The monster itself was pretty decent, and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the special effects were not cheap-looking. Explosions and the like are easier to pull than a convincing moving monster, after all.
However, the whole activist-son-breaks-open-father's-lab-with-friends- freeing-animals-and-spraying-graffiti felt like a poor copy of a part of the plot of "Twelve Monkeys". If it was meant as homage to that brilliant film, then it didn't quite seem to work. In my opinion there is only so far you can go before a movie reference becomes an actual copy and I think this episode crossed the line. Thankfully, the ending sequence was good enough to save an otherwise mediocre episode.
However, the whole activist-son-breaks-open-father's-lab-with-friends- freeing-animals-and-spraying-graffiti felt like a poor copy of a part of the plot of "Twelve Monkeys". If it was meant as homage to that brilliant film, then it didn't quite seem to work. In my opinion there is only so far you can go before a movie reference becomes an actual copy and I think this episode crossed the line. Thankfully, the ending sequence was good enough to save an otherwise mediocre episode.