This was a lot like a Star Trek filler episode. We've seen it many times: a character hallucinates or gets transported to a parallel timeline or is trapped on the Holodeck or whatever. All the major cast members show up in different roles with somewhat different personalities. Those were usually decent episodes - and this one is too - but they never really advanced the story either.
So yeah, this one was fine, but most of it was skippable. If you were really pressed for time you could remove the entire hallucination plot up until Layton wakes up in the bunker in Korea and you basically wouldn't miss anything that had any bearing on the show's plot.
And speaking of the Korea sequence, I'm glad that they resolved an issue that has been bugging me all season. When Layton had his vision of the tree, I was afraid that the show was going to start veering into mysticism and add some sort of element of divine guidance. Fortunately, this episode squashed that like a bug by having Layton realize that the "vision" was just a photo in the bunker that he didn't remember seeing.
Shout by BevansVIP 8BlockedParent2022-03-11T03:26:17Z
This was a lot like a Star Trek filler episode. We've seen it many times: a character hallucinates or gets transported to a parallel timeline or is trapped on the Holodeck or whatever. All the major cast members show up in different roles with somewhat different personalities. Those were usually decent episodes - and this one is too - but they never really advanced the story either.
So yeah, this one was fine, but most of it was skippable. If you were really pressed for time you could remove the entire hallucination plot up until Layton wakes up in the bunker in Korea and you basically wouldn't miss anything that had any bearing on the show's plot.
And speaking of the Korea sequence, I'm glad that they resolved an issue that has been bugging me all season. When Layton had his vision of the tree, I was afraid that the show was going to start veering into mysticism and add some sort of element of divine guidance. Fortunately, this episode squashed that like a bug by having Layton realize that the "vision" was just a photo in the bunker that he didn't remember seeing.