they know about "Enemy of the State" - which was good but also rather "thin" and "stretched" - this shows script is sadly extremely over stretched and therefore ... "extreme thin" :D
Another one might be the medical negligence, a Doctor can keep someone "alive" for -in extreme- hours via CPR, our Doc quit after moments... thats nonsense (but sadly fairly common nonsense)
And that the Captain would not land after a 2nd AND 3rd death - well! *blink* *blink*
BUT:
Routes that go over Scandinavia and then Russia would not work because they enter Mongolian airspace at 75-85% of the flight... And sadly the Captain announces in E01 at 00:31 - that:
"... our route will take us over Finland, Russia and Mongolia"
--> So they ARE still over Russia when turn around! / need to turn around / can still turn around!
... which makes a turn-around to London absolutely ... impossible...
... really wonder why even it would take any additional effort, "they" (the writing & directing team) always think its better to screw up a script this way - instead of doing it right *sigh*
.. still a good THRILL though ;)
by WilliamDrakeMcGregor posted 2 years ago
Finished it...well, it was a definite decline since episode 4 for me and hit low in episode 6.
The inner politics of MI5, MI6 and the decision of the PM at the end of EP05 are just laughable. If that's how a government operates during a crisis like that than we are all doomed.
The entire operation taking place in this tiny situation room with two screens, two analysts and a bunch of extras standing in the backround doing nothing whatsoever....
They were almost out of russian air space and still had enough fuel for a whole trip back? I don't know anything about fuel calculations for international air flights, but that seems a bit too much fuel on board.
Then they start off episode 6 with the whole explanation what actually happened in China...wtf? I thought this was supposed to be the big finale reveal, that the americans are behind it all... That spoiled it all for me.
The two assassin's on board of the plane are ex-special forces mercenaries and lost in close combat to a doctor and a cop? Yeah right...
Everything that happens then is just poor writing.
- CIA guy dropping the obvious clue that makes Delaney suspicious. -
Sending in CIA gal to drug them, who Nolan already saw in Beijing. Aren't they supposed to be the "mastermind" of the entire situation?
- CIA guy believing that Jess, a journalist, would destroy the SIM card with secret spy information on it...
- CIA guy following Doc Matt and DC Li into the garden of the Chinese embassy...as if he wouldn't know where he was (he is the Chief of Station in the US Embassy and has obviously his focus on China)
And apparently CIA guy did all that off the books...why? What was his reason for doing so?
Ending the episode with the report on the death of DC Li's mother... I am sorry but the story just didn't make me care enough to watch her father look at papers for 3 minutes.
I could accept all that as mediocre to poor story telling, but I can't accept Doc Matt's development.
The moment he went back on that plane he basically became a detective, superspy and whatnot. DC Li is basically just standing next to him the whole time and let him figure out everything.
by Bananijoe posted 2 years ago
... had also questioned some logic (beside E01), but keep going - new "infos" will unfold :)
There are some "smaller?" issues, but i would say the core logics are sound - only the solutions in E06 could have been a bit better...
by WilliamDrakeMcGregor posted 2 years ago
Just got to episode 4 and the story stopped making sense...
The big reveal of Tennant about project Blindside...if all that is true they would've done anything to prevent everyone of the doctors from getting back to Beijing.
At that point they knew that something must have gone wrong with the handoff with Shen Zhaou, so the logical asumption is that either one of the other co-workers from World Pacific Medicine has the package or that they were most definitely in danger.
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I am not very versed at air travel, but even above 20.000 feet, isn't there some way to eject the bomb from the plane over the ocean?
Is there no safe way to open an area without the decompression to cause catastrophic damage to the plane?
Season two has as much to do with a Red Eye flight as Nathan Fillion is still playing a Rookie in Season 8 of The Rookie :)
Apart from that the writing has just as many plot-holes as Season 1, so not much has changed.
The characters are good and the action is decent, gonna keep watching for some reason :)
Episode 01+02
You would think that you need higher level of security othen than "diplomatic courier" to access the office of the Ambassador ?!
But, yes when starting to "explain" things and "getting the upper hand", it lost appeal and logic - but the THRILL was gripping me - only lost its tough in E06... well!
