WRITTEN BY
Greg Walker
DIRECTED BY
Kim Manners
AIRED ON
April 21, 2000
RUNTIME
43 minutes
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SUMMARY
Lieutenant Tom Hobbes is reunited with a former comrade who has been living in Harsh Realm for years. This reunion stirs up a range of emotions and complicated feelings as Hobbes grapples with the changes that have occurred in both his friend and the virtual world since they last met. The episode explores themes of loyalty, betrayal, and the personal impact of prolonged exposure to the simulation’s harsh realities. As Hobbes navigates the dynamics of this reunion, he uncovers disturbing truths about his friend’s involvement with Santiago’s forces, which complicates his mission and challenges his perceptions of trust and allegiance within Harsh Realm.
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Pinocchio: Whatever you're looking for, Hobbes, chances are somebody's already eaten it, banged it, or burned it.
Pinocchio: Home sweet freaking home.
Sophie Green: Dear Tom, it's been two months since I was told you were dead and though I hold on to the hope that you are alive, time passes like an eternity as I await for a word. Hours feel like years, days like a lifetime, no moment absent the thought of you. But the life goes on without you, it must also end without you. In this, I have no choice.
Hobbes: How you feeling?
Pinocchio: If this ain't real, how come I hurt so much?
Hobbes: We have to get out of here.
Pinocchio: I'm seeing triple. Maybe we can wait until I'm seeing double.
Pinocchio: She can't take away what's been written into the code. She can't heal cancer that's in the code.
Hobbes: What happens when she...
Primo: Her body will digitize... disappear.
Hobbes: And that's it? She just goes away?
Primo: That all depends... in what you believe.
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Mother
Written by
Pike on 2024-08-24
★
In this fifth episode of Harsh Realm, Tom Hobbes meet his mother in Harsh Realm. What could have been a very interesting and emotional episode is actually quite bad. Instead of focusing on the emotional side and going fully at it, the show focuses equally on Hobbes and Pinocchio being imprisoned and getting an implant in their body that will kill them if they try to escape.
The series keeps wanting to show guns, fights and action, but it makes it far less interesting and far more immature.
Also, the device crawling into the prisoners' neck is quite a rip-off from The X-Files masterpiece Ice from season 1. A couple of shots are almost identical.
There were interesting ideas though: what happens when a digital character dies, Sophie seeing Tom through the eyes of his mother. But that's too thin to make the episode remotely interesting.
I give it 1 out of 5.
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