The premise of Friday the 13th: The Series was pretty simple. Two cousins inherit an antique shop from an uncle only to find out that some of the items are cursed. They rename the shop Curious Goods and run it as a front so that they might track down those cursed items that Uncle Lewis unleashed on the world. They then store the items in a vault so that no more harm can come as a result of those items.
This week, it’s a cursed foghorn. Cousins Micki and Ryan travel to a coastal town only to find that it was sold to someone who was traveling and can’t be reached. Well, maybe not. The guy who sold it, Joe, lures a young lady back to his cool lighthouse only to show her the nifty foghorn that he supposedly sold to some unnamed person. He then kills the woman, drags her down the stairs and hands her over to a cloaked figure in a rowboat.
The town was founded by the crew of a ship. They mutinied, setting their captain adrift. It turns out that the cloaked figure is the ghost of said captain. He’s using Joe to kill the descendants of the crew, who all miraculously still live in the town. Oh, and each crewmember has exactly one descendant, each of which is really easy to find and subdue. (No one has left town nor have they received any martial-arts training.) Micki and Ryan retrieve the foghorn only after Joe has killed all of the descendants and subsequently died as the final victim of the curse.
My first obvious complaint is that each crewmember had exactly one descendant. The town was founded in 1720, meaning that something like 12-15 generations have passed. How is it that each generation had only one child? Assuming two children per generation, you should be talking 4,000 descendants. Plus, given that no one seems to move out of town, there might be people descended from several people on the ship.
Another thing I noticed is that Micki and Ryan dropped the ball on this one. If the curse is that descendants have to die and that Joe seemingly completed his mission, the artifact would be useless. Even if the curse would allow someone else to use the foghorn, there are no more descendants left.
This curse also seems awfully specific to me. Most of the cursed items are generic. Cursed items could be used by anyone and applied to anyone. I’m assuming that the nature of the curse wasn’t determined until Uncle Lewis’s deal with the devil, but I could be wrong. It is an interesting curse, at least.
Overall, the episode is fairly decent. The show at least put some effort into the history of the item. I just think a few points could have been done better. At the very least, Joe was lucky that none of the family lines had died out.
This week, it’s a cursed foghorn. Cousins Micki and Ryan travel to a coastal town only to find that it was sold to someone who was traveling and can’t be reached. Well, maybe not. The guy who sold it, Joe, lures a young lady back to his cool lighthouse only to show her the nifty foghorn that he supposedly sold to some unnamed person. He then kills the woman, drags her down the stairs and hands her over to a cloaked figure in a rowboat.
The town was founded by the crew of a ship. They mutinied, setting their captain adrift. It turns out that the cloaked figure is the ghost of said captain. He’s using Joe to kill the descendants of the crew, who all miraculously still live in the town. Oh, and each crewmember has exactly one descendant, each of which is really easy to find and subdue. (No one has left town nor have they received any martial-arts training.) Micki and Ryan retrieve the foghorn only after Joe has killed all of the descendants and subsequently died as the final victim of the curse.
My first obvious complaint is that each crewmember had exactly one descendant. The town was founded in 1720, meaning that something like 12-15 generations have passed. How is it that each generation had only one child? Assuming two children per generation, you should be talking 4,000 descendants. Plus, given that no one seems to move out of town, there might be people descended from several people on the ship.
Another thing I noticed is that Micki and Ryan dropped the ball on this one. If the curse is that descendants have to die and that Joe seemingly completed his mission, the artifact would be useless. Even if the curse would allow someone else to use the foghorn, there are no more descendants left.
This curse also seems awfully specific to me. Most of the cursed items are generic. Cursed items could be used by anyone and applied to anyone. I’m assuming that the nature of the curse wasn’t determined until Uncle Lewis’s deal with the devil, but I could be wrong. It is an interesting curse, at least.
Overall, the episode is fairly decent. The show at least put some effort into the history of the item. I just think a few points could have been done better. At the very least, Joe was lucky that none of the family lines had died out.
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