In all honesty, I haven't got much to say about this newest episode. Not a lot happened in it and a fair bit of it was really, really undeniably derived (not to mention the transition editing was way too choppy). While some good character interaction happened, a lot of it reeked of cliche. Now, to elaborate.

To be clear about this, I'm not bashing the use of the Bermuda Triangle in this episode. It was an overplayed choice, but when you're doing a show about the paranormal and unexplained a lot of the popular hotbeds for such things are bound to appear in episodes. In the choice's defense they did poke fun at a lot of the other ideas about the area (go Henry) and they also never wound up using any of them. They did their own original thing with the Bermuda Triangle, which is rare in fiction nowadays and is therefore cool in yet another outside-the-box way.

Still, however, they didn't just pull a new idea out of their heads. Instead the writers used something they'd probably all written before, knowing that Bridge Studios crew. They went with a mind-altering parasite. Granted, not exactly the same kind of mind-altering parasite as they'd done in the past, but it is what it is. Amanda Tapping (Helen) also has experience acting the part when it comes to such things. Bridge Studios crew, as I said.

The writers also did something else very common in TV. They stuck two characters in isolation with great danger around them in order to bring on relationship building. Now I confess, I've written this myself and plan to do so again, but there are good and bad ways to pull it off. The disabled submarine on a deep-sea ravine edge is one of the oldest tricks in the proverbial book concerning these situations. Here they had nobody else to interact with but each other (or if you count that parasite, one other). The way I write these sequences there's always another group of people involved that the two main characters are working to avoid and/or defeat. This motif just seems to crop up in a lot of these writers' works and that's not good. Writing the same things over and over again contaminates the genre. Think up something else!

There is one thing I have to compliment the episode on. This one wasn't filmed in front of a green screen and had minimal CGI. The story was carried by real special effects and by the actors. Kudos to Robin Dunne and Amanda Tapping for this one. Instead of the CGI overshadowing the acting performance, they had to tell the story all on their own and they did it so well. The acting was consistent with the characters and what they thought of their respective situations throughout the arc of the episode. I don't recall seeing any slip-ups in that regard.

Well so much for not having a lot to say. Anybody else got something before I talk into eternity about not very much?