4:10 - "View From Up Here" 2005-01-02

[Techguy]

I might watch "View" again, or not. If I have to have crib notes in advance to "get it" on first viewing, then somebody missed the boat somewhere. Watching CI shouldn't be an open book test exercise.

[Sirenna]

...sometimes it should be like when I used to tape the shows and re-watch, often there would be something I missed second or third time round.

I think it was good in execution but light in it's atmosphere. It's as though everyone involved wrote, produced and acted the episode with a technical, rigid adherence to using specific camera angles and scenes in the specific way the writer, Scott, alluded to - a riff of a Japanese b-horror movie.

To be really true to this style and stay within a forty-six minute time frame and completely tell and solve a murder case takes some doing. I just found the episode interesting but not absorbing. Taking it scene by scene like that I do see how all the 'i's were dotted and the 't's were crossed but it didn't pull me in and scare me the way "Want" does for example. Personally I think this is an episode where they should have played up and not dampened Vincent's particular style and let him run free with it. It would have tied in very well with the overall urban weirdness (for lack of a better adjective) for which they were aiming.