Remember the 1954 film, "Them!"? How about the 1958 flick, "The Blob"?
Combine some old-school, B-rate horror flicks with a science fiction/action series, and "The Scourge" is what you get. This would have been a lot more fun if it had aired around Halloween.
Trust me--this is not an episode you want to watch late at night.
The creepiness of carnivorous bugs, along with the darkness of the screenplay make this an episode you want to watch with the lights on or when the sun is still high in the sky.
The directing could have been better, and some of the clichés thrown about in the script can produce an eye roll or three. But it's still a decent yarn. It's totally believable that the Ori--who already engineered a virus designed to destroy mankind--could also engineer a meat-eating insect.
"We" did it in "Them," after all, right?
Combine some old-school, B-rate horror flicks with a science fiction/action series, and "The Scourge" is what you get. This would have been a lot more fun if it had aired around Halloween.
Trust me--this is not an episode you want to watch late at night.
The creepiness of carnivorous bugs, along with the darkness of the screenplay make this an episode you want to watch with the lights on or when the sun is still high in the sky.
The directing could have been better, and some of the clichés thrown about in the script can produce an eye roll or three. But it's still a decent yarn. It's totally believable that the Ori--who already engineered a virus designed to destroy mankind--could also engineer a meat-eating insect.
"We" did it in "Them," after all, right?