IMDB puzzles the hell out of me, either I'm too stupid (or spoiled by MAL), or it really or the ergonomics really aren't quite up to my requirements... @_@
At any rate, since I'm up at feeding up my ptw. Can anybody tell me, what (presumably US ) show this was, of which I have seen some chunks of one single random episode on TV years ago?
It started of with a prologue summing up the premise of the show. Some 11 or so people where for some reason in a space rocket/shuttle/whatever and witnessed earth getting blown up. Some mysterious light (god?) shows up and brings them back in time. Probably to have them prevent the destruction of earth.
Back to the timeline of where this episode is set in, which appears to be somewhat advanced, one guy of the 11 has just lost his wife, who, appearantly, got killed by some mob or something. He's depressed and bitter and saving earth also appears pointless to him. Nothing in for him anymore, so why bother. There is a second guy, who tries to get him out of the depression. He doesn't really manage. It's summer and very hot and that doesn't help the general mood. Some cult or something emmerges and brainwashes the depressed guy into joining. Guy 2 kind of hears from it and is very suspicios. He wants to got and get the depressed guy back. His son (?) comes along, but since the cult village or so is a bit away, they need to go by car. Guy 2 insists his son to take a shower. He shots back that there is water shortage due to the heat and the goverment has requested people to save water as much as possible. Guy 2 makes it most clear, he won't suffer at his stink for the next 2-3 hours in the car.
They arrive in the village and... some stuff happens. (The part I didn't watch.)
Guy two and his son get caught, restrained, I think also handcuffed. They are in a dangerous situation, the cult folks are clearly out of their mind and I think they wanted to kill them. One of them manipulates the depressed guy into something while guy 2 also tried to get him back to proper mind. He improvisates and spills out some random sermon-ish rubbish, which however kind of convinced the depressed guy back to reality. Back in sound mind he frees the two and they are up against that cult village. Guy 2 expresses his relief with some verbals jabs. The (now formerly) depressed guy hits back with that it certainly wasn't his capabilities of being a priest/doing sermons that got him back to reality.
Then they start doing stuff again, which I again, didn't watch.
Well, given I still remember just these couple of scenes as vividly as I do after all these years, I gather this show might not actually be that bad. Any idea which one it is?
