![]() ![]() “It has no political views, it has no religious beliefs, it has no cultural hang-ups, it ha no respect for a badge, it has no concept of time or geography. “A virus exists only to find a carrier and reproduce,” Eph goes on, while lights flash and sirens wail in the background. “You don’t like terrorists? Try negotiating with a virus,” he begins, as the agents (no longer) in charge listen and his associates Nora (Mía Maestro) and Jim (Sean Astin) exchange bemused looks: like you, they’ve heard a version of this speech before. It’s only a couple of minutes before The Strain delivers those heroes in the form of the unfortunately named CDC doctor Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll).Ĭonfronting a government agent who’s about to order men with guns inside the plane, Eph provides instruction. ![]() Such clueless, non-intuitive individuals tend to take up space in scary stories, so you can instruct them in your mind (“Don’t go in there!”) while anticipating the arrival of the smarter, more intuitive heroes. They’re called “first” for a reason, right? But still, a pair of air traffic controllers at JFK stand before a plane that’s just landed and gone dead on the runway, wondering whether they should approach it, knowing that an unknown terrible event has occurred. ![]() “Shouldn’t we wait for first responders, sir?” Yeah, this might seem the reasonable question when facing an airplane crisis. “It’s not scary to scare you for no reason.” – Miguel Gomez, Los Angeles Times ![]()
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