

By the time the final "big bad" of the season (who felt more like a reject from the "Harry Potter" franchise) arrived to walk us through most of the same plot points the previous one did, I was gritting my teeth to make it through the finale. And while a few characters may hint at multidimensionality, others do things that they simply would not do - solely for the sake of manufacturing drama, and with little sign that we might learn something about them later that would justify it. Questions are answered, but the answers aren't as interesting as they could be, and most of them fail to produce new questions that might take the story in unexpected directions. Where tension should be building, the story instead begins to run out of steam, with each new threat and cliffhanger somehow less compelling than the last. By the end of the first season, the familiar sci-fi/horror tropes that served as a promising setup have become a stronger prison than its isolated setting. This time when the playback wasn't making sound, I found that unchecking the 'play through midi' and checking the' play through vst' option under the MIDI/audio menu fixed the problem. Unfortunately, "Helix" to date has failed to live up to its potential. When my mother works on her Finale 2010 and it misbehaves, I have to help her. Zombie movies meet "The Andromeda Strain" with a bit of "The Thing" thrown in? Count me in! And for a few episodes, it really did seem as though it might become the diamond in SyFy's rough.
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I jumped at the chance to watch "Helix," especially because it's not as though we're drowning in great TV sci-fi at the moment. Finale helps the choir to sing, the band to march, the students to learn, and the orchestra to raise the excitement level in the most recent blockbuster.