.. and still have no clue - what "Redeye" is supposed to mean :D
That the DCI did not validate the marshal is my main issue after E01, the script made her "trust" a guy the in that situation no DCI would ever trust!
Yeah, the "we overwhelmed the assassins" logic and we "kidnap" a plane and the whole Ministry+CIA setup, did not sit well with me - at all :D
... and the whole Rogue-CIA script well - obviously they know about "Enemy of the State" - which was good but also rather "thin" and "stretched" - this shows script is sadly extremely over stretched and therefore ... "extreme thin" :D
Another one might be the medical negligence, a Doctor can keep someone "alive" for -in extreme- hours via CPR, our Doc quit after moments... thats nonsense (but sadly fairly common nonsense)
And that the Captain would not land after a 2nd AND 3rd death - well! *blink* *blink*
I really squinted when the "1/2-way to Beijing-return"-fuel-issue came to pass - that sounded insane - not only the logic of the captain - any flight would have landed .
I traveled in Asia and its BIG - so i had a look, what route exist Longon-Beijing nonstop, and yes one such route leave Russian airspace about half-way to Beijing:
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gMw_TuACkuw/VCpDwgbdCWI/AAAAAAAAAmk/KQjLRNaGPc0/w1200-h630-p-k-no-nu/london%20to%20beijing.bmp
BUT:
Routes that go over Scandinavia and then Russia would not work because they enter Mongolian airspace at 75-85% of the flight...
And sadly the Captain announces in E01 at 00:31 - that:
"... our route will take us over Finland, Russia and Mongolia"
--> So they ARE still over Russia when turn around! / need to turn around / can still turn around!
BUT:
it gets worse, at E05 00:36 London get the info: "They turned back 12 miles from China-Mongolian border"...
Ant the flightpath shown in this scene, is identical to the upper most route here:
https://cdn.loyaltylobby.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2018-02-16-34-700x409.png
... which makes a turn-around to London absolutely ... impossible...
... really wonder why even it would take any additional effort, "they" (the writing & directing team) always think its better to screw up a script this way - instead of doing it right *sigh*
.. still a good THRILL though ;)
The inner politics of MI5, MI6 and the decision of the PM at the end of EP05 are just laughable. If that's how a government operates during a crisis like that than we are all doomed.
The entire operation taking place in this tiny situation room with two screens, two analysts and a bunch of extras standing in the backround doing nothing whatsoever....
They were almost out of russian air space and still had enough fuel for a whole trip back? I don't know anything about fuel calculations for international air flights, but that seems a bit too much fuel on board.
Then they start off episode 6 with the whole explanation what actually happened in China...wtf? I thought this was supposed to be the big finale reveal, that the americans are behind it all... That spoiled it all for me.
The two assassin's on board of the plane are ex-special forces mercenaries and lost in close combat to a doctor and a cop? Yeah right...
Everything that happens then is just poor writing.
- CIA guy dropping the obvious clue that makes Delaney suspicious. -
Sending in CIA gal to drug them, who Nolan already saw in Beijing. Aren't they supposed to be the "mastermind" of the entire situation?
- CIA guy believing that Jess, a journalist, would destroy the SIM card with secret spy information on it...
- CIA guy following Doc Matt and DC Li into the garden of the Chinese embassy...as if he wouldn't know where he was (he is the Chief of Station in the US Embassy and has obviously his focus on China)
And apparently CIA guy did all that off the books...why? What was his reason for doing so?
Ending the episode with the report on the death of DC Li's mother... I am sorry but the story just didn't make me care enough to watch her father look at papers for 3 minutes.
I could accept all that as mediocre to poor story telling, but I can't accept Doc Matt's development.
The moment he went back on that plane he basically became a detective, superspy and whatnot. DC Li is basically just standing next to him the whole time and let him figure out everything.
There are some "smaller?" issues, but i would say the core logics are sound - only the solutions in E06 could have been a bit better...
The big reveal of Tennant about project Blindside...if all that is true they would've done anything to prevent everyone of the doctors from getting back to Beijing.
At that point they knew that something must have gone wrong with the handoff with Shen Zhaou, so the logical asumption is that either one of the other co-workers from World Pacific Medicine has the package or that they were most definitely in danger.