"Stick It In Your Ear" isn't bad, it just seems like a remake of "Read My Lips" from season 2. Maybe it's the show biz setting, and the fact that both episodes focus on what was at the time, dying fields of entertainment. Nightclub ventriloquism, and mental act.
"Stick It" does have Jack at the end confronting Adam Cole (Wayne Best, in his second of three appearances on the show). And there's a lot more body horror, as the hearing aid causes the heads of first Maxwell and then Adam to burst into gory messes when they can't release the thoughts they hear into someone else. Maybe it's just that the two episodes have a similar feel.
Jack does mention he used to be in show business, so it's good that the production staff finally remembered that. And Jack wasn't in "Read My Lips", so we get him in "Stick It.". The confrontation at the end between Jack and Adam is taut, because Wiggins is as always a class act.
Johnny doesn't get much to do. He's basically the Ryan substitute in this episode, although we do find out that he's a writer (??), and uses tabloid articles as springboards for his ideas. So Johnny writes fiction, makes model ships, and listens to baseball games on the radio. There's an odd combination of quirks.
Micki stands up a bit. She is threatened by Adam in an alleyway, but at least it isn't the rape she's been threatened with occasionally in the past.
Adam isn't particularly sympathetic, but he is interesting as he more or less stumbles on the hearing aid's killing power by accident. It isn't hard for him to be corrupted by it, but unlike some previous killers we don't get the idea he was a sleaze ball before. Adam isn't a nice guy, particularly later, but actor Best isn't bad and he walks the line successfully been lousy person and initially-hapless victim.
How the hearing aid works also isn't very clear. It lets the user read thoughts, and... eventually he has to release them and kill someone. How many thoughts? "Whenever it's dramatically necessary" seems to be the answer, but there's none of the kill-someone-to-get-something simplicity that many of the show's previous cursed items have had.
But that's relative minor. The body horror that accompanies the aid tends to make up for how it does/doesn't work. Even if no one's head explodes like the tabloid article suggests. Overall, "Stick It" is an okay episode. It's not special, but some of the antique hunts have to be bog-standard.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
"Stick It" does have Jack at the end confronting Adam Cole (Wayne Best, in his second of three appearances on the show). And there's a lot more body horror, as the hearing aid causes the heads of first Maxwell and then Adam to burst into gory messes when they can't release the thoughts they hear into someone else. Maybe it's just that the two episodes have a similar feel.
Jack does mention he used to be in show business, so it's good that the production staff finally remembered that. And Jack wasn't in "Read My Lips", so we get him in "Stick It.". The confrontation at the end between Jack and Adam is taut, because Wiggins is as always a class act.
Johnny doesn't get much to do. He's basically the Ryan substitute in this episode, although we do find out that he's a writer (??), and uses tabloid articles as springboards for his ideas. So Johnny writes fiction, makes model ships, and listens to baseball games on the radio. There's an odd combination of quirks.
Micki stands up a bit. She is threatened by Adam in an alleyway, but at least it isn't the rape she's been threatened with occasionally in the past.
Adam isn't particularly sympathetic, but he is interesting as he more or less stumbles on the hearing aid's killing power by accident. It isn't hard for him to be corrupted by it, but unlike some previous killers we don't get the idea he was a sleaze ball before. Adam isn't a nice guy, particularly later, but actor Best isn't bad and he walks the line successfully been lousy person and initially-hapless victim.
How the hearing aid works also isn't very clear. It lets the user read thoughts, and... eventually he has to release them and kill someone. How many thoughts? "Whenever it's dramatically necessary" seems to be the answer, but there's none of the kill-someone-to-get-something simplicity that many of the show's previous cursed items have had.
But that's relative minor. The body horror that accompanies the aid tends to make up for how it does/doesn't work. Even if no one's head explodes like the tabloid article suggests. Overall, "Stick It" is an okay episode. It's not special, but some of the antique hunts have to be bog-standard.
But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?